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Places

* Any of various islands around the world, see the
list of islands This is a list of the lists of islands in the world grouped by country, by continent, by body of water A body of water or waterbody (often spelled water body) is any significant accumulation of water on the surface of Earth or another plane ...
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The Island (Cache County, Utah) The Island is an island in the Bear River, at the head of Cutler Reservoir, near Cache Junction in Cache County, Utah. Before the reservoir was built, there was no island but an oxbow lake at the location. The Island is owned by PacifiCorp Pa ...
, an island on the Bear River, Utah *
The Island, Chennai The Island, also called as Island Grounds, is a river island situated on the Coovum River in the northern part of the Indian city of Chennai. The island was created artificially in the early 19th century by merging the Coovum River with the the ...
, a river island in India * The Island, Chicago, a neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States * The Island, Croydon, a residential building in Croydon, England * The Island, an enclave within
Hilltop, Jersey City The Hilltop is the eastern section of the Journal Square district of Jersey City, New Jersey. The name is a reflection of its location atop Bergen Hill, the southern portion of the Hudson Palisades, on either side of the cut, or excavated ravine, ...
, New Jersey, United States *
The Island, Hythe End The Island is an inhabited island in the River Thames in England on the reach above Bell Weir Lock, a part of the Hythe End part of Wraysbury village and civil parish, Berkshire. It is connected to that side of the river and although part of B ...
, an island on the River Thames in England * The Island (Jefferson County, Oregon), a United States wilderness research area * The Island, Trenton, New Jersey, a neighborhood in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States * The Island, a neighborhood of
Waltham, Massachusetts Waltham ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, and was an early center for the labor movement as well as a major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution. The original home of the Boston Manufacturing Company, th ...
, United States * The Island, Western Cape, in Great Brak River, South Africa *
The Islands The Islands was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It first appeared on the hustings in the 1890 provincial election and lasted until it was integrated into the new riding Nanaimo and The Islands at the ...
, a defunct provincial electoral district in British Columbia * The Islands, a region encompassing southern Florida and the Caribbean as defined in Joel Garreau's ''
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Books and publications


Fiction

* ''The Island'' (Benchley novel), 1979, by Peter Benchley * ''The Island'' (Hislop novel), 2005, by Victoria Hislop * L'ile, 1962, by
Robert Merle Robert Merle (; 28 August 1908 – 27 March 2004) was a French novelist. Early life Merle was born in 1908 in Tébessa, French Algeria. His father Félix, who was an interpreter "with a perfect knowledge of literary and spoken Arabic", was kille ...
, published in US as ''The Island'' (1964)


Poetry and plays

* ''The Island'' (Byron), an 1823 poem by
Lord Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and Peerage of the United Kingdom, peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and h ...
* ''The Island'' (play), 1973, by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona * ''The Island'' (poem), 1944, an epic poem by Francis Brett Young


Periodicals

* ''The Island'' (Sri Lanka), a newspaper in Sri Lanka * '' Die Insel'', three German magazines


Music

* Island, a band which represented
Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest Cyprus has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 38 times since making its debut in 1981. Cyprus' first entry was the group Island, who finished sixth. The country's best result in the contest is a second-place finish with Eleni Foureira ...
in 1981 * ''The Island'' (album), by Johnny Mathis, 2017


Songs

* "An Island" (Chevelle song), 2014 * "An Island", by Owen from ''
The King of Whys ''The King of Whys'' is the ninth studio album by Chicago musician Mike Kinsella under the moniker Owen. Announced on May 25, 2016, the record was released on July 29, 2016. The album was recorded at April Base Studios in Eau Claire, WI. The first ...
'', 2016 * "The Island" (Pendulum song), 2010 * "The Island" (Paul Brady song), 1985 * "The Island", by
Ivan Lins Ivan Guimarães Lins (born June 16, 1945) is a Latin Grammy-winning Brazilian musician. He has been an active performer and songwriter of Brazilian popular music (MPB) and jazz for over thirty years. His first hit, "Madalena", was recorded by ...
and
Vítor Martins Vítor Martins (born October 22, 1944) is a Brazilian songwriter, known for several hits in Brazil and internationally. Most of these were composed with Ivan Lins (born 1945), with whom Martins began working in the early 1970s. Together, they foun ...
* "The Island", by Ladytron from eponymous album ''
Ladytron Ladytron are a largely British electronic band formed in Liverpool in 1999. The group consists of Helen Marnie (lead vocals, synthesizers), Mira Aroyo (vocals, synthesizers), Daniel Hunt (synthesizers, guitar, vocals), and Reuben Wu (synthesize ...
'', 2019


Transport

* "The island", the superstructure of an
aircraft carrier An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. Typically, it is the capital ship of a fleet, as it allows a ...


