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The Apostle Islands are a group of 22 islands in Lake Superior, off the Bayfield Peninsula in northern Wisconsin. [1] The majority of the islands are located in Ashland County—only Sand, York, Eagle, and Raspberry Islands are located in Bayfield County. All the islands except for Madeline Island are part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.
The following is a list of named islands of the state of Wisconsin. According to the USGS, there are 431 named islands, [1] and many more unnamed ones among Wisconsin's 15,074 lakes. [2] Wisconsin borders both Lake Michigan and Lake Superior producing many of the state's islands. The Mississippi River also has many islands on the state's ...
There is one place with official status as a city, three places with official status as towns, four villages, and many other smaller settlements. Traditionally the Island is divided into six sheadings, then further into seventeen parishes. Manx language names are given in italics. Aerial view of Douglas and the southern half of the Isle of Man
Rat Islands group of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska United States Rat: City Island Harbor, New York United States Rathlin: Northern Ireland United Kingdom Rathlin O'Birne Ireland: Rato: Estremadura islands Portugal: Ile aux Rats: Cosmoledo atoll Seychelles: Rattlesnake: Clear Lake, California United States Rattlesnake: Okanagan Lake, British Columbia
The second largest island in area is Euboea or Evvia, which is separated from the mainland by the 60m-wide Euripus Strait, and is administered as part of the Central Greece region. After the third and fourth largest Greek islands, Lesbos and Rhodes, the rest of the islands are two-thirds of the area of Rhodes, or smaller.
The Fortunate Isles or Isles of the Blessed [1] [2] (Ancient Greek: μακάρων νῆσοι, makarōn nēsoi) [3] were semi-legendary islands in the Atlantic Ocean, variously treated as a simple geographical location and as a winterless earthly paradise inhabited by the heroes of Greek mythology.
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.
This is a list of the lists of islands in the world grouped by country, by continent, by body of water, and by other classifications. For rank-order lists, see the other lists of islands below. Lists of islands by country or location