Why is Greenland not recognized as a continent?

[Akrazotile]

http://www.mapsofworld.com/images-mow/world-map.jpg


Shit is the size of Africa and is not physically adjoined to any other continent.

Why is Greenland not considered a continent? Antarctica is a continent and the shit is all ice. Australia is a continent and its like half the size.


WTF yo.

FREE GREENLAND

[Brizzly]

Racism, i bet if the name was whiteland it would have been considered a continent.

[KeylessEntry]

australia is actually about 3x larger than greenland, it only looks smaller because its tricky to display a spherical world on a flat map.

[Brizzly]

australia is actually about 3x larger than greenland, it only looks smaller because its tricky to display a spherical world on a flat map.

yup, africa is 15 times bigger than greenland and this nig thinks they almost as big:oldlol:

[Akrazotile]

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4312/pepperov.f/0_3856e_75d2f3b_orig

[Bosnian Sajo]

http://www.pratham.name/images/mercator.png

Idk whether this is clever trolling or an ISH poster being a dumbass.

[miller-time]

Australia is a continent and its like half the size.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Australia-Greenland_Overlay.png

[Akrazotile]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Australia-Greenland_Overlay.png


"Greenland is, in terms of area, the world's largest island." -Wikipedia


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Shit is a continent. And its bigger than Australia mate.

[Brizzly]

"Greenland is, in terms of area, the world's largest island." -Wikipedia


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Shit is a continent. And its bigger than Australia mate.

Are you retarded?

[eliteballer]

australia is actually about 3x larger than greenland, it only looks smaller because its tricky to display a spherical world on a flat map.

Thank you...I couldn't believe this ISHiot OP's post. Africa is almost twice the size of Russia.

Antarctica is actually twice the size of Australia.

etc.

and finally...Greenland is part of the North American plate. Don't make a thread if you don't know the science.

[eliteballer]

http://www.pratham.name/images/mercator.png

Idk whether this is clever trolling or an ISH poster being a dumbass.

The latter...OP needs to jump on wikipedia and look up the actual sizes of these places.

[fiddy]

Africa is 15 times bigger than Greenland, OP=retard

[MMM]

why do people live in norway?

Why do people live anywhere that isn't the greatest place????

[Sarcastic]

Africa - 11,668,599 sq miles

Greenland - 836,109 sq miles


http://cdn3.collective-evolution.com/assets/uploads/2013/07/true-size-africa.gif



OP is dumb as rocks as usual.

[eliteballer]

Africa - 11,668,599 sq miles

Greenland - 836,109 sq miles


http://cdn3.collective-evolution.com/assets/uploads/2013/07/true-size-africa.gif



OP is dumb as rocks as usual.

Something about that is off. India is 10 times the size of Italy. Africa is almost 4 times the size of China etc.

[Breezy]

In addition to the reasons everyone else has listed greenlnad isn't even one solid piece of land. Without the ice it would appear like a large archipelago with an inland sea separating several large and small island groupings.

http://i.imgur.com/9j9XAwh.png

[Trollsmasher]

And Mercator counts another victim:applause:

[deja vu]

Africa - 11,668,599 sq miles

Greenland - 836,109 sq miles


http://cdn3.collective-evolution.com/assets/uploads/2013/07/true-size-africa.gif



OP is dumb as rocks as usual.
Holy moly. The Sahara Desert is as big as the entire United States. :eek:

[MMM]

Africa - 11,668,599 sq miles

Greenland - 836,109 sq miles


http://cdn3.collective-evolution.com/assets/uploads/2013/07/true-size-africa.gif



OP is dumb as rocks as usual.

damn the horn is the same size as India :eek:

[ForeverHeat]

I have always suspected Akrazotile of having some sort of mental impediment, but this just takes the cake. The generic world map image is not to scale idiot. Go to school you dumb f*g.

[eliteballer]

In addition to the reasons everyone else has listed greenlnad isn't even one solid piece of land. Without the ice it would appear like a large archipelago with an inland sea separating several large and small island groupings.

http://i.imgur.com/9j9XAwh.png

That is very interesting. What about Russia and Antarctica?

