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Island - Continental islands | | Island - Continental islands: Encyclopedia II - Island - Continental islands | | Continental islands are bodies of land that are connected by the continental shelf to a continent. That is, these islands are part of an adjacent continent and are located on the continental shelf of that continent. Examples include Greenland and Sable Island off North America, Barbados and Trinidad off South America, Sicily off Europe, Sumatra and Java off Asia, New Guinea and Tasmania off Australia.
A special type of continental island is the microcontinental island, which results when a continent is rifted. The best example is Madagascar off Africa. The Kerguelen Islands ...
See also:Island, Island - Continental islands, Island - River islands, Island - Volcanic islands | | | Island, Island - Continental islands, Island - River islands, Island - Volcanic islands, List of islands, List of islands by area, List of islands by population, Island nation, Reef, Desert island, Tidal island, List of artificial islands, List of divided islands, Skerry | | |
| | | Island: Encyclopedia II - Island - Continental islands
Island - Continental islands
Continental islands are bodies of land that are connected by the continental shelf to a continent. That is, these islands are part of an adjacent continent and are located on the continental shelf of that continent. Examples include Greenland and Sable Island off North America, Barbados and Trinidad off South America, Sicily off Europe, Sumatra and Java off Asia, New Guinea and Tasmania off Australia.
A special type of continental island is the microcontinental island, which results when a continent is rifted. The best example is Madagascar off Africa. The Kerguelen Islands and some of the Seychelles are also examples.
Another subtype is the barrier island: accumulations of sand on the continental shelf.
Other related archivesAleutian Islands, Asia, Atlantic Ocean, Austral Islands, Australia, Barbados, Bora Bora, Desert island, Emperor Seamounts, Europe, Greenland, Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands, Iceland, Indian Ocean, Island nation, Jan Mayen, Java, Kerguelen Islands, Kure, Latin, Lesser Antilles, Line Islands, List of artificial islands, List of divided islands, List of islands, List of islands by area, List of islands by population, Madagascar, Maldives, Mariana Islands, New Guinea, North America, Old English, Old French, Pacific, Pacific Ocean, Reef, Sable Island, Seychelles, Sicily, Skerry, South America, South Sandwich Islands, Sumatra, Tasmania, Tidal island, Tonga, Trinidad, Tristan da Cunha, Tuamotu Archipelago, Tuvalu, archipelagos, artificial islands, atoll, barrier island, bars, continental shelf, coral reef, hotspots, islets, isostatic adjustment, lagoon, oceanic rift, rifted, river deltas, rivers, sand, seamount, tectonic plate, volcanoes
 Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Continental islands", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki |
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