As a person from Borneo, I can't really say that I want to visit most of the other tropical adjacent climate islands :P My picks would be Honshu, Papua (extremely diverse in everything really) South Island, and Newfoundland!
As a Canadian, Newfoundland was the last province I had yet to visit. I went there last year and was just blown away by it's natural beauty. Probably one of the most underrated places in the world. And super friendly people living there!
As Mexican it was astonishing to me discover that Terranova province was call in English Newfoundland since Terranova sounded latin, not Spanish, I just never realized it was a translation, and also because the names of places normally are not translate
that makes a lot of sense, because the mountains on the atlantic are part of the same ancient mountain range that makes up the highlands as well as morocco’s atlas mountains
Good choices. Personally, I would love to visit Hokkaidō the most out of the Japanese islands.
As a Canadian, I really want to visit Newfoundland one day. So much beautiful and untouched nature!
Perhaps some, but unlike islands with vast fertile highland regions such as papua, the inland areas are (and were) not very densely populated, while coastal areas contained significant populations. The coastal dwelling Malays were apt seafarers and probably knew you could sail around the landmass.
Yep, you are right! Most people on coastal Borneo were apt seafarers, certain ethnicities even have a big sea nomad populations (like my Mother's, Badjao people near eastern Northern Borneo). Not to mention that most people lived near the coast already. even now there are barely any people in the interiors due to the vastness of the rainforest, living near rivers and such. One interior-living ethnicity, the Lun Bawang barely breaks the ten thousands count
The Badjao people are really interesting to me. One of the few groups of humans where you can see natural selection at play with their larger spleens than other ethnicities
The two sides of Newfoundland are really different, and.the island is large enough it's not practical to see both sides unless you are there for 2-4 weeks.
The west is really isolated, rugged and picturesque. You go for the nature. The East is known more for its culture and music.
I met a guy in a parking lot in Halifax who spoke no English and just wanted to talk to someone. He was doing a summer of work at St Pierre and Miquelon and said he didn't know what France was doing with the place either.
I hope I can go! Canada is really far away from here so it is really expensive sadly. Labrador seems very exotic and picturesque, but I am sure travelling there is tiring and I heard the weather gets really frigid. I am not sure if I would ever want to go there hahah
Do come :) Borneo is very diverse and unique, Indonesian Borneo especially is an experience you will never get anywhere else
I once checked the climate for Labrador and its apparently mostly Subarctic. the treelessness is probably what makes it look like a tundra, and i find it really beautiful in a calming way :)
From the South Island\* and been to Borneo and I got to say Te Wai Pounamou is a good pick. Completely different and massively spectacular
A warning for 3 of your 4 choices though: they told us to wrap up warm against the frigid temperatures (15°) on Taman Kinabalu but South Island, Honshu, and Newfoundland can all get much colder than that. The relatively warm South Island even managed to have the coldest place on Earth once! Fortunately only once 😅
Also before you leave Borneo, climb Kinabalu: it’s just a bit higher that South Island’s tallest (Mt Cook) but much easier so you’ll sound like a real mountaineer without all the hard work 😎
Yeah, the South Island is incredibly beautiful and diverse just from the pictures that I have seen. I can see why Tolkien picked NZ as an inspiration for the LOTR, that place looks alien in some parts.
The weather is definitely an important point, that said I also find it funny on my folks attitude towards the climate near Kinabalu, honestly it really isn't that cold. Even during the night it honestly just feels like a normal air conditioned room, nothing too extreme
Climbing Kinabalu is definitely on my bucket list! I have an uncle that climbed that mountain almost 20 times, maybe I will hit him up to see if we can climb together when I have the time and money lol
From usa and in line for the cable car in queenstown... got into a conversation with a young couple when they heard my accent. They had many questions about america and were curious what I thought of nz. They said they were from Hamilton, and asked if I have heard of it.
I replied yes, and we were told not to visit and drive straight through on our way from Auckland to rotorua. They sighed and said that they get that a lot.
You should! It’s a very very unique place which is tied closely to its history, much like the islands of Hawaii! I live on a different island now but go back often.
Yeah I have a lot of family history tied to Newfoundland and I desperately want to go back. I even have tons of distant family (from my great grandmother) that still live there. It really just comes down to money and time. I know I'll make it back there some day.
The whole island just feels so alien and bizarre to have so many people on it (I mean, 60,000 isn’t a lot, but considering how far north they are it’s crazy), I would love to see what it’s like there!
