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This is a list of archipelagos, organised by oceans then
seas This is a list of seas of the World Ocean, including marginal seas, areas of water, various gulfs, bights, bays, and straits. Terminology * Ocean – the four to seven largest named bodies of water in the World Ocean, all of which have "Ocean ...
and finally arranged alphabetically. Geographically isolated islands are included as well.


Arctic Ocean

Archipelagos of the Arctic Ocean: * Arctic Alaska ** Kasegaluk Lagoon Islands **Midway Islands **Pye Islands **Pencil Islands **
Seahorse Islands The Seahorse Islands is a chain of long and narrow sandy islands in western North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States. They are located between Peard Bay and the Chukchi Sea, east of Point Franklin. The longest island is about in length and the ...
* Bear Island * Canadian Arctic Archipelago **
Akvitlak Islands The Akvitlak Islands are an island group located in the Coronation Gulf, south of Victoria Island, in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. Other island groups in the vicinity include the Aiyohok Islands, Duke of York Archipelago, Home Islands ...
** Arvalik Islands ** Astronomical Society Islands **
Bate Islands The Bate Islands are an island group located in the Coronation Gulf, south of Victoria Island, in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. Other island groups in the vicinity include the Miles Islands, Nauyan Islands, Outpost Islands, Richardson Isla ...
** Belcher Islands **
Berens Islands The Berens Islands are an island group located inside western Coronation Gulf in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. Other island groups in the vicinity include the Black Berry Islands, Couper Islands, Deadman Islands, Lawford Islands, Leo Isla ...
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Beverly Islands The Beverly Islands are an uninhabited Canadian Arctic island group in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut. The islands are located in the Rae Strait between the southern tip of the eastern arm of Matty Island, and Peel Inlet on King William Island. Th ...
** Bird Islands **
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 ...
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Cape Chidley Islands The Cape Chidley Islands are members of the Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. They are located in the Labrador Sea at the south end of the entrance to the Hudson Strait, north of Killiniq Island's Cape Chidley, and separated from Ki ...
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Cape Hope Islands The Cape Hope Islands are an uninhabited Canadian arctic islands group located within the midsection of James Bay in Nunavut, Canada. They are situated south of Vieux-Comptoir (Old Factory). History The Inuit who lived on the Cape Hope Islands in ...
** Carter Islands ** Champan Islands **
Cheere Islands Kitaagunnaat formerly the Cheere Islands are an island group located in Coronation Gulf, south of Victoria Island, west of Kiillinnguyaq (Kent Peninsula), in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. Other island groups in the vicinity include the Ba ...
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Clarence Islands The Clarence Islands are a Canadian Arctic island group in the Nunavut Territory. The islands lie in the James Ross Strait, east of Cape Felix, off the northeast coast of King William Island. They are about west of Kent Bay on the Boothia Peni ...
** Copeland Islands **Crown Prince Islands **
Digges Islands The Digges Islands (Inuit: ''Saaqqayaaq-Qikirtasiit'') are members of the Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. The two islands, West Digges and East Digges, are located in Digges Sound, an arm of Hudson Bay, where the strong currents of ...
** Duke of York Archipelago **
Finlayson Islands The Finlayson Islands are a string of Canadian arctic islands in Nunavut, Canada. The group lies in Dease Strait, approximately from Cape Alexander, south of Victoria Island and north of the mainland's Kent Peninsula. The community of Cambridge ...
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Harrison Islands The Harrison Islands are members of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. They are located in western Gulf of Boothia's Pelly Bay, east of the Ross Peninsula. The group lies north of the Arctic Circle, south of the Queen ...
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Hay Islands The Hay Islands are members of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut Nunavut ( , ; iu, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ , ; ) is the largest and northernmost Provinces and territories of Canada#Territories, territory of Canada. It was s ...
** Hecla and Fury Islands **
Hovgaard Islands The Hovgaard Islands are a Canadian Arctic island group in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut Territory. They were named after Andreas Hovgaard, a Polar explorer and officer of the Danish Navy who led an expedition to the Kara Sea on steamship ''Dij ...
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Keith Islands The Keith Islands are a Canadian Arctic island group in the Nunavut Nunavut ( , ; iu, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ , ; ) is the largest and northernmost Provinces and territories of Canada#Territories, territory of Canada. It was separated officially fr ...
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Leo Islands The Leo Islands are an island group located inside western Coronation Gulf, south of Victoria Island, in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. Other island groups in the vicinity include the Berens Islands, Black Berry Islands, Couper Islands, D ...
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Low Islands The Low Islands are one of the many uninhabited Canadian arctic island groups in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut. They are located in Ungava Bay, stretching between Young Island to the south and Lookout Island to the north. References Externa ...
** Martin Islands **
Miles Islands The Miles Islands are an island group located in the Coronation Gulf, south of Victoria Island, in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. Other island groups in the vicinity include the Aiyohok Islands, Akvitlak Islands, Bate Islands, Duke of Y ...
** Minto Islands **Nastapoka Islands **
Nauyan Islands The Nauyan Islands are an island group located in the Coronation Gulf, south of Victoria Island, in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. Other island groups in the vicinity include the Aiyohok Islands, Akvitlak Islands, Bate Islands, Duke of ...
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Nuvuk Islands The uninhabited Nuvuk Islands, members of the Arctic Archipelago, are located in the Hudson Bay, at the western outlet of Digges Sound, just west of the Ungava Peninsula. The island group is a part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region, in the Canadian terri ...
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Outcast Islands The Outcast Islands are two small islands, nearly apart, and a number of surrounding rocks lying southwest of Bonaparte Point, off the southwest coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. The Outcast Islands were named b ...
** Outpost Islands ** Paint Hills Islands ** Plover Islands **
Queen Elizabeth Islands The Queen Elizabeth Islands (french: Îles de la Reine-Élisabeth; formerly Parry Islands or Parry Archipelago) are the northernmost cluster of islands in Canada's Arctic Archipelago, split between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories in Northe ...
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Cheyne Islands The uninhabited Cheyne Islands are members of the Queen Elizabeth Islands and the Arctic Archipelago in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. The group is made up of three islands known as North Island, Middle Island, and South Island. Locate ...
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Fay Islands The Fay Islands are part of the Sverdrup Islands in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. Located in the Arctic Ocean, they are also members of the Queen Elizabeth Islands and Arctic Archipelago. They lie within the Sverdrup Channel between Meighen ...
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Findlay Group The Findlay Group is a group of islands in the Arctic Archipelago in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut. This Arctic Ocean group consists of Lougheed Island, Stupart Island, Edmund Walker Island, Grosvenor Island and Patterson Island. Mapping :A ...
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Gretha Islands The Gretha Islands (variant: Grethas Ōer) are an uninhabited island group located in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. They are situated in Eureka Sound at the confluence of Bay Fjord, north of Ellesmere Island's Raanes Peninsula, and ea ...
*** Marvin Islands ***
Parry Islands The Queen Elizabeth Islands (french: Îles de la Reine-Élisabeth; formerly Parry Islands or Parry Archipelago) are the northernmost cluster of islands in Canada's Arctic Archipelago, split between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories in Nor ...
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Berkeley Islands The Berkeley Islands (formerly Berkeley Group http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/94ffb21dc6cd11d892e2080020a0f4c9 Berkeley Islands (formerly Berkeley Group)/ref> are an uninhabited island group in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of norther ...
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Sverdrup Islands The Sverdrup Islands is an archipelago of the northern Queen Elizabeth Islands, in Nunavut, Canada. The islands are situated in the Arctic Ocean, west of Ellesmere Island from 77° to 81° North and 85° to 106° West. History The islands are ...
** Sisters Islands ** Tasmania Islands **
Tennent Islands The Tennent Islands are an uninhabited Canadian Arctic island group in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut. The islands are located in Rae Strait between the Clarence Islands and Beverly Islands. Thomson Point on King William Island lies away, acros ...
** Twin Islands **
Saneruarsuk Islands The uninhabited Saneruarsuk Islands are members of the Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. They are irregularly shaped, Baffin Island offshore islands, located in the Admiralty Inlet. Yeoman Island lies to their northwest. External li ...
** Solomons Temple Islands **
Spicer Islands The Spicer Islands are an uninhabited island group located in Foxe Basin, within Qikiqtaaluk Region, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. The Melville Peninsula is to the west, Prince Charles Island to the east, Rowley Island to the north. The two ...
