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Anglesey
An island off the northwest coast of Wales, the largest in Wales and the seventh-largest in the British Isles, with Bronze Age and Druidic heritage.
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Syllables are counted across the whole name (multi-word names sum). "Apple" is 2 syllables; "Macaroni and Cheese" is 6.
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List of 3-syllable Islands
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Borneo
The world's third-largest island, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei, covered by some of the oldest rainforest on Earth.
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Cook Islands
A self-governing Polynesian archipelago of 15 islands in free association with New Zealand.
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Crete (Island)
The largest and most populous Greek island, anchoring the southern Aegean Sea.
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Guam (Island)
The southernmost and largest island in the Mariana archipelago, an unincorporated territory of the United States.
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Hokkaido
Japan's northernmost main island, a sparsely populated land of volcanoes, deep snow, and indigenous Ainu culture.
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Ibiza
A Balearic island in the western Mediterranean famous globally for its electronic music scene and beaches.
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Iona
A small Hebridean island off western Scotland revered as the cradle of Christianity in the country since Columba founded a monastery there in 563 CE.
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Isle of Man
A self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea known for its Tynwald parliament, motorcycle TT races, and Manx cat.
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Isle of Wight
A diamond-shaped island off the south coast of England, a popular Victorian-era seaside destination and host of major music festivals.
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Isle Royale
A remote forested island in Lake Superior preserved as a U.S. national park, famous for its long-running wolf and moose study.
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Iturup
The largest of the disputed Kuril Islands between Russia and Japan, a chain of nine active volcanoes shrouded in fog and forest.
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Kodiak
The largest island of Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago, famed for its giant brown bears and one of the largest U.S. commercial fishing ports.
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Komodo
A rugged Indonesian island in the Lesser Sunda chain, the principal habitat of the Komodo dragon, the world's largest living lizard.
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La Palma
A volcanically active Canary Island nicknamed La Isla Bonita, with steep rugged terrain and dark-sky reserves.
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Lanzarote
The easternmost of the main Canary Islands, shaped by sustained volcanic eruptions in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Long Island
An island east of New York City, the longest and largest island in the contiguous United States.
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Mallorca
The largest of Spain's Balearic Islands, with a mountainous northwest and beaches along the eastern coast.
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Manhattan
A narrow island at the mouth of the Hudson River, the most densely populated borough of New York City.
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Marquesas
A volcanic archipelago in French Polynesia, among the most remote island groups on Earth.
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Menorca
The second-largest of Spain's Balearic Islands, designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1993.
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Molokai
Fifth-largest Hawaiian island, home to the world's tallest sea cliffs and a famously slow-paced rural lifestyle.
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Mykonos
A small Cycladic island in the Aegean Sea known worldwide for its whitewashed villages and resort nightlife.
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Newfoundland
A large island off the east coast of Canada, the bigger and more populous part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Niue
One of the world's largest raised coral atolls, a self-governing island state in free association with New Zealand.
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Palawan
A long, narrow Philippine island province in the western archipelago, renowned for limestone karst, hidden lagoons, and biodiversity.
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Qeshm Island
The largest island in the Persian Gulf, a free-trade zone off the southern coast of Iran with mangrove forests and dramatic salt domes.
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Quirimbas
A chain of 32 mostly coral islands along the northern coast of Mozambique, protected within a national park renowned for sea life and Swahili ruins.
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Rapa Nui
The native Polynesian name for Easter Island, used by its indigenous people and increasingly in official contexts.
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Reunion
A volcanic French overseas department in the western Indian Ocean, home to one of the world's most active volcanoes and a UNESCO-listed mountainous interior.
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Saaremaa
The largest island of Estonia, a flat limestone island in the Baltic known for windmills, juniper groves, and a Soviet-era meteorite crater.
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Saint Vincent
The main island of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, dominated by the active La Soufriere volcano.
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Sakhalin
A long Russian island in the northwest Pacific, off the east coast of Siberia, with oil and gas fields, taiga forests, and a Japanese colonial past.
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Shikoku
The smallest of the four main islands of Japan, famous for its 88-temple Buddhist pilgrimage route circling the island.
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Socotra
A remote Yemeni island in the Arabian Sea, a UNESCO World Heritage site whose otherworldly endemic flora includes the umbrella-shaped dragon's blood tree.
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Sumatra
The sixth-largest island in the world, the westernmost of Indonesia's Greater Sundas, defined by volcanoes, rainforest, and Lake Toba.
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Tahiti
Largest island of French Polynesia, formed from two volcanoes and home to the capital Papeete.
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Tenerife
The largest and most populous of Spain's Canary Islands, dominated by the dormant Mount Teide volcano.
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Ulleungdo
A volcanic Korean island in the East Sea, known for towering basalt cliffs, squid fishing, and the only native pumpkin taffy of Korea.
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Utila
The smallest and easternmost of Honduras's main Bay Islands, a budget diving hub at the southern end of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.
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Vis (Island)
A small Croatian island in the central Adriatic, the farthest inhabited Croatian island from the mainland and a former Yugoslav military zone.
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Wake Island
A V-shaped coral atoll in the central Pacific, an unincorporated U.S. territory used as a military airfield with a heroic 1941 defense.
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Yas Island
A largely manmade leisure and entertainment island in Abu Dhabi, home to a Formula 1 circuit, Ferrari World, and Warner Bros. World.
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Zakynthos
A southern Ionian island of Greece, famed for Navagio shipwreck beach, sea turtles, and the resort coasts of Laganas Bay.
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Zanzibar
A semi-autonomous Tanzanian archipelago in the Indian Ocean, historic center of the Swahili-Arab spice trade and slave routes.
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