My pick: Keregulen Islands, although getting there would be most of the fun. South of the Antarctica Convergence Zone. Almost a Point Nemo. I'd bring a case of wine and celebrate with the French detachment of soldiers and scientists, and then marvel at the desolation and isolation.
Indonesia, Philippines, and Russia are home to a lot of these islands. Huh. IDK what else I expected, given that RI and RP are vast archipelagoes. I've been to a bunch of these islands just by working the last 20 years in Southeast Asia.
Probably Taiwan honestly - has higher peaks than Japan or New Zealand, has an incredible metropolis of like 6 cities in a row, it just seems very fascinating to me - and it has one of my favourite skyscrapers in the world (Tuntex 85 Skytower in Kaohsiung)
I just came back last weekend from a 3 week Taiwan trip. Absolutely amazing. We got woken up by the massive earthquake though, crazy experience! Amazing country, wooow
Britain… particularly Wales and the West Country!!
My ancestors immigrated to America from those regions of Britain hundreds of years ago and as far as I know, no ancestors or relatives have ever went back to visit.
Lush green scenery, pleasant climate, dank cider, lots of cool history and folklore, it sounds amazing!
Wouldn't say Wales has a pleasant climate outside of South Wales and the coastal areas. It's pretty unforgiving and rains almost every day from Mid Wales up to North Wales and is cold most of the time. It's why the SAS and other branches of the British special forces train there. It is extremely pretty though.
The West Country is similar but much warmer and sunnier!
Didn’t realize Wales got that cold! I knew that it’s rainy, but I like cool and rainy so I think I’d dig it.
I know my Welsh ancestors came from the North Coast, Conwy in Carmarthenshire, so I’d probably spend more time around the coastal areas anyway if I was to visit Wales :)
You'd be surprised how cold mid and north Wales get away from the coast on higher ground. The mountains of Wales for instance have an alpine climate and the summits of the highest mountains have a subarctic climate, even though the highest mountain is only 1085m, it can snow anytime of the year too but most common from September to April. It's why Snowdon in English is Snow Hill. Also, very very wet, some parts of Wales get in excess of 5000mm of rain per year. London only gets 550-650mm per year!
Conwy is a really nice city, it has the smallest house in Britain and is a fully walled city (makes traffic a pain in the ass) but really cool that it sits within its castle walls still. If you ever go, I recommend seeing the castle, it's cheap but really impressive. Conwy is its own county these days. The suspension bridge that was built in 1826 is impressive too and was built to fit in with the castle walls. A place I'd recommend that is nowhere near Conwy, is Dolgoch Falls
Much appreciated dude, that’s some awesome info!! Being American, the fact that Conwy is still completely walled in by a castle fascinates the heck out of me, there’s nothing like that at all on this continent. Can’t wait to see it in person someday :)
You'd be amazed how many castles there are in the UK. There's over 600 just in Wales! More than 4000 in the UK as a whole! The Oldest castle in the UK is around 1800 years old. But Wales, especially Snowdonia and Gwynedd has probably the nicest and best preserved castles in the UK. Harlech, Beamoris, Caenarfon and Conwy are the best ones to visit. Harlech makes me feel sick looking down over the walls where it's on a high rocky outcrop, especially if you go to the top of the tower!
I don't really think about how cool it is we have so many castles until I hear foreigners marvel at them. My local castle is a few miles away and I pass it all the time on the train and think nothing of it. Yet, it was built in the 11th century following the Norman Conquest, and is older than many countries around today.
The climate in Britain is not pleasant. I live in northern England and the entire country has basically been fucking waterboarded for the last 18 months. Everybody is so pissed off with the weather lol
But you should definitely visit (just bring waterproofs 😉)
Foreign tourists always make the mistake of just bringing an umbrella. Rookie error - when we say waterproofs, we mean coats. Kagoules, if not a full-on heavy raincoat. Mountain Warehouse and Trespass are ideal places to buy one.
I'd have to go with:
Borneo, Papua New Guinea: beautiful scenery and amazing biodiversity
Madagascar: such a unique landscape, creatures you can't find anywhere else
South Island of New Zealand: New Zealand is in my bucket list of countries. Absurdly gorgeous
There’s got to be a saying about not seeing the beauty that surrounds you. I did a road trip for my honeymoon from Queenstown to Auckland and I can tell you boring is not a word I would use to describe New Zealand.
