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| x Apostle Islands |
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Devils Island |
The Apostle Islands are a group of 22 islands in Lake Superior, off the Bayfield Peninsula in northern Wisconsin. The majority of the islands are located in Ashland County—only Sand, York, Eagle, and Raspberry Islands are located in Bayfield County....
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| x Sunda Arc |
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Sumatra |
The Sunda Arc is a volcanic arc that has produced the islands of Sumatra and Java and the Sunda Strait and the Lesser Sunda Islands. A chain of volcanoes forms the topographic spine of these islands. The arc marks an active convergent boundary...
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| x Lesser Sunda Islands |
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Adonara |
The Nusa Tenggara (lit. Southeast Islands), or Lesser Sunda Islands, are a group of islands in the middle-south part of Maritime Southeast Asia. Together with the Greater Sunda Islands to the west they make up the Sunda Islands. The islands are part...
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| Bali | |||
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| x Balearic Islands |
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Mallorca |
The Balearic Islands (Catalan and official: Illes Balears; Spanish: Islas Baleares) are an archipelago in the western Mediterranean Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula.
The four largest islands are (from largest to smallest):...
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| Formentera | |||
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| Cabrera, Balearic Islands | |||
| x United States Virgin Islands |
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Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands |
The United States Virgin Islands is a group of islands in the Caribbean that are an insular area of the United States. The islands are geographically part of the Virgin Islands archipelago and are located in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser...
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| Flanagan Island | |||
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| x Bass Islands |
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The Bass Islands are three American islands in the western half of Lake Erie. They are north of Sandusky, Ohio and south of Pelee Island, Ontario. South Bass Island (41°38′59″N 82°49′08″W / 41.6497°N 82.8189°W / 41.6497; -82.8189 (South Bass...
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| x Severnaya Zemlya |
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Komsomolets Island |
Severnaya Zemlya (Russian: Се́верная Земля́, Northern Land) is an archipelago in the Russian high Arctic at around 79°29.79912′N 97°19.0137′E / 79.496652°N 97.316895°E / 79.496652; 97.316895. It is located off mainland Siberia's Taymyr Peninsula...
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| October Revolution Island | |||
| Bolshevik Island | |||
| x Nicobar Islands |
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Great Nicobar |
The Nicobar Islands (Hindi: निकोबार द्वीप समूह, [nɪkoˈbɑːr ˈdʋiːp səˈmuːɦ] Tamil: நக்காவரம்) are an archipelagic island chain in the eastern Indian Ocean, and are part of the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. They are located...
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| x Leeward Antilles |
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The Leeward Antilles are a chain of islands in the Caribbean – specifically, the southerly islands of the Lesser Antilles (and, in turn, the Antilles and the West Indies) along the southeastern fringe of the Caribbean Sea, just north of the...
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| x Farasan Islands |
Farasan Islands (Arabic: جزر فرسان; transliterated: Juzur Farasan) is a large coral island group in the Red Sea, belonging to Saudi Arabia. It is located some 40 km offshore from Jizan, in the far southwestern part of the country. It is located at...
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| x Greater Antilles |
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Puerto Rico |
The Greater Antilles are one of four island groups in the Caribbean. Comprising Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico—the fourth largest island of the Antilles and the only U.S. Territory—the Greater Antilles constitutes almost 90% of the land...
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| x Line Islands |
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Flint Island |
The Line Islands, or Equatorial Islands, is a chain of eleven atolls and low coral islands in the central Pacific Ocean, south of the Hawaiian Islands that stretches for 2,350 km in a northwest-southeast direction, making it one of the longest...
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| Palmyra Atoll | |||
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| x Quirimbas Islands |
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The Quirimbas Islands lie in the Indian Ocean off northeastern Mozambique, close to Pemba, the capital of the province of Cabo Delgado. The archipelago consists of about 27 islands, including Ibo, Matemo, Quilaluia, Quirimba, Quisiva and Rolas...
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| x Lucayan archipelago |
The Lucayan Archipelago is a cluster of islands that comprise the northernmost extent of the West Indies. The archipelago is located in the western North Atlantic Ocean east of Florida and north of the Greater Antilles. The archipelago consists of...
