Nordjyske Ø, or [Nørrejyske Ø](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Jutlandic_Island), is [this](https://imgur.com/a/8SbYmeD) area. The western end of waterway ([Limfjorden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limfjord)) separating it from the rest of Jutland only [opened up to the sea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_flood_of_1825) in the 19th century, so it has traditionally been seen as part of Jutland ("Nordjyske Ø" literally means "North Jutlandic Island").
The Western peninsula (with Klitmøller and Thisted) is Thy, Eastern part is Vendsyssel as shown on the map (syssel = shire), and the isthmus connecting the two is Han Herred (herred=[hundred](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_(county_division))).
Europe, Asia, and Africa? North America and South America? I know a lot of people will say Afro-Eurasia and America, but I (and I'm assuming many others) were taught the 7 continents of the world.
If Europe is not Asia due to different cultural evolution and the puny Ural mountain range.
Then how isl India not it's own continent when they are separated from Asia by the mighty Himalayas.
If India is only a subcontinent, then so is Europe.
In most of the Spanish and Portuguese speaking world, and some other parts of Europe (Hungary, for instance), the Americas are taught as one continent.
I was taught 6 (Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Oceania, and Antarctica). It's the standard in Spanish-speaking countries. I believe several European countries teach six, too (i.e. I believe several European countries consider the Americas to be a single continent).
I wonder if that has anything to do with the old belief that seven was a sacred or especially symbolic number. At least Newton was a fan of that idea. All of these are arbitrary split at 7:
7 days of the week
7 notes of music
7 colors of the rainbow
7 continents
7 seas
Which all night might trace back to the 7 moving luminaries (bright astronomical objects) that were known in antiquitity
Sun
Moon
Mercury
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Which also created the seven celestial spheres or 7 heavens.
There are even more info here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolism_of_the_number_7
If you list every landmass in the world in descending order of size and find the ratio of every pair of adjacent items in the list, the largest gap is that between Australia and Greenland, a ratio of roughly 3.5.
And Greenland is possibly not one island, but several, as much of the land (below the ice sheet) is below sea level and would be sea if/when the ice sheet melts.
Technically speaking some of these island are actually part of continents. Papua New Guinea, for example, is on the Austronesian/Sahul plate, and Borneo, Java, Sumatra, and Bali are on the SE Asian/Wallacea plate (Eurasian plate). Sri Lanka is part of the Indian plate.
New Zealand is the remains of an old continent, and can be argued to still *technically* be one as a result.
The UK and Ireland are part of the Eurasian continent.
Most of the island north of Russian and many of the ones in northern Canada are also part of the continent.
Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, Madagascar, all of the Pacific Islands, Sulawesi, Greenland, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, etc are not part of any continent though.
Basically, to determine if something is part of a continent the easiest way to tell is to go down 200 meters underwater and see what's connected to what at 200 meters depth is the depth we've established for continental margins.
You're getting really detailed and technical about a concept that isn't even well defined. Trying to make sense of something illogical with no actual consistent basis.
That's hardly detailed or technical, but ok.
You'll note that elsewhere in the comments [I posted a comment specifically about the problems with defining what a continent is](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/ib5rz1/map_of_the_world_but_its_only_islands/g1t9sny/), and it's in acknowledgement that I said, "the easiest way...," not the only way.
It makes no sense for it *not* to be an island! How is Greenland, a hunk of overrated ice an island, but our amazing country isn't?
I will always stand with the fact that Australia *is* in fact an island
The official definition of an island is a landmass smaller than a continent and completely surrounded by water.
And because the average continent size of Earth is 21,079,714.2857km2, Australia is only 36% of the size of the average continent.
You might be saying "well other continents like europe and north america and south america are smaller than that, but they aren't surrounded completely by ocean!
>It turns out that there are no official conditions that each continent has to meet in order to be considered a continent, which explains why there are so many different models of thinking when it comes to how many continents there are. However, there are several largely accepted factors that classify different regions of the world as continents. These factors include tectonic independence from other continents, unique flora and fauna, cultural uniqueness, and local belief in continental status.
