1. Did you know that one in 6 people live on an Island? Since so many of us live on Islands, we thought it might be interesting to share some little known facts about “any land mass completely surrounded by water”.
2. Not all islands are alike! Continental islands lie on the shelf of a continent, for example, Greenland, which lies on the shelf of North America. Oceanic islands do not sit on a continental shelf. Most, such as the Hawaiian Islands, were formed by volcanic activity.
3. Although Australia is completely surrounded by water, geographically it is considered a continent rather than an island. It’s not only too big to be formally classified as an island, it also sits on its own tectonic plate. Because of this, the title of world’s largest island goes to Greenland, a continental island lying on North America’s continental shelf.
4. The official name for a group, cluster or collection of geographically-related islands is archipelago. Familiar archipelagos include the Canary Islands, the Bahamas, the Caymans, Indonesia, the British Isles, and the Philippines.
5. The Guinness Book of Records lists Bishop Rock as the world’s smallest island with a building on it. It is 151 feet (46 m) long by 52.5 feet (16 m) wide and is situated at the end of Britain’s Isles.
6. There are 6,852 islands in the nation of Japan.
7. Cozumel is Mexico’s largest Caribbean Island. Cozumel is 48 km (30 mi) long and 16 km (10 mi) wide. It lies some 10 km (6.2 mi) from the mainland, and 90 km (56 mi) south of Cancun. The vast majority of the population of Cozumel lives in the town of San Miguel (pop. 77,236 in 2010), which is on the island's western shore. The land area is covered with an impenetrable jungle which has many endemic animal species found only on Cozumel. The Island, including offshore islets, has a land area of 477 sq. kilometers (184 sq. miles).
Cozumel attracts divers from all around the world to dive its famous coral reefs, one of largest in the world. An International airport with daily flights from Europe and other parts of the world makes it very accessible for international tourists who also take advantage of Cozumel’s 300 restaurants, some of which are 5 star with international cuisines.
Cozumel is also famous for its Jack Nicklaus-designed, first-class golf course tucked within the delicate ecosystem of the surrounding tropical rainforest. The golf course is home to the giant orange Cozumel iguanas, crocodiles, raccoons and a multitude of bird species as well as other wildlife which call the Island home.
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