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Rapa Nui
The native Polynesian name for Easter Island, used by its indigenous people and increasingly in official contexts.
If you've been searching for islands that start with R, you'll find 4 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.
For islands, that means country, region, archipelago, area, population, and highest point.
List of Islands That Start With R
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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.
About islands starting with R
That's our current list of islands starting with the letter R. We add new entries every week — if you have a favorite island starting with R that isn't on this page, let us know and we'll write it up.
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