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August 2

Largest unnamed island?

largest unnamed island not created by river bifurcations 115.188.65.157 (talk) 08:26, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See No-Name Island. This sounds like an ideal question for a search engine. For example Google tells me that "The largest island in a lake is a nameless, approximately 4.0-hectare (10-acre) island at 66.687°N 70.479°W", and there are a lot more Google answers. Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:22, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The next question would be whether any of these no-name islands have lakes within them... and whether any such lakes have islands within them. (And so on.) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 11:47, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia has an article Recursive islands and lakes. Abductive (reasoning) 05:56, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Google AI responded with the largest unnamed island being an island in a large lake on Baffin Island. Looking at sattelite views, it appears that the only reason an island there wouldn't have a name is because nobody is living there to give it a name. In my opinion, if there is an island near people, it will have a name because humans like to call things by a name, even if that name is "No-name island." 75.136.148.8 (talk) 12:05, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your report reminds of the mountain called K2, which had no local name because no one local knew about it. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 13:11, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Next, is there a named lake on an unnamed island, or a named island in a nameless lake? —Tamfang (talk) 19:39, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]