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Island Group list
List started by
jeff
for the Physical Geography domain
An island group is a chain or other grouping of islands.
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| Apostle Islands |
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Location | 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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| Sunda Arc |
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Location | Java |
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 volcano forms the topographic spine of these islands. The arc marks an active convergent boundary between...
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| Lesser Sunda Islands |
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Location | Timor |
The Nusa Tenggara (lit. Southeast Islands), or Lesser Sunda Islands, are a group of island in the middle-south part of the Malay Archipelago. Together with the Greater Sunda Islands to the west they make up the Sunda Islands. The islands are part of...
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| Sumbawa | ||||
| Sumba | ||||
| Savu | ||||
| Sangeang | ||||
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| Balearic Islands |
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Location | Minorca |
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. They form an autonomous community and a province of Spain, of...
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| Administrative Division | Mallorca | |||
| Spanish province | Formentera | |||
| Spanish autonomous community | Pine Islands | |||
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| United States Virgin Islands |
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Location | Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands |
The United States Virgin Islands is a group of island 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 Antilles...
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| Country | Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands | |||
| Administrative Division | Flanagan Island | |||
| US Territory | Capella Island | |||
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| Bass Islands |
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Location |
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 is the largest of the islands, followed closely by North Bass Island and Middle Bass...
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| Severnaya Zemlya |
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Location | Komsomolets Island |
Severnaya Zemlya (, Northern Land) is an archipelago in the Russia high Arctic at around . It is located off mainland Siberia's Taymyr Peninsula across the Vilkitsky Strait. This archipelago separates two marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean, the Kara...
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| October Revolution Island | ||||
| Bolshevik Island | ||||
| Nicobar Islands |
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Location |
The Nicobar Islands are an island chain in the eastern Indian Ocean, and are part of the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. They are located southeast of the Indian subcontinent, separated by the Bay of Bengal by about 1,300 km.
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| Leeward Antilles |
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Location |
Leeward Antilles are a chain of island 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 Venezuela...
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| Farasan Islands | Location |
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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| Greater Antilles |
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Location | Puerto Rico |
The islands of the Caribbean Sea, collectively known as the West Indies are sorted by size and location into the Bahamas (or Lucayan archipelago), the Lesser Antilles, and the Greater Antilles. The Greater Antilles are Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola ...
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| Ecoregion | Hispaniola | |||
| Line Islands |
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Location | Flint Island |
The Line Islands, or Equatorial Islands, are a group of eleven atoll and low coral islands in the central Pacific Ocean south of the Hawaiian Islands, eight of which belong to Kiribati, while three are United States territories grouped with the...
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| Administrative Division | Kingman Reef | |||
| Dated location | Palmyra Atoll | |||
| Statistical region | Teraina | |||
| Island | Tabuaeran | |||
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| Quirimbas Islands |
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Location |
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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| Lucayan archipelago | Location |
The Lucayan archipelago is an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean east of Florida and north of the Greater Antilles. It consists of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
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| Maltese Islands |
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Location | Cominotto |
The Maltese Islands are a group of island 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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| Island | Malta Island | |||
| Comino | ||||
| Gozo | ||||
| Chagos Archipelago |
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Location |
The Chagos Archipelago (formerly, Oil Islands) is a group of seven atoll comprising more than 60 individual tropical island roughly in the centre of the Indian Ocean.
The Chagos lies about 500 km (300 miles) due south of the Maldives, its nearest...
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| Kermadec Islands |
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Location |
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 North...
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| Windward Islands | Location | 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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| Bazaruto Archipelago | Location |
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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| Orkney Islands |
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Location | Egilsay |
Orkney (also known as the Orkney Islands or, incorrectly, the Orkneys) is an archipelago in northern Scotland, situated 10 miles (16 km) north of the coast of Caithness. Orkney comprises over 70 islands; around 20 are inhabited. The largest island,...
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| Administrative Division | Papa Westray | |||
| Scottish council area | Cava, Orkney | |||
| Statistical region | Muckle Green Holm | |||
| Island | Hunda | |||
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| Canadian Arctic Archipelago |
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Location | 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 north extremity of North America and covering about , this group of 36,563 island comprises...
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| Baffin Island | ||||
| Victoria Island | ||||
| Akimiski Island | ||||
| Mansel Island | ||||
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| Komandorski Islands |
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Location |
Commander Islands or Komandorski Islands (, Komandorskiye ostrova) are a group of treeless Russia island located 175 km east of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, in the Bering Sea. The islands consist of Bering Island (95 km by 15 km)...
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| Jardines de la Reina | Location |
Jardines de la Reina 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 established as a national park ....
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| Alor Archipelago |
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Location | 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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| 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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| Leeward Islands | Location |
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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| Sulu Archipelago |
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Location | 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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| Island | Basilan | |||
| Pratas Islands |
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Location |
The Pratas Islands or Dongsha Islands consists of three islands located in northeastern South China Sea, 340 km southeast of Hong Kong. They are administered by the Republic of China (Taiwan). The People's Republic of China asserts sovereignty over...
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| Pitcairn Islands |
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The Pitcairn Islands (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 (formerly a British...
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| Comoro Islands |
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Location |
The Comoro Islands are an archipelago lying between Madagascar and the Africa continent. The main islands are Grande Comore, Anjouan, Mohéli and Mayotte. The islands are volcanic in origin.
Politically, the islands are divided into two entities:
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| Mergui Archipelago |
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The Mergui Archipelago (also Myeik Archipelago) is an archipelago in far southern Burma (Myanmar). It consists of more than 800 island, varying in size from very small to hundreds of square kilometres, all lying in the Andaman Sea off the western...
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| D'Entrecasteaux Islands |
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Location | 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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| Russell Islands |
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The Russell Islands are two important small islands, as well as several islet, 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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| Mikkelsen Islands | Location |
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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| 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 off the coast of Chile, and is composed of several volcanic islands:
The islands are mainly known for...
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| Chonos Archipelago |
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Chonos Archipelago is a series of low mountainous elongated island with deep bays are traces of a drowned coastal range. Most of the islands are forested with little or no human settlement. The deep Moraleda Channel separates the islands of the...
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| Palmer Archipelago | Location |
Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of island off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula of the British Antarctic Territory. It extends from Tower...
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| Antilles |
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Location | Hispaniola |
The Antilles (the same in French; Antillas in Spanish; Antillen in Dutch) 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 Antilles" to the north...
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| Falkland Islands |
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Location | West Falkland |
The Falkland Islands are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located from the coast of Argentina, west of the Shag Rocks (South Georgia), and north of the British Antarctic Territory (which overlaps with the Argentine and Chilean claims...
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| Country | East Falkland | |||
| Dated location | George Island | |||
| UK overseas territory | Barren Island | |||
| Administrative Division | Beauchene Island | |||
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| Jason Islands |
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The Jason Islands (Spanish/Argentine name: Islas Sebaldes) are an archipelago in the Falkland Islands, lying north west of the main island group, and about 250 miles east of Argentina. The islands are uninhabited and are not serviced by aeroplane or...
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| South Orkney Islands | ||||