What is the largest island second largest island and the thrid largest island?

Answer 1

This is a tricky question. Australia is a continent, but also closely resembles an island. So if you count Australia as an island, then the largest three islands in order are Australia, Greenland and New Guinea.

If you don't count Australia as an island, then the largest three islands in order are Greenland, New Guinea, and Borneo. Followed by Madagascar, Baffin Island and Sumatra.

And just to make it a little more complicated, some people claim that Greenland is not one island, but three small islands covered by a large layer of ice. So if you take that line of thinking, then just remove Greenland from whichever list above that you choose.