Shrimp on the Barbie

What was the biggest island in the world before the discovery of Australia by Captain Cook?

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February 21st, 2010 | Category: Brain Riddle, Geography, Real Life |  Email This Riddle

2 guesses to Shrimp on the Barbie

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• Rodger

  February 21, 2010 at 12:37 PM

  Australia was there and inhabited well before Cook sailed to it. The argument comes to what is an island? Australia is a continent and it could be argued that larger Antarctica is an island too. So perhaps the correct answer is Greenland. The largest island that is not a continent.

• Dude

  February 24, 2010 at 2:37 PM

  Very nicely thought out, Rodger.
  The answer we’re looking for is: Australia was still the biggest island in the world even prior to Cook’s discovering it.
  You’re today’s winner!!!