Comments on: Lake/Island Combinations

Lake/Island Combinations

petsounds — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:06:41 -0800

Largest lake on an island, in a lake, on an island, in a...

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:10:51 -0800

So awesome. And, rightfully, Crater Lake wins!

By: dhruva

dhruva — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:19:06 -0800

This is great!

By: Rumple

Rumple — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:19:17 -0800

Largest island in a lake on an island: Pulau Samosir in Danau Toba on Sumatera (INA) A lake which is also known as the caldera of the Toba supereruption of 73,000 years ago: 800 times as powerful as Krakatoa, ejected 3,000 cubic kilometres of ash, and almost wiped out Homo sapiens worldwide.

By: padraigin

padraigin — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:21:55 -0800

I think it's Lake Huron for the win.

By: Phire

Phire — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:22:43 -0800

HEEEEE. *is far too amused*

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:23:50 -0800

I saw this on reddit earlier and was trying to convey my excitement at the content to my roommate, I don't think she quite understands my love of geography trivia.

By: Bonzai

Bonzai — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:25:09 -0800

Bookmarked for the next time I am high.

By: Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America

Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:27:02 -0800

This is the best post so far this year.

By: The Light Fantastic

The Light Fantastic — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:31:12 -0800

"Bookmarked for the next time I am high." Indeed.

By: equalpants

equalpants — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:31:30 -0800

Truly awesome.

By: YoBananaBoy

YoBananaBoy — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:31:58 -0800

Hide for the next time I am booked.

By: empath

empath — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:32:56 -0800

neat! One one of the pictures, i was having a hard time seeing the water as water and the ground as ground (the lake manitou one)

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:39:53 -0800

Dang, The Light Fantastic, I think I just sent you this link. Looks like you saw it yourself. *is useless*

By: tellurian

tellurian — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:41:42 -0800

Iceland? I always thought it was Australia.

By: empath

empath — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:46:21 -0800

Australia is a continent, as is Antarctica.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:53:46 -0800

Australia wants to be both an island and a continent please. Australia wants to be the biggest something.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:54:24 -0800

Forgive my ignorance, but is there a dividing line? It seems to me like a continent is nothing more than the largest island on a continental plate, and we just call them "continents" by convention.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:03:38 -0800

Australia wants to be both an island and a continent please. Australia wants to be the biggest something. That's like the Governor of Rhode Island insisting he should be the mayor of Providence as well. Understandable, but sad.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:10:22 -0800

Ha! got one. Australia is the world's largest left-hand drive country.

By: stavrogin

stavrogin — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:14:00 -0800

Ah, Greenland, the icy one.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:23:01 -0800

Pulau Samosir in Danau Toba on Sumatera (INA) A lake which is also known as the caldera of the Toba supereruption of 73,000 years ago: 800 times as powerful as Krakatoa, ejected 3,000 cubic kilometres of ash, and almost wiped out Homo sapiens worldwide. Now they make great "Magic Mushroom Omlettes" there. Or so I hear.

By: ORthey

ORthey — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:27:15 -0800

This is like "he said that she said that she said that he said that she was going out with him" - my mind stops working partway through.

By: batmonkey

batmonkey — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:45:30 -0800

Truly the best of the web. Brings a tear to the eye. So much glee. Islands and lakes and lakes and islands and everyone intermingling and...*fans self*

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:57:01 -0800

My head hurts!

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:59:27 -0800

Cool!

By: Verdandi

Verdandi — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:01:19 -0800

*deep breath* And... the... germ on the feather and the feather on the bird and the bird in the nest and the nest on the branch and the branch on the tree and the tree on the root and the root in the hole and the hole in the ground and the island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island in a lake and the green grass grows all around all around, and the green grass grows all around! *passes out*

By: nicwolff

nicwolff — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:08:45 -0800

Here's where Crater Lake is in Google Maps. You can see Vulcan Point!

By: zouhair

zouhair — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:14:33 -0800

hehe

By: DyRE

DyRE — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:14:37 -0800

This makes me so happy. SO HAPPY. SO FUCKING HAPPY.

By: mattoxic

mattoxic — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:16:42 -0800

Australia wants to be the biggest something How about Biggest arsehole lying little shit prime minister?

By: shelleycat

shelleycat — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:26:56 -0800

Forgive my ignorance, but is there a dividing line? They are actually made of different types of rock, and the formation processes are different. Continents are made of bits of continental rock (which is much thicker and, um, some other stuff, basaltsomething?) whereas islands are built from seabed generally by volcanic or other seismic activity. For example, New Zealand is technically an island built around a small core of continental rock that split from Gondwanaland really early on. Australia is pretty much all continental and split later. It's more technical than that and I don't remember all the details (heh, I used to fall asleep a lot in my earth science lectures), but there are rules and classifications and physical stuff that make the dividing line fairly clear.

By: DyRE

DyRE — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:31:07 -0800

This is the happiest on a continent with lakes and islands that is not home to the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island I have ever been on an island in a lake!

By: DyRE

DyRE — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:31:28 -0800

...on an island

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:33:13 -0800

Thanks, shelleycat!

By: amyms

amyms — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:58:34 -0800

Cool post!

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:01:06 -0800

If you zoom in far enough, you can see the turtles.

By: mulligan

mulligan — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:12:44 -0800

Wikipedia image of the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

By: shelleycat

shelleycat — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:12:49 -0800

I really should start looking things up. So many of my recent comments/answers have been this kind of vague half-remembered stuff and I can probably do better. But I was too busy thinking about lake islands I have known and generally enjoying the post.

By: Goofyy

Goofyy — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:29:16 -0800

Manitoulin Island rocks. Haw-eaters rock. If you seek a pleasant penninsula, fine, go to Michigan. But if it's an island you crave, Manitoulin is where it's at.

