Give a definition of what an island is. What is an island and a peninsula? What are the islands according to their parameters

Probably everyone dreamed of getting to a desert island, and I was no exception. This is a great opportunity to test your strength, to find out what you are capable of. In the meantime, I am in the civilized world, I will gladly tell you what is island, and what unusual islands there are on our planet.

What is a peninsula and an island

If you open the dictionary in search of a definition, you can find 2 meanings of the word "island". First - part of the land that is bounded on all sides by water... The second meaning reads: feature site compared to the rest of the area. At the same time, the peninsula means part of the land, one side adjacent to the mainland or an island and washed by water from others. Among the many islands and peninsulas, I would like to note the largest and, accordingly, the smallest. So:

• Arabian- the largest peninsula;
• Yamal- the smallest peninsula;
• Greenland- the largest island;
• Bishop Rock is the smallest island.

Islands - quite interesting places on our planet, each of which is unique in its own way. Limited space affects literally everything. For example, many birds, getting on the islands, pass your path of evolution, becoming non-flying. This is how the kakapo, dodo, kiwi and thousands of other species appeared. A careful study of this phenomenon has shown that, unlike mainland brethren, island birds have less developed muscles and longer legs.

Separated from the rest of the land the islands are "cut off" from the rest of the world and time goes on there. Many islands are inhabited by aborigines, whose culture is unique in its own way.

There is a unique "Trash island" unintentionally man-made. In fact, this is a huge patch of debris that has gathered into a single whole. influenced by ocean currents... This "island" is located in the Pacific Ocean, and in terms of area is in no way inferior to the size of the United States.

Pheasant Island, in principle, does not stand out among the many others, but there is still something special in it. For a long time it has been the subject of controversy and even wars. between Spain and France, which eventually led to a rather original solution. Half of the year the island is ruled by the Spanish municipality, the rest of the year the island is under the control of the French.

Island ship located in the Atlantic. Of course, this is an ordinary island, but according to the documents - a ship! The thing is that at the time of its development, the treasury did not have free funds for its maintenance. Then the enterprising islanders renamed it to "Ship" Ascension "in the roadstead", and themselves signed up for it as sailors.

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 place specially marked on the carriageway, safe for pedestrians).

| adj. ~ noah, 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 ​​(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 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 Tierra del Fuego, ogrudok, olkhon, oseredok, islet, pag, palawan, panay, pantelleria, paramushir, paphos, pitcairn, puerto rico, reunion, rhodes, russian, samar, samar, samar, sardinia, southampton, sakhalin, seramir, shikoku, simushalin , 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. stràvа - 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. Being 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 can be a factor influencing the passage of straight baselines for measuring the width 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 the 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 by. 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- 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 by. 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 ...