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Triggered by an earthquake near Antarctica? Citation really freaking needed there. I've got one that says there was no causative effect.

Well, islands are islands, aren't they?

That depends on the sea level, doesn't it? Even islands are connected to the rest of the world.

Maybe nothing can be an island in a metaphorical sense, but literal islands are possible?

Well, by definition the island metaphor is about the isolation that islands provide.

So surely metaphorical islands are likelier to preserve the property of being islands even if the physical ones turn out to be much more fuzzy.

GP was clearly mixing metaphor and real to create an effect. "Nothing is really an island" -> "not even real islands are so isolated as it may seem".

Spoken like a true Scorpio