List of islands of North America
{{Short description|Overview of North American islands}}
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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 now moved down to second uninhabited landmass 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
- Axel Heiberg Island, world's 32nd largest island
- Ellef Ringnes Island, world's 69th largest island
- Amund Ringnes Island, world's 111th largest island
- King Christian Island
- Meighen Island
- Stor Island
- Haig-Thomas Island
- Hat Island
- Ulvingen Island
- 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
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:
- Iceland, world's 18th largest island
- Jan Mayen
- Svalbard Archipelago
- Spitsbergen, world's 35th largest island
- Nordaustlandet, world's 58th largest island
- Edgeoya
- Barentsoya
North Atlantic Ocean
- Islands of the western North Atlantic Ocean:
- Bermuda Islands
- Bermuda
- Atlantic Coastal Islands
- Florida Keys
- Key West
- Key Largo
- 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[http://www.worldislandinfo.com/SUPERLATIVESV2.html Island Superlatives @ WorldIslandInfo.com]
- Long Island, largest Atlantic island of the United States, most populous island of the United States, and the world's 17th most populous island
- New York Barrier Islands
- 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
- Ile de Saint-Pierre
- Ile de Miquelon, largest island of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Islands of the west North Atlantic Ocean:
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
- Big Diomede Island
- Little Diomede Island
- King Island
- Saint Matthew Island
- Karaginsky Island
- Aleutian Islands
- Fox Islands
- Unimak Island, world's 134th largest island, world's 28th tallest island
- Umnak Island, world's 223rd largest island
- Unalaska Island, world's 174th largest island
- Amaknak Island (Umaknak Island)
- Akutan Island
- Akun Island
- Sanak Island
- Islands of Four Mountains
- Amukta Island
- Chagulak Island
- Yunaska Island
- Herbert Island
- Carlisle Island
- Chuginadak Island
- Uliaga Island
- Kagamil Island
- Andreanof Islands
- Tanaga Island
- Kanaga Island
- Adak Island
- Kagalaska Island
- Great Sitkin Island
- Little Tanaga Island
- Atka Island, world's 313rd largest island
- Amlia Island
- Seguam Island
- Delarof Islands
- Gareloi Island
- Amatignak Island
- Ilak Island
- Kavalga Island
- Ogliuga Island
- Skagul Island
- Tanadak Island
- Ugidak Island
- Ulak Island
- Unalga Island
- Rat Islands
- Kiska Island
- Little Kiska Island
- Segula Island
- Buldir Island
- Near Islands
- Commander Islands
- Kodiak Archipelago
- Kodiak Island, largest island of Alaska and the world's 80th largest island
- Islands of the Gulf of Alaska
- Montague Island
- Alexander Archipelago
- ABC Islands
- Admiralty Island
- Baranof Island
- Chichagof Island, world's 109th largest island
- Dall Island
- Kupreanof Island
- Prince of Wales Island, world's 97th largest island
- Revillagigedo Island
- Wrangell Island
- Haida Gwaii
- Graham Island, world's 101st largest island
- Moresby Island
- Vancouver Island, largest Pacific island of Canada and the world's 43rd largest island
- Islands of the Salish Sea
- Discovery Islands
- Texada Island
- San Juan Archipelago
- Gulf Islands
- San Juan Islands
- Orcas Island, second largest island of Washington
- Whidbey Island
- Channel Islands of California
- Santa Cruz Island, largest island of California
- Isla de Cedros
- Islands of the Gulf of California
- Isla Ángel de la Guarda
- Tiburón Island, largest island of Mexico
- Guadalupe Island
- Revillagigedo Islands
- Isla Socorro
- 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
- Isla del Rey
=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
- Manitoulin Island, world's largest inland island
- Saint Joseph Island, world's 8th largest inland island
- Drummond Island, world's 9th largest inland island
- Thirty Thousand Islands
- Lake Superior
- Isle Royale, world's 6th largest inland island
- Saint Ignace Island, world's 12th largest inland island
- Michipicoten Island, world's 19th largest inland island
- Madeline Island
- Lake Erie
- Mohawk Island
- Lake Ontario
- Thousand Islands
- Lake Washington
- Mercer Island
- Lake Nicaragua
- Ometepe, 11th largest inland island
- Isla Zapatera
- Solentiname Islands
- 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
- Manicouagan Reservoir
- René-Levasseur Island, world's largest artificial island and 2nd largest inland island
- Grand Lake on the Island of Newfoundland
- Glover Island, world's 18th largest inland island
- River islands of North America:
- Saint Lawrence River
- Île de Montréal, most populous island of Canada
- Niagara River
- Grand Island
- Navy Island
- Goat Island
- Dufferin Islands
- Hudson River
- Schodack Island
- Westerlo (Castle) Island
- Susquehanna River
- McCormick Island
- Wade Island
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See also
{{Portal|North America|Geography}}
References
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External links
{{Sisterlinks|North America}}
- [http://islands.unep.ch/isldir.htm Island Directory @ United Nations Environment Programme]
- {{Wikiatlas|North America}}
- [http://www.worldislandinfo.com/ World island information @ WorldIslandInfo.com]
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