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Laysan Island: 103,689: Stable from 1992 to 2005 French Frigate Shoals: 7,073: Stable from 1992 to 2005 Other northwestern Hawaiian Islands: Tori-shima (Izu Islands) 1,218: Unknown Bonin Islands: 23: Unknown Islas Guadalupe: 337: Increasing Other offshore Mexican islands: 63: Increasing Total: 590,926: −30 to 49% over 85 years
A map of the Philippines showing the island groups of Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. As an archipelago, the Philippines comprises about 7,641 islands [1] [2] clustered into three major island groups: Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. Only about 2,000 islands are inhabited, [3] and more than 5,000 are yet to be officially named. [2]
Fujimi Elementary School (富士見小学校) - Fujimi. Izumi Elementary School (和泉小学校) - Izumichō. Established in 1993, [5] it is a consolidation of Imagawa Elementary School (今川小学校) and Sakuma Elementary School (佐久間小学校). [6][7] Kudan Elementary School (九段小学校) - Sanbanchō. Kōjimachi Elementary ...
The islands were named after the Breton captain Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec, who visited the islands as part of the d'Entrecasteaux expedition in the 1790s. The topographic particle "Kermadec" is of Breton origin and is a lieu-dit in Pencran in Finistère where ker means village, residence and madec a proper name derived from mad (which means 'good') with the suffix -ec, used to form ...
Island part of the Philippines. Izu Ōshima: 91.06: Largest island of the Izu Islands, part of Japan. Anguilla: 91: British Overseas Territory. Eckerö: 91: Island part of Åland Islands, Finland. Nagashima Island: 90.62: Island part of Japan. Castries: 90.33: Second largest district of Saint Lucia. Pangutaran (biggest island) 90: Island part ...
Goidhu Atoll or Goifulhafehendhu Atoll ( 'Horsburgh Atoll' in the Admiralty Chart) is separated from South Maalhosmadulhu by a 10-kilometre-broad (6.2 mi) channel. This atoll is oval in shape and small, its greatest length being 15.5 kilometres (9.6 miles). It is composed of 7 islands, 3 of which are inhabited.
The status of several islands is disputed. Navassa Island is disputed by Haiti, [119] Wake Island is disputed by the Marshall Islands, [118] Swains Island (a part of American Samoa) is disputed by Tokelau, [120] [44] and Bajo Nuevo Bank and Serranilla Bank are both administered by Colombia, whose claim is disputed by the U.S. and Jamaica. [7] [121]
The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), [b][11] is an unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States consisting of 14 islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. [12] The CNMI includes the 14 northernmost islands in the Mariana Archipelago; the southernmost island, Guam is ...