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| x Maltese Islands |
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Cominotto |
The Maltese Islands are a group of islands in the Mediterranean. The main islands are Malta Island and Gozo. Other islands that form part of the archipelago include: Comino (Kemmuna), Cominotto (Kemmunett, uninhabited), Filfla (uninhabited), Fungus...
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| Comino | |||
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| x Chagos Archipelago |
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The Chagos Archipelago (pronounced /ˈtʃɑːɡoʊs/ or /ˈtʃɑːɡəs/; formerly, Oil Islands) is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 individual tropical islands roughly in the centre of the Indian Ocean.
The Chagos lies about 500 km (300 miles)...
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| x Kermadec Islands |
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The Kermadec Islands are an island arc in the South Pacific Ocean. The islands have been part of New Zealand since 1887.
The islands lie within 29° to 31.5° south latitude and 178° to 179° west longitude, 800 – 1000 km northeast of New Zealand's...
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| x Windward Islands |
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Tahiti |
The Windward Islands (French: Îles du Vent) are the eastern group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southern Pacific Ocean.
The archipelago comprises an administrative division (French: subdivision...
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| Moorea | |||
| Tetiaroa | |||
| Mehetia | |||
| x Bazaruto Archipelago |
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The Bazaruto Archipelago is a group of six islands in Mozambique, near the mainland city of Vilankulo. It comprises the islands of Bazaruto, Benguerra, Magaruque, Banque, Santa Carolina (also known as Paradise Island) and Shell.
The islands were...
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| x Orkney Islands |
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Egilsay |
Orkney, also known as the Orkney Islands, (and sometimes incorrectly as "The Orkneys"), is an archipelago in northern Scotland, situated 10 miles (16 km) north of the coast of Caithness. Orkney comprises approximately 70 islands of which 20 are...
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| Cava, Orkney | |||
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| x Canadian Arctic Archipelago |
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Ellesmere Island |
The Canadian Arctic Archipelago, also known as just the Arctic Archipelago, is an archipelago north of the Canadian mainland in the Arctic. Situated in the northern extremity of North America and covering about 1,424,500 km (550,000 sq mi), this...
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| Baffin Island | |||
| Victoria Island | |||
| Akimiski Island | |||
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| x Komandorski Islands |
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Commander Islands or Komandorski Islands (Russian: Командо́рские острова́, Komandorskiye ostrova) are a group of treeless Russian islands located 175 kilometres (109 mi) east of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, in the Bering Sea. The...
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| x Jardines de la Reina |
Jardines de la Reina (English: Gardens of the Queen) is an archipelago in the southern part of Cuba, in the provinces of Camagüey and Ciego de Ávila.
It was named by Christopher Columbus to honour the Queen of Spain. Jardines de la Reina was...
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| x Alor Archipelago |
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Alor |
The Alor archipelago is located at the easternmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, the chain that runs through southern Indonesia, which from the west includes such islands as Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Solor and Lomblen.
The largest island in...
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| x Torres Islands |
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The Torres Islands are in the Torba Province of Vanuatu, the northernmost island group in the country. The chain of islands that make up this micro-archipelago straddle the broader cultural boundary that distinguishes Island Melanesia from several...
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| x Leeward Islands |
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Tahaa |
The Leeward Islands (French: Îles Sous-le-vent; Tahitian: Fenua Raro Mata’i, literally "Islands Under-the-Wind") are part of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the South Pacific.
The archipelago comprises...
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| Raiatea | |||
| Bora Bora | |||
| Huahine | |||
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| x Sulu Archipelago |
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Jolo Island |
Sulu Archipelago is an island chain in the southwest Philippines. It is considered to be part of Moroland by the local independence movement. With the centers in Maimbung and Jolo, the whole of this archipelago, Palawan and coastal regions of the...
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| x Pratas Islands |
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The Pratas Islands or Dongsha Islands (traditional Chinese: 東沙群島; pinyin: Dongsha Qundao) consists of three islands located in northeastern South China Sea, 340 km (211 mi) southeast of Hong Kong. They are controlled by the Republic of China (Taiwan...
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| x Pitcairn Islands |
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The Pitcairn Islands (pronounced /ˈpɪtkɛən/; Pitkern: Pitkern Ailen), officially named the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, are a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. The islands are a British overseas territory ...
