Give reason africa is not an island inspite of being surrounded by oceans and seas on all sides
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The same reason why North or South America, Australia etc. are not Islands. Practically all continents are ‘islands’ if you want. They used to be all together in one big ‘island’ that we now call Pangaea. This big ‘island’ started breaking up about 175 to 200 million years back in a process called ‘continental drift’ that is still happening up to today.
The tectonic plates on which our continents are formed are all floating and moving at a couple of cm per year.
Incidentally, our ‘island’ of Africa is the second largest continent after Asia, so it would make more sense for some of the smaller continents such as South America, Australia or Antarctica to be islands if you want to call them that.
Lastly, when we look at the definition of an ‘island’, it is basically a piece of land completely surrounded by water but smaller than a continent. As the clever people before us decided that Africa is indeed a continent, we do not call it an island.
The tectonic plates on which our continents are formed are all floating and moving at a couple of cm per year.
Incidentally, our ‘island’ of Africa is the second largest continent after Asia, so it would make more sense for some of the smaller continents such as South America, Australia or Antarctica to be islands if you want to call them that.
Lastly, when we look at the definition of an ‘island’, it is basically a piece of land completely surrounded by water but smaller than a continent. As the clever people before us decided that Africa is indeed a continent, we do not call it an island.
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Africa is not an island cuz it is not surrounded by "natural" water from all sides : the suez canal which exists between Israel and egypt is artificial and was created by the french colonization in early 1900's
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