Fun and Fascinating Island Facts
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Greenland is the World’s largest island, 822,706 square miles in size, with a population of 56,565.
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Hawaii is an oceanic island, created from volcanoes.
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Great Britain is a continental island.
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Scientists have released millions of genetically modified mosquitoes on the island of Grand Cayman in an effort to combat dengue fever, resulting in an 80% decrease in mosquito numbers.
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The largest island located in a river is Ilha do Bananal in Brazil.
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The Canary Islands are named after dogs.
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Islands found in rivers or lakes are referred to as eyots.
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Borneo is home to creatures that exist nowhere else on earth.
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Java is the largest Island by Population with over 140 million people.
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The highest mountain on an island is Puncak Jaya on the island of New Guinea.
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Okinawa Island in Japan has a population of 450 people living above the age of 100, The Island is known as the world’s healthiest place.
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Pig Beach is an Island in the Bahamas that is inhabited only by swimming pigs.
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The Island of Ilha da Queimada Grande is populated by Poisonous snakes, The Brazilian Navy has quarantined it.
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The Falkland Islands has 167 times as many sheep as permanent residents.
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Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the island of Corsica and was later exiled to the island of Saint Helena off the coast of Africa.
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Venice Island was built on a foundation of tree trunks, over 1,200 years later the same trunks still support most of the central Venice.
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All Olympic curling stones are made from a rare type of granite that is only found on Craggy Isle, a small island in Scotland.
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Around 1/6 of the world’s population live on an Island.
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80% of Madagascar’s plant and animal life can’t be found anywhere else on earth.
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The Island of Socotra in Yemen has around a third of the plant life that can’t be found anywhere else on earth. The Island is known as “most alien-looking place on Earth.”
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