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We've left off Hawaii, Oahu, Maui, etc. I'd add them but I have to be off to bed. --KQ
I'm sure we've left off most islands. But it's a work in progress. - Tim

The list of islands by region will differ from any list of islands by country. Hawaii, for example, is under Pacific, separated from its compatriot islands under North America. So long as it is a list by region, this is how it should be done. - Tim


This page concerns me for the simple reason that there are millions of islands in the world... we could never hope to list them all. -- SJK

Is Australia itself regarded as an island (in which case wouldn't it be the largest?), or is it a continental land mass? -- DrBob

It's generally regarded as a continent (if you read the Wikipedia entry for Australia, you'll see it described as such), though AFAICT such division are basically arbitrary. --Robert Merkel

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