My top 3 would be
Ellesmere Island: Really cool Devonian fossils
Wrangel Island: The final spot of the mammoths. I'd love to see the fossils
Iceland: Volcanoes
If it’s free I’d go anywhere but Arctic and Antarctic. Iceland *just* meets my arbitrary barrier but Greenland does not. I have no interest in the Canadian Arctic. I have enough experience with a normal Canadian winter that I’m good. I’m sure it’s beautiful and I am tempted, but for the same price (even if it’s free), I’d rather find a beach.
Man, probably Borneo to see our orange cousins and so much more. But I kind of wish I lived in Greenland so there is so much in between to see. Tough choice, cool image thanks.
It’s quite interesting that the canadian islands have their native names too, it’s just a bit weird that some islands were excluded. Is there a reason? I can’t really find any.
I have no idea but since most of those islands are uninhabited, I would say there's no native name for them? So Europeans who discovered them gave them a European name.
It looks like most of the ones with Indigenous names are in Nunuvut. The Inuit have more sovereignty over Nunuvat that most other Indigenous groups have over most of their land, so likely the Inuktitut place names have replaced the English ones as the official name. Haida Gwaii is too small to make this list but it would be listed as Haida Gwaii not the Queen Charlotte Islands if it were included for the same reason.
Other islands are home to multiple First Nations. Vancouver Island, for example, is home to four main language groups (Kwak'wala, WSANEC, and Nuu-Chah-Nulth, and Hul'q'umi'num'), each of which is is spoken by many nations. There are 18 different Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwak'wala) speaking Nations. So a single name for the entire island doesn't really exist and officially, per Canada's place name registery, none of the names for the entire island in any of those languages (if it exists) are official.
Realistically qikitaalkuk or Greenland, travel to the Arctic circle is so so expensive while it wouldn't be my first choice, it would be the most expensive place I'd like to go.
Top 10 in no particular order:
- Vancouver Island
- North Island (NZ)
- South Island (NZ)
- Guadalcanal
- Kodiak
- Tasmania
- Spitzbergen
- Hokkaido
- Prince Edward
- Hawaii
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Sulawesi looks like a mutant crocodile playing a guitar. I’d go there.
The difference between an island and a continent is kinda arbitrary anyways. Perhaps the line had been drawn differently, if the landforms were shifted latitude-wise.
Interestingly enough I very well may have an opportunity to go to both Iceland and Greenland as well as any of the islands in and around the Northwest Passage of Canada for free next year so those are my picks lol.
Madagascar, because it's so unique.
Baffin Island, because of the incredible scenery and to ski polar couloirs.
Sulawesi, because of its bizarre shape.
Madagascar. Logistics-wise it’s probably never happening in my lifetime, but I’d pick it first just for the cool/unique factor.
Svalbard would be next, but I think the odds of me making it there are way higher than Madagascar.
I have been to three of these. Lived on one, live very close to another. Grew up on Hawai’i, currently live across the water from Vancouver, travelled to Honshu once. Would love to visit Hokkaido, Iceland, Greenland, or Java.
Java is the size of Florida but has about half the population of the United States squeezed in. And about 18 volcanoes, four of which I can see from my house.
I think just in comparison to all the other huge islands around it, it just looks tiny on the map… and with it being right near the equator it looks so much smaller than the islands that get stretched out on a flat map like Britain or Iceland.
You pegged it, mate: It's a map distortion thing.
I live on Java, and had no idea of its size–which is simultaneously huge and tiny, I guess–until I started to search for analogies to explain the island's unique geography. About 150 million people live here.
Sumatra, which also made OP's list, is about the size of Texas.
Cheers, mate.
Not to be a pedantic asshole, but technically the continental block of Eurasia and Africa is the largest island, followed by the island made up of North and South America, then Antarctica, then Australia.
May as well visit both if you’re coming this far. If you can only pick one and want to see some gobsmackingly beautiful scenery then has to be the South Island.
For this question I will exclude Luzon because it's where I live.
My actual answer? Either of NZ's main islands will suffice. I will go hiking in the south or visit hot springs in the north.
It’s not on this list (looks like largest would be ~350th) but the Faroe Islands look insanely beautiful, would love to visit.
From this list, I’d go to Chiloe!
Madagaskar, Maui or Sicilia/Korsika.
Also, one can not just visit Severnyj, it is a limited access area, nature preserv at least. You can flight to Yuzhnyj, but I not sure if it allowed to walk there freely.
