Talk:List of European islands by area

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Contents 1 Sääminginsalo 2 Naxos or Naxos Island? 3 Lake islands 4 Rathlin Island 5 Guernsey 6 Consituent country

[edit] Sääminginsalo

It appears that the island Kerimäensaari, also called Samusalo or Sääminginsalo technically is not a true island. I therefore delete it. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sääminginsalo.Antipoeten 10:56, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Note: This is a lake islands, so it would have been deleted anyway. Antipoeten 15:28, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Naxos or Naxos Island?

Barticus88, you have a point about the disambiguation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:DPL Still, in a list like this I think consequence is more important. Then you would have to add "Island" to the names of all Greek islands. There are hundreds of Greek islands in this list, and in the larger list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_by_area I am not sure if anyone would do this work. Maybe a better point is to change the name of the article Naxos Island back to just Naxos? By the way, this problem applies to islands of many other countries. Antipoeten 11:09, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lake islands

The reason why lake islands are not included is mainly the large number of them, especially in Finland and Sweden. I decided to exclude all freshwater islands, also river islands (fluvial islands). I still decided to keep the largest lake island of Europe, which is Soisalo in Finland. Antipoeten 22:10, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rathlin Island

It is hard to find the correct figure for Rathlin Island. This site says it is 14 km2,and not 23,8 km2 as listed. I therefore remove it from the list. http://www.ballycastle.free-online.co.uk/places/rathlin/rathlin.htm Antipoeten 04:14, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Guernsey

A contributor added Guernsey Island, which is fine. But the area (78 km2) is wrong, as it refers to the Bailiwick of Guernsey, which aslo includes other islands. The Bailiwick of Guernsey (French: Bailliage de Guernesey) is a British crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy. As well as the island of Guernsey itself, it also includes Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou, Brecqhou, Burhou, Lihou and other islets. The area of Guernsey main island itself should be about 63 km2. Antipoeten (talk) 00:05, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Yeah. That was me. I thought the page I was taking the info from was for the island, not the whole dependency... Craitman17 (talk) 12:50, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Consituent country

Why is Scotland an autonomous region, and England a constituent country? Surely Scotand is a consituent of the United Kingdom? Septentrionalis PMAnderson 19:06, 14 February 2008 (UTC)