What is recognised as the world's largest island?

Question

The uninhabited Malgas Island, or Bird Island, off the Western Cape of South Africa, is the largest breeding colony in the world of what?

Answer 1

Greenland
Australia, because of its size, is regarded as a continent rather than an island. Greenland is 2,130,800 sq.km (822,700 sq.mi.); New Guinea, the second largest, is 785,753 sq.km (303,381 sq.mi.); Madagascar is 587,041 sq.km (226,658 sq.mi.).