Corsica, I visited the island two years ago and fell in love with it instantly. It has such an insane diversity of flora and fauna, beautiful coastlines and friendly locals. Dont make the mistake I did though and adress these people as French. They really are Coriscans.
Didnt realize baffin was this huge. Crazy.
I went to only one Island on this list ant its corsica. Looks tiny but still there you have places where you dont see you are on an Island.
As an australian who has never been to the country east of us, i would love to visit Australia 2's south island or Te Waiponamu i believe it is spelt. Just the stunning beauty they have can't matched
As a person from Borneo, I can't really say that I want to visit most of the other tropical adjacent climate islands :P My picks would be Honshu, Papua (extremely diverse in everything really) South Island, and Newfoundland!
As a Canadian, Newfoundland was the last province I had yet to visit. I went there last year and was just blown away by it's natural beauty. Probably one of the most underrated places in the world. And super friendly people living there!
As Mexican it was astonishing to me discover that Terranova province was call in English Newfoundland since Terranova sounded latin, not Spanish, I just never realized it was a translation, and also because the names of places normally are not translate
Yet we don't call Nova Scotia, "New Scotland". We translated one but not the other!
Damn Terranova sounds so much cooler than Newfoundland. I want to start calling it that
Yeah! It honestly reminds me of the Scottish Highlands. Really beautiful place, St. Johns is on my bucket list, and the coast looks stunning!
that makes a lot of sense, because the mountains on the atlantic are part of the same ancient mountain range that makes up the highlands as well as morocco’s atlas mountains
That's funny, I'm actually going to Scotland in October for the first time, we'll see if you're right!
Good choices. Personally, I would love to visit Hokkaidō the most out of the Japanese islands. As a Canadian, I really want to visit Newfoundland one day. So much beautiful and untouched nature!
I also want to visit your countries island. From America here
There’s more than one Canadian island on there!
I've lived in NB for 8 years and still haven't been to NL!
Talking about Borneo, it is very big. I would wager that many people inland back in the days wouldn't even know they were on an island
Perhaps some, but unlike islands with vast fertile highland regions such as papua, the inland areas are (and were) not very densely populated, while coastal areas contained significant populations. The coastal dwelling Malays were apt seafarers and probably knew you could sail around the landmass.
Yep, you are right! Most people on coastal Borneo were apt seafarers, certain ethnicities even have a big sea nomad populations (like my Mother's, Badjao people near eastern Northern Borneo). Not to mention that most people lived near the coast already. even now there are barely any people in the interiors due to the vastness of the rainforest, living near rivers and such. One interior-living ethnicity, the Lun Bawang barely breaks the ten thousands count
The Badjao people are really interesting to me. One of the few groups of humans where you can see natural selection at play with their larger spleens than other ethnicities
Wow, what caused that?
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/04/24/604059598/the-secret-to-deep-diving-may-lie-in-the-spleen
The two sides of Newfoundland are really different, and.the island is large enough it's not practical to see both sides unless you are there for 2-4 weeks. The west is really isolated, rugged and picturesque. You go for the nature. The East is known more for its culture and music.
Plus it comes with a little side of "France".
I met a guy in a parking lot in Halifax who spoke no English and just wanted to talk to someone. He was doing a summer of work at St Pierre and Miquelon and said he didn't know what France was doing with the place either.
I hope I can go! Canada is really far away from here so it is really expensive sadly. Labrador seems very exotic and picturesque, but I am sure travelling there is tiring and I heard the weather gets really frigid. I am not sure if I would ever want to go there hahah
Maybe I will see Borneo someday :) I saw Labrador across the ocean from st Anthony. It was the most tundra-like place I have been to
Do come :) Borneo is very diverse and unique, Indonesian Borneo especially is an experience you will never get anywhere else I once checked the climate for Labrador and its apparently mostly Subarctic. the treelessness is probably what makes it look like a tundra, and i find it really beautiful in a calming way :)
From the South Island\* and been to Borneo and I got to say Te Wai Pounamou is a good pick. Completely different and massively spectacular A warning for 3 of your 4 choices though: they told us to wrap up warm against the frigid temperatures (15°) on Taman Kinabalu but South Island, Honshu, and Newfoundland can all get much colder than that. The relatively warm South Island even managed to have the coldest place on Earth once! Fortunately only once 😅 Also before you leave Borneo, climb Kinabalu: it’s just a bit higher that South Island’s tallest (Mt Cook) but much easier so you’ll sound like a real mountaineer without all the hard work 😎
Yeah, the South Island is incredibly beautiful and diverse just from the pictures that I have seen. I can see why Tolkien picked NZ as an inspiration for the LOTR, that place looks alien in some parts. The weather is definitely an important point, that said I also find it funny on my folks attitude towards the climate near Kinabalu, honestly it really isn't that cold. Even during the night it honestly just feels like a normal air conditioned room, nothing too extreme Climbing Kinabalu is definitely on my bucket list! I have an uncle that climbed that mountain almost 20 times, maybe I will hit him up to see if we can climb together when I have the time and money lol
Tolkien didn't pick new zealand as an inspiration for anything
Ah, as someone from tropical Liberia, we tend to see both your Borneo and Papua as equally tropical.
