Busted!

A long time ago, someone decided, erroneously, that Newfoundland is the tenth-largest island in the world.

It isn't. But that hasn't stopped this "fact" from becoming "fact", in Newfoundland anyway.

This myth needs some serious busting.

For the record, here are the sixteen largest islands in the world, with their areas in square kilometres:

1 Greenland — 2,130,800
2 New Guinea — 785,753
3 Borneo — 748,168
4 Madagascar — 587,713
5 Baffin Island — 507,451
6 Sumatra — 443,066
7 Honshū — 225,800
8 Great Britain — 218,595
9 Victoria Island — 217,291
10 Ellesmere Island — 196,236
11 Sulawesi — 180,681
12 South Island of New Zealand — 145,836
13 Java — 138,794
14 North Island of New Zealand — 111,583
15 Luzon — 109,965
16 Newfoundland — 108,860

And oh yeah — not only does Stephenville not have the longest runway in Canada, it doesn't have the longest in Canada, or the province, or even in Newfoundland. Sorry.