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List of islands by name. This is a list of islands by name. As this list is too long to be contained within this page, it has been divided into 26 different articles corresponding to their first letter, accessible from the table below.
Flat Islands, Bovista Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador Flat Islands* Florida Keys; Hermite Islands; Ildefonso Islands; Karl Oom Islands; Magdalen Islands (Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine) Marcopeet Islands; Mingan Archipelago; Outer Lands (New England-New York islands) Payne Islands; Plover Islands; Puerto Rico. Mona Islands; Punuk Islands; Saint Peter ...
Majority of granitic Seychelles, which were remnants of India splitting from Africa to form Madagascar. Majority of the Great Chagos Bank. Nazareth Bank. Owen Bank, Chagos Arch., submerged atoll. Owen Bank (Seychelles) (not to be confused with Chagos atoll) Saya de Malha, Formerly largest Mascarene Island.
A gigantic island created purely as a parody of Plato's Atlantis. Mount Olympus "Olympos" was the name of the home of the Twelve Olympian gods of the ancient Greek world. [4] Nysa: A beautiful valley full of nymphs. Okeanos: The cosmic river encircling the Earth in Ancient Greek cosmology, also sometimes depicted as one of the Titan gods ...
[136] The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Place Names (2017), by John Everett-Heath, states that Oceania is "a collective name for more than 10,000 islands in the Pacific Ocean" and that "it is generally accepted that Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, and the islands north of Japan (the Kurils and Aleutians) are excluded."
Island's Name Island group(s) Country/Countries 83-42 Greenland, Denmark: A Nova: Beira Baixa islands Portugal: Abbasak: Persian Gulf Iran: Aberdeen: Georgian Bay, Ontario Canada Abner Cay: Bahamas Bahamas: Abruka: Gulf of Riga Estonia: Absecon New Jersey United States Abu Musa: Persian Gulf: Claimed by Iran and United Arab Emirates: Acheron
Other islands and archipelagos include the Chagos Archipelago being 475 kilometres (295 mi) away from the Maldives, the Kerguelen Islands and the Heard Island and McDonald Islands are about 480 kilometers away from each other. Other fairly remote islands include Ducie Island, South Orkney Islands, Peter I Island, Malpelo Island, Conway Reef and ...
Regarding the islands of New Guinea, the Portuguese captain and geographer António Galvão wrote that: The people of all these islands are blacke, and have their haire frisled, whom the people of Maluco do call Papuas. [28] "New Guinea" (Nueva Guinea) was the name coined by the Spanish explorer Yñigo Ortiz de Retez.