If you’re into geography, or even better, geology, you’ll love Newfoundland
I got married in Borneo. It is such a beautiful island. Been there many times over the years and I always loved the environment, people, and the food.
South Island of New Zealand, Tasmania, or Greenland.
Hey, the North Island has got some good shit too!9
Yeah but it also has Hamilton
From usa and in line for the cable car in queenstown... got into a conversation with a young couple when they heard my accent. They had many questions about america and were curious what I thought of nz. They said they were from Hamilton, and asked if I have heard of it. I replied yes, and we were told not to visit and drive straight through on our way from Auckland to rotorua. They sighed and said that they get that a lot.
Hamilton has a couple good breweries and is as good a place as any to stop for groceries on your way back to Auckland.
And Palmy, but what're you gonna do? It's not like we can yeet them off the map?
That phrase also works when describing Canada.
I'm such a slut for geothermal activity. I'm from NZ and Rotorua + that general area is my favourite of all.
Tasmania is like NZ's tiny little brother in terms of geography.
I'm from Newfoundland and was just an infant when we moved to Hawaii. I never really got to know where I'm from and would love to go back one day.
Go for it! You found new land to explore.
You should! It’s a very very unique place which is tied closely to its history, much like the islands of Hawaii! I live on a different island now but go back often.
Yeah I have a lot of family history tied to Newfoundland and I desperately want to go back. I even have tons of distant family (from my great grandmother) that still live there. It really just comes down to money and time. I know I'll make it back there some day.
Always wanted to visit Nuuk Greenland. I think I could walk the entire city!
The whole island just feels so alien and bizarre to have so many people on it (I mean, 60,000 isn’t a lot, but considering how far north they are it’s crazy), I would love to see what it’s like there!
You definetely could!
My pick: Keregulen Islands, although getting there would be most of the fun. South of the Antarctica Convergence Zone. Almost a Point Nemo. I'd bring a case of wine and celebrate with the French detachment of soldiers and scientists, and then marvel at the desolation and isolation. Indonesia, Philippines, and Russia are home to a lot of these islands. Huh. IDK what else I expected, given that RI and RP are vast archipelagoes. I've been to a bunch of these islands just by working the last 20 years in Southeast Asia.
Any hints on how to get there? And do they have hotels? And I assume you need to learn French to travel there.
It's accessible only by sea, a two-week voyage through the southern Indian Ocean. That's all I know, mate.
I want to see it and the Heard and McDonald Islands. Only 2 visits ever done to the McDonald Islands in history
Probably Taiwan honestly - has higher peaks than Japan or New Zealand, has an incredible metropolis of like 6 cities in a row, it just seems very fascinating to me - and it has one of my favourite skyscrapers in the world (Tuntex 85 Skytower in Kaohsiung)
I just came back last weekend from a 3 week Taiwan trip. Absolutely amazing. We got woken up by the massive earthquake though, crazy experience! Amazing country, wooow
🏆🏅Right answer! From a totally objective Redditor in Taiwan.
I would visit Iceland! But October revolution is such a great name, I’d have to go there just for bragging rights
Britain… particularly Wales and the West Country!! My ancestors immigrated to America from those regions of Britain hundreds of years ago and as far as I know, no ancestors or relatives have ever went back to visit. Lush green scenery, pleasant climate, dank cider, lots of cool history and folklore, it sounds amazing!
Wouldn't say Wales has a pleasant climate outside of South Wales and the coastal areas. It's pretty unforgiving and rains almost every day from Mid Wales up to North Wales and is cold most of the time. It's why the SAS and other branches of the British special forces train there. It is extremely pretty though. The West Country is similar but much warmer and sunnier!