[eliteballer]

Holy moly. The Sahara Desert is as big as the entire United States. :eek:

It's actually bigger than the lower 48. It covers all of North Africa IE Egypt Libya etc.

You have to add Alaska to make the sizes comparable.

[MMM]

OP got a 2 page and growing thread
bout nothing

[eliteballer]

Africa: 30,221,532 km2

China: 9,596,961 km2

Russia: 17,098,242 km2 (Crimea not included)

US(Lower 48): 8,080,464.3 km2

Canada: 9,984,670 km2

US with Alaska+Hawaii and territories: 9,826,675 km2

Australia: 7,692,024 km2

Antarctica: 14,000,000 km2

India: 3,287,590 km2

European Union: 4,381,376 km2

South America: 17,840,000 km2

Pacific Ocean: 165,250,000 km2

Atlantic Ocean: 106,400,000 km2

Greenland: 2,166,086 km2(83% water)

[eliteballer]

You have to look at an actual globe to see how the real sizes look in comparison visually.

[eliteballer]

One thing to remember regarding size is what it actually encompasses.

For example:

Most of China is desert, that's why most of it's population is in the East

Russia is also mostly barren. Ditto for Australia and Canada. However by their sheer size they still have a ton of resources relatively speaking in a country comparison.

The US has the most arable land in the world(land where you can farm)

India has the second most arable land in the world.

I believe Africa has more arable land than the rest of the world combined.

[kurple]

why do people live in norway?
because we got a shitload oil, a very high miminum wage, free health care and the best looking bitches in the world

[kurple]

America ain't got room for em all
i can think of one thing america has that we dont have in norway. KFC

[Balla_Status]

Australia has a population smaller than Texas. Realize that shit.

[Meticode]

Greeland is way smaller than people think. It's not even close to the size of Africa, it looks that big becuase you're basically taking a map which is a globe or sphere and laying it out flat, which distorts the landmass sizes.

Here's what Greenland looks like if you put it on an actual globe...

http://www.geoatlas.com/medias/maps/world%20maps%20and%20globes/europe/euro7415globe/europe-globe_phy3.jpg

[Lebowsky]

Greeland is way smaller than people think. It's not even close to the size of Africa, it looks that big becuase you're basically taking a map which is a globe or sphere and laying it out flat, which distorts the landmass sizes.

Here's what Greenland looks like if you put it on an actual globe...


Thanks for the clarification. I can't believe nobody realized that before...

[Jasi]

...And some people wonder why I love Geography so much.
It can give you all types of joys.

[DeuceWallaces]

Lol this idiot understanding projections.

[JohnnySic]

Geography is awesome.

And its a little surpising how huge Africa is when you see it presented like that.

[lakers_forever]

Greeland is way smaller than people think. It's not even close to the size of Africa, it looks that big becuase you're basically taking a map which is a globe or sphere and laying it out flat, which distorts the landmass sizes.


Exactly. Because of that, every map projection has distortions.

In the mercator (used by OP), Brazil also looks freaking small when in reality it is larger than United States without Alaska and 4 times bigger than Greenland.

This site is great, it compare countries sizes (also american states), anyone you choose.

http://mapfight.appspot.com/

[lakers_forever]

OP is now like those two in "The West Wing", learning for the first time about projections with a WTF look on his face:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-PrBRtTY

[step_back]

that all sounds good and stuff, I was just wondering why people settled on the top of the fvking planet. Isn't it cold as balls there all the time?

Also America got the best looking women since we got any kind you could choose and mixes of em too

It's in the Northern Hemisphere. I imagine the summer season is some of the nicest weather on the planet. People think the U.K always has bad weather. If we get a good summer that means sunshine from 5am to 10pm.

[Theoo]

fk** greenland man

[Marlo_Stanfield]

It's considered a part of North America.
it belongs to denmark you retard

[Akrazotile]

:roll:

Holy shit, some of yall are really trippin here.

It wasnt just the one map I posted that shows the size of Greenland, if you google it you will see ALL the maps show Greenland to be bigger than Australia and roughly the size of Africa.

