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The umbrella term Pacific Islands has taken on several meanings. [1] Sometimes it is used to refer only to the islands defined as lying within Oceania. [2] [3] [4] At other times, it is used to refer to the islands of the Pacific Ocean that were previously colonized by the British, French, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, or Japanese, or by the United States.
5 Pacific Ocean. Toggle Pacific Ocean subsection. 5.1 Along the coast of the Americas. ... Two Group Islands; Tubuai Group; Hawaiian Islands (Sandwich Islands)
Beira Litoral Islands Portugal: Parry: Georgian Bay Ontario Canada Pasalimani: Marmara Islands Turkey: Pasaran Indonesia: Pašman Croatia: Pasque: Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts United States Pasumpahan Indonesia: Pate: Lamu Islands Kenya: Patience Rhode Island United States Pátmos: Dodecanese Greece: Patos: San Juan Islands, Washington ...
Two main islands (Heard Island and McDonald Island) Oceanic Australia: 412 159 No permanent resident: 0 0 Southern Ocean Hong Kong: river delta island group with two main islands of Hong Kong Island and Lantau Island of a total of 263 with the largest 19 encompassing 293.26 km 2 (113.23 sq mi) around the peninsula of Kowloon and the New Territories
Minho islands Portugal: Amorgos: Cyclades Greece: Amoroso: Beira Litoral Islands Portugal: Åmøy: Stavanger Municipality, Rogaland Norway: Amrita Massachusetts United States Amrum: North Frisian Islands Germany Amsterdam: Indian Ocean France Amund Ringnes Island: Sverdrup Islands group of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut Canada Amygdaloid
Lifuka group of the Haʻapai group Tonga: Nisida: Flegree Islands Italy Nisyros: Dodecanese Greece: Niuafo'ou: Niua group Tonga: Niuatoputapu: Niua group Tonga: Niue Niue (self-governing in free association with New Zealand) Nixes Mate: Boston Harbor, Massachusetts United States Nizki: Semchi Islands group of the Near Islands in the Aleutian ...
Island's Name Island group(s) Country/Countries Kachelotplate: East Frisian Islands Germany Kácsa-sziget: Tisza Hungary: Kagalaska: Andreanof Islands group of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska United States Kahoolawe: Hawaiian Islands United States Kakawaie: Lake Kagawong, Ontario Canada Kakeromajima
The Polynesian Triangle is a geographical region of the Pacific Ocean with Hawaii (Hawaiʻi) (1), New Zealand (Aotearoa) (2) and Easter Island (Rapa Nui) (3) at its corners, but excluding Fiji on its western side. At the center is Tahiti (5), with Samoa (4) to the west.