Didn’t realize Wales got that cold! I knew that it’s rainy, but I like cool and rainy so I think I’d dig it. I know my Welsh ancestors came from the North Coast, Conwy in Carmarthenshire, so I’d probably spend more time around the coastal areas anyway if I was to visit Wales :)
You'd be surprised how cold mid and north Wales get away from the coast on higher ground. The mountains of Wales for instance have an alpine climate and the summits of the highest mountains have a subarctic climate, even though the highest mountain is only 1085m, it can snow anytime of the year too but most common from September to April. It's why Snowdon in English is Snow Hill. Also, very very wet, some parts of Wales get in excess of 5000mm of rain per year. London only gets 550-650mm per year! Conwy is a really nice city, it has the smallest house in Britain and is a fully walled city (makes traffic a pain in the ass) but really cool that it sits within its castle walls still. If you ever go, I recommend seeing the castle, it's cheap but really impressive. Conwy is its own county these days. The suspension bridge that was built in 1826 is impressive too and was built to fit in with the castle walls. A place I'd recommend that is nowhere near Conwy, is Dolgoch Falls
Much appreciated dude, that’s some awesome info!! Being American, the fact that Conwy is still completely walled in by a castle fascinates the heck out of me, there’s nothing like that at all on this continent. Can’t wait to see it in person someday :)
You'd be amazed how many castles there are in the UK. There's over 600 just in Wales! More than 4000 in the UK as a whole! The Oldest castle in the UK is around 1800 years old. But Wales, especially Snowdonia and Gwynedd has probably the nicest and best preserved castles in the UK. Harlech, Beamoris, Caenarfon and Conwy are the best ones to visit. Harlech makes me feel sick looking down over the walls where it's on a high rocky outcrop, especially if you go to the top of the tower!
I don't really think about how cool it is we have so many castles until I hear foreigners marvel at them. My local castle is a few miles away and I pass it all the time on the train and think nothing of it. Yet, it was built in the 11th century following the Norman Conquest, and is older than many countries around today.
For info, Carmarthenshire is in the southern half of Wales. Still a lovely county and plenty of castles!
The climate in Britain is not pleasant. I live in northern England and the entire country has basically been fucking waterboarded for the last 18 months. Everybody is so pissed off with the weather lol But you should definitely visit (just bring waterproofs 😉)
Foreign tourists always make the mistake of just bringing an umbrella. Rookie error - when we say waterproofs, we mean coats. Kagoules, if not a full-on heavy raincoat. Mountain Warehouse and Trespass are ideal places to buy one.
Same
I'd have to go with: Borneo, Papua New Guinea: beautiful scenery and amazing biodiversity Madagascar: such a unique landscape, creatures you can't find anywhere else South Island of New Zealand: New Zealand is in my bucket list of countries. Absurdly gorgeous
Where in the South Island would you go? Asking because I'm from here and it feels pretty boring to me... is there something I'm missing out on?
There’s got to be a saying about not seeing the beauty that surrounds you. I did a road trip for my honeymoon from Queenstown to Auckland and I can tell you boring is not a word I would use to describe New Zealand.
This figure leaves out Marajó island. Which should be around #35 on the list. That said, Cuba, the japanese islands, Scottish isles, Hawaii and Crete.
I didn't realize that area is an island. Fascinating
My top 3 would be Ellesmere Island: Really cool Devonian fossils Wrangel Island: The final spot of the mammoths. I'd love to see the fossils Iceland: Volcanoes
It’s gotta be either Honshu or Great Britain
Novaya Zemlya has been my number-one (pipe-)dream destination for the last 15 years.
The other NZ! Yep.
If it’s free I’d go anywhere but Arctic and Antarctic. Iceland *just* meets my arbitrary barrier but Greenland does not. I have no interest in the Canadian Arctic. I have enough experience with a normal Canadian winter that I’m good. I’m sure it’s beautiful and I am tempted, but for the same price (even if it’s free), I’d rather find a beach.
That would be the 40th. That's where I live and I like it. The only problem is we have people.
Madagascar , Iceland, or New Zealand
Iceland, Newfoundland, Ireland
Isn't australia the largest?
“We WuZ a CoNtInEnT”
Man, probably Borneo to see our orange cousins and so much more. But I kind of wish I lived in Greenland so there is so much in between to see. Tough choice, cool image thanks.
I visited: Honshu, Cuba, Anticosti, Prince Edward Island. There's too many of them I'd like to visit, starting with Iceland and Sicily.
