[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Unkown Target
C'mon, please tell me I'm not the ONLY one living on an island? (Australia doesn't count!  )

"...this Island Earth..."

[Zeronet]

Originally posted by Unkown Target
C'mon, please tell me I'm not the ONLY one living on an island? (Australia doesn't count!  )

Points to the Islands known as the British Isles and points to the fact quite a lot of members on this board live there, including the poster of this post.

[Blue Lion]

I live on the American continents, that's an island

[Sandwich]

I get the feeling UT was talking about people who live on an island that is not also a seperate country.

[Blue Lion]

Well maybe he needs to be more specific

[Thorn]

I lived on Vancouver Island for a short period in my life....
And Nova Scotia is almost an island...

[Zeronet]

Originally posted by Sandwich
I get the feeling UT was talking about people who live on an island that is not also a seperate country.

UK is one country really...

[RandomTiger]

I'll get that one go.

[Blue Lion]

Originally posted by RandomTiger
I'll get that one go.

[CP5670]

Is it possible to not live on an island? Would there be no islands only if there is no water?

[beatspete]

Easiest way to think of an island is that it is surrounded by water, and relativley minor to another larger land mass.  For example, britain is and island compared to the European continent... but not compaired to say, the isle of Mann (island in the irish sea).

[aldo_14]

The Ilse of Man is really more of a colony, surely.  As in 'leper'.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by CP5670
Is it possible to not live on an island? Would there be no islands only if there is no water?

No - there could be a world covereed in land, with "islands" of water (aka lakes) alll over the place. As long as those lakes didn't connect in such a way as to cut off any part of land from any other part of land, you could have plenty of water with no islands.

[Dr.Zer0]

Originally posted by Vortex


Drug lord?

you must be thinking of the country columbia
columbua southamerica, home of %75 of all the crack

[Thorn]

I'm moving to British Columbia

[Unknown Target]

I thought you were already a drug lord, Thorn

[Styxx]

Originally posted by Dr.Zer0
you must be thinking of the country columbia
columbua southamerica, home of %75 of all the crack

As I already posted, it's ColOmbia, not Columbia.

[CP5670]

No - there could be a world covereed in land, with "islands" of water (aka lakes) alll over the place. As long as those lakes didn't connect in such a way as to cut off any part of land from any other part of land, you could have plenty of water with no islands.

I suppose you are right there, but then suppose that there is a planet with a thin (2mm wide) strip of land running around the circumference of the planet at the equator, and the rest is all water, the water bodies would be lakes, right? (not sure of the exact definition  of "island," so correct me if I am wrong)

In other words, if an island both encloses water and is enclosed by water in some way, it is no longer an island.

[Levyathan]

Originally posted by CP5670
(not sure of the exact definition  of "island," so correct me if I am wrong)

An island is defined as a (small) piece of land surrounded by water in all directions. So that thing probably wouldn't count as an island (there are directions which it is surrounded by nothing, or by itself).

[CP5670]

Technically it is surrounded by water, though. Suppose this thin circular strip of land is moved up so that the center of the circle is no longer at the planet's core but instead close to one of the poles and thus also has a much smaller circumference. (imagine having a large pool of water in the middle of Antarctica that leaves a thin ring of land remaining at the edges) It is now much more apparent that the landmass is indeed surrounded by water, but none of the island's properties have been fundamentally changed except of size.