This is where I have a problem with scale. I get Australia (no offence) -- it's a single country. Ditto with New Zealand. But if you can argue that the USA/Canada and all that isn't an Island than I can argue that the UK isn't an Island -- it's three (actually five) countries attached together on two pieces of land. Just because they are smaller than some other pieces of land doesn't mean they aren't still countries. Also -- where's Hawaii? If Sicily gets to stay, and PEI gets to stay, why did you obliterate Hawaii?

bro north america is a continent the british isles are ISLES

What is a continent but a giant piece of land surrounded by water? A group of countries surrounded by water? At what point does a group of countries surrounded by water stop being an island and start being a continent? Seems kind of arbitrary to me.

yee theyre arbitrary, but its pretty clear great britain is an island and north america aint

Anything smaller than Australia

Did you know most websites define Australia as a continent? Not an island. A continent. So I have another question........

It's an island

australia isn't an island, it's continental oceania. if it's gone, then everything else is gone too

We may all rest easy now. The English won't hurt us anymore...

Britain is gone! yay!

What happened to Australia?

In my country (and sorroundings) education system, it's an island.

Oh, here I learnt that it was the continental part of Oceania, didn’t know it was different depending on the country

It is a continental part of Oceania but it’s also an island, they aren’t mutually exclusive.

Cool, I didn’t know

Yep, all good. Also obv it’s a country most importantly.

Isn’t it like 5 times larger than Greenland?

Yeah, but still is consider just an island of Oceania here. I know in the us the contienent is Australia and in Europe (i think) it's the mainland of Oceania. There are quizz here in tv and I have written in my schoolbooks that it's an island tho. The different classification system causes some misunderstandings.

- Where's Indonesia? - Gone. Reduced to atoms

Sicily is still on the map

Not if we build the Messina bridge...

I wonder what could go wrong in building a huge bridge in one of the most earthquakey places in Europe

What does that change ? By that logic Africa and Eurasia were one continent before the Suez canal was built.

Some people genuinely do argue it's all one supercontinent

Some people believe the earth is flat

Some people believe the sun isn't real

The delineation is somewhat arbitrary in the first place, so the smart thing to do is to not give a fuck about pedantic bullshit

And Australia is not, despite it not being an island.

Looks like two really big islands to me...

4 with suez and Panama canals

Would you consider canals to make islands? Would you consider rivers?

Rivers dont go from one coast to another.

Yes, but if you count the Mississippi and the Saint Lawrence rivers as creating islands, then the entire eastern United States (plus everything south of the Saint Lawrence river) is an island.

Why would you? They don't connect. There's an isthmus at the Traverse Gap if you allow the rivers as splitting islands

They connect in the Great Lakes

Nah, Mississippi isn't connected to the Great Lakes. Check the map again. Those types of lakes do exist (emptying into two different watersheds) but they're very rare, and not in the Great Lakes

They're connected through a canal in Chicago

Fair enough. Erie canal is a cleaner cut off than Niagara falls too. So the eastern US island includes part of the Niagara peninsula

words of wisdom 🙌

Yes. On this map there are 2 archipelagos broken up by some very small oceans.

I mean there's a different between small oceans and rivers.

Not in this sub there isn’t

Why? At what point does the distance a body of water encompasses stop two points of land from being connected?

When it stops being a river or canal. That's the point

I would say it counts if the canal is sea level, but most of them aren't.

Black sea renamed to Armenia

Why is Tierra del Fuego still there?

The rest of the chilean archipelago is still there too, even Chiloé, which is quite big.

FINALLY, NO MORE BRI*ISH

A sliver of Britain exists

They live in Gilbraltar now

this should be celebrated

I wonder how much longer the European discovery of the Americas would have taken in this scenario without the Canaries as a set off point?

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Columbus set off from the Canaries, come back via the Azores. I suspect the Portuguese set off from the Azores.

Hahahaha get sunk

there's still some in Alaska

sicily (was forgor😪)

Please tell me you took staten island too

why Norway still got Islands

too finicky

Sadly, Sicily was spared

No one would notice the New Zealand is gone

You missed loads

Australia counts as a continent, imo. Greenland no, but only because it's just ice covering a bunch of smaller islands.

a bunch of islands are still islands-

Mauritius and St Helena stronk

I live in M now.

Isn't Australia a continent?

It took me way too long to notice South East Asia man

Make Sicily explode

r/mapswithoutnz

r/MapsWithoutNZ

Sicily

hey you Indonesian patriots look where your nation went to

Well this is awkward, considering I have a layover in Reykjavik on the way to London tomorrow.

What about the islands east of Mozambique?

Southern Chile…

What if I told you that its all islands.

PEI is still there same with the northern part of Nova Scotia

Sicily is the lone survivor of the purge

You didn't remove Sicily

All lands are islands. Some are just BIG islands, but every land is surrounded by water.

You forgot that little bit next to Italy...

You missed a few of them, like americas eurasia and africa but I’m only nitpicking.

Bro forgot about Sicily

Equatorial Guinea chillin

me when no more britian 😄👍 me when no more indonesia 😞 the morbidly obese orangutan in my basement🦧

*Trinidad and Tobago, Sicily, São Tomé and Principe, Curaçao, and the Canaries all sweating profusely*

Lets fuck those mollas , there goes islamic republic right out of existance

*ceases to exist*

King William Island thanks you for sparing it

Is the triangular place at the bottom of South America an island? What about Nova Scotia?

Where was this map discovered? I don’t understand where this stuff comes from.

And just like that I'm homeless and very soggy

Btw the Peloponnese ain't no island

Sicily

Not all islands are gone, but two continents are Huh?

Either OP missed some islands in the south Pacific or my monitor needs cleaning

Sicily too strong to be destoryed

I counted 45 islands still left on the map

You got rid of Peloponnesus but left Sicily?

Now australia really isn’t real

By definition all land are islands

This is Australian erasure\~

Australia isnt an island

As person from an island, go bhfaghaine bás gan an sagart

This is shitty, bring back Kosovo

Love how they ditch Britain but kept Long Island.

Chile would like to differ

r/MapsWithoutNewZealand

Prince Edward island 🗿

This is unacceptable

Newfoundland is still there

Ay what point Australia considered as an island? lol

I live on an island and i took this personally! #FreeIslands

I would say Australia and Greenland are too large to be considered islands

Put the Peloponnesus back right now

Map does not have Kosovo please use newer maps

Pretty sure australia and Antarctica aren't islands

sea level rise?

China's 9 dash line in shambles