Thursday, May 23, 2013

World's Largest Island


The world's largest island is Greenland. Australia declared as a continent because this land has unique plants and animals. Antarctica also is a continent that is larger than Europe and Australia. Greenland is huge though, has most habitats of North America.


For the smallest island in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records is the Bishop Rock. The island is located in the south-west of England and one of 1040 small islands around the UK. The only building standing here just yagn lighthouse.


What about the farthest island and uninhabited? The island is Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic. While the island is the farthest but uninhabited island of Tristan da Cunha is located in the north Atlantic, 2575km from st Helena and several hundred kilo meters from South Africa. Tristan da Cunha just do not have a TV but have a radio station. This is a total of 242 residents of the island and only had 7 family name so it could be said they arbitrarily brothers.

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