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An island is any piece of land surrounded entirely by water. Archipelagoes and other named groups of islands should be typed as "island group",... more

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x Isle Royale Location 74.0km 9.0km
Isle Royale is an island of the Great Lakes, located in the northwest of Lake Superior. The island and the surrounding smaller islands and waters make up Isle Royale National Park. It is pronounced /ˌaɪlˈrɔɪəl/, with a long I in Isle and the accent...
x Bear Island   Location    
Bear Island is one of the Apostle Islands of northern Wisconsin in Lake Superior, and is part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Unlike nearby Madeline Island, it is not open to commercial development.
x Hermit Island   Location    
Hermit Island is a Wisconsin island in Lake Superior and a part of the Apostle Islands. Along with most of the islands in the group, it is a part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Hermit Island was home to a number of quarries for its...
x Cat Island   Location    
Cat Island is a Wisconsin island in Lake Superior. It is one of the Apostle Islands and a part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Cat Island has gone by a number of names including Kagagiwanjikag Miniss (Ojibwe for "Island of Hemlock Trees")...
x Manitou Island   Location    
One of the twenty-two Apostle Islands of northern Wisconsin, Manitou Island has also been known as New Jersey Island (Henry R. Schoolcraft's 1820 map) and Tait's Island (Asaph Whittlesey's 1871 map). The island is located in western Lake Superior...
x Devils Island   Location    
Devils Island is one of the twenty-two Apostle Islands of northern Wisconsin, and has also been known as Louisiana Island (Henry R. Schoolcraft's 1820 map), Barney and Lamborn's Island (Asaph Whittlesey's 1871 map), Brownstone Island, and Rabbit...
x Navy Island Navy Island Location    
Navy Island is a small island in the Niagara River in the province of Ontario, Canada. It is currently under the administration of the Niagara Parks Commission. It is located about 4.5 km upstream from Horseshoe Falls, and has an area of roughly 1.2...
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x Grand Island Location of Grand Island in Erie County Location    
Grand Island is a town and an island in Erie County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 18,621. The current town name derives from the French name "La Grande Ile," as Grand Island is the largest island in the Niagara River...
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x Java Locator of Java island Location    
Java (Indonesian: Jawa) is an island of Indonesia and the site of its capital city, Jakarta. Once the centre of powerful Hindu kingdoms, Islamic sultanates, and the core of the colonial Dutch East Indies, Java now plays a dominant role in the...
x Sumatra Sumatra admin Location    
Sumatra (also spelled Sumatera) is the sixth largest island in the world (approximately 470,000 km²) and is the largest island entirely in Indonesia (two larger islands, Borneo and New Guinea, are partially in Indonesia). Sumatra was known in...
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x Timor The two parts of Timor island Location    
Timor is an island at the south end of the Malay Archipelago, north of the Timor Sea. It is divided between the independent state of East Timor, and West Timor, belonging to the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara. The island's surface is 11...
x Sumbawa Sumbawa Topography Location    
Sumbawa is an Indonesian island, located in the middle of the Lesser Sunda Islands chain, with Lombok to the west, Flores to the east, and Sumba further to the southeast. It is in the province of West Nusa Tenggara. Sumbawa is 15,448 km² (three...
x Sumba Location    
Sumba is an island in Indonesia, and is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands. It has an area of 11,153 km², and the population was officially at 611,422 in 2005. There is a dry season from May to November and a rainy season from December to April....
x Savu Map of the islands of East Nusa Tenggara, including Savu. Location    
Savu (also known as Sawu, Sabu, Sawoe, Havu, Hawu, Hawoe) is an island which is situated midway between Sumba and Rote, west of Timor, in Indonesia's eastern province, East Nusa Tenggara. Ferries connect the islands to Waingapu, on Sumba, and Kupang...
x Sangeang   Location    
Sangeang is an island in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia. It is located northeast of Sumbawa in the Flores Sea. It is 13 kilometers wide, and it is formed from the volcano Gunung Api, that is one of the most active volcano in the Lesser Sunda...
x Solor Portuguese Fortress of Solor Location    
Solor is a volcanic island located off the eastern tip of Flores island in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia, in the Solor Archipelago. The island supports a small population that has been whaling for hundreds of years. They speak the languages...
x Rote Island Satellite photo of Roti Location    
Rote Island (Indonesian: Pulau Rote, also spelled Roti) is an island of Indonesia, part of the East Nusa Tenggara province of the Lesser Sunda Islands. It has an area of 1200 km². It lies 500 km northeast of the Australian coast and 170 km northeast...
x Pantar Baranusa harbor, Pantar Location    
Pantar (Indonesian: Pulau Pantar) is the second largest island in the Indonesian Alor Archipelago, after Alor. To the east is the island of Alor and other small islands in the archipelago; to the west is the Alor Strait, which separates it from the...