** Strutton Islands * Greenland **
Achton Friis Islands The Achton Friis Islands ( da, Achton Friis Øer) are a group of two uninhabited islands in the Greenland Sea, Greenland. They were named by the Denmark expedition in honor of illustrator Achton Friis, one of the expedition members. Geography The ...
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Bonsall Islands The Bonsall Islands is a small coastal island cluster in the Avannaata municipality, off northwest Greenland. The islands are named after Amos Bonsall of the Second Grinnell Expedition. Geography The Bonsall Islands are a chain of islands, islet ...
** Cape Farewell Archipelago **
Carey Islands The Carey Islands ( da, Carey Øer; kl, Kitsissut) are an island group off Baffin Bay, in Avannaata municipality, northwest Greenland. Located relatively far offshore the Carey Islands are the westernmost point of Greenland as a territory. T ...
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Danske Islands Danske Islands, da, Danske Øer; meaning 'Danish Islands', is an island group of the Greenland Sea, NE Greenland. The islands are uninhabited. Administratively they belong to the Northeast Greenland National Park. Name conflict This island grou ...
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Franske Islands Franske Islands, da, Franske Øer, french: Iles Françaises; meaning 'French Islands', is a group of uninhabited islands of the Greenland Sea, Greenland. Administratively the islands belong to the Northeast Greenland National Park. Geography The ...
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Harvard Islands The Harvard Islands ( da, Harward Øer) are an island group east of Qaanaaq in the Avannaata Municipality, northwestern Greenland. They are located near the head of the Inglefield Fjord, north of the mouth of the Academy Fjord and just east of the ...
** Upernavik Archipelago * Jan Mayen *
Northern Norway Northern Norway ( nb, Nord-Norge, , nn, Nord-Noreg; se, Davvi-Norga) is a geographical Regions of Norway, region of Norway, consisting of the two northernmost counties Nordland and Troms og Finnmark, in total about 35% of the Norwegian mainlan ...
** Lofoten **
Vegaøyan or the is a group of islands in the Norwegian Sea corresponding roughly to the municipality of Vega. Since 2004, it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This cluster of around 6,500 small islands in Nordland county, just south of the Arctic c ...
** Vesterålen *
Russian Arctic islands The Russian Arctic islands are a number of islands groups and sole islands scattered around the Arctic Ocean. Geography The islands are all situated within the Arctic Circle and are scattered through the marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean, name ...
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Arkticheskiy Institut Islands The Arkticheskiy Institut Islands or Arctic Institute Islands (russian: Острова Арктического института) is a compact archipelago of narrow islands covered with tundra vegetation. The islands are located in the Kara Sea, ...
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Ayon Island Ayon Island is an island in the coast of Chukotka in the East Siberian Sea. The island itself consists mainly of low-lying tundra, and is primarily populated by the Chukchi people, who use the tundra as pasture for their reindeer herds. Geograp ...
** Begichev Islands **
Bely Island Bely Island (also spelled as Belyy and Beliy, russian: Белый остров, Tundra Nenets: Сэр’’ ӈо, ''Sėr’’ ŋo'') is a relatively large island in the Kara Sea off the tip of the Yamal Peninsula, Siberia, Russia. Close to th ...
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Bolshoy Begichev Island Bolshoy Begichev (russian: Большой Бегичев, translation= Big Begichev) is an island in the Laptev Sea, in the Sakha Republic, Russia. Geography The area of the island is . Bolshoy Begichev is located within the Khatanga Gulf (russia ...
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Dunay Islands The Dunay Islands, or Duunay Aryta, (russian: Острова Дунай) is a group of islands in the Laptev Sea. They are located close to the mouths of the Lena River, off the northwestern shores of the Lena Delta. Geography The Dunay islands f ...
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Izvestiy TSIK Islands The Izvestiy TSIK Islands or Izvesti Tsik Islands (russian: Острова Известий ЦИК), also known as Izvestia Islands, is an island group in the Kara Sea, Russian Federation. Geography The archipelago includes two large and two small ...
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Faddey Islands The Faddey Islands (Russian: Острова Фаддея; Ostrova Faddeya) is a group of islands in the Laptev Sea, Russia. Geography The Faddey Islands group is located in the coastal region, off Faddey Bay (залив Фаддея) in the coa ...
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Firnley Islands The Firnley Islands ( rus, острова Фирнлея; ''Ostrova Firnleya'', nn, Firnleyøyane) is a group of three small islands covered with tundra vegetation and with scattered stones on their shores. They lie in the Kara Sea, close to the ...
** Franz Josef Land **
Heiberg Islands The Heiberg Islands, spelt ''Geyberg'', ''Gejberg'' or ''Geiberg'' (Russian: ''острова Гейберга''; ''ostrova Geyberga'' or also ''острова Акселя Гейберга'') is a group of four small islands covered with tundra v ...
** Kamennye Islands **
Kirov Islands The Kirov Islands or Sergey Kirov Islands (russian: Острова Кирова, ''Ostrova Kirova'' or Aрхипелаг Сергея Кирова, ''Archipelag Sergeya Kirova'') is an island group in the Kara Sea, Russian Federation. It is an arc ...
** Kolguyev Island **
Komsomolskaya Pravda Islands The Komsomolskaya Pravda Islands (russian: Острова Комсомольской Правды, ''Ostrova Komsomol'skoy Pravdy'') are an archipelago in the far north of the Russian Federation. The islands are uninhabited and are covered with tun ...
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Labyrintovye Islands The Labyrintovye Islands (Russian: Лабиринтовые острова; ''Labyrintovye Ostrova'') is a group of flat islands in the Pyasina Bay of the Kara Sea. They are located at the mouth of the river Pyasina. Their latitude is 73° 50' ...
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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 ...
** Mona Islands ** New Siberian Islands *** Anzhu Islands *** De Long Islands *** Lyakhovsky Islands ** Nordenskiöld Archipelago **
Novaya Zemlya Novaya Zemlya (, also , ; rus, Но́вая Земля́, p=ˈnovəjə zʲɪmˈlʲa, ) is an archipelago in northern Russia. It is situated in the Arctic Ocean, in the extreme northeast of Europe, with Cape Flissingsky, on the northern island, ...
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Oleny Island Oleny Island (also spelt as Oleniy and Oleni) (russian: Остров Олений) is a single island in the Kara Sea just a few kilometers offshore, north of the coast of one of the arms of the Gyda Peninsula in North Siberia. It is covered with ...
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Plavnikovye Islands The Plavnikovye Islands (Russian: острова Плавниковые; Ostrova Plavnikovyye) is a group of islands, in the Kara Sea eastern region, off the coast of Siberia. These islands are covered with tundra vegetation and there are many lak ...
** Routan Islands ** Severnaya Zemlya ***
Krasnoflotskiye Islands Severnaya Zemlya (russian: link=no, Сéверная Земля́ (Northern Land), ) is a archipelago in the Russian high Arctic. It lies off Siberia's Taymyr Peninsula, separated from the mainland by the Vilkitsky Strait. This archipelago s ...
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Sedov Archipelago Severnaya Zemlya (russian: link=no, Сéверная Земля́ (Northern Land), ) is a archipelago in the Russian high Arctic. It lies off Siberia's Taymyr Peninsula, separated from the mainland by the Vilkitsky Strait. This archipelago ...
** Saint Peter Islands ** Scott Hansen Islands **
Serykh Gusey Islands The Serykh Gusey Islands (Острова Серых Гусей, ''Ostrova Serykh Gusey''; "Grey Geese Islands") is an island group in the Chukchi Sea, located northwest of the shores of the Kolyuchin Bay. Administratively this island group belongs ...
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Shelonsky Islands The Shelonsky Islands (russian: Шелонские острова, Shelonskiye Ostrova) is an island group in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russian Federation. They are located in the Laptev Sea and are subject to severe Arctic weather with frequ ...
** Shokalsky Island ** Solovetsky Islands ** Tillo Islands ** Ushakov Island ** Vilkitsky Island (Kara Sea) **
Wiese Island Wiese Island, or Vize Island ( rus, Остров Визе ''Ostrov Vize''), also known as ''Zemlya Vize'' ( rus, Земля Визе) is an isolated Russian island located in the Arctic Ocean, named after Soviet oceanographer of German-descent Vlad ...
** Wrangel Island **
Zveroboy Islands The Zveroboy Islands (russian: Остров Зверобой, or Ostrov Zveroboy) is a group consisting of a large island (Zveroboy Island) and a few scattered small islets. The main island is 17 km in length. It is covered with tundra vege ...
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Svalbard Svalbard ( , ), also known as Spitsbergen, or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. North of mainland Europe, it is about midway between the northern coast of Norway and the North Pole. The islands of the group range ...
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Castrénøyane Castrénøyane is the name given to two small islands, ''Nordre Castrénøya'' and ''Søre Castrénøya'' (English: ''Northern'' and ''Southern Castrén Island''), east of Chermsideøya, Svalbard. The islands were named after Matthias Alexander Ca ...
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Repøyane Repøyane is the name of two islands off Orvin Land at Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. The two islands, Nordre Repøya, Nordre and Søre Repøya, are located at the northern side of Glenhalvøya, at the mouth of Duvefjorden. The two islands are separated ...
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Ryke Yseøyane Ryke Yseøyane is a group of several small islands off the east coast of the island of Edgeøya in Svalbard, Norway. The islands are named after the Dutch whaler Ryke Yse of Vlieland Vlieland (; fry, Flylân) is a Municipalities of the Netherl ...
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Sabine Islands The Sabines (; lat, Sabini; it, Sabini, all exonyms) were an Italic people who lived in the central Apennine Mountains of the ancient Italian Peninsula, also inhabiting Latium north of the Anio before the founding of Rome. The Sabines divide ...
** Thousand Islands