Also, Wiki explicitly SAYS: "Greenland is, in terms of area, the world's largest island,[8]"


Is Australia not an island? Is Africa not an island?


If those are continents, then it makes no sense to consider Greenland to randomly be part of North America when it clearly can and does stand on its own two.


Again I ask, why is Greenland NOT a continent?


FREE GR

[boozehound]

as others have pointed out, maps are projections that do not actually reflect the reality of a spherical planet. Greenland is about 800,000 square miles. Africa is 11 million square miles.

Also, continents have a geological definition based on plate tectonics. While there is a greenland plate, it was actually part of the same N Am plate for most of geologic history.

[boozehound]

No Africa is not an island......

also, why dont you use actual measurements of size rather than a bunch of map projections.

[ForeverHeat]

[QUOTE=Akrazotile]:roll:

Holy shit, some of yall are really trippin here.

It wasnt just the one map I posted that shows the size of Greenland, if you google it you will see ALL the maps show Greenland to be bigger than Australia and roughly the size of Africa.

Also, Wiki explicitly SAYS: "Greenland is, in terms of area, the world's largest island,[8]"


Is Australia not an island? Is Africa not an island?


If those are continents, then it makes no sense to consider Greenland to randomly be part of North America when it clearly can and does stand on its own two.


Again I ask, why is Greenland NOT a continent?


FREE GR

[CeilingFan#1]

This thread :lol

[Akrazotile]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jCqX9uaPmxs/UQwTMEUb_aI/AAAAAAAAXRA/U2kLUvzRsyk/s640/GreenlandIceberg.jpg

http://www.mining.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/greenland-embraces-mining-rush-but-wont-favour-one-country-alone.jpg

http://www.greenland-travel.com/files/fotos/9007/9007_camp.jpg

http://public.media.smithsonianmag.com/legacy_blog/10_12_2012_greenland-glacier.jpg

http://www.kayakingtours.com/global/Images/greenland_heading.jpg



Continental, and majestic AF :applause:

[KeylessEntry]

heres a picture of OP on his visit to greenland

http://intim8ecology.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/bundle-of-driftwood-sticks-bound-with-green-nylon-chord-northam-burrows-1-pward-2011.jpg

[DeuceWallaces]

[QUOTE=Akrazotile]:roll:

Holy shit, some of yall are really trippin here.

It wasnt just the one map I posted that shows the size of Greenland, if you google it you will see ALL the maps show Greenland to be bigger than Australia and roughly the size of Africa.

Also, Wiki explicitly SAYS: "Greenland is, in terms of area, the world's largest island,[8]"


Is Australia not an island? Is Africa not an island?


If those are continents, then it makes no sense to consider Greenland to randomly be part of North America when it clearly can and does stand on its own two.


Again I ask, why is Greenland NOT a continent?


FREE GR

[Akrazotile]

^ You tryin to say OP is a bundle of sticks?

[dr.hee]

:oldlol: You must be trollin'

I'd say the dipshit OP was serious, but after realizing it's bullshit he decided to reframe the whole thing into some pseudo trolling thread. What an idiot :oldlol:

[nightprowler10]

http://i.imgur.com/Lkz8D8w.jpg

[ForeverHeat]

I'd say the dipshit OP was serious, but after realizing it's bullshit he decided to reframe the whole thing into some pseudo trolling thread. What an idiot :oldlol:

I was just gonna say the same thing. Its so obvious too :oldlol:

[DeuceWallaces]

We already knew the OP was an idiot/fggit but he took it to new levels with this one.

[Akrazotile]

I'd say the dipshit OP was serious, but after realizing it's bullshit he decided to reframe the whole thing into some pseudo trolling thread. What an idiot :oldlol:


Every post Ive made in this thread has been serious.

Greenland has always been represented on every map Ive ever seen as one of the largest landmasses on the planet. Wiki even says that its the worlds largest island.

If you have a landmass bigger than Australia and Antarctica, it's not going to be smaller just because its at the north end of a map :facepalm


It is, and should be considered a continent

[ForeverHeat]

Every post Ive made in this thread has been serious.

