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Shouldn't Iceland be listed in Atlantic Ocean instead of Europe? Also, many islands are neither seamounts (which are associated with mantle hotspots) nor clearly on one continental plates: island arcs form at the edges where two plates are coming together. The Aleutians and Japan, for example, are at the margins between the North American and Pacific plates. The former are generally associated with North America and Asia (though the plate boundary is well to the west of the Aleutians) and the latter with Asia, because we mostly define things by land masses, ignoring encroaching seas. --Vicki Rosenzweig |
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