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land that got the memo about isolation and made it a lifestyle.
means a piece of ground surrounded entirely by water, ranging from continent-sized to barely-a-sandbar.
from from old english iegland, literally water-land, later mashed together with french isle through a spelling mixup that stuck for centuries.
largest onegreenland, unless you count australia as a continent
evolution labdarwin needed the galapagos to crack natural selection
island rulebig animals shrink, small animals grow, isolated over time
new ones formvolcanoes still build islands, hawaii is actively growing