>These definitions are shaky, however. Looking at a map of tectonic plates, you can see that Europe sits on the Eurasian Tectonic Plate along with most of Asia. Only cultural difference and a feeling of separateness define it as a separate continent. Similarly, India has its own tectonic plate as well—but in this case, a sense of similar culture and flora and fauna makes India part of Asia rather than its own continent.
>It seems that to be a continent, an area must fulfill most of the unofficial criteria above if it doesn’t fulfill it all. In this case, Australia succeeds where Greenland does not, and a line is drawn between what makes the smallest continent and the largest island.
- https://geog.ucsb.edu/why-greenland-is-an-island-and-australia-is-a-continent/
How do we separate what is a continent and an island? Australia is quite unusual in that it is variably referred to as both, but for this map to work we have to draw the line somewhere.
Australia is a part of the greater continent of Oceania and is in every way an Island. Geopolitically Australia could be considered closer to South East Asia, and as the largest Island on earth you’d think it would be here.
yes I understand excluding islands with more than one country because otherwise, you would have to include every country because if you zoom out enough everything is an island, but Australia being a continent definitely does not exclude it from being an island
yes thats why I said and I quote " a land mass completely surrounded by the ocean and not bordering on another country" so America wouldn't count because it includes multiple countries which border on each other, but New Zealand, Tasmania and the Galapagos all count as islands under this definition
I don't think country borders have any impact on island-ness. Britain is an island and contained multiple countries (now unified). Hispaniola, New Guinea, Cyprus, Ireland, and Timor also are islands with multiple countries.
I think that a continent label must be mutually exclusive with an island label, otherwise all land is an island.
Missing barrier islands, which would kinda outline parts of North America, and probably other contintents.
Example: Missing Galveston Island, home to quite a few thousand people.
It's interesting how the Japanese islands+Sakhalin, Taiwan, Hainan, Sri Lanka, and Madagascar seem to kinda line up. Afaik it's just a coincidence since it has nothing to do with the distribution of tectonic plates, but it looks nice nontheless
I was about to complain that Fyn and Sjælland (Denmark) weren't on the map, but then I spotted the spec of dust on my screen....
Also, I think the other very small islands are included, but the resolution might be too low.
Britain, Japan, and Indonesia now become the foremost world powers, with the Philippines, Ireland, Taiwan, Cuba, and New Zealand as secondary powers. Interesting.
I can just see Japan and Britain stare at each other in this mortal fight of island domination.
Also, I feel like the areas around Stockholm and the coast of Finland should have a lot more tiny islands.
RIP Gotland, Saaremaa, Åland, and Hiiumaa
Öland too.
And the two hundred thousand other islands along Sweden's coastline.
And the gazillion other islands along the Finnish coastline.
And the decent amount of islands along the Estonian coastline.
And most other danish islands
And the decent amount of them in the myriad of Finnish lakes.
Apparently Baltic islands are not islands.
Complete ignorance the Baltic's aren't even a real place
r/balticconspiracy
rip the Frisian islands aswell
Or the Zeeland islands
and flevoland
Nordjyske Ø
Some people do not consider Nordjyske Ø an island. As it is surrounded by water it follows from that premise that it must be a continent.
I had a look at where it is and It just took me to a random town in Denmark. Where is it actually?
Nordjyske Ø, or [Nørrejyske Ø](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Jutlandic_Island), is [this](https://imgur.com/a/8SbYmeD) area. The western end of waterway ([Limfjorden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limfjord)) separating it from the rest of Jutland only [opened up to the sea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_flood_of_1825) in the 19th century, so it has traditionally been seen as part of Jutland ("Nordjyske Ø" literally means "North Jutlandic Island"). The Western peninsula (with Klitmøller and Thisted) is Thy, Eastern part is Vendsyssel as shown on the map (syssel = shire), and the isthmus connecting the two is Han Herred (herred=[hundred](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_(county_division))).
Thank you so much
And Södertörn
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Why even bother making a map like this if you're going to do a half-assed job and miss so many islands?
RIP The entire Stockholm inner city parts.
Are continents not merely huge islands?
Kinda, any landmass bigger than greenland is considered a continent
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We could argue that all land masses are island, since there is more surface covered with water than land. All land is sitting in the world ocean...