Atlantic Ocean

Archipelagos of the Atlantic Ocean:


Along the coast of Europe

* Berlengas **Estelas Islets **Farilhões-Forcados Islets * British Isles * Channel Islands ** Chausey *
Columbretes Islands The Columbretes Islands ( ca-valencia, Les Columbretes, or ''Els Columbrets'' (), are a group of small uninhabited islets of volcanic origin, in the Mediterranean Sea, off Orpesa. Administratively they belong to Castellón de la Plana in the Va ...
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Cíes Islands The Cíes Islands ( gl, Illas Cíes, link=no; es, Islas Cíes, link=no) are an archipelago off the coast of Pontevedra in Galicia, Spain, in the mouth of the Ria de Vigo. They were declared a Nature Reserve in 1980 and are included in the Atla ...
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Danish Isles This is a list of islands of Denmark. Overview There are about 406 islands in Denmark, not including the Faroe Islands or Greenland. Some 70 of them are populated while the rest are uninhabited. Some of the uninhabited islands have only become u ...
* Faroe Islands **
Norðoyar The six islands in the northeast of the Faroe Islands are together referred to as Norðoyar, i.e. the Northern Isles ( da, Norderøerne). These Islands from west to east are Kalsoy, Kunoy, Borðoy, Viðoy, Svínoy and Fugloy. Klaksvík Klak ...
* Formigues Islands * Glénan Islands * Iceland ** Vestmannaeyjar * Lofoten *
Medes Islands The Illes Medes ( es, Islas Medas) is a small and craggy group of seven islets in the Costa Brava area of the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Administratively, the Medes Archipelago belongs to the Baix Empordà comarca, Catalonia, Spain. The isla ...


Along the coast of Africa

* Arquipélago dos Bijagós *Baboon Islands * Bight of Bonny Islands **
Annobón Annobón ( es, Provincia de Annobón; pt, Ano-Bom), and formerly as ''Anno Bom'' and ''Annabona'', is a province (smallest province in both area and population) of Equatorial Guinea consisting of the island of Annobón, formerly also Pigalu a ...
** Bioko ** São Tomé e Príncipe * Bissagos Islands *
Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Morocc ...
*Islas de Elobey *Islas Kai Hai *
Cabo Verde Islands , national_anthem = () , official_languages = Portuguese , national_languages = Cape Verdean Creole , capital = Praia , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , demonym ...
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Saint Helena Saint Helena () is a British overseas territory located in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote volcanic tropical island west of the coast of south-western Africa, and east of Rio de Janeiro in South America. It is one of three constitu ...
* Tristan da Cunha * Turtle Islands, Sierra Leone *
Îles de Los Îles de Los are an island group lying off Conakry in Guinea, on the west coast of Africa. Their name is derived from the Portuguese: ''Ilhas dos Ídolos'', "Islands of the Idols". They are located about off the headland limiting the southern ...


Along the coast of the Americas

* Abrolhos Archipelago * Belcher Islands * Bermuda Islands *
Bocas del Toro Bocas del Toro (; meaning "Mouth of the Bull") is a province of Panama. Its area is 4,643.9 square kilometers, comprising the mainland and nine main islands. The province consists of the Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Bahía Almirante (Almirante Bay ...
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Broken Islands The Broken Islands are uninhabited islands in the Arctic Archipelago in Nunavut, Canada located within western Hudson Bay. The closest community is Rankin Inlet Rankin Inlet ( iu, Kangiqliniq; Inuktitut syllabics: ᑲᖏᕿᓂᖅ or ''Kang ...
* Corn Islands *Cranberry Isles * Diego Ramírez Islands * Falkland Islands **
Arch Islands The Arch Islands (Spanish: ''Islotes Franceses'') are a group of small islands, off Port Albemarle on West Falkland in the Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic ...
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Jason Islands The Jason Islands (Spanish: ''Islas Sebaldes'') are an archipelago in the Falkland Islands, lying to the far north-west of West Falkland. Three of the islands, Steeple Jason, Grand Jason and Clarke's Islet, are private nature reserves owned by ...
* Fernando de Noronha *Flat Islands, Bovista Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador Flat Islands* *
Florida Keys The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago located off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost part of the continental United States. They begin at the southeastern coast of the Florida peninsula, about south of Miami, and e ...
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Hermite Islands __NOTOC__ The Hermite Islands () are the islands ''Hermite'', ''Herschel'', ''Deceit'' and ''Hornos'' as well as the islets ''Maxwell'', ''Jerdán'', ''Arrecife'', ''Chanticleer'', ''Hall'', ''Deceit (islet)'', and ''Hasse'' at almost the southe ...
* Ildefonso Islands *Karl Oom Islands * Magdalen Islands ( Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine) *
Marcopeet Islands The Marcopeet Islands are members of the Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. They are located in Hudson Bay Hudson Bay ( crj, text=ᐐᓂᐯᒄ, translit=Wînipekw; crl, text=ᐐᓂᐹᒄ, translit=Wînipâkw; iu, text=ᑲᖏᖅ ...
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Mingan Archipelago The Mingan Archipelago is an archipelago located east of Quebec, Canada. It consists of a chain of about 40 islands. Starting but 124 miles from the end of the road along the north shore of the St. Lawrence River (Le Fleuve), the Mingan Archipela ...
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Outer Lands The Outer Lands is the prominent terminal moraine archipelagic region off the southern coast of New England in the United States. This eight-county region of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York, comprises the peninsula of Cape Cod and th ...
(New England-New York islands) * Payne Islands * Plover Islands * Puerto Rico ** Mona Islands *
Punuk Islands The Punuk Islands (russian: Пунукские острова) are a chain of three small islets in the Bering Sea off the eastern end of St. Lawrence Island.
* Saint Peter and Paul Rocks * Salvation's Islands * San Blas Islands * Thimble Islands * Tierra del Fuego *
Trindade and Martin Vaz Trindade and Martim Vaz ( pt, Trindade e Martim Vaz, ) is an archipelago located in the South Atlantic Ocean about east of the coast of the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo, of which it forms a part. The archipelago has a total area of and a ...
* Wollaston Islands


