Tag Archives: Greenland
The World’s Largest Islands
Quick! Think of all the big islands in the world. Is Australia an Island? No, it’s a continent. How do we know this? It’s just a matter of definition. Conventionally, “continents are understood to be large, continuous, discrete masses of … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, Baffin Island, Banks Island, Borneo, Devon Island, Ellesmere Island, Greenland, Helluland, Sakhalin, Sulawesi, Sumatra
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Usefulness
Within the last few years I have been buying and reading collections of short stories, from Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) to the present, trying to learn the trade from the masters. I remembered recently that as a youngster I enjoyed reading … Continue reading