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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 M anywhere in the name. Each of the 37 islands below opens to a full profile.
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List of Islands That Contain M
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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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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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Dominica (Island)
A mountainous volcanic island of the Lesser Antilles known as the Nature Isle for its rainforests and rivers.
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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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Guam (Island)
The southernmost and largest island in the Mariana archipelago, an unincorporated territory of the United States.
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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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Jamaica (Island)
Third-largest island of the Greater Antilles, lying south of Cuba and west of Hispaniola.
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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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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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Lombok
An Indonesian island east of Bali, dominated by Mount Rinjani volcano and a quieter, more rural alternative to its famous neighbor.
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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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Mallorca
The largest of Spain's Balearic Islands, with a mountainous northwest and beaches along the eastern coast.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Samoa (Island)
The Samoan archipelago of volcanic islands in the South Pacific, divided between independent Samoa and American Samoa.
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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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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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Tuamotus
The world's largest chain of coral atolls, spanning roughly 1,500 km of the South Pacific in French Polynesia.
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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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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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