List of islands of North America
Overview of North American islands
The following is a list of the major island groups of North America.
Arctic Ocean
- Islands of the western Arctic Ocean:
- Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- Baffin Island, largest island of Canada and the world's 5th largest island
- Victoria Island, world's 8th largest island
- Banks Island, world's 24th largest island
- 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
- Alexander Island
- Baillie-Hamilton Island
- Borden Island, world's 171st largest island
- Ellesmere Island, world's 10th largest island and 37th tallest island
- Ward Hunt Island
- Cornwall Island, world's 186th largest island
- Eglinton Island, world's 249th largest island
- Graham Island, world's 268th largest island
- Lougheed Island, world's 275th largest island
- Byam Martin Island, world's 298th largest island
- Île Vanier, world's 302nd largest island
- Cameron Island, world's 314th largest island
- Brock Island
- North Kent Island
- Emerald Isle
- Massey Island
- Little Cornwallis Island
- Coburg Island
- Helena Island
- Griffith Island
- Hoved Island
- Lowther Island
- Buckingham Island
- Beechey Island
- Seymour Island
- Browne Island
- Cocked Hat Island
- Crescent Island
- Des Voeux Island
- Dundas Island
- Edmund Walker Island
- Eight Bears Island
- Ekins Island
- Exmouth Island
- Fairholme Island
- Fitzwilliam Owen Island
- Garrett Island
- Grosvenor Island
- Houston Stewart Island
- Hyde Parker Island
- Île Marc
- John Barrow Island
- Margaret Island
- Nookap Island
- Norman Lockyer Island
- Patterson Island
- Philpots Island
- Pim Island
- Pioneer Island
- Princess Royal Island
- Skraeling Island
- Spit Island (Kate Island)
- Stupart Island
- Table Island
- Thor Island
- Truro Island
- Devon Island, world's largest uninhabited landmass[1] and 27th largest island
- Melville Island, world's 33rd largest island
- Bathurst Island, world's 54th largest island
- Prince Patrick Island, world's 55th largest island
- Cornwallis Island, world's 96th largest island
- Mackenzie King Island, world's 115th largest island
- Moore Island
- Sverdrup Islands
- Islands of Hudson Bay
- Coats Island, world's 107th largest island
- Belcher Islands
- Bradbury Island
- Broomfield Island
- Bun Island
- Cake Island
- Camsell Island
- Dove Island
- Fair Island
- Flaherty Island
- Innetalling Island
- Karlay Island
- La Duke Island
- Johnnys Island
- Mata Island
- Nero Island
- Loaf Island
- Mavor Island
- Moore Island
- Ney Island
- Kugong Island
- O'Leary Island
- Range Island
- Renouf Island
- Snape Island
- Split Island
- Tukarak Island
- Twin Cairns Island
- Walton Island
- Wiegand Island
- Islands of James Bay
- Akimiski Island, world's 162nd largest island
- Big Island
- Carey Island (Cary Island)
- Charlton Island
- Grey Goose Island
- Gull Island
- Jacob Island (Wood Island)
- Moore Island
- North Twin Island
- South Twin Island
- Spencer Island
- Stag Island
- Sunday Island
- Trodely Island (Trodley Island)
- Walter Island
- Weston Island
- Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Greenland
- Greenland, world's largest and 11th tallest island
- Qeqertarsuaq (Disko Island), world's 85th largest island
- Milne Land
- Traill Island
- Ymer Island
- Geographical Society Island
- Clavering Island
- Nares Land
- Shannon Island
- The following islands are usually associated with Europe rather than North America, despite lying closer to Greenland than to Scandinavia:
North Atlantic Ocean
- Islands of the western North Atlantic Ocean:
- Bermuda Islands
- Atlantic Coastal Islands
- Florida Keys
- Merritt Island
- Sea Islands
- Hilton Head Island
- Port Royal Island
- Johns Island
- Saint Helena Island
- Edisto Island
- Cayman Islands
- Outer Banks
- Staten Island
- Manhattan Island, most densely populated island of the Americas[1]
- Long Island, largest Atlantic island of the United States, most populous island of the United States, and the world's 17th most populous island
- Block Island
- Conanicut Island
- Aquidneck Island (Rhode Island)
- Elizabeth Islands
- Martha's Vineyard
- Nantucket Island
- Monomoy Island
- Boston Harbor Islands
- Mount Desert Island, largest island of Maine
- Cape Breton Island, world's 77th largest island
- Prince Edward Island, world's 104th largest island
- Anticosti Island, world's 90th largest island
- Newfoundland, largest Atlantic island of Canada and the world's 16th largest island
North Pacific Ocean
- Islands of the eastern North Pacific Ocean:
- Islands of the Bering Sea
- Pribilof Islands
- Saint Paul Island
- St. George Island
- Otter Island
- Walrus Island
- Saint Lawrence Island, world's 113th largest island
- Diomede Islands
- King Island
- Saint Matthew Island
- Karaginsky Island
- Pribilof Islands
- Aleutian Islands
- Kodiak Archipelago
- Islands of the Gulf of Alaska
- Montague Island
- Alexander Archipelago
- ABC Islands
- Dall Island
- Kupreanof Island
- Prince of Wales Island, world's 97th largest island
- Revillagigedo Island
- Wrangell Island
- Haida Gwaii
- Vancouver Island, largest Pacific island of Canada and the world's 43rd largest island
- San Juan Archipelago
- Whidbey Island
- Channel Islands of California
- Isla de Cedros
- Islands of the Gulf of California
- Guadalupe Island
- Revillagigedo Islands
- Islas Marías
- Clipperton Island
- Isla Espiritu Santo, largest island of El Salvador
- Isla del Coco, largest island of Costa Rica
- Isla de Coiba, largest island of Panama
- Pearl Islands
- Islands of the Bering Sea
Hawaii
Inland islands
- Lake islands of North America:
- Atlin Lake,
- Theresa Island, highest elevation inside a freshwater lake in North America at 2059m
- Lake Huron
- Lake Superior
- Lake Erie
- Lake Ontario
- Lake Washington
- Lake Nicaragua
- Great Slave Lake
- Simpson Islands
- Big Simpson Island, world's 13th largest inland island
- Blanchet Island, world's 14th largest inland island
- Preble Island, world's 20th largest inland island
- Simpson Islands
- Manicouagan Reservoir
- René-Levasseur Island, world's largest artificial island[1] and 2nd largest inland island
- Grand Lake on the Island of Newfoundland
- Atlin Lake,
- River islands of North America:
- Saint Lawrence River
- Niagara River
- Grand Island
- Navy Island
- Goat Island
- Dufferin Islands
- Hudson River
- Schodack Island
- Westerlo (Castle) Island
- Susquehanna River
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See also
North America portal
Geography portal
- Clipperton Island
- List of islands by area
- List of islands by highest point
- List of islands by population
- List of islands in lakes
- List of islands of Central America
- List of islands of South America
- List of the highest islands of North America
- Navassa Island
- Outline of North America
References
- ^ a b c Island Superlatives @ WorldIslandInfo.com
External links
North America at Wikipedia's sister projects
Definitions from Wiktionary
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Resources from Wikiversity
- Island Directory @ United Nations Environment Programme
Wikimedia Atlas of North America- World island information @ WorldIslandInfo.com
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