🏔️ Largest Island: Greenland
3rd Grade 🏆 World Records
Greenland is the world’s biggest island — about 836,000 square miles, mostly covered by a thick sheet of ice.
Not very green
About 80% of Greenland is covered by ice up to 2 miles thick. Fewer than 60,000 people live there.
Why not Australia?
Australia is bigger, but it is counted as a continent, not an island.
Quick quiz
What is the biggest island?
What covers most of Greenland?
Why isn’t Australia called an island?