Macaronesia

Archipelagos of Macaronesia: * Azores ** Formigas *
Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Morocc ...
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Chinijo Archipelago The Chinijo Archipelago () is a small archipelago located in the northeastern part of the Canary Islands, north of the island of Lanzarote. The archipelago includes the islets of Montaña Clara, Alegranza, La Graciosa, Roque del Este and Roque del ...
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Cape Verde , national_anthem = () , official_languages = Portuguese , national_languages = Cape Verdean Creole , capital = Praia , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , demonym ...
** Barlavento Islands ** Sotavento Islands * Madeira Islands ** Desertas Islands ** Savage Islands


Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia and Gulf Of Finland

Archipelagos of the Baltic Sea,
Gulf of Bothnia The Gulf of Bothnia (; fi, Pohjanlahti; sv, Bottniska viken) is divided into the Bothnian Bay and Bothnian Sea, and it is the northernmost arm of the Baltic Sea, between Finland's west coast ( East Bothnia) and the Sweden's east coast (West ...
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Gulf of Finland The Gulf of Finland ( fi, Suomenlahti; et, Soome laht; rus, Фи́нский зали́в, r=Finskiy zaliv, p=ˈfʲinskʲɪj zɐˈlʲif; sv, Finska viken) is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea. It extends between Finland to the north and E ...
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Archipelago Sea The Archipelago Sea ( fi, Saaristomeri, sv, Skärgårdshavet) is a part of the Baltic Sea between the Gulf of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland and the Sea of Åland, within Finnish territorial waters. By some definitions it contains the largest ar ...
* Beryozovye Islands * Blekinge Archipelago *Bothnian Bay archipelago **
Haparanda archipelago The Haparanda archipelago ( sv, Haparanda skärgård) is a group of 792 Swedish islands in the north part of the Bay of Bothnia. The islands are used for recreation in the summer months. They are icebound during the winter. Location The north of ...
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Kalix archipelago The Kalix archipelago ( sv, Kalix skärgård) is a group of 792 Swedish islands in the north part of the Bay of Bothnia. The largest island in the Kalix archipelago is Rånön. A few of the islands have small permanent populations, but most are use ...
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Luleå archipelago The Luleå archipelago ( sv, Luleå Skärgård or ''Lule Skärgård'') is a group of Swedish islands in the north part of the Bay of Bothnia. They lie offshore from the city of Luleå and the mouth of the Lule River. A few of the islands have sma ...
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Piteå archipelago The Piteå archipelago ( sv, Piteå skärgård or ''Pite skärgård'') is a group of Swedish islands in the north part of the Bay of Bothnia, at Piteå in the southeast of Norrbotten County. A few of the islands have small permanent populations, ...
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Froan Froan or Froøyene is a populated archipelago of small, rocky islands in the municipality of Frøya in Trøndelag county, Norway. Froan consists of several hundred islands and islets that lie in the sea about west of the Fosen peninsula. The i ...
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Kvarken Archipelago Kvarken ( sv, Kvarken, Norra Kvarken (as opposed to South Kvarken); ) is the narrow region of the Gulf of Bothnia separating the Bothnian Bay (the inner part of the gulf) from the Bothnian Sea. The distance from the Swedish mainland to the Fin ...
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Norrbotten Archipelago The Norrbotten archipelago ( sv, Norrbotten skärgård) is a group of Swedish islands in the north part of the Bay of Bothnia. A few of the islands have small permanent populations, but most are used only for recreation in the summer months. They a ...
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Oskarshamn archipelago Oskarshamn archipelago is a cluster of island and islets in the Baltic Sea, located in the south-east of Sweden in Oskarshamn Municipality. General description The archipelago extends roughly 55 kilometers in a north–south direction, with a chai ...
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* South Funen Archipelago *Swedish East Coast Archipelago **Gräsö archipelago **
Oskarshamn archipelago Oskarshamn archipelago is a cluster of island and islets in the Baltic Sea, located in the south-east of Sweden in Oskarshamn Municipality. General description The archipelago extends roughly 55 kilometers in a north–south direction, with a chai ...
** Stockholm Archipelago ***Rödlöga archipelago ***Skarv Archipelago ** Södermanland archipelago ** Öregrund archipelago **
Östergötland archipelago The Östergötland archipelago is the collective name of three archipelagoes located to the east of the shore of Östergötland, Sweden, spanning three municipalities. It consists of 8,888 islands. It measures more than from north to south and ...
***Gryt archipelago ***Sankt Anna's Archipelago ***Tjust Archipelago ** Småland archipelago * Turku archipelago * West Estonian archipelago


Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico

Archipelagos of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: * Archipelago of San Bernando *
Cayman Islands The Cayman Islands () is a self-governing British Overseas Territory—the largest by population in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located to the ...
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Florida Keys The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago located off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost part of the continental United States. They begin at the southeastern coast of the Florida peninsula, about south of Miami, and e ...
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Rosario Islands The Rosario Islands (Islas del Rosario), also referred to as Corales Islas del Rosario (Coral Islands of Rosario), is an archipelago located off the coast of Colombia, approximately from Cartagena. It is one of the 46 Natural National Parks ...
* Swan Islands * West Indies ** Antilles *** Greater Antilles **** Cuban Islands ***** Colorados Archipelago ***** Cannarreos Archipelago ***** Jardines de la Reina *****
Sabana-Camagüey Archipelago Sabana-Camagüey ( es, Archipiélago de Sabana-Camagüey ) is an archipelago that lies on Cuba's north-central Atlantic coast. It is located off the northern coast of the provinces of Matanzas, Villa Clara, Sancti Spíritus, Ciego de Ávila and ...
**** Puerto Rican Islands *** Lesser Antilles ****
Leeward Islands french: Îles-Sous-le-Vent , image_name = , image_caption = ''Political'' Leeward Islands. Clockwise: Antigua and Barbuda, Guadeloupe, Saint kitts and Nevis. , image_alt = , locator_map = , location = Caribbean SeaNorth Atlantic Ocean , coor ...
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Petite Terre islands :''Petite Terre is also the name of Pamanzi island, Mayotte.'' Petite Terre Islands (french: Îles de la Petite Terre, literally "Islands of the Small Land") are two small uninhabited islands located about to the south-east of the island of ...
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Dog Islands Dog Islands are a small group of islets among the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. The islands originally received their names from sailors who heard barking when they moored there, and assumed that they must be dogs. However, the b ...
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Little Sisters The Little Sisters is an informal name for a group of some of the smaller islands of the British Virgin Islands, south of Tortola and southwest of Virgin Gorda. These islands are also called the ''Southern Islands''. * Norman Island * Pelican ...
*******Seal Dog Islands ****** US Virgin Islands ***** Îles des Saintes **** Leeward Antilles ***** ABC Islands *****
Las Aves Archipelago The Las Aves Archipelago is a pristine archipelago in the Caribbean Sea, and is part of the Federal Dependencies of Venezuela. It is located north of the Venezuelan states of Aragua and Carabobo, between the Dutch island Bonaire in the west, an ...
***** Los Hermanos Archipelago *****
Los Monjes Archipelago The Los Monjes islands (Spanish: ''Archipiélago Los Monjes'') is a federal dependency of Venezuela are located to the northwest of the Gulf of Venezuela, off the coast of Guajira Peninsula at the border between Colombia and the Venezuelan st ...
***** Los Roques Archipelago *****
Los Testigos Islands Los Testigos Islands ( es, Islas Los Testigos, Witnesses Islands) are a group of islands in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. They are a part of the ''Dependencias Federales'' (Federal Dependencies) of Venezuela. Geography The Los Testigos Islands ...
**** Lucayan Archipelago ***** Abacos Islands *****
Bimini Islands Bimini is the westernmost district of the Bahamas and comprises a chain of islands located about due east of Miami. Bimini is the closest point in the Bahamas to the mainland United States and approximately west-northwest of Nassau. The popula ...
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Cat Cays The Cat Cays are two islands in the Bahamas, North Cat Cay and South Cat Cay, approximately south of Bimini. North Cat Cay is a privately owned island and is run as a private members club by the Cat Cay Yacht Club. South Cat Cay is currently ...
*****Deadman Cays *****Double Headed Shot Cays *****
Elbow Cays The Elbow Cays ( es, Los Roques) are uninhabited cays in the Cay Sal Bank, Bahamas. It is the most Western point in the Bahamas. They are part of a reef shelf located at the northwestern end of the bank about 80 km (50 mi) off the Cuban ...
*****Factory Cays ***** Inagua Islands *****
Plana Cays The Plana Cays are a group of two small uninhabited islands in the southern Bahama Islands, located east of Acklins Island and west of Mayaguana Island. The eastern cay was the last natural habitat of the Bahamian Hutia, a species of rabbit-siz ...
***** Schooner Cays *****Water Cays *****Victory Cays ****** Turks and Caicos *******Six Hill Cays **** Windward Islands *****Brooks Rocks *****Cow And Calves Islands *****
Grenadines The Grenadines is a chain of small islands that lie on a line between the larger islands of Saint Vincent and Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. Nine are inhabited and open to the public (or ten, if the offshore island of Young Island is counted): ...


