What is an island in geography. Island value

25.10.2021

Approximately each of us knows what an island is and what its features are. But in order for you to be able from a scientific and somewhat philosophical point of view, a natural phenomenon, we decided to talk in more detail about this part of the land. After all, most of the modern islands are a real bait for tourists and travel lovers. Well, let's go on our geographical cruise on the world map and highlight the definition of the island, its features and varieties.

Brief meaning of the term

So, the island is a small part of the land, which is surrounded by water on all sides. It largely rises above all the waters around it, even during high tides. A distinctive feature of all islands is their area - in comparison with the continents, they are small. Greenland is considered on the planet - it is three times smaller in area than the smallest continent - Australia. All other islands are either single sites or archipelagos that occupy an insignificant part of one of the oceans or seas.

Features of classification by origin

Now let's try to define what an island is from a geological point of view. First, such land areas can be found in oceans, seas, and fresh water bodies. Those that are located near the continents are called continental. At a farther distance are the islands of the transition zone, and in very distant waters there are oceanic islands (for example, Hawaii). The geological composition of the islands is determined by their origin. Therefore, in the world there are coral archipelagos formed by bedrocks, washed up by waves or underwater currents, as well as those formed during volcanic processes. The rivers are dominated by erosional and alluvial islands.

Politics and natural wonders

Next, we have to find out what an island is from a political point of view and how it stands out on the world map of the same name. We note right away that, like any part of the continent, a separately located small part of the land can be sovereign, or it can belong to any continental state. For example, Madagascar, one of the largest islands in the world, is an independent country with its own history and religion. The Canary Islands, which are so loved by tourists all over the world, belong to Spain, and Hawaii, which is located far from any continent, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is one of the states of America.

Island climate

It is clear that the provinces of continental countries can be located both in warm waters and in cold ones, from which their weather conditions will vary greatly. However, one main factor will unite all these lands, regardless of the currents that surround them - this is high humidity. Since each island is surrounded by water, the air here will be constantly filled with moisture and a large amount of salt. Many people believe that these conditions, even when combined with low temperatures, are extremely beneficial to health. That is why so many resorts and sanatoriums are open on most of the islands.

What are the islands according to their parameters

Each island is characterized by its own individual size. Among them, the largest are distinguished, occupying a significant part of the water area. These are Greenland, Madagascar, Sumatra (Indonesia), Great Britain, Java, Cuba Sakhalin and many others. Small islands that are located far from the continents form archipelagos. The most famous among them are the southern resorts - the Maldives, Seychelles, Hawaii, or strategically important objects - the Kuril Islands and many others. But still, in order to thoroughly learn what an island is, how you breathe and feel on it, you need to go there and enjoy the unforgettable nature in full.

ISLAND
Meaning:

ISLAND, -a, pl. h-a, -ov, m.

1. A piece of land surrounded by water on all sides. Mainland ~ a(separated from the continents). Coral Island(formed on the basis of coral reefs). Uninhabited about.

2. A site that stands out for something. among the rest of the area, eg. a dry place among the marshes, a small forest among the fields.

| decrease. ~ ok, -vka, m. About security(a specially marked place on the carriageway, safe for pedestrians).

| adj. ~ noy, th, th (to 1 value). Island state(located on ~ e, ~ ah).

S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language

Meaning:

ÓStrov

1) Part of the land, surrounded on all sides by water.

2) transfer. A site that stands out for smth. among the rest of the area.

3) transfer. Something that stands apart from the rest.

Modern explanatory dictionary ed. "Great Soviet Encyclopedia"

ISLAND

Meaning:

city (from 1777) in the Russian Federation, Pskov region, on the river. Great. Railroad station. 29.2 thousand inhabitants (1993). Plant of electrical machines, etc. Food, flax-processing industry. Founded in Ser. 14th century as a fortress .--- a village in the Moscow region. In the 16-17 centuries. royal estate on the high right bank of the river. Moscow. The white-stone tent-roofed Church of the Transfiguration (late 16th century) with two aisles, richly decorated with rows of kokoshniks.

Small academic dictionary of the Russian language

Island

Meaning:

A, pl. islands, m.

Part of the land, surrounded on all sides by water.

Kurile Islands. Sakhalin island. Coral Islands.

|| transfer ; what or which.