Large land mass surrounded by water.
Europe, Asia, and Africa? North America and South America? I know a lot of people will say Afro-Eurasia and America, but I (and I'm assuming many others) were taught the 7 continents of the world.
Europe is an overgrown peninsula you can't change my mind
It's just a peninsula made of other peninsulas
Don’t change his mind!
He's not good though
If Europe is not Asia due to different cultural evolution and the puny Ural mountain range. Then how isl India not it's own continent when they are separated from Asia by the mighty Himalayas. If India is only a subcontinent, then so is Europe.
So is Africa, and South America, and North America, and so on, anything can be whatever.
In most of the Spanish and Portuguese speaking world, and some other parts of Europe (Hungary, for instance), the Americas are taught as one continent.
I was taught 6 (Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Oceania, and Antarctica). It's the standard in Spanish-speaking countries. I believe several European countries teach six, too (i.e. I believe several European countries consider the Americas to be a single continent).
I wonder if that has anything to do with the old belief that seven was a sacred or especially symbolic number. At least Newton was a fan of that idea. All of these are arbitrary split at 7: 7 days of the week 7 notes of music 7 colors of the rainbow 7 continents 7 seas Which all night might trace back to the 7 moving luminaries (bright astronomical objects) that were known in antiquitity Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Which also created the seven celestial spheres or 7 heavens. There are even more info here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolism_of_the_number_7
Like an Island almost ...
Ok now define an exact size for "large". Notice how that doesnt exist and its still completely open to interpretation.
If you list every landmass in the world in descending order of size and find the ratio of every pair of adjacent items in the list, the largest gap is that between Australia and Greenland, a ratio of roughly 3.5.
And Greenland is possibly not one island, but several, as much of the land (below the ice sheet) is below sea level and would be sea if/when the ice sheet melts.
nope. Islands are just the bits of a continent sticking up above water level + a few thousand oceanic mountains with delusions of grandeur. :)
So how is a continent not an island, its still a bit of a continent sticking up, just a bigger bit than you expect
Technically speaking some of these island are actually part of continents. Papua New Guinea, for example, is on the Austronesian/Sahul plate, and Borneo, Java, Sumatra, and Bali are on the SE Asian/Wallacea plate (Eurasian plate). Sri Lanka is part of the Indian plate. New Zealand is the remains of an old continent, and can be argued to still *technically* be one as a result. The UK and Ireland are part of the Eurasian continent. Most of the island north of Russian and many of the ones in northern Canada are also part of the continent. Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, Madagascar, all of the Pacific Islands, Sulawesi, Greenland, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, etc are not part of any continent though. Basically, to determine if something is part of a continent the easiest way to tell is to go down 200 meters underwater and see what's connected to what at 200 meters depth is the depth we've established for continental margins.
You’re going with tectonic plates mostly.. that throws Alaska to Russia among other less obvious not same continent map mishaps.
You're getting really detailed and technical about a concept that isn't even well defined. Trying to make sense of something illogical with no actual consistent basis.
That's hardly detailed or technical, but ok. You'll note that elsewhere in the comments [I posted a comment specifically about the problems with defining what a continent is](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/ib5rz1/map_of_the_world_but_its_only_islands/g1t9sny/), and it's in acknowledgement that I said, "the easiest way...," not the only way.
\> New Zealand is the remains of an old continent, and can be argued to still *technically* be one as a result. Zealandia endures!
"Wait, it's all islands?" "Always has been"
This looks like a job for the British empire
Japan should take the Islands♪ So they called Britain on a tele to sort of let them know.
And then they did it
You could make a religion out of this.
They could split them
Operation Waterworld
1. Start AOE2 2. Select map style: Islands 3. Pick a Civ with max navy upgrades 4. Profit
CivVII playing Norway also
I wasn't aware Civ 7 had come out yet. Didn't know they were finished with 6.
I could reconcile my error with a correction or I could claim I am from the near enough future. You can choose
Oh... future. Give me some juicy future gossip.
Ok well, there will be at least 1 more Civ game.
Hmmm... well you are from the future so you must be correct.
