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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.
Below are islands that contain the letter O anywhere in the name. Each of the 55 islands below opens to a full profile.
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List of Islands That Contain O
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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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Bora Bora
Volcanic island in French Polynesia famed for its turquoise lagoon and the central peaks of Mount Otemanu and Pahia.
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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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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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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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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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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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Faroe Islands
A self-governing archipelago of 18 volcanic islands within the Kingdom of Denmark, midway between Scotland and Iceland.
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Galapagos
A volcanic archipelago in the eastern Pacific famous for the unique wildlife that shaped Darwin's theory of evolution.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Oahu
Third-largest Hawaiian island and home to Honolulu, holding the majority of the state's population.
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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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Oland
Sweden's second-largest island, a long thin landmass in the Baltic Sea linked to the mainland by the country's longest bridge.
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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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Puerto Rico (Island)
An unincorporated United States territory and the smallest of the Greater Antilles, with rugged interior mountains.
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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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Roatan
The largest of Honduras's Bay Islands, a long thin Caribbean island lining the world's second-largest barrier reef.
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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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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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Solomon Islands
A Melanesian double chain of six major islands and over 900 smaller ones east of Papua New Guinea.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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