Greenland has always been represented on every map Ive ever seen as one of the largest landmasses on the planet. Wiki even says that its the worlds largest island.

If you have a landmass bigger than Australia and Antarctica, it's not going to be smaller just because its at the north end of a map :facepalm


It is, and should be considered a continent

Every post Ive made in this thread has been serious.

Akrazotile has always been represented on every thread Ive ever seen as one of the largest fakkits on the planet. Foreverheat even says hes the worlds largest tranny.

If you have a f*g bigger than Jameerthefear and 20four, hes not gonna be smaller just because hes starts at the north end before a fap.

He is, and should be considered a retard.

[step_back]

Didn't this dipsh!t make a retirement thread the other week because he had more important things in life to pursue?

Just **** off already.

[dr.hee]

Every post Ive made in this thread has been serious.

Greenland has always been represented on every map Ive ever seen as one of the largest landmasses on the planet. Wiki even says that its the worlds largest island.

If you have a landmass bigger than Australia and Antarctica, it's not going to be smaller just because its at the north end of a map :facepalm


It is, and should be considered a continent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area

So at which spot do you find Greenland on this list? You're really as dumb as they come. DR Congo alone has a bigger landmass than Greenland, you piece of human garbage. :roll:

[chosen_one6]

I think the OP legitimately thought Greenland was bigger than Africa and Australia because he looked at a map. What an idiot. In one of his past life times he was probably one of those people that thought the Earth was flat because of a map.

[nightprowler10]

OP's valiantly going down with his thread like a captain with his sinking ship.

[nightprowler10]

In one of his past life times he was probably one of those people that thought the Earth was flat because of a map.
We can't rule out this isn't happening now. After all that map he posted IS flat.

[dr.hee]

We can't rule out this isn't happening now. After all that map he posted IS flat.

http://replygif.net/i/532.gif

[Akrazotile]

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So at which spot do you find Greenland on this list? You're really as dumb as they come. DR Congo alone has a bigger landmass than Greenland, you piece of human garbage. :roll:


:biggums:


Who the hell is Dr Congo??

[CavaliersFTW]

http://www.mapsofworld.com/images-mow/world-map.jpg


Shit is the size of Africa and is not physically adjoined to any other continent.

Why is Greenland not considered a continent? Antarctica is a continent and the shit is all ice. Australia is a continent and its like half the size.


WTF yo.

FREE GREENLAND
That map is not to scale dumbass, Greenland is not that big relative to Africa. The earth is spherical, so the way that map maker chose to make a flat rectangular map out of a sphere was to blow either the northern or southern latitudes grossly out of proportion. Also, please learn about continental shelves and tectonic plates. Than you will find your answer as to why Greenland is a part of North America.

*EDITED* Thanks Deuce.

[DeuceWallaces]

That map is not to scale dumbass, Greenland is not that big relative to Africa. The earth is round, so the only way to make a flat rectangular map is to blow the northern and southern latitudes grossly out of proportion. Also, please learn about continental shelves and tectonic plates. Than you will find your answer as to why Greenland is a part of North America.

That's not true.

[step_back]

Why don't you just admit you made a mistake because of a misleading picture of a World map.

You're not the first and you won't be the last. All you're doing is making yourself look like an even bigger **** which I didn't think was possible.

P.S When dr.hee said DR Congo it's obvious it's an abbreviation of Democratic Republic.

[Akrazotile]

That's not true.


THANK YOU

[DeuceWallaces]

Why don't you just admit you made a mistake because of a misleading picture of a World map.

You're not the first and you won't be the last. All you're doing is making yourself look like an even bigger **** which I didn't think was possible.

P.S When dr.hee said DR Congo it's obvious it's an abbreviation of Democratic Republic.

The map isn't misleading, he's just an idiot college dropout.

[CavaliersFTW]

That's not true.
You're absolutely right I should have said that's ONE way to make a flat rectangular map, but there is NO way to make a flat rectangular shaped map that doesn't involve heavy dissection or distortion of the shape/volume/position of the continents.

