May 11, 2008-May 17, 2008
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) is the largest island in the world. It covers an area of 2,166,086 square kilometers or 836,109 square miles. It is nearly thrice as large as
New Guinea, the world’s second largest island. Greenland is found between the Arctic and
Atlantic Oceans. It is a self-governing province of the
Kingdom of Denmark.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the world’s smallest island is none other than the Bishop Rock. Bishop Rock is literally a small rock with an uninhabited 45-meter tall lighthouse on it. It lies at the westernmost portion of the Isles of Scilly in the United Kingdom along with the other 1,040 islands. It has an area of only about 2 acres, a size comparable to the summer’s pasturage of at least one sheep.
Bouvet Island is the most remote or most isolated island in the world. It is an uninhabited sub-Antarctic volcanic island found in the South Atlantic Ocean which is a dependency of Norway. The nearest land from it is the uninhabited Queen Maud Land in Antarctica, over 1,600 kilometers (994 miles) away to the south. On the other hand, the nearest populated land from Bouvet Island is Tristan da Cunha (a dependency of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena), 2,260 kilometers (1,404 miles) away and South Africa, 2,580 km (1,603 miles) away.
