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What is a continent and an island?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Some say Australia is a continent and an island, but by geographic convention, Australia is a continent, and Greenland is an island. Also, Antarctica is a continent, and not regarded as an island (again, by geographic convention).

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