What was the biggest island before australia was discovered?

Question

What was the biggest island before australia was discovered?

Answer 1

at the end of a day arent we all just an island?

Answer 2

That would probably be Greenland.  However, Australia is a continent, not an island.

Answer 3

united kingdom

Answer 4

Australia!! Just because everyone assumed it was Greenland didn't make them right!

Answer 5

Australia, Just because it hadn't been discovered doesn't mean that it was any smaller than it is now.

Answer 6

Australia is not considered an Island even though it could be ... since it's large enough to be it's own continent it is not an Island.

Greenland is the largest island in the world

Great Britain is the 8th Largest Island

Answer 7

Greenland.

Australia is not an island, it is a continent

Answer 8

Greenland. And Australia is both the largest island in the world AND the smallest continent at the same time.

Answer 9

The written history of Japan begins with brief references in the 1st century AD Twenty-Four Histories, a collection of Chinese historical texts. However, archaeological evidence indicates that people were living on the islands of Japan as early as the upper paleolithic period.Following the last ice-age, around 12,000 BC, the rich ecosystem of the Japanese Archipelago fostered human development. The earliest-known pottery belongs to the Jōmon period.

Answer 10

Greenland I would imagine.

Answer 11

Australia is an ISLAND and a CONTINENT. Its sad that even Australians don't know this.

Greenland is the second biggest Island.

Answer 12

Australia is the biggest Island before and after it was discovered.....

Answer 13

Australia is the biggest island and the smallest continent.

I thought all Aussies knew that.

Before Matthew Flinders circumnavigated Australia and worked out how big it is, everyone may have thought somewhere the size of Britain was the biggest.

I don't think they would have known how big Greenland was back then.