x Palu'e   Location    
Palu'e Island is an island located north of Flores Island in the Flores Sea. It is part of Lesser Sunda Islands. Palu'e island is under the administrative region of Sikka regency of East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. The island has an area of...
x Lombok Color infrared view of Lombok Island with Rinjani Volcano from space, May 1992 Location    
Lombok (population 2,950,105 in 2005) is an island in West Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. It is part of the chain of the Lesser Sunda Islands, with the Lombok Strait separating it from Bali to the west and the Alas Strait between it and Sumbawa...
x Komodo ID - Komodo Location    
Komodo is one of the 17,508 islands that make up the Republic of Indonesia. The island has a surface area of 390 km² and over 2000 inhabitants. The inhabitants of the island are descendants of former convicts who were exiled to the island and who...
x Flores Flores Island is shown highlighted in yellow near the bottom Location    
Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, an island arc with an estimated area of 14,300 km² extending east from the Java island of Indonesia. The population is estimated to be around 1.5 million , and the largest town is Maumere. Flores is located...
x Bali Bali Emblem Location    
Bali is an Indonesian island located at 8°25′23″S 115°14′55″E / -8.42306, 115.24861, the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east. It is one of the country's 33 provinces with the provincial...
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x Alor Lage der Insel Alor Location    
Alor is the largest island in the Alor archipelago located at the eastern-most end of the Lesser Sunda Islands that runs through southern Indonesia, which from the west include such islands as Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Komodo, and Flores. To the east...
x Adonara Adonara Island - STS008 Location    
Adonara is an island in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia, located east of the larger island of Flores in the Solor Archipelago. To the west lies Lomblen. It is the highest of the islands of the archipelago, at 1659 m, and has an area of 497 km....
x Brač Location of Brač Location    
Brač (pronounced [ˈbɾaːtʃ]; Latin Bretia, Brattia; Italian: Brazza; German: Bratz;) is an island in the Adriatic Sea within Croatia, with an area of 396 km², making it the third largest island in the Adriatic, and thus the largest in Dalmatia. Its...
x Bouvet Island Orthographic projection centered over Bouvet Island Location    
Bouvet Island (Norwegian: Bouvetøya, also historically known as Liverpool Island or Lindsay Island) is an uninhabited sub-antarctic volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, south-southwest of the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). It is a...
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x Minorca menorca mappa.jpg Location    
Minorca (Catalan and Spanish: Menorca; from Latin Balearis Minor, later Minorica "minor island") is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea and belongs to Spain. It takes its name from being smaller than nearby island of Majorca...
x Mallorca   Location    
Majorca (Spanish and Catalan: Mallorca) is the largest island of Spain. It is located in the Mediterranean Sea and part of the Balearic Islands archipelago. The name derives from Latin insula maior, "larger island"; later Maiorica. The capital of...
x Bowen Island, British Columbia Location of Bowen Island in GVRD City/Town    
Bowen Island, British Columbia, is an island municipality in Howe Sound, and within Metro Vancouver. Approximately 6 kilometres wide by 12 km long, the island sits about 6 km west of the mainland, with regular ferry service from West Vancouver....
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x Gambier Island   Location    
Note: For the Gambier Islands in Polynesia see Gambier Islands. Gambier Island is an island located in Howe Sound near Vancouver, British Columbia. It is about 17,000 acres (69 km²) in size and is located about 10 km north of the Horseshoe Bay...
x Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands Virgin islands sm02 Location    
Saint John is an island in the Caribbean Sea and a constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States. It is renowned as the wealthiest and most expensive of the U.S. Virgin Islands,...
x Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands Virgin islands sm02 Location    
Saint Thomas is an island in the Caribbean Sea, a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States. Located on the island is the territorial capital and port of Charlotte...
x South Bass Island Map of the Bass Islands Location    
South Bass Island is small island in western Lake Erie, and part of Ottawa County, Ohio, United States. It is the southernmost of the three Bass Islands and located 12 miles (19.3 km) from the south shore of Lake Erie. It is the third largest island...
x Gibraltar Island View of the island from South Bass Location    
Gibraltar Island (or the "Gem of Lake Erie") is an island in Ohio, located within Lake Erie. This small island is just offshore of South Bass Island. Gibraltar Island became a lookout point for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the fight against the...
x Middle Bass Island Map of the Bass Islands Location    
Middle Bass Island is an island of the U.S. state of Ohio, located in Lake Erie. A small town, Middle Bass, lies on the island. The 805-acre (3.258 km²) island is shaped like the Big Dipper and is one of three Bass Islands located at the center of a...
x North Bass Island Map of the Bass Islands Location    
North Bass Island is an island of the U.S. state of Ohio located in Lake Erie. A small town, Isle Saint George, lies on the island. The 688.6-acre (2.786 km²) island is one of few islands that has not been commercially developed. The state of Ohio...
x Vuaqava   Location