What are the ten largest islands in the world?

An island refers to a land area surrounded by water, which is scattered in oceans, rivers or lakes. At present, there are more than 50,000 islands in the world with a total area of 9.97 million square kilometers. What are the larger islands in the world? This article will take stock of the top ten islands in the world for everyone. Let's take a look.

What are the ten largest islands in the world?

1. Greenland

Greenland is the largest island in the world, with a total area of 265,438+066,086 square kilometers, located between the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. It has a coastline of more than 35,000 kilometers and is under the jurisdiction of Denmark. Because four-fifths of the island is located in the Arctic Circle, 84% of the area is covered by thick ice with an average thickness of 2,300 meters.

2. new guinea

New Guinea is the second largest island in the world, covering an area of about 785,000 square kilometers, and the largest island in the Pacific Ocean south of the equator in the western Pacific Ocean. It faces the Australian mainland across the Arafura Sea and the Coral Sea, while the western part of the island is adjacent to the Malay Archipelago.

3. kalimantan island

Kalimantan island, with an area of 743,000 square kilometers, is located in the middle of the Malay Archipelago in Southeast Asia and is the third largest island in the world. This island jointly owned by Malaya, Indonesia and Brunei has a long history. In ancient China, it was called Boli and Borneo.

4. Madagascar

Madagascar, the fourth largest highway in the world, with an area of 587,000 square kilometers, is located in the southeast waters of the African continent, separated from the African continent by a Mozambican sea. This island is long and narrow, with a coastline of 399 1 km. It is also the largest island that the Tropic of Capricorn passes through among all the islands in the Indian Ocean.

5. baffin island

Baffin island is an Arctic archipelago with an area of 507,000 square kilometers, and the largest Canadian island opposite Greenland across the davis strait and Baffin Bay. Because most of them are located in the Arctic Circle, they have the natural scenery of the polar tundra. Eskimos who live on the island hunt for a living in the cold and long winter.

6. Sumatra

Sumatra Island, with an area of 434,000 square kilometers, belongs to Greater sunda islands and is the sixth avenue in the world, second only to New Guinea and kalimantan island. The introduction of 475,000 square kilometers, including the affiliated islands, also attracted many explorers to look for gold treasures here from the16th century.

7.Honshu Island

Honshu Island is the largest island in Japan, with a total area of about 230,000 square kilometers, located in the middle of the Japanese archipelago. It is the seventh largest island in the world, with a coastline of 5450 kilometers and a total length of about 1300 kilometers. Frequent earthquakes are prone to occur, and there are active volcanoes (such as Mount Fuji at an altitude of 3,776 meters).

8. Victoria Island

This area is about 2 12000 square kilometers, belonging to one of the three avenues of the Arctic Ocean Islands in the northern part of the North American continent. It is also the eighth largest island in the world, with a length of 5 15 km. The residents of the island mainly live in holman in the west and Cambridge Bay in the southeast.

9. Great Britain

The island of Great Britain, with an area of 265,438+0,000 square kilometers, is the first avenue in Europe composed of England, Scotland and Wales. It is a territory of the United Kingdom, surrounded by more than 65,438+0,000 small islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of the European continent.

/kloc-0 0. Canada

This is the third largest island in Canada with an area of 200,000 square kilometers and the tenth largest island in the world. It is also the northernmost part of Canadian territory, adjacent to Greenland and belonging to Queen Elizabeth Islands. Among them, Babiyou Peak, which is 2604 meters above sea level, is the highest point of the Arctic Islands.