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Aitutaki
A triangular Polynesian atoll in the Cook Islands group, ringed by a turquoise lagoon and 15 motu islets.
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List of Islands That Contain I
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Antigua
The larger of the two main islands of Antigua and Barbuda, a Lesser Antilles country in the eastern Caribbean.
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Aruba (Island)
A small flat island in the southern Caribbean, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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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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Baffin Island
The largest island of Canada and the fifth-largest in the world, a mountainous Arctic landmass in Nunavut with fjords, glaciers, and Inuit hamlets.
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Bahamas (Island)
An archipelago of about 700 islands and 2,400 cays stretching across the western North Atlantic.
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Bali
An Indonesian island east of Java, renowned for Hindu temples, volcanic peaks, terraced rice fields, and a long-running global tourism boom.
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Barbados (Island)
The easternmost island of the Caribbean, formed from uplifted coral on a tectonic accretionary prism.
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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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Capri
A small limestone island in the Bay of Naples famed for the luminous Blue Grotto sea cave.
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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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Cook Islands
A self-governing Polynesian archipelago of 15 islands in free association with New Zealand.
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Corsica (Island)
A French Mediterranean island with mountainous interior, north of Sardinia and southeast of mainland France.
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Crete (Island)
The largest and most populous Greek island, anchoring the southern Aegean Sea.
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Cuba (Island)
The largest island in the Caribbean, anchoring the Greater Antilles and the Cuban archipelago.
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Curacao (Island)
The largest of the ABC Islands in the southern Caribbean and a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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Cyprus (Island)
The third-largest Mediterranean island, divided between the Republic of Cyprus and the breakaway Turkish-administered north.
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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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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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Dominica (Island)
A mountainous volcanic island of the Lesser Antilles known as the Nature Isle for its rainforests and rivers.
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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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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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Fiji (Island)
An archipelago of more than 330 islands in Melanesia, of which roughly 110 are permanently inhabited.
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Gran Canaria
The third-largest of the Canary Islands and a circular volcanic island known for its striking interior landscapes.
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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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Guam (Island)
The southernmost and largest island in the Mariana archipelago, an unincorporated territory of the United States.
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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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Ibiza
A Balearic island in the western Mediterranean famous globally for its electronic music scene and beaches.
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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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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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Jamaica (Island)
Third-largest island of the Greater Antilles, lying south of Cuba and west of Hispaniola.
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Kauai
Oldest and northernmost of the main Hawaiian Islands, nicknamed the Garden Isle for its lush vegetation.
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Kiritimati
A vast coral atoll in the central Pacific, the largest atoll by land area in the world and the easternmost point of Kiribati.
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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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Lanai
Smallest publicly accessible Hawaiian island, once the world's largest pineapple plantation and now privately owned.
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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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Madagascar (Island)
The world's fourth-largest island, off the southeastern coast of Africa, a biological wonderland where lemurs and 80 percent of plant species are endemic.
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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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Malta (Island)
The largest of the three inhabited islands of the Maltese archipelago in the central Mediterranean.
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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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Maui
Second-largest Hawaiian island, formed by two volcanoes joined by an isthmus, known as the Valley Isle.
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Mauritius (Island)
A volcanic island east of Madagascar, a multicultural Indian Ocean republic famed for coral lagoons and as the former home of the extinct dodo.
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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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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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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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Okinawa
The largest island of the Ryukyu chain in southern Japan, known for coral reefs, U.S. military bases, and its distinct Ryukyuan culture.
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Pitcairn
A remote South Pacific island, the only inhabited member of the Pitcairn Islands group and a British Overseas Territory.
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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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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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Saint Kitts
The larger and more populous of the two main islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the Lesser Antilles.
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Saint Lucia (Island)
A mountainous volcanic island in the eastern Caribbean known for the twin Piton spires on its west coast.
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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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Saipan
Largest island of the Northern Mariana Islands, a United States commonwealth in the western Pacific.
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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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Samoa (Island)
The Samoan archipelago of volcanic islands in the South Pacific, divided between independent Samoa and American Samoa.
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Santorini
A volcanic caldera in the southern Aegean known for cliffside whitewashed villages overlooking a sunken crater.
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Sardinia (Island)
The second-largest island in the Mediterranean and an autonomous region of Italy, with rugged interior highlands.
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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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Sicily (Island)
The largest island in the Mediterranean and an autonomous region of Italy, dominated by the active Mount Etna.
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Solomon Islands
A Melanesian double chain of six major islands and over 900 smaller ones east of Papua New Guinea.
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Sri Lanka (Island)
A teardrop-shaped island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern tip of India, known for tea, ancient Buddhist sites, and biodiversity hotspots.
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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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Tahiti
Largest island of French Polynesia, formed from two volcanoes and home to the capital Papeete.
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Taiwan (Island)
The main island of the Republic of China, a mountainous landmass off the southeast coast of mainland China and a global semiconductor hub.
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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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Tonga (Island)
A South Pacific archipelago of more than 170 islands forming the constitutional kingdom of Tonga.
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Trinidad (Island)
The larger of the two main islands of Trinidad and Tobago, lying just off the northeast coast of Venezuela.
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Uist
A chain of inhabited Hebridean islands in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, known for white-sand beaches, Gaelic culture, and machair grasslands.
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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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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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Vanuatu (Island)
A Y-shaped Melanesian archipelago of about 80 volcanic islands in the South Pacific.
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Victoria Island
A massive island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the eighth-largest island in the world, split between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.
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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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Visby Island
The harbor city of Visby on the Swedish Baltic island of Gotland, a medieval Hanseatic town within preserved stone walls.
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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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Xiaoliuqiu
A small coral island off the southwest coast of Taiwan, the only coral island among Taiwan's outlying islands, famed for sea turtle encounters.
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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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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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Yonaguni
The westernmost inhabited island of Japan, lying close to Taiwan, known for hammerhead shark dives and a mysterious underwater rock formation.
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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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