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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.
Below are islands that contain the letter E anywhere in the name. Each of the 54 islands below opens to a full profile.
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List of Islands That Contain E
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Azores Islands
A Portuguese archipelago of nine volcanic islands in the central North Atlantic, near the triple junction of three tectonic plates.
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Bermuda (Island)
A British Overseas Territory of about 180 islands in the North Atlantic, sitting on an extinct volcanic seamount.
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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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Crete (Island)
The largest and most populous Greek island, anchoring the southern Aegean Sea.
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Devon Island
The largest uninhabited island on Earth, a frigid Arctic landmass in Nunavut whose Mars-like terrain hosts NASA analog research stations.
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Djerba
A sun-baked island off the coast of southeastern Tunisia, known for its whitewashed villages, pottery, and ancient Jewish community.
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Easter Island
Remote volcanic Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific famous for its nearly 1,000 monumental moai statues.
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Elba
A Tyrrhenian island west of Tuscany, best known as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte's first exile.
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Elephant Island
A bleak, ice-covered island off Antarctica famous as the refuge of Ernest Shackleton's crew after the loss of the Endurance in 1916.
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Ellesmere Island
The northernmost island of Canada and the world's tenth-largest island, an ice-capped High Arctic landmass with fjords, ice shelves, and muskoxen.
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Faroe Islands
A self-governing archipelago of 18 volcanic islands within the Kingdom of Denmark, midway between Scotland and Iceland.
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Fuerteventura
The second-largest of the Canary Islands and the closest to the African mainland, known for long sandy beaches.
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Greenland
The world's largest island, an autonomous territory of Denmark covered overwhelmingly by an ice sheet.
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Grenada (Island)
The main island of the Grenada nation, a Lesser Antilles volcanic island known as the Spice Isle.
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Guadeloupe (Island)
A French overseas region in the Lesser Antilles formed by two main islands shaped like a butterfly.
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Iceland (Island)
A Nordic island nation on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, shaped by glaciers and active volcanism in nearly equal measure.
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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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Jeju
A volcanic island off the southern coast of Korea, a popular honeymoon destination centered on the shield volcano Hallasan.
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Jersey
The largest of the Channel Islands, a British Crown Dependency lying just 22 km from the Normandy coast of France.
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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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Lesbos
The third-largest Greek island in the northeastern Aegean Sea, separated from Turkey by a narrow strait.
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Madeira (Island)
The largest and most populous island of the Portuguese Madeira archipelago, known for steep coasts and laurel forests.
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Marquesas
A volcanic archipelago in French Polynesia, among the most remote island groups on Earth.
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Martinique (Island)
An overseas region of France in the Lesser Antilles, dominated by the active stratovolcano Mount Pelee.
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Menorca
The second-largest of Spain's Balearic Islands, designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1993.
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Nevis
The smaller of the two islands in the federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, formed by a single conical volcano.
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New Caledonia (Island)
A Melanesian archipelago of France with a long main island, Grande Terre, surrounded by the world's second-largest barrier reef.
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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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Orkney
An archipelago of about 70 islands off the north coast of Scotland, rich in Neolithic monuments and Norse heritage.
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Penang
A Malaysian state and island in the Strait of Malacca whose capital George Town is a UNESCO-listed colonial port and street-food capital.
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Phuket
Thailand's largest island, a major beach tourism destination at the northern end of the Strait of Malacca.
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Puerto Rico (Island)
An unincorporated United States territory and the smallest of the Greater Antilles, with rugged interior mountains.
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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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Queimada Grande
A small Brazilian island off Sao Paulo state, also called Snake Island, infamous for hosting one of the world's densest populations of pit vipers.
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Quemoy
A small Taiwanese island only a few kilometers off the coast of mainland China, a Cold War flashpoint and current military garrison.
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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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Rhodes
The largest of the Dodecanese islands in the southeastern Aegean, with a medieval old town that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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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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Skye
The largest and northernmost of Scotland's Inner Hebrides, famed for the dramatic Cuillin mountains and Norse-influenced Gaelic culture.
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Staten Island
The southernmost and least densely populated borough of New York City, lying southwest of Manhattan.
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Sulawesi
A distinctively K-shaped Indonesian island with four peninsulas, world-class diving, and the elaborate funeral traditions of the Toraja people.
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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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Vancouver Island
A large rugged island off the southwest coast of Canada, home to the British Columbia capital Victoria and ancient temperate rainforest.
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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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Whidbey Island
A long island in Puget Sound, Washington, the largest island in the state and home to U.S. Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.
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Wrangel Island
A remote Russian Arctic island in the Chukchi Sea, a UNESCO-listed refuge where woolly mammoths survived until 1700 BCE.
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Xiamen Island
A subtropical Chinese island in Fujian province linked to the mainland by causeways, home to the major port and special economic zone of Xiamen.
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Zealand
The most populous Danish island, home to Copenhagen and connected to Sweden by the Oresund Bridge.
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