Verlag Dr. C. Mueller-Straten wrote:
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> Maria and others:
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> Please, what is the difference between a continent and "big islands"?

According to Webster's, a continent has several distictive features,
including a basin surrounded by mountain ranges and an off-shore
continental shelf.  The same dictonary says, somewhat less helpfully,
that an island is "smaller than a continent."

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