List of islands of North America

Overview of North American islands

A composite satellite photograph of North America in orthographic projection

Main article: Geography of North America

The following is a list of the major island groups of North America.

## Arctic Ocean

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* Islands of the western Arctic Ocean:
* Canadian Arctic Archipelago
* Baffin Island, largest island of Canada and the world's 5th largest island
* Victoria Island, world's 8th largest island
* Banks Island, world's 24th largest island
* Southampton Island, world's 34th largest island
* Prince of Wales Island, world's 40th largest island
* Somerset Island, world's 46th largest island
* King William Island, world's 61st largest island
* Bylot Island, world's 72nd largest island
* Prince Charles Island, world's 78th largest island
* Queen Elizabeth Islands
* Alexander Island
* Baillie-Hamilton Island
* Borden Island, world's 171st largest island
* Ellesmere Island, world's 10th largest island and 37th tallest island
* Ward Hunt Island
* Cornwall Island, world's 186th largest island
* Eglinton Island, world's 249th largest island
* Graham Island, world's 268th largest island
* Lougheed Island, world's 275th largest island
* Byam Martin Island, world's 298th largest island
* Île Vanier, world's 302nd largest island
* Cameron Island, world's 314th largest island
* Brock Island
* North Kent Island
* Emerald Isle
* Massey Island
* Little Cornwallis Island
* Coburg Island
* Helena Island
* Griffith Island
* Hoved Island
* Lowther Island
* Buckingham Island
* Beechey Island
* Seymour Island
* Browne Island
* Cocked Hat Island
* Crescent Island
* Des Voeux Island
* Dundas Island
* Edmund Walker Island
* Eight Bears Island
* Ekins Island
* Exmouth Island
* Fairholme Island
* Fitzwilliam Owen Island
* Garrett Island
* Grosvenor Island
* Houston Stewart Island
* Hyde Parker Island
* Île Marc
* John Barrow Island
* Margaret Island
* Nookap Island
* Norman Lockyer Island
* Patterson Island
* Philpots Island
* Pim Island
* Pioneer Island
* Princess Royal Island
* Skraeling Island
* Spit Island (Kate Island)
* Stupart Island
* Table Island
* Thor Island
* Truro Island
* Devon Island, world's largest uninhabited landmass[1] and 27th largest island
* Melville Island, world's 33rd largest island
* Bathurst Island, world's 54th largest island
* Prince Patrick Island, world's 55th largest island
* Cornwallis Island, world's 96th largest island
* Mackenzie King Island, world's 115th largest island
* Moore Island
* Sverdrup Islands
* Axel Heiberg Island, world's 32nd largest island
* Ellef Ringnes Island, world's 69th largest island
* Amund Ringnes Island, world's 111th largest island
* King Christian Island
* Meighen Island
* Stor Island
* Haig-Thomas Island
* Hat Island
* Ulvingen Island
* Islands of Hudson Bay
* Coats Island, world's 107th largest island
* Belcher Islands
* Bradbury Island
* Broomfield Island
* Bun Island
* Cake Island
* Camsell Island
* Dove Island
* Fair Island
* Flaherty Island
* Innetalling Island
* Karlay Island
* La Duke Island
* Johnnys Island
* Mata Island
* Nero Island
* Loaf Island
* Mavor Island
* Moore Island
* Ney Island
* Kugong Island
* O'Leary Island
* Range Island
* Renouf Island
* Snape Island
* Split Island
* Tukarak Island
* Twin Cairns Island
* Walton Island
* Wiegand Island
* Islands of James Bay
* Akimiski Island, world's 162nd largest island
* Big Island
* Carey Island (Cary Island)
* Charlton Island
* Grey Goose Island
* Gull Island
* Jacob Island (Wood Island)
* Moore Island
* North Twin Island
* South Twin Island
* Spencer Island
* Stag Island
* Sunday Island
* Trodely Island (Trodley Island)
* Walter Island
* Weston Island

## Greenland

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* Greenland, world's largest and 11th tallest island
* Qeqertarsuaq (Disko Island), world's 85th largest island
* Milne Land
* Traill Island
* Ymer Island
* Geographical Society Island
* Clavering Island
* Nares Land
* Shannon Island
* The following islands are usually associated with Europe rather than North America, despite lying closer to Greenland than to Scandinavia:
* Iceland, world's 18th largest island
* Jan Mayen
* Svalbard Archipelago
* Spitsbergen, world's 35th largest island
* Nordaustlandet, world's 58th largest island
* Edgeoya
* Barentsoya

## North Atlantic Ocean

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* Islands of the western North Atlantic Ocean:
* Bermuda Islands
* Bermuda
* Atlantic Coastal Islands
* Florida Keys
* Key West
* Key Largo
* Merritt Island
* Sea Islands
* Hilton Head Island
* Port Royal Island
* Johns Island
* Saint Helena Island
* Edisto Island
* Cayman Islands
* Outer Banks
* Staten Island
* Manhattan Island, most densely populated island of the Americas[1]
* Long Island, largest Atlantic island of the United States, most populous island of the United States, and the world's 17th most populous island
* New York Barrier Islands
* Block Island
* Conanicut Island
* Aquidneck Island (Rhode Island)
* Elizabeth Islands
* Martha's Vineyard
* Nantucket Island
* Monomoy Island
* Boston Harbor Islands
* Mount Desert Island, largest island of Maine
* Cape Breton Island, world's 77th largest island
* Prince Edward Island, world's 104th largest island
* Anticosti Island, world's 90th largest island
* Newfoundland, largest Atlantic island of Canada and the world's 16th largest island
* Ile de Saint-Pierre
* Ile de Miquelon, largest island of Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Islands of the west North Atlantic Ocean:

* Flores Island (Azores)
* Corvo Island

## North Pacific Ocean

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* Islands of the eastern North Pacific Ocean:
* Islands of the Bering Sea
* Pribilof Islands
* Saint Paul Island
* St. George Island
* Otter Island
* Walrus Island
* Saint Lawrence Island, world's 113th largest island
* Diomede Islands
* Big Diomede Island
* Little Diomede Island
* King Island
* Saint Matthew Island
* Karaginsky Island
* Aleutian Islands
* Fox Islands
* Unimak Island, world's 134th largest island, world's 28th tallest island
* Umnak Island, world's 223rd largest island
* Unalaska Island, world's 174th largest island
* Amaknak Island (Umaknak Island)
* Akutan Island
* Akun Island
* Sanak Island
* Islands of Four Mountains
* Amukta Island
* Chagulak Island
* Yunaska Island
* Herbert Island
* Carlisle Island
* Chuginadak Island
* Uliaga Island
* Kagamil Island
* Andreanof Islands
* Tanaga Island
* Kanaga Island
* Adak Island
* Kagalaska Island
* Great Sitkin Island
* Little Tanaga Island
* Atka Island, world's 313rd largest island
* Amlia Island
* Seguam Island
* Delarof Islands
* Gareloi Island
* Amatignak Island
* Ilak Island
* Kavalga Island
* Ogliuga Island
* Skagul Island
* Tanadak Island
* Ugidak Island
* Ulak Island
* Unalga Island
* Rat Islands
* Kiska Island
* Little Kiska Island
* Segula Island
* Buldir Island
* Near Islands
* Commander Islands
* Kodiak Archipelago
* Kodiak Island, largest island of Alaska and the world's 80th largest island
* Islands of the Gulf of Alaska
* Montague Island
* Alexander Archipelago
* ABC Islands
* Admiralty Island
* Baranof Island
* Chichagof Island, world's 109th largest island
* Dall Island
* Kupreanof Island
* Prince of Wales Island, world's 97th largest island
* Revillagigedo Island
* Wrangell Island
* Haida Gwaii
* Graham Island, world's 101st largest island
* Moresby Island
* Vancouver Island, largest Pacific island of Canada and the world's 43rd largest island
* San Juan Archipelago
* Gulf Islands
* San Juan Islands
* Orcas Island, second largest island of Washington
* Whidbey Island
* Channel Islands of California
* Santa Cruz Island, largest island of California
* Isla de Cedros
* Islands of the Gulf of California
* Isla Ángel de la Guarda
* Tiburón Island, largest island of Mexico
* Guadalupe Island
* Revillagigedo Islands
* Isla Socorro
* Islas Marías
* Clipperton Island
* Isla Espiritu Santo, largest island of El Salvador
* Isla del Coco, largest island of Costa Rica
* Isla de Coiba, largest island of Panama
* Pearl Islands
* Isla del Rey

### Hawaii

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* Hawaii Islands
* Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

## Inland islands

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* Lake islands of North America:
* Atlin Lake,
* Theresa Island, highest elevation inside a freshwater lake in North America at 2059m
* Lake Huron
* Manitoulin Island, world's largest inland island
* Saint Joseph Island, world's 8th largest inland island
* Drummond Island, world's 9th largest inland island
* Thirty Thousand Islands
* Lake Superior
* Isle Royale, world's 6th largest inland island
* Saint Ignace Island, world's 12th largest inland island
* Michipicoten Island, world's 19th largest inland island
* Madeline Island
* Lake Erie
* Mohawk Island
* Lake Ontario
* Thousand Islands
* Lake Washington
* Mercer Island
* Lake Nicaragua
* Ometepe, 11th largest inland island
* Isla Zapatera
* Solentiname Islands
* Great Slave Lake
* Simpson Islands
* Big Simpson Island, world's 13th largest inland island
* Blanchet Island, world's 14th largest inland island
* Preble Island, world's 20th largest inland island
* Manicouagan Reservoir
* René-Levasseur Island, world's largest artificial island[1] and 2nd largest inland island
* Grand Lake on the Island of Newfoundland
* Glover Island, world's 18th largest inland island
* River islands of North America:
* Saint Lawrence River
* Île de Montréal, most populous island of Canada
* Niagara River
* Grand Island
* Navy Island
* Goat Island
* Dufferin Islands
* Hudson River
* Schodack Island
* Westerlo (Castle) Island
* Susquehanna River
* McCormick Island
* Wade Island

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2009)

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## See also

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* North America portal
* Geography portal

* Clipperton Island
* List of islands by area
* List of islands by highest point
* List of islands by population
* List of islands in lakes
* List of islands of Central America
* List of islands of South America
* List of the highest islands of North America
* Navassa Island
* Outline of North America

## References

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1. ^ a b c Island Superlatives @ WorldIslandInfo.com

## External links

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