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The islands of the Indian Ocean are part of either the eastern, western, or southern areas. Some prominently large islands include Madagascar, Sri Lanka, and the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Java, and Lesser Sunda Islands.
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 ...
In the 1978 novel Desolation Island, the fifth book in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin series, the fictional naval vessel HMS Leopard is severely damaged by a collision with an iceberg in the southwestern Indian Ocean. The crew attempts to make landfall for repairs on one of the Crozet Islands, but they miss the island and continue to drift ...
Archipelagoes of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (2 C, 16 P) Archipelagoes of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (3 C, 3 P) Archipelagoes of the Maldives (1 P)
The Comoro Islands are a group of volcanic islands in the Mozambique Channel, an arm of the Indian Ocean lying between Madagascar and the African mainland. Three of the islands form the Union of the Comoros , a sovereign nation, while Mayotte belongs to France.
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The Andaman Islands are home to a number of animals, many of them endemic. Andaman & Nicobar islands are home to 10% of all Indian fauna species. [46] The islands are only 0.25% of the country's geographical area, but has 11,009 species, according to a publication by the Zoological Survey of India. [46]
This is a list of islands in the world ordered by population, which includes all islands with more than 100,000 people. For comparison, continental landmasses are also shown, in italics. The population of the world's islands is over 730 million, approximately 9% of the world's total population.