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go on. you know you want to.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 19:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Sark, Jersey, Isle of Wight, Inishbofin, Inishmor, Crete, Corfu, Rhodes, Manhattan, Great Britain, New Zealand. Hang on - what is the definition of an island?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 19:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Islay, Lindisfarne, mull, iona, scapa flow, lewis, north uist, south uist, bebencula, Britain, Eire

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 19:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Arran, Angelsey, Mann, Calf of Mann, Skye, Canvey, Long, Rhode, Tarransay,

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 19:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Oman.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Tonga, Tuvalu, Maui, Patagonia, South Georgia, Diego Garcia, Gran canaria, Tennerife, Ibiza, Elba, Sicily, Sardegna, Lesbos, Sri Lanka, Bali, Aceh, New Guinea, Trinidad, Tobago, St Lucia, Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 19:40 (twenty-three years ago)

St Helena, Guernsey, Hokkaido, Sakhalin, Madagascar, Spitsbergen,

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Tasmania, Hong Kong, Lantau, Cheung Chau, Taiwan, Sentosa, Sark, Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Cyprus, Malta, Bahrain.

Does "Mont St Michel" count??

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 19:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Skomer, Skokholm, Ramsay, Grassholm, Caldey

― David (David), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 19:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Eurasia.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I forgot Australia! How could I forget a place that big! D'oh!

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Foulness, Osea, Northey, Wallasea, Mersea

― David (David), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 19:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't see how Australia can be an island. It's got Tasmania as well and plenty of other little ones. It's a collection of islands.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Toronto, Newfieland, Prince Edward, Cape Breton, Sable, Ile Due Madueline, Montreal, Saint Pierre and its little buddy, Iceland, Greenland, Vancouver, Queen Charolette Islands, Nankucket and Bemuda.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)

no takers?

vancouver island, martha's vineyard, coney island, burnt island.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 19:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Ile de la cite, fire, ischia, malta

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Madeira.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:01 (twenty-three years ago)

atlantis

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Tiber Island, Roosevelt Island, St. Michaels Island, the Outer Banks (a string of barrier islands)

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:03 (twenty-three years ago)

noodles, name the queen charlotte islands

governor's island, ellis island, Key West, Key Largo

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, yeah.

liberty island.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)

key biscane, miami beach, portland, ithaca, zanzibar

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

isle of dogs

devil's island

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

staten, parsley, st mary's, st kitts, nevis, barbados, st lucia, martinique, guardeloupe

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Joyto

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

opps spelt that wrong it's Johto

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:14 (twenty-three years ago)

i live in mallorca.
been to ibiza, formentera, menorca.
lanzarote and fuerteventura in the canary islands.

― joan vich (joan vich), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Mackinac island, little beaver island, big beaver island, prince edward island

― B, Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:33 (twenty-three years ago)

''I don't see how Australia can be an island. It's got Tasmania as well and plenty of other little ones. It's a collection of islands.''

It's kinds of why I posted the q? I saw these def type things coming up.

but also I was thinking abt the bali bombing and how the indonesian police were going to search for the culprits but of course there are so many islands round there (i think the number was a couple of thousand but correct me if I'm totally wrong...but anyway, this is an 'ultimate thread' type scenario if that's the case).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd count Australia as an island (it has water all around it) PLUS all the other smaller islands as individual places too - after all, they have separate names. Which reminds me - I've been to Great Keppel Island and Magnetic Island too.

N cited Sark and Jersey in the same sentence - same difference - or do they just count as "Channel Islands"?

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:39 (twenty-three years ago)

That island in the middle of Crystal Palace park with a big dinosaur on it.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:54 (twenty-three years ago)

dutch islands:
texel, vlieland, terschelling, ameland, schiermonnikoog

― dakatin, Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:56 (twenty-three years ago)

N cited Sark and Jersey in the same sentence - same difference - or do they just count as "Channel Islands"?

That's the whole point. I didn't type 'Channel Islands'. That's also why I went 'hang on' after typing 'Great Britain' and 'New Zealand'.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)

bc gulf + area: denman, hornby, texada, lasqueiti, galiano, pender, mayne, saltspring, saturna, san juan and quadra. tom sawyer's at disneyland. montreal.

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

mud island!

I am so winning.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Australia the country obviously includes Tasmania and probably other offshore islands. But how do you refer to the main landmass alone? It has to be still 'Australia' doesn't it?

The larger of the two main islands of the British Isles would be 'Britain', wouldn't it? (not 'Great Britain' - that's the country).

― David (David), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Eel Pie Island! (I've been there, it does exist!)