By: Mr Bismarck

Mr Bismarck — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:34:32 -0800

"Australia wants to be the biggest something How about Biggest arsehole lying little shit prime minister?" Sorry. We got that one taped.

By: Heywood Mogroot

Heywood Mogroot — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:37:27 -0800

re: mulligan's link above . . . now is that a bad-ass lair to own or what?

By: Rumple

Rumple — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:47:34 -0800

I'm guessin' the largest island proportional to the lake in which it finds itself.

By: dreamsign

dreamsign — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:06:39 -0800

I like Lake Toba. Some lovely woodcarvings done there, and beautiful scenery. But Kelimutu on Flores gets my vote for the coolest lakes. Not fun to get to, though.

By: criticalbill

criticalbill — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:14:38 -0800

I Like

By: dydecker

dydecker — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:19:17 -0800

I've been to Lake Toba too. Highly recommended. Although I nearly went mental because every time someone saw a tourist they'd pick up a guitar and sing "No Woman No Cry" to you.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:23:58 -0800

Ha. That was great.

By: Life at Boulton Wynfevers

Life at Boulton Wynfevers — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:27:14 -0800

This made my day and made my head hurt--all at the same time.

By: endermunkee

endermunkee — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:43:54 -0800

I was thinking very nearly the same thing as Phire: TEEEEE.

By: Slithy_Tove

Slithy_Tove — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:49:21 -0800

Sorta kinda related, only political geography rather than physical geography: Cooch Behar is an area in the northwest border of India and Bangladesh. Along this border there are almost 200 'enclaves', in which pieces of land that are politically part of India or Bangladesh are physically entirely enclosed by the other country. I.e., they are 'islands' of one country floating in the 'sea' of another country. Over a score are 'counter' enclaves: 'islands' within other 'islands'. One is a counter-counter enclave: a tiny island of India inside an island of Bangladesh inside an island of India inside Bangladesh proper. The situation causes problems for the enclaves' inhabitants. For example, they need a visa just to get to another part of their own country. So far, efforts to resolve this mess have failed. The wonderful Strange Maps blog has been on Metafilter before.

By: markdj

markdj — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:21:43 -0800

Lakes and islands living together!

By: petersn1

petersn1 — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:27:42 -0800

LOL.

By: mendel

mendel — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:23:48 -0800

If Australia were to count, the largest island would be mainland Eurasia anyhow.

By: Lush

Lush — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:27:53 -0800

Great, I've been to Taal Lake! However, much as I would enjoy Star Trek references for any Philippine tourist spot, it's actually called Volcano Island (bulkan in the native tongue). And that crater right there is actually a volcano. Taal Volcano.

By: TedW

TedW — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:23:25 -0800

Great post; it reminds me of the little known bit of trivia that the biggest city in the biggest county in the biggest state east of the Mississippi is this town.

By: JBennett

JBennett — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:42:01 -0800

Great post. Not quite the same thing, but this article from the NYTimes a few years ago made me laugh. A FLOATING island in Springfield, Mass has given a few homeowners on a lake a headache. Cool map of island movement included!

By: kosem

kosem — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:54:56 -0800

::Applauds. Sings "There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea":: This is why I'm hooked on the 'Filter. Best of the blue.

By: CynicalKnight

CynicalKnight — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:59:30 -0800

the largest island proportional to the lake in which it finds itself. "He's heading towards that small lake". "That's no lake..." I prefer to think of it as a river crafted by Escher.

By: srt19170

srt19170 — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:07:48 -0800

...it reminds me of the little known bit of trivia that the biggest city in the biggest county in the biggest state east of the Mississippi is this town. Or not.

By: Arturus

Arturus — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:15:48 -0800

This makes me silly-happy. Similar to the effect of kittens.

By: TedW

TedW — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:16:08 -0800

I stand corrected; it appears Ware County is larger than Burke County by 71 square miles. Makes me wonder what other things I might be wrong about.

By: chimaera

chimaera — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:39:18 -0800

The geeky centers of my brain are all lit up with happy.

By: malthas

malthas — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:52:20 -0800

Seriously, this is a great post. Bravo!

By: jacquilynne

jacquilynne — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:14:44 -0800

Excellent.

By: rmm

rmm — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:33:39 -0800

I love me some geopron in the morning. Thanks for this!

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:26:40 -0800

Man, this would make such the awesome Jeopardy category: "I'll take Island, Lake, Recursive for 1000 Alex".

By: bDiddy

bDiddy — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:30:23 -0800

This makes my brain feel the same as that "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" thing.

By: gubo

gubo — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:34:09 -0800

Sometimes I wish I weren't such a skeptic. This is the kind of thing that would be incredibly awesome to me, if I didn't keep asking myself, "How the hell do they know these are the largest x's! Prove it!"

By: forrest

forrest — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:34:13 -0800

Take any puddle of water anywhere in the world. Travel along a great circle route and you will end up on the other side of the puddle. Topologically, the puddle surrounds the entire planet with all land masses and bodies of water falling into the lake/island/lake pattern. For almost all puddles, this would add only a couple more layers onto the Vulcan Point/Crater Lake combination. I've been trying to work out something for a puddle on Vulcan Point that would make it unique, but it seems it would be like every other puddle in terms of the lake/island combination, wouldn't it?

By: thatwhichfalls

thatwhichfalls — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:36:05 -0800

Possibly the best post I've seen on metafilter ever. Well done!

By: Relay

Relay — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:01:21 -0800

Whoa ... dude, but like, isn't this whole concept really a Yes cover?

By: vagabond

vagabond — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:50:41 -0800

Wish I had known that fact when I went to Taal Lake. I could have impressed those in my group.