Bougainville and the nearby island of Buka are a single landmass separated by a deep 300-metre-wide strait.
However, it boasted only a single large landmass, which covered perhaps a third of its surface.
The rainfall brings much erosion, ensuring that the single landmass has no mountains higher than 1000 metres.
The islands were coalesced into a single landmass by the Hornby Vellard engineering project in 1784.
Due to the spread of animals, fungi and plants across the single Pleistocene landmass the separate lands have a related biota.
The northern third of the world was given over to a single great landmass, the continent of Terra Grande.
Antarctica is generally included among the continents even though there is evidence that it is several islands rather than a single landmass.
The four Northern Islands used to be a single landmass known as Santa Rosae.
Asia and Europe are not separated by an ocean or strait but form a single landmass, called Eurasia.
He also questioned the division into three of what is really a single landmass, a debate that continues nearly two and a half millennia later.