The biggest island near Australia that is not part of Australia, is New Guinea, which lies to Australia's north.
no, Australia is
Green land, AUSTRALIA
Firstly, Captain Cook did not discover Australia.Secondly, Australia is not an island. It is a continent.The biggest island in the world is and was Greenland.
The biggest island state in the south is Tasmania, which is part of Australia.
Yes, it the second biggest island in the world after Australia
The largest island on the planet is Greenland (no, NOT Australia).
Australia is classed as a Continent, or is some cases an Island Continent. It is more accurate to say that Greenland in the biggest island at 822,706 square miles. As a continental landmass, Australia is within the same group as Afro-Eurasia and the Americas. Antarctica could be included, but this is a special case.
Greenland is, Australia would be, but it is it's own continent.
34 Australia is the biggest and Christmas island is the smallest
No they dont they are both continents. The biggest island on Earth ids Greenland.
The biggest sand island in Austalia and, in fact, in the world, is Fraser Island. Fraser Island is found off the coast of southeast Queensland in Australia. It is ariund 123 km long, 22 my wide, and covers an area of approximately 1840 sq km.