Caspian Sea

Archipelagos of the Caspian Sea: * Baku Archipelago *
Podvodnyye Islands The Podvodnyye Islands ( az, Qutan Adası and ''Baburi Adasi'') are a small island group off the Azerbaijan coast in the Caspian Sea. Geography The Podvodnyye are a cluster of islets extending for about 7 km in a NW - SE direction. The grou ...
*Tuledi Araldary *
Tyuleniy Archipelago The Tyuleniy Archipelago ( kk, Түлен аралдары ''Tülen araldary'', russian: Тюленьи острова), is an island group in the north-eastern Caspian Sea off the Mangyshlak Bay west of the Mangyshlak Peninsula and about northw ...


Mediterranean Sea

Archipelagos of the Mediterranean Sea: * Aegean Islands **
Ayvalık Islands Ayvalık () is a seaside town on the northwestern Aegean coast of Turkey. It is a district of Balıkesir province. The town centre is connected to Cunda Island by a causeway and is surrounded by the archipelago of Ayvalık Islands, which fac ...
** Cyclades **
Dodecanese The Dodecanese (, ; el, Δωδεκάνησα, ''Dodekánisa'' , ) are a group of 15 larger plus 150 smaller Greek islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Turkey's Anatolia, of which 26 are inhabited. ...
** Fournoi Korseon ** Oinousses ** Saronic Islands ** Sporades ** Tavşan Islands *
Aegadian Islands The Aegadian Islands ( it, Isole Egadi; scn, Ìsuli Ègadi, la, Aegates Insulae; gr, Aἰγάται Νῆσοι, , the islands of goats) are a group of five small mountainous islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the northwest coast of Sicily, ...
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Aeolian Islands The Aeolian Islands ( ; it, Isole Eolie ; scn, Ìsuli Eoli), sometimes referred to as the Lipari Islands or Lipari group ( , ) after their largest island, are a volcanic archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily, said to be named after ...
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Alhucemas Islands The Alhucemas Islands ( es, Islas Alhucemas, ar, جزر الحسيمة) is a group of islands and one of the Spanish '' plazas de soberanía'' just off the Moroccan coast in the Alboran Sea. Overview Peñón de Alhucemas, together with ...
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Balearic Islands The Balearic Islands ( es, Islas Baleares ; or ca, Illes Balears ) are an archipelago in the Balearic Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. The archipelago is an autonomous community and a province of Spain; its capital is ...
* Brijuni *
Campanian Archipelago The Campanian Archipelago ( it, Arcipelago Campano), also called Neapolitan Archipelago ('), is an archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea, in southwestern Italy. It principally comprises 5 islands: Capri, Ischia, Nisida, Procida, and Vivara. Most of the ...
** Phlegrean Islands *Cres-Lošinj Archipelago * Elaphiti Islands * Galite Islands * Ionian Islands * Kerkennah Islands * Kornati *
Ksamil Islands The Islets of Ksamil (), consist of four rocky islets located in the direct proximity to the Ionian Sea in Southern Albania. The village of Ksamil, after whom the islets are named, is located to the east of the islets. Furthermore, the islands ar ...
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Maddalena Archipelago The Maddalena Archipelago is a group of islands in the Strait of Bonifacio between Corsica (France) and Sardinia (Italy). The whole archipelago makes the territory of the ''La Maddalena'' comune in Sardinia. Geography The archipelago consists ...
* Maltese Islands *Mola Islands * Paklinski Islands * Pelagie Islands *
Phlegraean Islands The Phlegraean Islands ( it, Isole Flegree ; nap, Isule Flegree) are an archipelago in the Gulf of Naples and the Campania region of southern Italy. The name is derived from the common affiliation to the geologic area of the Phlegraean Fields ...
* Pityusic Islands * Pontine Islands *Rovinj Archipelago *St Paul's Islands * Tremiti Islands * Tuscan Archipelago * Venetian Lagoon * Zadar Archipelago


North Sea

Archipelagos of the North Sea: * Frisian Islands (or Wadden Islands) ** Danish Wadden Sea Islands ** East Frisian Islands ** North Frisian Islands ** North Frisian Barrier Islands **
West Frisian Islands The West Frisian Islands (; fry, Waadeilannen) are a chain of islands in the North Sea off the Dutch coast, along the edge of the Wadden Sea. They continue further east as the German East Frisian Islands and are part of the Frisian Islands. Fr ...
* Gothenburg Archipelago * Vega Islands (Vegaøyan)


Bering Strait

Archipelagos of the Bering Strait: * Diomede Islands


Indian Ocean

Archipelagos of the Indian Ocean:


Along the coast of Africa

* Bajuni Islands *
Cargados Carajos Shoals It is highly likely that the name Saint Brandon was derived from the French sailors and corsairs that sailed to and from Britanny, after a town called Saint-Brandan. It has since been Anglicised to Saint Brandon and is also known as the Cargado ...
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Choazil Islands The Choazil Islands, also known as the Malandzamia Islands, are two small islands located off the shore of Mtsamboro, northern Mayotte in the Indian Ocean. To the northwest is the larger Chissioua Mtsamboro (widely known as Zamburu Island). This ...
(Malandzamia Islands) * Comoro Islands * Glorioso Islands *
Khuriya Muriya Islands The Khuriya Muriya Islands (also ''Kuria Muria'', ''Kooria Mooria'', ''Curia Muria'') ( ar, جزر خوريا موريا; transliterated: ''Juzur Khurīyā Murīyā'' or ''Khūryān Mūryān)'' are a group of five islands in the Arabian Sea, off t ...
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Mascarene Islands The Mascarene Islands (, ) or Mascarenes or Mascarenhas Archipelago is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar consisting of the islands belonging to the Republic of Mauritius as well as the French department of Réunion. Thei ...
* Mayotte *
Quirimbas Islands 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 32 islands, including Ibo, Matemo, Medjumbe, Quirimba, Metundo, Quisiva ...
* Seychelles **
African Banks The African Banks are the uninhabited northernmost islands of the Amirante Islands, of the Outer Islands of the Republic of Seychelles, in the western Indian Ocean. History The islands were discovered in 1797 and named Îlots Africains by Adm ...
** Aldabra Group ** La Digue *** Inner Islands ** Outer Islands *** Alphonse Group *** Amirante Islands *** Farquhar Group * Socotra Archipelago * Zanzibar Archipelago * Mafia Archipelago * Songosongo Archipelago