What stands apart is different from the environment.

At times it seemed to her as if --- only where she was was it still safe. But this safe place, this island of silence in the midst of a thundering and raging world, is getting smaller by the minute. Sayanov, Heaven and Earth.

2. transfer

A site that stands out for smth. among the surrounding area.

The peaks and forests, which at the end of August were still green islands between the black fields of winter crops and stubble, became golden and bright red islands in the midst of bright green winter crops. L. Tolstoy, War and Peace.

3. Hunting.

Small detached forest.

(Nikolai) knew that there were arrived (young) and seasoned (old) wolves on the island. L. Tolstoy, War and Peace.

(Batiushka) was with him on the way, and then he got into the stirrups, but he fined once: he let the hare into the island. Melnikov-Pechersky, Old Years.

ISLAND synonyms

Dictionary of Russian synonyms 4

Island

Synonyms:

aion, antigua, atoll, bali, barbados, buyan, valaam, vancouver, victoria, hawaii, haiti, guadeloupe, hebrides, city, gotland, greenland, guam, devon, delos, jersey, dixon, disco, dominica, zanzibar, icaria, ireland, iceland, itaka, iturup, kodiak, kalimantan, capri, kangaroo, kizhi, cyprus, kolguyev, komsomolets, corsica, corfu, boiler house, crete, krk, kuba, kunashir, kyusu, leyte, lemnos, lesbos, lombok, luda, Luzon, Madagascar, Madeira, Majuro, Madura, Male, Mallorca, Malta, Martinique, Masbate, Melaren, Melville, Menorca, Midway, Mindanao, Maine, Nauru, Negro, New Guinea, New Zealand, New Earth, New Caledonia, Newfound fire land, ogrudok, olkhon, oseredok, islet, pag, palawan, panay, pantelleria, paramushir, paphos, pitcairn, puerto rico, reunion, rhodes, russian, samar, samar, samar, sardinia, southampton, sakhalin, seramir, shikoku, simushe , sicily, solomon islands, somersit, columnar, sulawesi, sumatra, sumba, sumbawa, xianggang, tahiti, taiwan, taimyr, tasmania, tenerife, timor, white, wallops, urup, plot, fadeevsky, fiji, flores, formosa, funn, hainan, halmahera, chios, hokkaido, honshu, shikotan, sri lanka, skerries, elsmere, elba, south island, java, jamaica

ISLAND stress, word forms

ISLAND origin, etymology

Etymological dictionary of the Russian language. Vasmer Max

Island

Origin, etymology:

genus. n. -a, ukr. Ostriv, -ova, Old Russian, Art.-Slav. island νῆσος, bulg. island, Serbo-Horv. ȍstrovo, slovenian. ostròv, genus. n. -óva, Czech., slvts. ostrov, Polish. local n. Ostrów, Ostrówek, v.-puddles. wotrow, n.-puddles. wótšow, polab. våstrü᾽v.

Praslav. * o-strovъ "that flows around, river island". From a stream, a stream. Related lit. sravà "flow, bleeding, menstruation", prasrava "flow of water", ltsh. strava "current", with another stage of vocalism: lit. srovė̃, strovė̃ "flow", lts. stràva - the same, strāve - the same, Eastern-lit. sraujà, Old Ind. girisravā "mountain stream", srávati "flows", Greek. ῥόος "current", ῥοή "river, stream", ῥέει "flows", Old Norse. straumr "(big) river; current"; see Trautman, BSW 279 et seq .; M.–E. 3, 1082 et seq .; Miklosich, KSchlBeitr. 1, 128; ЕW 318. Cf. the meaning of the Serbo-Horv. ȍok "island", about which see Skok, Glotta 25, 217 et seq.

in accordance with article 121 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982, land formations of natural origin located in sea spaces, surrounded on all sides by water and constantly rising above sea level even during the highest tide. Representing a part of the territory of a particular state, Osta, with the exception of rocks unsuitable for supporting human life or for independent economic activity, may have around it internal sea waters, a territorial sea, an adjacent and exclusive economic zone, and a continental shelf. The provisions of the Federal Law of the Russian Federation of November 30, 1995 No. 187-FZ "On the Continental Shelf of the Russian Federation" and the Federal Law of the Russian Federation of December 17, 1998 No. 191-FZ "On the Exclusive Economic zone of the Russian Federation ".

