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    1. Bitter_Armadillo8182 on

      At some point, can’t everything be “an island” if you zoom out far enough?

    4. Careless-Wrap6843 on

      I mean there is that lake in Wyoming (I think) that flows into both the Atlantic and pacific so I guess you could say it splits North America into two islands.

    12. Matman161 on

      Oh my God we do this every fucking week! NO a river like that does not cause an island

    13. SimpleMoonFarmer on

      Yes, this should be canon, and added to the Trivial Pursuit geography questions.

    14. gooneryoda on

      The area is called Guiana Island which is a singular fluvial-maritime island and is larger than Switzerland. It is classified as a fluvial island because it was created by sediment deposited by the Amazon River though its location at the sea makes it influenced by sea tides.

    15. apadin1 on

      The Chicago River is connected to the Illinois River by a man made canal. The Illinois River flows south into the Mississippi and the Chicago River flows north into Lake Michigan.

      So by this logic, the entire eastern half of the United States is an island bounded by the Mississippi River, Illinois River, and Chicago River in the west, the Great Lakes in the north, the Atlantic Ocean in the east, and the Gulf of Mexico in the south.

    16. CAL9k on

      I was taught that islands are surrounded by the same hydrological body of water on all sides. So this would not be an island because the rivers are distinct from the ocean.
      You can also think of it in (less accurate) terms of water level. If the water level is the same on all sides (barring the technicality of river levels being slightly lower on the downstream end of a river island, or like an island on the edge of a waterfall) then it is an island. If water levels are higher on one side it’s not an island.

    17. Crane_1989 on

      What about North America? The Chicago river connects Lake Michigan to the Mississippi, the entire eastern seaboard is an island too.

    22. denn23rus on

      then all of Europe is an island, because you can sail from the Arctic Ocean only along the rivers to the Black Sea

    23. BrownEyesWhiteScarf on

      No, especially since people don’t consider Calcutta as being on an island when it’s on the inside of the Ganges River delta.

    24. matiaskeeper on

      > South America is shaped by two giant river basins

      Rio de la Plata basin: am I a joke to you? 🤨

    25. PopeGeraldVII on

      I’m not having this stupid fucking debate about how North and South America are separate because of the canal again, but this time with islands.

    27. aeschynanthus_sp on

      Right, it all depends on what your definition of an island is. An example from Finland is an area called [*Soisalo*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soisalo), which is the largest island in Finland according to us Finns; the area is 1,600 km^2

      But the surrounding waters are on different levels, the difference being four metres. There are short rivers or rapids connecting the surrounding lakes.

    28. Albuwhatwhat on

      Then isn’t all of South America an island due to the Panama Canal?

      This is stupid.

    31. Ambitious-Concern-42 on

      No. People keep trying to argue certain examples but it all comes down to, it’s freshwater and makes a big descent to the ocean. Doesn’t count.

    34. Lefaid on

      I am going to fart this out so a Reddit expert can correct me.

      I think civilization on this part of South America functions like an island too. Their only population centers are coastal and there is no road connecting those cities to Brazil or Venezuela.

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