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Ad Dimaniyat Islands The Ad Dimaniyat Islands is a protected area in Oman. The Nature Reserve is located in Wilayat AlSeeb in the Muscat Governorate and lies about off the coast of Barka ( west of Muscat, the capital). It is composed of nine islands with a total are ...
* Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands **
Andaman Islands The Andaman Islands () are an archipelago in the northeastern Indian Ocean about southwest off the coasts of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region. Together with the Nicobar Islands to their south, the Andamans serve as a maritime boundary between th ...
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Ritchie's Archipelago Ritchie's Archipelago is a cluster of smaller islands which lie east of Great Andaman, the main island group of the Andaman Islands. The Islands belong to the South Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman ...
*** Twin Islands **
Nicobar Islands The Nicobar Islands are an archipelagic island chain in the eastern Indian Ocean. They are located in Southeast Asia, northwest of Aceh on Sumatra, and separated from Thailand to the east by the Andaman Sea. Located southeast of the Indian s ...
* Ashmore and Cartier Islands * Cocos (Keeling) Islands *
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* Langkawi * Lakshadweep (Laccadives) *
Logo Islands The Logo Islands are the two identical artificial islands built in the shape a palm leaf. The islands were built of 4.9 million cubic feet of sand. The design is the logo of the LOGO Palm Developers A logo (abbreviation of logotype; ) is a ...
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Logo Islands The Logo Islands are the two identical artificial islands built in the shape a palm leaf. The islands were built of 4.9 million cubic feet of sand. The design is the logo of the LOGO Palm Developers A logo (abbreviation of logotype; ) is a ...
(other artificial one) * Maldives * Mentawai Islands * Nurana Islands * Mergui Archipelago * Palm Jumeirah (artificial) *
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Along the coast of Australia

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Bonaparte Archipelago The Bonaparte Archipelago is a group of islands off the coast of Western Australia in the Kimberley region, within the Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley. The closest inhabited place is Kalumburu located about to the east of the island group. Th ...
* Buccaneer Archipelago * Houtman Abrolhos ** Wallabi Group ** Easter Group ** Pelsaert Group * Lacepede Islands *
Lamu Archipelago The Lamu Archipelago is located in the Indian Ocean close to the northern coast of Kenya, to which it belongs. The islands lie between the towns of Lamu and Kiunga, near the Coast Province. It is a part of Lamu District. The largest of the isl ...
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Mary Anne Group The Mary Anne Group is an archipelago off the north west coast of Western Australia, nominally located at 21º17'S 115º30'E. Together with the Mangrove Islands and Passage Islands, it is part of a long chain of near-shore islands stretching fr ...
* Recherche Archipelago


Outlying archipelagos

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Chagos Archipelago The Chagos Archipelago () or Chagos Islands (formerly the Bassas de Chagas, and later the Oil Islands) is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean about 500 kilometres (310 mi) south of the Maldives archi ...
** Eagle Islands *
Crozet Islands The Crozet Islands (french: Îles Crozet; or, officially, ''Archipel Crozet'') are a sub-Antarctic archipelago of small islands in the southern Indian Ocean. They form one of the five administrative districts of the French Southern and Antarcti ...
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Kerguelen Islands The Kerguelen Islands ( or ; in French commonly ' but officially ', ), also known as the Desolation Islands (' in French), are a group of islands in the sub-Antarctic constituting one of the two exposed parts of the Kerguelen Plateau, a large ...
* Prince Edward Islands


Red Sea

Archipelagos in the Red Sea: * Dahlak Archipelago *
Farasan Islands The Farasan Islands ( ar, جزر فرسان; transliterated: ) are a small group of coral islands approximately 40 km off the coast of Jizan in the Red Sea, belonging to Saudi Arabia. The government provides free ferry rides twice a day to Fa ...
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Hanish Islands The Hanish Islands ( ar, جزر حنيش, ) is an archipelago in the Red Sea consisting of a trio of major islands at the centre of an array of smaller islets and rocks. The three major islands are the northern Zuqar Island, the southern Great ...
*Hurghada Archipelago * Sa'ad ad-Din Islands * Seven Brothers Islands * Suakin Archipelago *
Zubair Group Zubair Group, Al Zubair Group or Zubayr Group ( ar, مجموعة جزر الزبير, or simply: ) is a group of 10 major volcanic islands, on top of an underlying shield volcano in the Red Sea, which reach a height of 191 m (627 ft) ...


Pacific Ocean

Archipelagos of the Pacific Ocean:


Along the coast of the Americas

* Aleutian Islands ** Andreanof Islands **Bolshoi Islands **
Delarof Islands The Delarof Islands ( ale, Naahmiĝun tanangis; russian: Острова Деларова) (ca. ) are a group of small islands at the extreme western end of the Andreanof Islands group in the central Aleutian Islands, Alaska. The Delarofs consist ...
** Fox Islands **
Islands of Four Mountains Islands of Four Mountains (russian: Четырёхсопочные острова) is an island grouping of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, United States. The chain includes, from west to east, Amukta, Chagulak, Yunaska, Herbert, Carlisle, ...
** Komandorski Islands ** Kudomin Islands ** Near Islands **
Rat Islands The Rat Islands ( ale, Qax̂um tanangis, russian: Крысьи острова) are a group of American High islands, volcanic islands in the Aleutian Islands in southwestern Alaska, between Buldir Island and the Near Islands group to its west, ...
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Semidi Islands The Semidi Islands are a group of islands of the state of Alaska, United States, lying offshore in the Gulf of Alaska. The islands are part of Kodiak Island Borough and are located southwest of Kodiak Island, about halfway between the Alaska Peni ...
** Shumagin Islands * Alexander Archipelago * Archipelagoes of Patagonia ** Guaitecas Archipelago ''( Archipiélago de las Guaitecas)'' **
Guayaneco Archipelago The Guayaneco Archipelago ( es, Archipiélago Guayaneco) is an archipelago in southern Chile. It consists of 2 main islands, :es:Isla Wager (to the east), :es:Isla Byron (to the west), and many smaller islands. It was heavily glaciated during ...
''( Archipiélago Guayaneco)'' ** Chonos Archipelago ''( Archipiélago de los Chonos)'' ** Diego Ramírez Islands ''( Islas Diego Ramírez)'' **Katalalixar Archipielago **Madre de Dios Archipelago ** Pearl Islands ** Queen Adelaide Archipelago ''( Archipelago de La Reina Adelaida)'' ** Tierra del Fuego ''( Archipiélago de Tierra del Fuego)'' ** Wollaston Islands ''( Islas Wollaston)'' **Wellington Archipelago *Baranof Archipelago *
Barren Islands The Barren Islands (Sugpiaq: ''Usu'unaat'') are an archipelago in Alaska in the United States. They are the northernmost islands of the Kodiak Archipelago. The largest island of the group is Ushagat Island. The islands have a combined land area ...
*Bird Rocks * Broughton Archipelago * Channel Islands of California * Chiloé Archipelago ''( Archipiélago de Chiloé)'' * Chinchas Islands * Chriswell Islands * Coronado Islands * Desventuradas Islands * Easter Island *
Farallon Islands The Farallon Islands, or Farallones (from the Spanish ''farallón'' meaning "pillar" or "sea cliff"), are a group of islands and sea stacks in the Gulf of the Farallones, off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States. The island ...
*Flat Islands * Galápagos Islands ''( Archipiélago de Colón)'' *Goose Group * Gulf Islands * Haida Gwaii *
Islas Secas Islas Secas ('Dry Islands') is a luxury resort set on a 14-island archipelago in the Gulf of Chiriquí on the Pacific coast of Panama, launched in December 2018. It is located 33 nautical miles from the town of Punta Tierra, Chorcha. Islas Secas c ...
* Juan Fernández Islands *Minx Islands *Pleiades Islands * Pribilof Islands * Renell Islands * Revillagigedo Islands * San Juan Islands