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ISLAND

a natural land formation surrounded by water, which is located above the water level at high tide. With the exception of rocks that are not suitable for supporting human life or independent economic activity, oceans, equally with other parts of the land territory, may have territorial waters, an adjacent zone or economic zone, or a continental shelf. In certain cases, the presence of O. near the continental coast may be a factor influencing the passage of straight baselines for measuring the breadth of territorial waters. Such lines are applicable in places where there is a chain of O. along the coast and in the immediate vicinity of it.In relation to O. located on atolls, or O. with bordering reefs, the starting line for counting the width of territorial waters is the reef line facing the sea at the highest low tide. as shown by the appropriate sign on nautical charts officially issued by the coastal state. According to the legislation in force in the Russian Federation, O. belonging to the Russian Federation have territorial waters, an economic zone, and a continental shelf.

Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary

ISLAND- husband. (from an awn, a ridge, the top of an underwater mountain?) land surrounded by water, an outflow (in Solovki, on the fatherland); applies to other subjects: an elevated, dry place among swamps, a hillock; | fertile place among the barren, oasis, greenery. Naked ... ... Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary

Island- an island, an atoll, a site, an oseredok, an ogrudok, a city Dictionary of Russian synonyms. island n., number of synonyms: 218 agalega (1) ... Synonym dictionary

ISLAND- ice and fire. Publ. About Iceland. Mokienko 2003, 68. The island of bad luck (suffering). Zharg. shk. Shuttle. iron. The first desk in the class. Maksimov, 290. The island of freedom. 1. Publ. Pathet. Cuba (island, state). Mokienko, Nikitina 1998, 404.2. Zharg. shk. ... ... A large dictionary of Russian sayings

Island- an island, a, pl. h. a, s; but (in the names of settlements, natural zones on the mainland) an island, and, for example: island (city), Black island (village), Los other island (natural zone in Moscow), Biryuchi island (spit) ... Russian spelling dictionary

Island- city, district center, Pskov region. It was first mentioned in 1342 as a fortress on the island of the Velikaya River, which determined its name. Geographical names of the world: Toponymic dictionary. M: AST. Pospelov E.M. 2001. Island ... Geographical encyclopedia

ISLAND- ISLAND, islands, offer. on the island (on the island obsolete and obl.), pl. islands, husband. 1. Part of the land, surrounded on all sides by water. "There is an island on that ocean." Lermontov. "Find yourself in Robinson's position on a desert island." Saltykov Shchedrin. 2 ... Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary

ISLAND- ISLAND, a piece of land surrounded on all sides by the waters of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers. They differ from the continents in their relatively small size. The largest islands are Greenland, New Guinea, Kalimantan, Madagascar ... Modern encyclopedia

ISLAND- a city (since 1777) in the Russian Federation, Pskov region., on the river. Great. Railroad station. 29.2 thousand inhabitants (1993). Plant of electrical machines, etc. Food, flax-processing industry. Founded in Ser. 14th century like a fortress ...

ISLAND- a village in the Moscow region. In the 16th and 17th centuries. royal estate on the high right bank of the river. Moscow. The white-stone tent-roofed Church of the Transfiguration (late 16th century) with two aisles, richly decorated with rows of kokoshniks ... Big Encyclopedic Dictionary

Island- (Hebrew and, plural iyim). Word and origin. denoted both the coastal area, the coast, and part of the land, surrounded. water (Isa 24:15; 40:15; 66:19). Along with O. Caphtor (probably Crete Jer 47: 4) O. also named the coastal states of the Mediterranean. In NZ ... ... Brockhaus Bible Encyclopedia

Books

Island, Robert Merle. This volume is the most representative edition of the works of Robert Merle (born 1908), the famous French writer and playwright, winner of the Goncourt Prize. The volume includes the most ...

Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary

Island- an island, an atoll, a site, an oseredok, an ogrudok, a city Dictionary of Russian synonyms. island n., number of synonyms: 218 agalega (1) ... Synonym dictionary

Books

Island, Robert Merle. This volume is the most representative edition of the works of Robert Merle (born 1908), the famous French writer and playwright, winner of the Goncourt Prize. The volume includes the most ...