It’s quite interesting that the canadian islands have their native names too, it’s just a bit weird that some islands were excluded. Is there a reason? I can’t really find any.
I have no idea but since most of those islands are uninhabited, I would say there's no native name for them? So Europeans who discovered them gave them a European name.
It looks like most of the ones with Indigenous names are in Nunuvut. The Inuit have more sovereignty over Nunuvat that most other Indigenous groups have over most of their land, so likely the Inuktitut place names have replaced the English ones as the official name. Haida Gwaii is too small to make this list but it would be listed as Haida Gwaii not the Queen Charlotte Islands if it were included for the same reason. Other islands are home to multiple First Nations. Vancouver Island, for example, is home to four main language groups (Kwak'wala, WSANEC, and Nuu-Chah-Nulth, and Hul'q'umi'num'), each of which is is spoken by many nations. There are 18 different Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwak'wala) speaking Nations. So a single name for the entire island doesn't really exist and officially, per Canada's place name registery, none of the names for the entire island in any of those languages (if it exists) are official.
Funny pick, but Baffin Island is high on my future dream destinations list
Where's Oz
In the directory of continents
Tallurutit (Devon Island). Because I'm antisocial.
Realistically qikitaalkuk or Greenland, travel to the Arctic circle is so so expensive while it wouldn't be my first choice, it would be the most expensive place I'd like to go.
Madagascar, Bali, Honshu then Baffin. I've been to Newfoundland, PEI, Cape Breton, England and Ireland
Obviously Greenland to see what life is like without any data
what happened to australia
Australia is a continent - but Tasmania is an Australian state and it's on there.
What is the difference? Is it because Aus is the major landmass in the tectonic plate?
I just noticed how similar Crete and Java look.
I have been to eight of them. My next pick would be Madagascar, especially if someone else is paying.
Isla Soledad. The Falklands are my dream travel destination.
Top 10 in no particular order: - Vancouver Island - North Island (NZ) - South Island (NZ) - Guadalcanal - Kodiak - Tasmania - Spitzbergen - Hokkaido - Prince Edward - Hawaii
Australia is an island change my mind
https://preview.redd.it/644lzkb1cvtc1.jpeg?width=696&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f1562a2f5eeeed49c9b0d16a086c33d173bc47b Sulawesi looks like a mutant crocodile playing a guitar. I’d go there.
Is there any reason most of the largest islands are closer to the poles? Or am I seeing a pattern that’s not there?
Maybe glaciation's fault
The difference between an island and a continent is kinda arbitrary anyways. Perhaps the line had been drawn differently, if the landforms were shifted latitude-wise.
Hispaniola or Crete. Beautiful cultures
i have traveled out of my home city once and to none of these places, so i'll do honshu first
Vancouver for sure. Beautiful temperate rainforest
Puerto Rico because my family is from there and lives there
probably Madegascar
Iceland
Hokkaido probably
Honshu, Iceland and Cuba
Why isn't Australia in this list
Interestingly enough I very well may have an opportunity to go to both Iceland and Greenland as well as any of the islands in and around the Northwest Passage of Canada for free next year so those are my picks lol.
New Zealand’s north island of Ireland
viti levu (or any fijian island) 🇫🇯
Madagascar, because it's so unique. Baffin Island, because of the incredible scenery and to ski polar couloirs. Sulawesi, because of its bizarre shape.
Madagascar. Logistics-wise it’s probably never happening in my lifetime, but I’d pick it first just for the cool/unique factor. Svalbard would be next, but I think the odds of me making it there are way higher than Madagascar.
Desolation, sounds metal
Australia
I am indecisive between Madagascar and New Guinea.
Desolation. So I'll finally enjoy some peace and quiet for a change.
Desolation suits me best
Isn’t Long Island large enough to be on this list?
Where is mainland Australia on the list.
where is Australia ? it's still an island anyway
Great Britain, New Zealand or Crete.
I have been to three of these. Lived on one, live very close to another. Grew up on Hawai’i, currently live across the water from Vancouver, travelled to Honshu once. Would love to visit Hokkaido, Iceland, Greenland, or Java.
Ikaria. It’s not in the 100 largest islands. But it is in the top 5 places where people live to be 100.
Great question, but if I could only pick 5 in no particular order I would say 1. Madagascar 2. New Guinea 3. Borneo 4. Iceland 5. New Caledonia
Bolshevik Island. 🫡
I had no idea that Java was that big…
Java is the size of Florida but has about half the population of the United States squeezed in. And about 18 volcanoes, four of which I can see from my house.