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 21:32 (twenty-three years ago)

North Island, South Island, Kapiti Island, Soames Island, Mana Island, Tiritirimatangi, Rangitoto, Motutapu, Kawau Island... there are maybe 2k islands in NZ and I have been to 9

― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 21:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Corporation Island

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Nick Drake- Five Leaves Left, Incredible String Band- Be Glad For The Song Has No Ending, U2- Boy sheesh this is going to take a long time.....

― brg30 (brg30), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

(jel only visits islands with great names!)

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 22:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, someone else has visited Taransay apart from me.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)

macau.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Surtsey!

and didn't the Icelandic government give Bjork an island for her "accomplishments"?

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 22:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Inchcolm (or maybe it was Inchkeith; I can't quite remember). Great Bernera.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 22:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been to Macau but I don't remember it being an island. In fact, I vaguely remember that we all got roaring drunk and walked to the Chinese border. I don't remember my feet getting terribly wet, but I may be wrong.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 22:28 (twenty-three years ago)

manhattan and long island, obviously ... long beach island!

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 22:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Ile de la Cité in Paris

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I have been to the Philippines too! (I have very poor memory this evening for some reason, probably due to the vodka)

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Hilton Head.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

catalina
oahu
maui
kawaii
hawaii (the big island)
alcatraz
angel island
balboa island (haha ned)
treasure island
alameda
tom sawyer's island

― gygax!, Wednesday, 27 November 2002 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

macau is partly continent and also two islands.

singapore.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 22:39 (twenty-three years ago)

reminds me of a classic Charles De Gaulle quote -- "Britain, being an island, is quite insular."

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 22:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Kiawah.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Ferdinandea, due any day now.....

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 22:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Isle of May.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 22:51 (twenty-three years ago)

St Kilda.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 22:52 (twenty-three years ago)

die Herren- und Fraueninseln!

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 22:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Canvey and Mersea

― michael (michael), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 23:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Hong Kong, Taiwan, Formosa, otagu, Christmas, Easter, Robben, Capri

too many duplicates

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 23:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Great Cumbrae (ie - Millport!)
I win the Most Exotic prize....

― anon (anon), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 23:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I though that was just the figment of a Radio4 sitcom

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 23:18 (twenty-three years ago)

What Millport?! Nah it's real, you can cycle round it in a few hours...smashing....

― anon (anon), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Man, I could name small islands just in small lakes that no one here will ever see. This is impossible.

guam, antelope island (Salt Lake), Palau, Palawan, Spratly Islands,

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 23:29 (twenty-three years ago)

N. I hav been to Inishbofin also!!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 28 November 2002 01:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Also I haf been to Eurasia.

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 28 November 2002 01:18 (twenty-three years ago)

britain, sheppey, lindisfarne, long island, staten island, manhattan, rhodes.

wow, thats not very many is it!

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 28 November 2002 09:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Pleasure Island. (there really is one, and I've been there. Look it up!)

― B, Thursday, 28 November 2002 09:59 (twenty-three years ago)

is ed the island king? spitzbergen! sakhalin! wow!

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You only got one that wasn't a duplicate, gareth. Maps excite me. Suzy is not contributing because she is too proud to admit the same condition. When she first moved here, or so I'm told, she used to spend hours studying the A to Z.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:06 (twenty-three years ago)

ooh um. Murano? and the islands that make up Japan, have they been mentioned? The lost island of Atlantis? that tiny one off the coast of Africa that the Spaniards were laying claim to a few months ago? ooh and ALSO there is a submerged volcanic one off Sicily that re-emerges every few centuries or summat (it was in the metro this morning) and they reckon it'll be re-emerging son what with Etna erupting, but i can't tell you the name of it as so many ppl have laid claim to it that it's got loads!

― katie (katie), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:08 (twenty-three years ago)

maps are the best thing ever

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I mentioned Atlantis!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:13 (twenty-three years ago)

St.Michael's Mount!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:15 (twenty-three years ago)

No one has mentioned venice or lido di venezia. Proud was probably the wrong word to choose there

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:39 (twenty-three years ago)

sorry jel! that spanish/african disputed is the island of PEREJIL (or Leila if you are Moroccan)

and ED i mentioned Murano which is part of Venice!

― katie (katie), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Fantasy

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

margaret island in budapest.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 28 November 2002 11:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Cape Verde

― Jeff W, Thursday, 28 November 2002 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Bainbridge Island, Whidbey Island (both WA)
Jekyll Island (GA)
that island with the fort on it in Charleston bay (SC)

― Jeff W, Thursday, 28 November 2002 12:15 (twenty-three years ago)

me & lisa went to quail island a few weeks ago, it is a place i recommend highly

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Thursday, 28 November 2002 12:21 (twenty-three years ago)

The larger of the two main islands of the British Isles would be 'Britain', wouldn't it? (not 'Great Britain' - that's the country).