Here is a 2d map of the earth, much more accurately scaled. OP should note, Greenland is nowhere near the size of Africa

http://culturaldetective.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/k-bigpic.jpg

[Akrazotile]

You're absolutely right I should have said that's ONE way to make a flat rectangular map, but there is NO way to make a flat rectangular shaped map that doesn't involve heavy dissection or distortion of the shape/volume/position of the continents.

Here is a 2d map of the earth, much more accurately scaled. OP should note, Greenland is nowhere near the size of Africa

http://culturaldetective.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/k-bigpic.jpg



You think this is what Earth looks like from outer space bro?


****ing triangles??


Really bro?

[nightprowler10]

This thread reminds me of this comic.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/map_projections.png

[ErhnamDjinn]

"Greenland is, in terms of area, the world's largest island." -Wikipedia


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Shit is a continent. And its bigger than Australia mate.
by your own reference of Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland

Australia : 7,692,024 km2
Greenland : 2,166,086 km2

:biggums:

edit: by your own logic Russia should also be its own continent.

Heck the OLD USSR was so huge.
add also China.

[Akrazotile]

http://interculturalmeanderings.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/the-world-according-to-america-2.png


Careful man, the haters in here might show up and try to claim your map "isnt to scale" or some nonsense :rolleyes:

[MadeFromDust]

Here's a map showing Greenland belongs with the green continent...aka North American Continent

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Continental_models-Australia.gif

[Uncle Drew]

Hahahahahahaha, this is why I love ISH.

[dr.hee]

I think the OP legitimately thought Greenland was bigger than Africa and Australia because he looked at a map. What an idiot. In one of his past life times he was probably one of those people that thought the Earth was flat because of a map.

Just googled "world map", the first one coming up is the one OP posted. The dumbass didn't even click on the picture page, just went with the first thing showing up after pressing search. He was probably just impressed with the size of Greenland on this map (having seen one for the first time I suppose) and not intelligent enough to check it's accuracy.

Now he's trying to "own the thread" by making an extra hard effort to make it look like he was trolling the whole time :oldlol:

[ArbitraryWater]

OP the type of ***** to lean his head back and open his mouth when its raining

[Off the Court]

https://i.gifer.com/TZK.gif

[FultzNationRISE]

In 1973, Arno Peters, a German filmmaker and journalist, called a press conference to denounce the widely accepted map of the world known as the "Mercator Map":


Peters' position was that the Mercator Projection—a cylindrical projection first developed in 1569 by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator—was not only inaccurate, but downright racist. Peters pointed out that the Mercator map has a distortion in the northern hemisphere, making North American and Eurasian countries appear much larger than they actually are. For example, Greenland and Africa are shown as roughly the same size, although in reality Africa is about fourteen times larger. In contrast, the regions along the equator—Africa, India, and South America, to name a few—appear smaller, especially when seen next to the distorted northern half of the map. It was Peters' belief that this error led many in the developed world to ignore the struggles of the larger, poorer nations near the equator.

Of course Peters had a suggestion on how to fix this problem—his own map. The Peters Projection map, which claimed to show the world in a more accurate, equal-area fashion:



Because Peters' map showed the size of developing nations more accurately, charitable organizations that worked in those regions quickly gave him their endorsement. Eventually his map became so well received that some were calling for an all-out ban on the Mercator map, believing it to be an outmoded symbol of colonialism.


The thing is, cartographers agreed that the Mercator map was outdated, inaccurate, and wasn't the best way to represent the world's landmasses. They'd been calling for the use of a new projection since the 1940s.

One of the reasons experts wanted to move away from the Mercator was because of the distortion. However, they also understood that it was distorted for good reason. The Mercator map was intended as a navigational tool for European mariners, who could draw a straight line from Point A to Point B and find their bearings with little trouble. Because it was made for European navigators, it was actually helpful to show Europe larger than it really was. It wasn't a political statement, but a decision made purely for ease-of-use.

However, the biggest insult to cartographers was the Peters projection itself. It was essentially the same map devised in 1855 by a cartographer named James Gall. Many have recognized this similarity and now you'll often see Peters' map called "The Gall-Peters Projection."�

:lol

Some things will never change