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World-famous island
The world-famous islands are Greenland, new guinea (Irian Island), kalimantan island, Madagascar, baffin island, Sumatra, Honshu Island, Victoria Island, Great Britain and ellesmere island.

Greenland (English: Greenland) is the largest island in the world, with an area of 2 166086 square kilometers, located between the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean in the northeast of North America. It is 2,574 kilometers from Piridi in the north to Cape Farwell in the south, and its widest point is about 1290 kilometers. The coastline is more than 35,000 kilometers long. Danish territory.

New Guinea, also known as Irian Island, is the largest island in the Pacific Ocean and the second largest island in the world (after Greenland). Located on the south side of the equator in the western Pacific Ocean, it borders the Malay Archipelago in Southeast Asia in the west, and faces the northeast of the Australian mainland across the Arafura Sea and the Coral Sea in the south.

Kalimantan island, also translated as Borneo, is the third largest island in the world. Located in the middle of Malay Archipelago in Southeast Asia, it is adjacent to Sumatra Island in the west, Sulawesi Island in the east, Java Sea and Java Island in the south, and the South China Sea in the north. The area is 743,330km2.

Located in the southeast sea of the African continent, Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world after Greenland, new guinea (also known as Irian Island) and kalimantan island, facing the African continent across the mozambique channel, with the shortest distance of 386 kilometers. It covers an area of 587,000 square kilometers.