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Bahamas (Island)
An archipelago of about 700 islands and 2,400 cays stretching across the western North Atlantic.
Below are islands that contain the letter H anywhere in the name. Each of the 26 islands below opens to a full profile.
List of Islands That Contain H
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Bornholm
A rocky Danish island in the southern Baltic Sea, geologically and culturally distinct from the rest of Denmark, known for round churches and smoked herring.
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Christmas Island
An Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean known for its annual mass migration of red crabs.
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Dauphin Island
A narrow barrier island at the mouth of Mobile Bay in Alabama, known for white-sand beaches and a major bird migration stopover.
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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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Hainan
China's southernmost province and largest tropical island, sometimes called the "Hawaii of China" for its beach resorts and warm climate.
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Hawaii (Island)
The largest of the Hawaiian Islands, dominated by two active volcanoes and known as the Big Island.
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Hispaniola
Second-largest Caribbean island, shared between Haiti in the west and the Dominican Republic in the east.
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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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Honshu
The largest and most populous island of Japan, home to Tokyo, Mount Fuji, and roughly 80 percent of the country's population.
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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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Kyushu
The third-largest island of Japan, the southwestern home of the country's most active volcanoes, hot springs, and pottery traditions.
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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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Oahu
Third-largest Hawaiian island and home to Honolulu, holding the majority of the state's population.
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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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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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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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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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Tahiti
Largest island of French Polynesia, formed from two volcanoes and home to the capital Papeete.
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Ushant
A wind-battered French island off the western tip of Brittany, the entrance to the English Channel and a key navigational landmark since antiquity.
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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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Xisha Islands
A disputed coral archipelago in the South China Sea, known internationally as the Paracel Islands and administered by China since 1974.
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Xochimilco Island
A network of canal-fed chinampa islands in southern Mexico City, originally cultivated by the Aztecs and now a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Yakushima
A subtropical Japanese island off the southern tip of Kyushu, a UNESCO World Heritage site celebrated for ancient cedar forests.
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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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