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the islands of Ireland and Great Britain were once part of the Eurasian landmass
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Today, Antarctica remains the only mosquito-free landmass on Earth.
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Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 24 May 2026
The eggs are believed to date back 72 million years ago to the Late Cretaceous period, when the region was part of the Ibero-Armorican Island, a prehistoric landmass made up of modern-day Spain, Portugal and southern France.
—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026
And Roosevelt explained in his summer radio addresses of 1941 that if the Germans win the war, the United States becomes an island within the world, with hostile empires dominating most of the world’s landmass.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026
This is a recognizably topological result — the size of each of the city’s landmasses doesn’t matter, nor does the length of the bridges between them.
—Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026
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Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 24 May 2026
The eggs are believed to date back 72 million years ago to the Late Cretaceous period, when the region was part of the Ibero-Armorican Island, a prehistoric landmass made up of modern-day Spain, Portugal and southern France.
—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026
And Roosevelt explained in his summer radio addresses of 1941 that if the Germans win the war, the United States becomes an island within the world, with hostile empires dominating most of the world’s landmass.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026
This is a recognizably topological result — the size of each of the city’s landmasses doesn’t matter, nor does the length of the bridges between them.
—Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026
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“Landmass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/landmass. Accessed 29 May. 2026.
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landmass
noun
land·mass
-ˌmas 
: a large area of land
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