Why Is Australia Not Considered An Island ??

Why Is Australia Not Considered An Island ?? Jan 12, 2020 16:52:09 GMT

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Post by Rodney Farber on Jan 12, 2020 16:52:09 GMT

Apr 7, 2019 15:57:32 GMT msdemos said:

Technically, we consider it a continent, but does that really change the fact that it's still just a body of land (granted, nearly 3 million square miles of land) surrounded on all sides by water ??

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For that matter:

Why are Asia and Europe considered two continents?
Why isn't Africa part of Asia? They are one land mass if it weren't for a man-made canal separating them.
The same could be said for North/South America?
Why are Huron and Michigan considered separate lakes? They're both at the same level.
Why aren't they called Caspian Lake, Dead Lake, and Salton Lake (like Lake Mono and the Great Salt Lake)? For that matter, how come "Lake" precedes Mono, but doesn't precede "Great Salt"?

My guess is that in all these cases, there was no convention so the locals started calling it by a name that stuck.