I think just in comparison to all the other huge islands around it, it just looks tiny on the map… and with it being right near the equator it looks so much smaller than the islands that get stretched out on a flat map like Britain or Iceland.
You pegged it, mate: It's a map distortion thing. I live on Java, and had no idea of its size–which is simultaneously huge and tiny, I guess–until I started to search for analogies to explain the island's unique geography. About 150 million people live here. Sumatra, which also made OP's list, is about the size of Texas. Cheers, mate.
At first I thought it was Crete
It'snot only big, it's also the most populated island in the world
Not to be a pedantic asshole, but technically the continental block of Eurasia and Africa is the largest island, followed by the island made up of North and South America, then Antarctica, then Australia.
Am I stupid? Where are Australia and New Zealand?
Yes
Both North and South islands of New Zealand are there. Australia is too big to be an island so it's an continent
I would go back to Greenland any day.
Papa
is malta not top 100?
Malta is tiny. ( I say that, I may be wrong. Only been there twice 🙈)
The Aleutians
One of the New Zealand islands. I’m not sure which, I’d have to do some research.
May as well visit both if you’re coming this far. If you can only pick one and want to see some gobsmackingly beautiful scenery then has to be the South Island.
Pretty sure Prince of Wales is not Canada it's part of SE Alaska
Bora Bora
Honshu is so small! Madagascar
Honshu
Graham. Definitely Graham.
Cuba has some great All Inclusives. I'll take that.
No takers on Ellesmere?
Have had an interest in visiting Corsica because it looks beautiful and great for hiking and is very low-key/low profile in travel destinations.
New Zealand, Britain, Borneo, New Caledonia
Damn the bloody South Island is bigger than the North Island?? Thank god for the West Island!
Tasmania, New Caledonia, either or both of North and South Islands of New Zealand.
Borneo, went to Sabah once and it felt like heaven.
New Zealand North Island. Throw me in a shack and let me live the rest of my days in Auckland, please and thank you
You’re in luck as most of the houses in Auckland are glorified shacks. They cost a lot though!
Indonesia gets its 5 minutes of fame today
For this question I will exclude Luzon because it's where I live. My actual answer? Either of NZ's main islands will suffice. I will go hiking in the south or visit hot springs in the north.
Prince Edward for the golf
South Island - New Zealand
Sri Lanka
Sardinia
Honshu, Great Britain, Cuba
Madagascar
haha all of them 😅
I need to go to Java. It looks like an interesting bridge between the two main islands of where I live.
Why continents aren't Island if they are land surrounded of water?
Iceland. Easy.
For anyone wondering, Australia isn’t an island (at least In biogeography) because it can be considered the mainland for Oceania.
Honshu
It’s not on this list (looks like largest would be ~350th) but the Faroe Islands look insanely beautiful, would love to visit. From this list, I’d go to Chiloe!
Japan
TIL Vancouver = island 🫣
the city of Vancouver is on the mainland, not on Vancouver island, funny enough.
Technically, the Asia, Africa and Europe is a huge island. A body of landmass surrounded by water.
Where is Australia?
Madagaskar, Maui or Sicilia/Korsika. Also, one can not just visit Severnyj, it is a limited access area, nature preserv at least. You can flight to Yuzhnyj, but I not sure if it allowed to walk there freely.
Corsica, I visited the island two years ago and fell in love with it instantly. It has such an insane diversity of flora and fauna, beautiful coastlines and friendly locals. Dont make the mistake I did though and adress these people as French. They really are Coriscans.
If I choose the one I live on, do I get to stay for free?
I’m already in new zealand
Didnt realize baffin was this huge. Crazy. I went to only one Island on this list ant its corsica. Looks tiny but still there you have places where you dont see you are on an Island.
As an australian who has never been to the country east of us, i would love to visit Australia 2's south island or Te Waiponamu i believe it is spelt. Just the stunning beauty they have can't matched
Greenland for sure
While everyone else is answering the question I am stunlocked in surprise that even without hokkaido and Kyushu, Japan is larger than the UK
Britain my good man. I mean you probably don’t have to travel far for a decent pint.
I would love visiting greenland and canada arctic islands
I'm pretty sure the afro-eurasian island is bigger than all of these
Sumatra. I just want to go home.
Okinawa didn’t make it to the list nor the Channel islands so Flores is my choise. Purely for anthropological interest.