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The IHO limits of the Atlantic Ocean. This is a list of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, the largest of which is Greenland.Note that the definition of the ocean used by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) excludes the seas, gulfs, bays, etc., bordering the ocean itself. [1]
Virgin Islands VGB English: Virgin Islands: Road Town: 31,122 153 km 2 (59 sq mi) United States dollar: Cayman Islands CYM English: Cayman Islands: George Town: 68,136 262 km 2 (101 sq mi) Cayman Islands dollar: Montserrat [n 1] MSR English: Montserrat: Plymouth (de jure — abandoned) Brades (de facto — seat of government) 4,417 102 km 2 (39 ...
Tristan da Cunha (/ ˌ t r ɪ s t ən d ə ˈ k uː n (j) ə /), colloquially Tristan, is a remote group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying approximately 2,787 kilometres (1,732 mi) from Cape Town in South Africa, 2,437 kilometres (1,514 mi) from Saint Helena, 3,949 kilometres (2,454 mi) from Mar del Plata [6] in ...
Southampton Island, world's 34th largest island. Prince of Wales Island, world's 40th largest island. Somerset Island, world's 46th largest island. King William Island, world's 61st largest island. Bylot Island, world's 72nd largest island. Prince Charles Island, world's 78th largest island. Queen Elizabeth Islands.
Cape Town[ a ] is the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. [ 12 ] It is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. [ 13 ] The city is part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality.
US Virgin Islands (United States) The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island countries and 19 dependencies in three archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago. [ 5 ]
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about 85,133,000 km 2 (32,870,000 sq mi). [ 2 ] It covers approximately 17% of Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the Age of Discovery, it was known for separating the New World of the Americas (North America and South ...
Map of select municipalities on Cape Breton Island Travel map of Cape Breton Island, with major highways and freeways marked. The irregularly-shaped rectangular island is about 100 km wide and 150 long, for a total of 10,311 square kilometres (3,981 sq mi) in area. [29] It lies in the southeastern extremity of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.