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Originally Posted by Mister F
I don't know why people are getting uppity about Montreal being on an island. It just is. An island that's the core of a major metropolitan area is still an island. There are different kinds of islands with different characters and degrees of isolation. Montreal isn't isolated the same way as St. John's, sure, but it's an island all the same. I don't see the problem.
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Yeah, I don't really get what isolation has to do with island-ness either. Some of the largest cities on the planet - Tokyo, London, Jakarta, Manila, Osaka, Taipei - are located entirely on islands. Others - New York, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Lagos, Montreal - have urban areas that stretch across an island or islands and the mainland.
Now, you could convincingly argue that the British or Japanese identities are informed by the relative cultural or geopolitical isolation afforded by their geography, but I doubt anyone has ever walked the streets of central London or Tokyo feeling an overwhelming sense of island-induced remoteness.