Islands that contain Y — 17 detailed entries

Below are islands that contain the letter Y anywhere in the name. Each of the 17 islands below opens to a full profile.

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List of Islands That Contain Y

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.

The third-largest Mediterranean island, divided between the Republic of Cyprus and the breakaway Turkish-administered north.

A remote forested island in Lake Superior preserved as a U.S. national park, famous for its long-running wolf and moose study.

The largest of the Channel Islands, a British Crown Dependency lying just 22 km from the Normandy coast of France.

The third-largest island of Japan, the southwestern home of the country's most active volcanoes, hot springs, and pottery traditions.

A small Cycladic island in the Aegean Sea known worldwide for its whitewashed villages and resort nightlife.

An archipelago of about 70 islands off the north coast of Scotland, rich in Neolithic monuments and Norse heritage.

A small Taiwanese island only a few kilometers off the coast of mainland China, a Cold War flashpoint and current military garrison.

The largest island in the Mediterranean and an autonomous region of Italy, dominated by the active Mount Etna.

The largest and northernmost of Scotland's Inner Hebrides, famed for the dramatic Cuillin mountains and Norse-influenced Gaelic culture.

The harbor city of Visby on the Swedish Baltic island of Gotland, a medieval Hanseatic town within preserved stone walls.

A long island in Puget Sound, Washington, the largest island in the state and home to U.S. Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.

A subtropical Japanese island off the southern tip of Kyushu, a UNESCO World Heritage site celebrated for ancient cedar forests.

A cluster of four high islands in the Federated States of Micronesia, famous for stone money disks and traditional thatched meeting houses.

A largely manmade leisure and entertainment island in Abu Dhabi, home to a Formula 1 circuit, Ferrari World, and Warner Bros. World.

The westernmost inhabited island of Japan, lying close to Taiwan, known for hammerhead shark dives and a mysterious underwater rock formation.

A southern Ionian island of Greece, famed for Navagio shipwreck beach, sea turtles, and the resort coasts of Laganas Bay.