• threelonmusketeers
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    253 months ago

    Well, Ireland is separated from the rest of the continent by ocean. Canada is just a slightly bigger island, slightly further away…

    • @[email protected]
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      33 months ago

      Ireland is separated from the rest of the continent by ocean.

      The Celtic Sea is not an ocean.

      • @[email protected]
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        43 months ago

        By that logic then Vancouver Island isn’t an island because the Juan de Fuca is a strait not an ocean

        • @[email protected]
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          23 months ago

          They didn’t say Ireland wasn’t an island because of it… But, for the record, Canada isn’t an island anyway so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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            3 months ago

            I wasn’t awake when I wrote that but I still think they meant to imply it doesn’t make it an island. Poor reader here I guess.

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      93 months ago

      There is French territory just off the coast of Newfoundland too (see Saint Pierre and Miquelon), also Denmark is right next door because of Greenland. So while still pretty far fetched, there is some precedent for European territory in North America.