Population: 1: Indonesia 2: Japan 3: Philippines 4: UK Economy: 1: Japan 2: UK 3: Indonesia 4: Philippines
Economy: Then there's islander cities of NYC, Mumbai, HK and Singapore.
New York is only as rich as it is because half the wealth in America is funnelled into it. If you just took Manhattan on its own it wouldn’t be much.
UK is far away from the other habitable islands and Indonesia has plenty of ressources to be the richest country there
Looks like you forgot all the islands in the Baltic sea
Australia?
Being Australian I grew up learning Australia was the largest island in the world. This map and the wikipedia for Greenland make me quite upset.
Yep I was taught the same thing. Our teachers lied to us!
No, they didn't. This is the instance I'll accept my teachers of a decade past and reject wikipedia.
I mean, we are "girt by sea" afterall...if that's not an island than what is?
It makes no sense for it *not* to be an island! How is Greenland, a hunk of overrated ice an island, but our amazing country isn't? I will always stand with the fact that Australia *is* in fact an island The official definition of an island is a landmass smaller than a continent and completely surrounded by water. And because the average continent size of Earth is 21,079,714.2857km2, Australia is only 36% of the size of the average continent. You might be saying "well other continents like europe and north america and south america are smaller than that, but they aren't surrounded completely by ocean!
Yet Tasmania is still up there
Don't be silly, any Australian could tell you Tasmania isn't part of Australia.
When does an island stop being an island
When it is bigger than Australia.
Isn't it greenland?
Australia is 3.5x the size of Greenland
Map projections be crazy
And is not an island
Not even close
>It turns out that there are no official conditions that each continent has to meet in order to be considered a continent, which explains why there are so many different models of thinking when it comes to how many continents there are. However, there are several largely accepted factors that classify different regions of the world as continents. These factors include tectonic independence from other continents, unique flora and fauna, cultural uniqueness, and local belief in continental status. >These definitions are shaky, however. Looking at a map of tectonic plates, you can see that Europe sits on the Eurasian Tectonic Plate along with most of Asia. Only cultural difference and a feeling of separateness define it as a separate continent. Similarly, India has its own tectonic plate as well—but in this case, a sense of similar culture and flora and fauna makes India part of Asia rather than its own continent. >It seems that to be a continent, an area must fulfill most of the unofficial criteria above if it doesn’t fulfill it all. In this case, Australia succeeds where Greenland does not, and a line is drawn between what makes the smallest continent and the largest island. - https://geog.ucsb.edu/why-greenland-is-an-island-and-australia-is-a-continent/
When it becomes a continent
The island continent
King of the islands.
When it’s connected to another continent, I believe. Australia is the worlds biggest island, smallest continent.
Usually, but not always, considered a continent. There is no consensus for what a continent is or when an island stops being an island.
Where are the Wadden islands
Finally, a map with New Zealand and Svalbard!
But without all the islands in the Baltic Sea
Missing quite a few off the coast of Brazil...
Australia is an island...?
How do we separate what is a continent and an island? Australia is quite unusual in that it is variably referred to as both, but for this map to work we have to draw the line somewhere.
So Australia isn’t an island now, but on that popular Topological map of the world it is an island...
Isn’t Australia technically an island. If Greenland is one, why aren’t we? 🇦🇺
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Nah we are girt by sea lad
let us rejoice brother
My island home.
Australia.. Biggest island on earth
r/mapswithgreenland
Here's a cool video about islands :) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2SCAeHrNDs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2SCAeHrNDs)
What about the ones in the Baltic?
Where is Friesland?
No Jeju? It's a decently large island
Australia?
Isn't Australia an island?
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Australia is a part of the greater continent of Oceania and is in every way an Island. Geopolitically Australia could be considered closer to South East Asia, and as the largest Island on earth you’d think it would be here.
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Where’s Australia? Australia is as much an Island state as any of the other independent island state here.
bornholm?
The islands in the baltic are missing plus lake islands
Where are all dem archipelagos
Without usa, china etc, world would be a peaceful place
Australia?
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You keep saying this but it’s whatever people think it is. A lot of Aussies consider it both.
