An island or isle is a piece of land, distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being split from a continent by plate …

2 天之前 · Island, any area of land smaller than a continent and entirely surrounded by water. Islands may occur in oceans, seas, lakes, or rivers. A group of islands is called an …

2023年10月19日 · Island nations can be part of an island (such as Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which share the island of Hispaniola), one island (such as Madagascar), or many …

2025年4月22日 · Sprawling beaches, rich cultures and untouched pockets of wilderness are just a few alluring characteristics of the best islands in the world.

Island can be traced back to Old English īgland, composed of two elements īg and land. Land, as we might expect means “land,” but īg means “island” in Old English.

Walters Shoals, just south of Madagascar, was once a large tropical island. This article includes a geography-related list of lists.

An island is a landmass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water. [1] Many island countries are spread over an archipelago, as is the case with Indonesia, Japan, and the …

Equatorial Guinea 's capital city is located on an island. ^ Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Turkey each have a small portion of their land located on continental Europe.

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Idiom an island of peace, calm, sanity, etc. (Definition of island from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)