Along the coast of Asia

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Amakusa Islands , which means "Heaven's Grass," is a series of islands off the west coast of Kyushu, the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan. Geography The largest island of the Amakusa group is Shimoshima, which is 26.5 miles long and 13.5 m ...
*Banzhou Archipelago *
Chàm Islands The Cham Islands ( vi, Cù lao Chàm) constitute a group of 8 small islands of Quảng Nam, which form a part of the Cu Lao Cham Marine Park, a world Biosphere Reserve recognized by UNESCO, in the South China Sea (East Sea) in Vietnam. The islan ...
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Côn Đảo The Côn Đảo ("Côn Island") are an archipelago of Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in the Southeast region of Vietnam, and also a district () of this province. Geography Situated about from Vũng Tàu and from Ho Chi Minh City, the group ...
*Changsan Archipelago *
Chastye Islands The Chastye Islands (russian: Острова Частые; Ostrova Chastye) is an island group in the southern end of the Sea of Okhotsk. It is located in Tatar Strait, between the mainland shore and the western coast of Sakhalin. Although there ar ...
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Coco Islands The Coco Islands ( my, ကိုကိုးကျွန်း) are a small group of islands in the northeastern Bay of Bengal. They are part of the Yangon Region of Myanmar. The islands are located south of the city of Yangon. Coco Island gr ...
*Chumphon Islands *
Eugénie Archipelago The Empress Eugénie Archipelago (Russian: ''Архипелаг императрицы Евгении''), commonly known as the Eugénie Archipelago, is an archipelago in Peter the Great Gulf in the Sea of Japan, along the southern coast of Primors ...
*Fishers' Islands * Japanese archipelago (including Sakhalin) ** Bonin Islands ** Habomi Islands ** Nanpō Islands ** Ryukyu Archipelago *** Okinawa Islands **** Aguni Islands ****Iheya-Izena Islands **** Kerama Islands ****
Yokatsu Islands The Yokatsu Islands (与勝諸島, ''Yokatsu-shotō'') are a group of Island, islands located near the Katsuren Peninsula of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It consists of both inhabited and uninhabited islets. Islands The Yokatsu Islands consist of ...
*** Sakishima Islands **** Miyako Islands **** Yaeyama Islands ***
Satsunan Islands The is a geopolitical name for a group of islands that forms the northern part of the Ryukyu Islands. The whole island group belongs to Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Major islands * Satsunan Islands ** Ōsumi Islands with: *** Tanegashima, Yakus ...
**** Amami Islands **** Tokara Islands **** Ōsumi Islands *** Daitō Islands * Indonesian Archipelago ( Island country) ***
Asia Islands The Asia Islands ( id, Kepulauan Asia) are a group of three small islands in the open sea north of the Raja Ampat Archipelago of eastern Indonesia. They are located north of the island of Waigeo, around north of the last of the Ayu Islands (bo ...
*** Ayu Islands *** Bacan Islands *** Balabalagan Islands *** Banda Arc *** Banda Islands *** Banggai Islands ****
Bowokan Islands Bowokan Islands (also Treko Islands, ''Kepulauan Bowokan'' or ''Treko'') is the southern group of smaller islands within Banggai Islands chain of Banggai Regency of Central Sulawesi. The largest island is named Bowokan Island. Salue Timpaus Strai ...
*** Bangka Belitung Islands ***
Banyak Islands The Banyak Islands (sometimes spelled Banjak Islands) are a group of inhabited islands located between Simeulue and Nias off the western coast of Sumatra in Indonesia's Aceh Province. Surveys of the area approximate around 71 islands and additi ...
*** Barat Daya Islands **** Babar Islands ***
Boo Islands . Boo Islands () are a small group of islands in the westernmost part of Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. The main island is Boo Besar, others include Boo Kecil Boo is an onomatopoeic word for a loud, startling sound, as an exclamation intended ...
*** Derawan Islands ***Erà Islands *** Gili Islands *** Gorong Archipelago ***
Hinako Islands Hinako is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: Actors *Hinako Saeki, Japanese actress * Hinako Sakurai, Japanese model *Hinako Sano, Japanese actress Artists and musicians *Hinako Ashihara, Japanese manga artist ...
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Kangean Islands The Kangean Islands or simply Kangean (Indonesian language, Indonesian: ''Kepulauan Kangean'') is a collective name referred to the area of Kangean Island, Kangean (the main island) and its surrounding islands lie in the north of Bali Isla ...
*** Karakaralong Islands ***
Karimata Islands The Karimata Islands are a chain of small islands off the west coast of Indonesian Borneo, the largest of which is (Pulau) Karimata, being about across (east-west). It is part of Kayong Utara Regency of West Kalimantan province in Indonesia. Kar ...
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Karimun Islands Karimunjawa Islands or Karimunjava Islands ( id, Kepulauan Karimunjawa) is an archipelago of 27 islands in the Java Sea, Indonesia, approximately 80 kilometres northwest of Jepara. They have a total land area of 71.2 km2. The main island i ...
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Kepulauan Mentawai The Mentawai Islands Regency are a chain of about seventy islands and islets approximately off the western coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. They cover 6,033.76 km2 and had a population of 76,173 at the 2010 Census and 87,623 at the 2020 Census. Sib ...
*** Krakatoa Archipelago ***
Kuran Islands The Kuran Islands (''Kepulauan Kuran'') are a group of small scattered islands, and part of the Yapen Islands archipelago in Papua Province of Western New Guinea, northeastern Indonesia. They are located off the southwestern coast of Yapen Island ...
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Laut Kecil Islands Laut Kecil Islands is an archipelago in the south of Borneo. Administratively, the islands belong to South Kalimantan province of Indonesia. The main islands include Matasiri, Kalambau, and Kadapongan. Archipelagoes of Indonesia {{SKaliman ...
*** Lease Islands *** Leti Islands *** Lingga Islands ***
Lucipara Islands Lucipara Islands are about 50 km west of Penyu Islands, both of which belong to Molucca Islands. They are directly south of Manipa Strait Manipa Island is an island in West Seram Regency, Maluku Province, Indonesia. It is located 8 k ...
*** Maluku Islands **** Aru Islands **** Kai Islands ****
Penyu Islands Penyu Islands is part of Molucca Islands, located at the south of Strait of Manipa near Ceram. To the west is Lucipara Islands, to the east is Banda Islands and the south Barat Daya Islands The Barat Daya Islands ( id, Kepulauan Barat Daya) ...
**** Watubela Archipelago ***
Masalembu Islands The Masalembu Islands (Indonesian:''Kepulauan Mesalembu'') lie in the Java Sea to the north of Madura, about halfway between Madura and Borneo. They administratively form Masalembu District (''kecamatan'') of Sumenep Regency of Madura, in th ...
*** Mentawai Islands Regency ***
Nias Islands Nias ( id, Pulau Nias, Nias language: ''Tanö Niha'') (sometimes called Little Sumatra in English) is an island located off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. Nias is also the name of the archipelago () of which the island is the centre, ...
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Batu Islands The Batu Islands are an archipelago of Indonesia located in the Indian Ocean, off the west coast of Sumatra, between Nias and Siberut. The three primary islands, of approximately equal size, are Pini, Tanahmasa, and Tanahbala. There are seventy ...
*** Obi Islands ***
Spermonde Archipelago The Spermonde Archipelago (also known as the Sangkarang or Pabbiring Archipelago) is a group of around 120 islands off the southwest coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia, located within the Coral Triangle, between the southern arc of Sulawesi and the Str ...
