PARADISE OR PRISON
I suppose there are similar things about both islands and forts. Good and bad things depending on what’s happening to you. You can be self-contained, enclosed, remote, cut off from threats, safe. On the other hand and in other circumstances, the remoteness can become isolation; defence becomes a siege; self-containment becomes confinement. Island paradise? Or island prison?
The world’s:
largest island – Greenland (assuming that Australia is classed as a continent)
smallest island – apparently it’s Bishop Rock off the south-west of the UK.
Also apparently, according to www.didyouknow.org “In 1861, the British government set out the parameters for classifying an island. It was decided that if it was inhabited, the size was immaterial. However, if it was uninhabited, it had to be “the summer’s pasturage of at least one sheep” – which is about two acres.”