Visual media


Film

* ''The Island'', the U.S. title of the 1960 Japanese film ''
The Naked Island ''The Naked Island'' ( ja, text=裸の島, translit=Hadaka no Shima) is a Japanese black-and-white film from 1960, directed by Kaneto Shindō. The film is notable for having almost no spoken dialogue. Plot The film depicts a small family, a husba ...
'' * ''The Island'' (1934 film), a German film directed by Hans Steinhoff * ''The Island'' (1979 film), an Argentine film directed by Alejandro Doria * ''The Island'' (1980 film), a film directed by Michael Ritchie with Michael Caine based on Peter Benchley's novel of 1979 * ''The Island'' (2005 film), a science fiction film directed by Michael Bay * ''The Island'' (2006 film) (Russian: ''Остров'', or ''Ostrov''), a 2006 film directed by Pavel Lungin * ''The Island'' (2007 film), an Egyptian film directed by Sherif Arafa * ''The Island'' (2011 film), a Bulgarian film directed by Kamen Kalev with Laetitia Casta * ''The Island'' (2018 Chinese film), a Chinese comedy film directed by Huang Bo * ''The Island'' (2018 Nigerian film), a 2018 Nigerian action film directed by Toka McBaror


Television

* The Island (''Lost''), the island of the show ''Lost'', a character unto itself * ''
To Nisi ''To Nisi'' (Greek: ''Το Νησί''; English: ''The Island'') is a Greek television series based on the best-selling English novel '' The Island'' by Victoria Hislop airing on Mega Channel. The series premiered on 11 October 2010 to record ratin ...
'', a Greek TV series, whose name translates in English as "The Island" * ''The Island'' (American TV series), an American survival TV show with Bear Grylls, based on: * ''
The Island with Bear Grylls ''The Island with Bear Grylls'' is a British reality television programme which premiered on Channel 4 on 5 May 2014 and ran for five series, plus a renamed sixth series and a spin-off series. Narrated by Bear Grylls, participants in the show ...
'', a British survival TV show * '' Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Island'', the 16th season of the ''Real World/Road Rules Challenge'' on MTV * '' Ninjago: The Island'' , a miniseries of the ''Ninjago'' animated television series


Video games

* ''The Island'' (video game), a 1984 ZX Spectrum video game


See also

*
Island (disambiguation) An island is a land mass entirely surrounded by water. Island(s) may also refer to: Places * Any of various islands around the world, see the list of islands * Iceland ( is, Ísland, links=no, german: Island, links=no), a Nordic island countr ...
*
Ecological island An ecological island is a term used in New Zealand, and increasingly in Australia, to refer to an area of land (not necessarily an actual island) isolated by natural or artificial means from the surrounding land, where a natural micro-habitat exists ...
, a micro-habitat within a larger differing ecosystem *
Extraction island In linguistics, wh-movement (also known as wh-fronting, wh-extraction, or wh-raising) is the formation of syntactic dependencies involving interrogative words. An example in English is the dependency formed between ''what'' and the object position ...
, in linguistics, phrases out of which extraction is impossible *
Islands (restaurant) Islands Fine Burgers & Drinks (also known as Islands) is a casual dining restaurant chain that specializes in burgers, fresh cut fries, and specialty drinks. Their tropical-theme restaurants are decorated to evoke the Hawaiian concept of "ohan ...
, a casual dining restaurant chain in the United States * ''The Island'', a Chicago radio program on
WLRA WLRA (88.1 FM) or sometimes called WLRA Radio, or WLRA-FM, is a college radio station broadcasting a Variety format. Licensed to Lockport, Illinois, USA, the station serves the Chicago/greater Joliet region. The station is licensed to and owne ...
*
Island Company Island Company was a wholesale and retail resort clothing brand founded in 2002 by Spencer Antle. As of 2019, the company shut down its retail stores due to extensive damage from Hurricane Irma. The firm had expanded from a small collection of ...
, clothing brand *
Island-class patrol boat The Island-class patrol boat is a class of cutters of the United States Coast Guard. 49 cutters of the class were built, of which 37 remain in commission. Their hull numbers are WPB-1301 through WPB-1349. Overview The Island-class patrol boat ...
, class of the United States Coast Guard Cutters {{disambiguation, geo