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    1) An island is a piece of land surrounded by water. Islands can vary significantly in size, from small rocks or reefs to land masses containing countries. 2) There is no clear definition distinguishing islands from continents, but islands generally sit on oceanic crust and are either volcanic or sit on continental shelves, while continents sit on continental lithosphere. 3) There are several different types of islands, including continental islands which sit on continental shelves, oceanic islands which are typically volcanic in origin, tropical islands which are located in tropical regions, and desert islands which are uninhabited islands.

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    1) An island is a piece of land surrounded by water. Islands can vary significantly in size, from small rocks or reefs to land masses containing countries. 2) There is no clear definition distinguishing islands from continents, but islands generally sit on oceanic crust and are either volcanic or sit on continental shelves, while continents sit on continental lithosphere. 3) There are several different types of islands, including continental islands which sit on continental shelves, oceanic islands which are typically volcanic in origin, tropical islands which are located in tropical regions, and desert islands which are uninhabited islands.

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    1) An island is a piece of land surrounded by water. Islands can vary significantly in size, from small rocks or reefs to land masses containing countries. 2) There is no clear definition distinguishing islands from continents, but islands generally sit on oceanic crust and are either volcanic or sit on continental shelves, while continents sit on continental lithosphere. 3) There are several different types of islands, including continental islands which sit on continental shelves, oceanic islands which are typically volcanic in origin, tropical islands which are located in tropical regions, and desert islands which are uninhabited islands.

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    1) An island is a piece of land surrounded by water. Islands can vary significantly in size, from small rocks or reefs to land masses containing countries. 2) There is no clear definition distinguishing islands from continents, but islands generally sit on oceanic crust and are either volcanic or sit on continental shelves, while continents sit on continental lithosphere. 3) There are several different types of islands, including continental islands which sit on continental shelves, oceanic islands which are typically volcanic in origin, tropical islands which are located in tropical regions, and desert islands which are uninhabited islands.

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    ISLANDS

    Made by
    Sameer Saifi, Akshat Gupta, Antarang Sharma ,Sai Krishna,
    Arjun Nair , Devansh Gupta

    An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded


    by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atoll can
    be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island in a river or a lake
    island may be called an eyot or ait , or a holm. A grouping of
    geographically or geologically related islands is called an archipelago,
    e.g. the Philippines .
    An island may be described as such despite the presence of an artificial
    land bridge, for example Singapore and its causeway , or the
    various Dutch delta islands, such as I Jsselmonde. Some places may
    even retain "island" in their names for historical reasons after being
    connected to a larger landmass by a wide land bridge, such as Coney
    Island or Coronado Island. Conversely, when a piece of land is
    separated from the mainland by a man-made canal, for example
    the Peloponnese by the Corinth Canal, it is generally not considered an
    island.

    Difference between an island and


    continent
    Greenland is the world's largest island with an area of over 2.1
    million km, while Australia, the world's smallest continent has an
    area of 7.6 million km, but there is no standard of size which
    distinguishes islands from continent, or from islets. There is a
    difference between islands and continents in terms of geology.
    Continents sit on continental lithosphere which is part of tectonic
    plates floating high on Earth's molten mantle. Oceanic crust is also
    part of tectonic plates, but it is denser than continental lithosphere,
    so it floats low on the mantle. Islands are either extensions of the
    oceanic crust (e.g. volcanic islands) or geologically they are part of
    some continent sitting on continental lithosphere (e.g. Greenland).
    This holds true for Australia, which sits on its own continental
    lithosphere and tectonic plate.

    Types of island
    1 continental island
    2 desert island
    3 oceanic island
    4 tropical island

    CONTINTAL ISLAND
    Continental islands are bodies of land that lie on the continental shelf of a continent. Examples include Borneo, Java,
    and Sumatra off Asia; New Guinea, Tasmania, and Kangaroo Island off Australia;Great Britain, Ireland,
    and Sicily off Europe; Greenland, Newfoundland, Long Island, and Sable Island off North America
    and Barbados, Falklands and Trinidad off South America.
    A special type of continental island is the microcontinental island, which results when a continent is rifted. Examples
    are Madagascar and Socotra off Africa, the Kerguelen Islands, New Zealand .
    Another subtype is an island or bar formed by deposition of tiny rocks where a water current loses some of its carrying
    capacity. An example is barrier islands, which are accumulations of sand deposited by sea currents on the continental
    shelves. Another example are fluvial or alluvial islands formed in river deltas or midstream within large rivers. While some
    are transitory and may disappear if the volume or speed of the current changes, others are stable and longlived. Islets are very small islands

    DESERT ISLAND
    A desert island is an island with no people. Typically, a desert
    island is denoted as such because it exists in a state of being
    deserted, or abandoned. An arid desert climate is not typically
    implied; one dictionary uses the phrase 'desert island' to illustrate
    the use of 'desert' as an adjective meaning "desolate and
    sparsely occupied or unoccupied". According to another, "A
    desert island is a small tropical island, where nobody lives or an
    undiscovered island.

    Oceanic islands
    Oceanic islands are ones that do not sit on continental shelves. The vast majority
    are volcanic in origin such as Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. The few
    oceanic islands that are not volcanic are tectonic in origin and arise where plate
    movements have lifted up the deep ocean floor to above the surface. Examples of
    this include Saint Peter and Paul Rocks in the Atlantic Ocean and Macquaria Island in
    the Pacific.
    One type of volcanic oceanic island is found in a volcanic island arc. These islands
    arise from volcanoes where the subduction of one plate under another is occurring.
    Examples include the Aleutian Islands, the Mariana Islands, and most of Tonga in
    the Pacific Ocean. Some of the Lesser Antilles and the South Sandwich Islands are
    the only Atlantic Ocean examples.
    Another type of volcanic oceanic island occurs where an oceanic rift reaches the
    surface. There are two examples: Iceland, which is the world's second largest
    volcanic island, and Jan Mayen. Both are in the Atlantic.

    Tropical islands
    There are approximately 45,000 tropical islands on Earth.
    Among coral tropic islands for example
    are Maldives, Tonga, Nauru and Polynesia. Granite islands
    include Seychelles and Tioman and Volcanic islands such
    as Saint Helena. The socio-economic diversity of these regions
    ranges from the Stone Age societies in the interior
    of Madagascar, Borneo or Papua New Guinea to the high-tech
    lifestyles of the city-islands of Singapore and Hong Kong.
    International tourism is a significant factor in the local economy
    of Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Runion, Hawaii and
    the Maldives, among others.

    More on Island
    Largest island: Greenland.
    Largest island in a lake: Manitoulin Island.
    Largest island in a river: Ilha do Bananal.
    Largest island in fresh water: Maraj.
    Lowest island: Unnamed island in Yech'ew Hayk Lake, Ethiopia.
    Largest island on an island: Samosir (created by cutting a canal).
    Largest natural island on an island: Glover Island.
    Largest island in a lake in an island in a lake: Treasure Island (Ontario), Lake Mindemoya.
    Largest island in a lake in an island in a lake in an island: Unnamed island at 69.793 N,
    108.241 W, Victoria Island (Canada), Nunavut .
    Most populous island: Java.
    Island shared by largest number of countries: Borneo (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia).

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