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.
8 islands starting with the letter B — each with origin, classification, and notes.
If you've been searching for islands that start with B, you'll find 8 detailed islands below. We're not interested in giving you only a list of names — every entry on this page links to a full profile with the kind of detail you'd actually want to know.
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The largest island of Canada and the fifth-largest in the world, a mountainous Arctic landmass in Nunavut with fjords, glaciers, and Inuit hamlets.
An archipelago of about 700 islands and 2,400 cays stretching across the western North Atlantic.
An Indonesian island east of Java, renowned for Hindu temples, volcanic peaks, terraced rice fields, and a long-running global tourism boom.
The easternmost island of the Caribbean, formed from uplifted coral on a tectonic accretionary prism.
A British Overseas Territory of about 180 islands in the North Atlantic, sitting on an extinct volcanic seamount.
Volcanic island in French Polynesia famed for its turquoise lagoon and the central peaks of Mount Otemanu and Pahia.
The world's third-largest island, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei, covered by some of the oldest rainforest on Earth.
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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