Bear Island may refer to:

Canada

Bear Island (New Brunswick) Bear Island is a Name Place in Queensbury Parish, New Brunswick, Canada, located on the north shore of the Saint John River. History Named "Island of the Bear" by the Maliseet people, the location takes its name from islands (Big Bear and the ...

, New Brunswick *

Bear Island, Newfoundland and Labrador Deer Island is an abandoned community in Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The provi ...

, or Deer Island, an abandoned community in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada * Bear Island,

Smith's Cove, Nova Scotia Smith's Cove is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Municipality of the District of Digby. in Digby County. It is one of several villages in the Annapolis Valley district of Nova Scotia. Smith's Cove is a small c ...

* Bear Island (Lake Temagami), Ontario

Nunavut

Bear Island (Nunavut) Bear Island is an uninhabited island offshore of Baffin Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. The island lies in the Labrador Sea a few kilometres north of its confluence with Frobisher Bay. Other islands in the immediate vicinity of ...

, Labrador Sea, Nunavut *

Bear Islands The uninhabited Bear Islands are located in James Bay, southeast of the Belcher Islands. They are part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut and consists of black basalt outcrops. They are made up of the Bear Island and ...

, Hudson Bay, Nunavut

Denmark

Bjorne Island Bjorne Island, da, Bjørneø, meaning 'Bear Island', is an island in NE Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. It is the only island in the inner Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord system. History This island was ...

Bjorne Islands Bjorne Islands, da, Bjørne Øer; kl, Nannut Qeqertaat) meaning 'Bear Islands', is an island group in the Scoresby Sound, NE Greenland. The islands are uninhabited. Administratively they belong to the Sermersooq municipality. History This isla ...

* Nanortalik Island (

Kalaallisut Kalaallisut may refer to: * Greenlandic language * West Greenlandic West Greenlandic ( da, vestgrønlandsk), also known as Kalaallisut, is the primary language of Greenland and constitutes the Greenlandic language, spoken by the vast majority of ...

: "Polar Bear Place"), sometimes translated as ''Bear Island'', a town on Nanortalik Island, southern

Norway

* Bear Island (Norway) or Bjørnøya, an arctic island of Norway *

Bjørnøya, Ålesund Bjørnøya (''Bear Island'') is a populated island in Ålesund Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It lies in the Vigrafjorden, between the island of Vigra to the west and the Norwegian mainland to the east. It is connected to the ...

, an island in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway

United States

Bear Island (Connecticut) Bear Island is one of the Thimble Islands off Stony Creek, a section of Branford, Connecticut, USA. It is the site to a former granite quarry, which exported high-quality pink granite to such constructions as the Lincoln Memorial, Grant's Tomb and ...

, one of the Thimble Islands, Connecticut *

Bear Island (Maine) Bear Island is an island located in Maine, United States. It is one of the five islands of the Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine, Cranberry Isles. The island is located just off Northeast Harbor, Maine, Northeast Harbor and south of Mount Desert Is ...

, in Northeast Harbor, Maine *

Bear Island (Maryland) Bear Island is an island located in Potomac, Montgomery County, Maryland between the Potomac River and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal near the Great Falls. It is managed by the National Park Service as part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Nation ...

, between the Potomac River and C&O Canal near Great Falls, Montgomery County, Maryland * Bear Island (Minnesota), an island in Bear Island Lake, south of Ely, Minnesota *

Bear Island (Lake Winnipesaukee) Bear Island is the second largest of the 264 islands in Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire, United States. In the summer it is accessible only by boat because it is not connected to the mainland via a bridge. In the winter it can be reached by cro ...

, New Hampshire *

Bear Island (New York) Beeren Island (''Beeren Eylandt'' in the original Dutch), also known as Barren Island or Bear Island, is an island in the Hudson River within the town of Coeymans, New York. It lies south of the city of Albany, and is at the border of four c ...

, an island in the Hudson River, also known as Beeren Island, New York * Bear Island (North Carolina), an island that makes up most of Hammocks Beach State Park, North Carolina *

Bear Island (South Carolina) Bear Island is an undeveloped Sea Island in Colleton County, South Carolina, United States. It is part of the ACE Basin estuarine reserve area and is a Wildlife Management Area that is managed by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resourc ...

, one of the Sea Islands in Charleston County, South Carolina, South Carolina * Bear Island (Wisconsin), one of the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior, Wisconsin

Massachusetts

Bear Island (Norfolk County, Massachusetts) Norfolk County is located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census, the population was 725,981. Its county seat is Dedham. It is the fourth most populous county in the United States whose county seat is neither a city nor a b ...

Bear Island (Plymouth County, Massachusetts) Plymouth County is a county in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, south of Boston. As of the 2020 census, the population was 530,819. Its county seats are Plymouth and Brockton. In 1685, the county was created by the Plymouth General Cou ...

Russia

Medvezhy Island Medvezhy Island (russian: Медвежий остров, ''Medvezhy Ostrov'') is a long, narrow island in the northwestern Sea of Okhotsk, the westernmost of the Shantar Islands. It lies on the eastern side of Uda Gulf. It is 12.9 km (8 mi) lon ...

or Bear Island, in the Sea of Okhotsk *

Medvezhyi Islands The Medvezhyi Islands, or Bear Islands (russian: Медве́жьи острова́; sah, Эhэлээх арыылар, ''Eheleex Arıılar'') is an uninhabited group of islands at the western end of the Kolyma Gulf of the East Siberian Sea. Hi ...

or Bear Islands, in the East Siberian Sea

Other places

Bear Island (Antarctica) Bear Island or Isla Teniente González is a rocky island lying west of Stonington Island in Marguerite Bay, off the coast of Graham Land. Bear Island was presumably known to the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) (1934-1937) and the United ...

Bear Island (Amur River) Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island (russian: Большо́й Уссури́йский о́стров Bol'shoy Ussuriyskiy Ostrov), or Heixiazi Island (; lit. "black blind island"), is a sedimentary island at the confluence of the Ussuri Rive ...

, China and Russia *

Bears Island (Tasmania) Bears Island is a small island with an area of 0.34 ha, lying off the north-west tip of Three Hummock Island in Bass Strait, south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Hunter Island Group which lies between north-west Tasmania and Ki ...

, Australia * Bere Island (or Bear Island), an island in Cork County, Ireland

Other

* ''Bear Island'' (novel), a novel by Alistair MacLean ** ''Bear Island'' (film), adapted from the novel by Alistair MacLean