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| x Comoro Islands |
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Mohéli |
The Comoro Islands (Shikomori Komori; Arabic جزر القمر Juzur al-Qamar; French Les Comores) form an archipelago of volcanic islands situated off the south-east coast of Africa, to the east of Tanzania and north-west of Madagascar. They are divided...
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| Grande Comore | |||
| x Mergui Archipelago |
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The Mergui Archipelago (also Myeik Archipelago or Myeik Kyunzu) is an archipelago in far southern Burma (Myanmar). It consists of more than 800 islands, varying in size from very small to hundreds of square kilometres, all lying in the Andaman Sea...
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| x D'Entrecasteaux Islands |
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Goodenough Island |
D'Entrecasteaux Islands are situated near the eastern tip of New Guinea in the Solomon Sea in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. The group spans a distance of 160 km, has a total land area of approximately 3,100 km² and is separated from the...
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| Normanby Island, Papua New Guinea | |||
| Fergusson Island | |||
| x Russell Islands |
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The Russell Islands are two important small islands, as well as several islets, of volcanic origin, in the Central Province of the Solomon Islands. They are located approximately 48 km (30 mi.) northwest from Guadalcanal. The islands are partially...
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| x Mikkelsen Islands |
Mikkelsen Islands is a small group of islands and rocks lying off the southeast coast of Adelaide Island, 3 km (2 miles) southeast of the Leonie Islands. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1908-10, and named...
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| x Juan Fernández Islands |
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The Juan Fernández Islands is a sparsely inhabited island group reliant on tourism and fishing in the South Pacific Ocean, situated about 667 km (414 mi) off the coast of Chile, and is composed of several volcanic islands:
The islands are mainly...
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| x Chonos Archipelago |
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Chonos Archipelago (Spanish: Archipiélago de los Chonos) is a series of low mountainous elongated islands with deep bays are traces of a drowned Chilean Coast Range. Most of the islands are forested with little or no human settlement. The deep...
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| x Palmer Archipelago |
Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula of the British Antarctic Territory. It extends from Tower...
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| x Antilles |
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Hispaniola |
The Antilles (the same in French; Antillas in Spanish; Antillen in Dutch and Antilhas in Portuguese) refers to the islands forming the greater part of the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea. The Antilles are divided into two major groups: the "Greater...
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| x Falkland Islands |
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East Falkland |
The Falkland Islands (pronounced /ˈfɔklənd/; Spanish: Islas Malvinas) are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located approximately 300 mi (480 km) from the coast of mainland South America, 700 mi (1,100 km) from mainland Antarctica, and 3...
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| West Falkland | |||
| George Island | |||
| Barren Island | |||
| Beauchene Island | |||
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| x Jason Islands |
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The Jason Islands (Spanish: Islas Sebaldes) are an archipelago in the Falkland Islands, lying north west of the main island group, and about 250 miles (400 km) east of Argentina. The islands are officially uninhabited and are not officially serviced...
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| x South Orkney Islands |
The South Orkney Islands are a group of islands in the Southern Ocean. The Orkneys have been part of the British Antarctic Territory since 1962, and prior to this the islands were a Falkland Islands Dependency. Under the Antarctic Treaty 1959...
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| x Northern Isles |
The Northern Isles (Old Norse: Norðreyjar; Scots Gaelic Na h-Eileanan Tuath) are a chain of islands off the north coast of mainland Scotland.
The group includes Shetland, Fair Isle and Orkney. Sometimes Stroma is included, which is part of Caithness...
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| x Florida Keys |
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The Florida Keys are a cluster of about 1700 islands in the southeast United States. They begin at the southeastern tip of the Florida peninsula, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Miami, and extend in a gentle arc south-southwest and then westward to...
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| x Japanese Archipelago |
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Kyūshū |
The Japanese Archipelago (日本列島, Nihon Rettō), which forms the country of Japan, extends roughly from northeast to southwest along the northeastern coast of the Eurasia mainland, washing upon the northwestern shores of the Pacific Ocean. The term...
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| Honshū | |||
| Shikoku | |||
| Hokkaido | |||
| Rebun Island | |||
| x Trobriand Islands |
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The Trobriand Islands (today officially known as the Kiriwina Islands) are a 170 mi² archipelago of coral atolls off the eastern coast of New Guinea. They are situated in Milne Bay Province in Papua New Guinea. Most of the population of 12,000...
