the islands of Ireland and Great Britain were once part of the Eurasian landmass
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Yet, on a landmass around 40% larger than Europe, one man has exerted an outsize influence on the architecture of an entire continent.—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 25 May 2026 Today, Antarctica remains the only mosquito-free landmass on Earth.—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 See All Example Sentences for landmass