To be exact, the country is 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'. The official short forms of this are 'United Kingdom' or 'Britain' (without the 'Great'). So in fact, 'Britain' is a larger entity that 'Great Britain', as it includes Northern Ireland.

Even 'Great Britain' is not a single island, as it will include all those fiddly little things such as the Isle of Wight, Coll and Anglesey in it.

This is all political nomenclature, though. I expect that geographers might have their own specific name for the main island of the UK (yes, maybe 'Britain'), just as they have 'the British Isles', which of course includes the whole of Ireland.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 28 November 2002 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

ithaca. sometimes.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 28 November 2002 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

avalon eventually

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 28 November 2002 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

hamilton island you're a diamond in the sun

― minna (minna), Thursday, 28 November 2002 15:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Three Mile Island, of nuclear meltdown fame
Zug Island, of industrial wasteland fame

― webcrack (music=crack), Thursday, 28 November 2002 16:03 (twenty-three years ago)

avalon is rub

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 28 November 2002 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

St Mary's, Bryher, Tresco, St Agnes, St Martin, Samson, plus about 140 others make up the Scilly Isles

― Celeste (Celeste), Thursday, 28 November 2002 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)

yes to the above, specifically St Helens, Round Island and 3 nameless Eastern Isles (we chartered a boat specially) as well as Bryher, St Agnes, Tresco, St Martins and St Mary's.

yes to Sark and to Taransay.

jealousy to Sakhalin.

plus
Lindisfarne/Holy Island, Vatersay, Barra, North and South Uist, Harris, Lewis, Skye, Iona, Mull
and
Ynnis Enlli (Bardsey)
and Foulness

and
Hong Kong, lantau, Cheng Chau and Lamma (Hong Kong)
and Deer Island off the Manchurian coast (China)

I like islands.

― jon (jon), Thursday, 28 November 2002 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Hawkesbury, Pitt, Aristazabal are in those islands. The Toronto Islands include Snake, Algoiquin, Olympic, Center and Muggs Islands.

Also Pelee Island has a winery, Great Duck Island probably doesn't. Pogo Island is out by Newfieland, Halifax has McNabbs Island.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 28 November 2002 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

rhode island.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 28 November 2002 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

philip island

― minna (minna), Friday, 29 November 2002 02:03 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

Khuria Muria Islands, off Oman. Bizarrely, they may (no-one knows for sure) have given name to the castle where the hero finds the abducted princess in Norwegian folk tales.

― anatol_merklich, Sunday, 21 June 2009 22:47 (sixteen years ago)

i was just on an island

― i want to marry a pizza (gbx), Sunday, 21 June 2009 22:49 (sixteen years ago)

i want to live on an island

― i want to marry a pizza (gbx), Sunday, 21 June 2009 22:49 (sixteen years ago)

Some obv ones left out: Honshu, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Nauru.

Also, Denmark: Fyn (Funen), Sjælland (Zealand), Als, Bornholm, Falster, Langeland, Samsø (100% of energy from wind power), Anholt (which, according to legend, still belongs to Denmark only because it was covered by a glass of beer when Halland was ceded to Sweden in the peace negotiations of 1645).

― anatol_merklich, Sunday, 21 June 2009 22:53 (sixteen years ago)

because it was covered by a glass of beer

Erm on the map, that is.

― anatol_merklich, Sunday, 21 June 2009 22:56 (sixteen years ago)

montreal

― some dudes are bigger than others (s1ocki), Monday, 22 June 2009 00:29 (sixteen years ago)

scapa flow, lewis

Not islands! Lewis is joined onto Harris to make one big island, Scapa Flow is just a bit of water.

Patagonia??

If it's one's we've been to/been on a boat around, add in Kerrera, various Orkneys (have only been to Mainland, but have been around others on a boat), Bute, and, er, that's about it (can only otherwise think of Skye, Cyprus, Majorca, Mull, Lindisfarne, Ireland and the Isle of Wight, which have been mentioned already). I'm obviously a mainland kind of girl.

― ailsa, Monday, 22 June 2009 00:58 (sixteen years ago)

fifteen years pass...

i want to live on an island

Well, here's your chance:

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/get-paid-live-island-san-francisco-bay-19960207.php

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 10 December 2024 19:24 (one year ago)

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