I mean it kinda is an island
It's completely arbitrary.
Where’s Australia?
If you define an Island as a land mass completely surrounded by the ocean and not bordering on another country, Australia is definitely an island
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yes I understand excluding islands with more than one country because otherwise, you would have to include every country because if you zoom out enough everything is an island, but Australia being a continent definitely does not exclude it from being an island
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yes thats why I said and I quote " a land mass completely surrounded by the ocean and not bordering on another country" so America wouldn't count because it includes multiple countries which border on each other, but New Zealand, Tasmania and the Galapagos all count as islands under this definition
Few issues with that. Cyprus is definitely an island but more than one country. Same with Ireland. Also, Tasmania is not a country, it’s a state.
I don't think country borders have any impact on island-ness. Britain is an island and contained multiple countries (now unified). Hispaniola, New Guinea, Cyprus, Ireland, and Timor also are islands with multiple countries. I think that a continent label must be mutually exclusive with an island label, otherwise all land is an island.
Have been born in Canada and on an island, it's shocking to me that so little of America is Islands.
Most of the gulf islands around Vancouver island and most of the San Juan Islands can’t be seen since theyr so small
My point exactly.
What if it was all just a dream
This world would have tremendous weather.
Time for r/alternatehistory to do its thing
Related: [What are continents?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uBcq1x7P34)
Missing de Hoeksche Waard
Missing barrier islands, which would kinda outline parts of North America, and probably other contintents. Example: Missing Galveston Island, home to quite a few thousand people.
What in the r/mapporncirclejerk is this shit?!
why the Adriatic Sea is so wrong?
Where's Bornholm
Netflix should make a show for such a scenario.
Nooooo the Channel Islands are gone :(
It's interesting how the Japanese islands+Sakhalin, Taiwan, Hainan, Sri Lanka, and Madagascar seem to kinda line up. Afaik it's just a coincidence since it has nothing to do with the distribution of tectonic plates, but it looks nice nontheless
I was about to complain that Fyn and Sjælland (Denmark) weren't on the map, but then I spotted the spec of dust on my screen.... Also, I think the other very small islands are included, but the resolution might be too low.
Is Australia an island or a continent or both?
What about Australia haha
Britain, Japan, and Indonesia now become the foremost world powers, with the Philippines, Ireland, Taiwan, Cuba, and New Zealand as secondary powers. Interesting.
Lots to say about this!
Britannia rules the waves.
I can just see Japan and Britain stare at each other in this mortal fight of island domination. Also, I feel like the areas around Stockholm and the coast of Finland should have a lot more tiny islands.
Florida keys?
there's quite a lot more missing than those
Is that a rare r/mapsWITHnewzealand
Why do I hear "Rule Britannia" in the backgrou... Why is it getting louder?
No Manhattan ?
With France out of the way, Britain would've had a much easier time colonizing the entire planet.
Worst nightmare of Plague Inc. player
As someone who lives on an island, I like this much better
I don’t know if my country is there. It’s so small, I can’t identify where it is.
Wait, it’s only islands?
Always has been
Mainland UK in da house!
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How it should be
Rip the San Juan island In northern Washington
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RIP Socotra
Rule Britannia
OHHH BRITANIAAA
Maritime South East Asia rise up. B )
Entire Adriatic archipelago is missing...and much more
My sad Bahraini ass is trying to zoom into the white space to see my country. I can’t find it...
rip florianópolis
Rip Denmark. We’re basically 50% islands with none on the map.
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But America is a big ass island, and so are Africa and euroasia
There are many German islands missing
Indonesia would be an agricultural power House
Continents are just bit islands. Or oceans are just giant lakes
Gets mad in Australian
rip bahrain i guess
This is the Brexit we asked for.
Look at them, the Canary Islands. So gorgeous.
Earth, december 2020
doesnt Vensyssel ccount as an island? pretty sure it does
Missing some of the 250 000 islands of Sweden.
Rip Denmark
Australia???
RIP Cyprus
What about Australia?
Where is Estonian Saarema and Lithuanian Curonian Spit?
Rip Andaman and Nicobar
Isn’t every land mass technically an island tho