Talk:List of the largest islands in the North Sea

Lindisfarne

According to several sources, Lindisfarne has only 5 km2 and therefore does not belong here. Antipoeten 03:04, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Missing islands

Many islands are missing from this list. Here are just some examples: At least 14 islands at the Norwegian west coast are missing, mostly islands of Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane and Hordaland. See this list: http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_over_norske_øyer. Also missing are these islands at the Swedish west coast: Orust (346 km2), Hisingen (199 km2), Tjörn (148 km2). These islands are also missing: Læsø (114 km2) and Anholt (23 km2) of Denmark, Langeoog of Germany (19.67 km2), Whalsay of Shetland Islands (19.70 km2). There are probably several more. Also, the placing of many of the islands are wrong. Hidra is in Vest-Agder, not in Møre og Romsdal. Meløya is in Nordland, not in Rogaland, Vestre Bokn is in Rogaland, not in Hordaland and so forth. As Nordland does not border the North Sea, Meløya does not belong on the list. I will make a few changes but someone else has to do the rest. Antipoeten 03:07, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

I am sorry, I have to make new corrections, also to myself: 1. The islands I mention in Denmark and Sweden are not within the North Sea at all. They belong to Skagerrak or Kattegat. 2) This also means that the islands of Østfold, Norway, which are included on the list, do not belong here. Østfold is to far east - and so is the west coast of Sweden and the Danish islands in Skagerrak and Kattegat. 3. Some of the islands of Møre og Romsdal, Norway, are situated too far north to belong to the North Sea. See this page for the limits to the east. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skagerak Antipoeten 14:42, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Some more about the limits of the North Sea to the north, here is a quote from Wikipedia: "Apart from the obvious boundaries formed by the coasts of the countries which border it, the North Sea is bounded by an imaginary line from Lindesnes, Norway to Hanstholm, Denmark running towards the Skagerrak. The northern limit towards the Atlantic is less well-defined. Traditionally, an imaginary line is taken to run from northern Scotland by way of the Shetlands to Ålesund in Norway. According to the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic of 1962 it runs further to the west and north from longitude 5° West and latitude 62° North, at the latitude of Geirangerfjord in Norway." This probably means that the islands north of Ålesund do not belong here. See this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_sea Antipoeten 14:53, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

I left out many Norwegian Islands when I was compiling the list, as I felt they were too far north. I decided to go no further north than X (whatever X was at the time). That's why some islands are absent. Totnesmartin 22:14, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Kirkeøy

SOme non-hyperlinked islands (such as Kirkeøy), do not have an article on the English version yet (even though i don't undertsnad the other language) there are equivilents in their respective languages. Some even have the coordinates where the english versions lack them. COuld someone improve these articles??--Coin945 (talk) 12:56, 14 March 2008 (UTC)