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| x New Georgia Islands |
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The New Georgia Islands are part of the Western Province of the Solomon Islands. They are located to the northwest of Guadalcanal. The larger islands are mountainous and covered in rain forest. The main islands are New Georgia, Vella Lavella,...
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| x Pontine Islands |
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The Pontine Islands are an archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the west coast of Italy. The islands were collectively named after the largest island in the group, Ponza. The other islands in the archipelago are Palmarola, Zannone, and Gavi to the...
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| x Bismarck Archipelago |
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New Britain |
The Bismarck Archipelago is a group of islands off the northeastern coast of New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean and is part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea.
The first inhabitants of the archipelago arrived around 33,000 years ago from...
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| New Ireland | |||
| New Hanover Island | |||
| x Furneaux Group, Tasmania |
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The Furneaux Group is a group of 52 islands, at the eastern end of Bass Strait, between Victoria and Tasmania, Australia. The islands were named, after British navigator Tobias Furneaux sighted the easten side of these Island after leaving Adventure...
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| x Mariana Islands |
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Guam |
The Mariana Islands (also the Marianas; up to the early 20th century sometimes called Ladrones Islands, from Spanish Islas de los Ladrones meaning "Islands of Thieves") are an arc-shaped archipelago made up by the summits of 15 volcanic mountains in...
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| Rota | |||
| Saipan | |||
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| x Caroline Islands |
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The Caroline Islands form a large archipelago of widely scattered islands in the western Pacific Ocean, northeast of New Guinea. Politically they are divided between the Federated States of Micronesia in the eastern part of the group, and Palau at...
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| x Ritchie's Archipelago |
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Ritchie's Archipelago is a cluster of smaller islands which lie some 25–30 km (16–19 mi) east of Great Andaman, the main island group of the Andaman Islands. the Andamans are located in the Bay of Bengal, bordering with the Andaman Sea and are some...
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| x Diomede Islands |
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The Diomede Islands (Russian: острова Диомида , ostrová Diomída), also known in Russia as Gvozdev Islands (Russian: острова Гвоздёва, ostrová Gvozdjova), consist of two rocky, tuya-like islands:
The Diomede Islands are located in the middle of the...
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| x The World |
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The World is a man-made archipelago of 300 islands constructed in the rough shape of a map of the landmasses of the Earth, located 4 kilometres off the coast of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The World islands are composed mainly of sand dredged from...
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| x Fox Islands |
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Unalaska Island |
The Fox Islands are a group of islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands of the U.S. state of Alaska. The Fox Islands are the closest to mainland North America in the Aleutian chain, and just east of Samalga Pass and the Islands of Four Mountains...
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| x Tuamotus |
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Amanu |
The Tuamotus or the Tuamotu Archipelago (French: Îles Tuamotu officially Archipel des Tuamotu) are a chain of atolls in French Polynesia and the largest chain of atolls in the world, spanning an area of the Pacific Ocean roughly the size of Western...
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| Nukutavake | |||
| Fakarava | |||
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| x Admiralty Islands |
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Manus Island |
The Admiralty Islands are a group of 18 islands in the Bismarck Archipelago. These are also sometimes called the Manus Islands, named after the largest island. The islands form part of Manus Province of Papua New Guinea. The total area is 2,100 km ...
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| x Åland |
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Fasta Åland |
The Åland Islands (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈoːland]; Finnish: Ahvenanmaa) form an archipelago in the Baltic Sea. It is situated at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia and forms an autonomous, demilitarized, monolingually Swedish-speaking...
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| x Maddalena archipelago |
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The Maddalena Archipelago is a group of islands in the Straits of Bonifacio between Corsica and north-eastern Sardinia, Italy. It consists of seven main islands and numerous other small islets.
The largest island is Isola Maddalena, on which sits...
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| x Anzhu Islands |
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The Anzhu Islands or Anjou Islands (Russian: острова Анжу, Sakha: Анжу арыылара) are a geographical subgroup of the New Siberian Islands archipelago. They are located between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea in the Russian Arctic. The total...
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