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Fam Islands Fam Islands ( id, Kepulauan Fam) are a group of islands in the Raja Ampat Archipelago, which are administered as part of the Indonesian province of Southwest Papua , Southwest Papua. The main islands are Fam, Penemu (''Fam Besar''), Inus and Yar. ...
*** Riau Archipelago **** Anambas Islands **** Natuna Islands ***** Bunguran Islands *****
South Natuna South Natuna (Indonesian: ''Natuna Selatan'') is an archipelago off the west coast of the island of Borneo, the southernmost group of the Natuna Islands in the South China Sea. Geographically it is part of the Tudjuh Archipelago, and administrativ ...
**** Riau Islands (separate from the Riau Archipelago) ***
Sabalana Islands The Sabalana Islands (''Kepulauan Sabalana'') are an Atoll in the Flores Sea in Indonesia, lying just north of the Lesser Sunda Islands, closer to Sumbawa than Sulawesi. They are west of Tanahjampea Island and north-east of the Tengah Islands (C ...
*** Sangihe Islands *** Schouten Islands (Known as Biak Islands and Geelvink Islands) *** Selayar Islands ****Macan Islands ****
Taka Bonerate Islands The Taka Bonerate Islands in Indonesia consist of 28 atoll islands (including Latondu, Rajuni, Tinabo, Pasi Telu, and Taka Lumungan), together with the larger island of Kayuadi lying west of the atoll. They lie about 3 to 4 hours by boat from Bente ...
*** Sula Islands Also Known As Xulla Islands ***
Sunda Islands The Sunda Islands ( id, Kepulauan Sunda) are a group of islands in the Malay Archipelago.Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sunda Islands" . ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. They consist of the Greater Sunda ...
**** Greater Sunda Islands ****
Lesser Sunda Islands The Lesser Sunda Islands or nowadays known as Nusa Tenggara Islands ( id, Kepulauan Nusa Tenggara, formerly ) are an archipelago in Maritime Southeast Asia, north of Australia. Together with the Greater Sunda Islands to the west they make up t ...
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Solor Archipelago The Solor Archipelago () is a group of islands in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, lying to the east of Flores and to the west of the Alor Strait and the Alor Archipelago. To the north is the west part of the Banda Sea, while to the south ...
***** Tanimbar Islands *** Talaud Islands ***
Tayandu Islands The Tayandu or Tayando Islands (Indonesian: ''Kepulauan Tayando'') are a group of low-lying islands just west of the larger Kai Islands of Maluku, Indonesia. The main group consists of Tayando (with villages Yamru and Ohoiel), Walir, Heniar (wi ...
*** Tengah Islands *** Thousand Islands (Indonesia) *** Togian Islands ***
Tudjuh Archipelago The Tudjuh Archipelago (, lit. "Seven Islands")"Kepulauan Tudjuh: Indonesia ...
**** Anambas Islands ****
Badas Islands Badas Islands is a group of islands in the Tudjuh Archipelago in the South China Sea between the Malaysian mainland to the west and the island of Borneo to the east. Administratively it is part of Bintan Regency within the Riau Islands province ...
**** Natuna Islands ***** Bunguran Islands *****
South Natuna South Natuna (Indonesian: ''Natuna Selatan'') is an archipelago off the west coast of the island of Borneo, the southernmost group of the Natuna Islands in the South China Sea. Geographically it is part of the Tudjuh Archipelago, and administrativ ...
**** Tambelan Archipelago ***
Tukangbesi Islands Tukangbesi Islands, is a group of islands off the coast of Sulawesi immediately east of Buton island in the Banda Sea region, and part of Sulawesi Tenggara. "Tukang Besi" literally means "iron worker" or "blacksmith" in Indonesian. There is a T ...
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Wakatobi Regency Wakatobi Regency is a group of ''ca.'' 150 islands forming an administrative regency located in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. The four largest islands are Wangi-wangi, Kaledupa, Binongko and Tomia. The capital of the regency is located on Wangi- ...
***Widi Islands *
Kinmen Islands Kinmen, alternatively known as Quemoy, is a group of islands governed as a county by the Republic of China (Taiwan), off the southeastern coast of mainland China. It lies roughly east of the city of Xiamen in Fujian, from which it is separate ...
*Koh Rong Archipelago *
Korean Archipelago The Korean Archipelago is a group of about 3,500 islands in the South Sea of Korea, just off the coast of southwestern Korean Peninsula. The largest islands are Jindo, Namhaedo and Geojedo, each more than in area.Kuril Islands * Liancourt Rocks *Miaodao Archipelago ** Philippine Islands (
Island nation An island country, island state or an island nation is a country whose primary territory consists of one or more islands or parts of islands. Approximately 25% of all independent countries are island countries. Island countries are historically ...
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Baco Islands The Baco Islands are a chain of three small wooded islands in the Philippines, located off the northern coast of Mindoro island. The Baco Islands are located off the coast of Baco, Oriental Mindoro, in the Verde Island Passage and are administere ...
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Batanes Batanes, officially the Province of Batanes ( ivv, Provinsiya nu Batanes; Ilocano: ''Probinsia ti Batanes''; fil, Lalawigan ng Batanes, ), is an archipelagic province in the Philippines, administratively part of the Cagayan Valley region. It i ...
*** Babuyan Islands ****
Balintang Islands Balintang Islands are a small group of rocky islands in the middle of Balintang Channel, in Luzon Strait, northern Philippines. The islands are almost equidistant to both Babuyan Island, Cagayan, which lies about to the southwest, and Sabtang I ...
*** Calamian Islands ****Semirana Islands *** Cuyo Archipelago ***
Mangsee Islands The Mangsee Islands are a group of two small islands in the far south west portion of the Philippines. The group comprises North Mangsee Island and South Mangsee Island. Together they form a barangay within the Balabac, a municipality of the pr ...
*** Spratly Islands *** Sulu Archipelago ****Sangboy Islands ***Tangawayan Islands ***Tinalisayan Islets *** Visayas **** Camotes Islands ****Coaman Islets ****Cuatro Islands **** Dinagat Islands *****Cabilan Islands **** Gigantes Islands **** Olango Island Group * Ogasawara Islands * Penghu Islands *Poulo Wai islands * Rimsky-Korsakov Archipelago *
Shantar Islands The Shantar Islands (russian: Шантарские острова, translit=Shantarskiye ostrova) are a group of fifteen islands located off the northwestern shore of the Sea of Okhotsk east of Uda Gulf and north of Academy Bay. Most of the isla ...
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Shengsi Islands The Shengsi Islands or Archipelago () are part of the Zhoushan Archipelago and located south of the mouth of the Yangtze (east of Hangzhou Bay). They comprise 394 islands, each with an area larger than , but of which just 18 are inhabitable. The l ...
* South China Sea Islands ** Paracel Islands ***
Amphitrite Group The Paracel Islands, also known as the Xisha Islands () and the Hoang Sa Archipelago ( vi, Quần đảo Hoàng Sa, lit=Yellow Sand Archipelago), are a disputed archipelago in the South China Sea. The archipelago includes about 130 small coral ...
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Crescent Group The Paracel Islands, also known as the Xisha Islands () and the Hoang Sa Archipelago ( vi, Quần đảo Hoàng Sa, lit=Yellow Sand Archipelago), are a disputed archipelago in the South China Sea. The archipelago includes about 130 small coral ...
****Duncan Islands ** Spratly Islands **
Zhongsha Islands The Zhongsha Islands is a Chinese term for a collection of two skerries, many entirely submerged banks, seamounts, and shoals in the South China Sea. There are in fact, no islands in the Macclesfield Bank, the main part of Zhongsha. The Scarbor ...
*Taehwa-Do *
Volcano Islands The or are a group of three Japanese-governed islands in Micronesia. They lie south of the Ogasawara Islands and belong to the municipality of Ogasawara, Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. The islands are all active volcanoes lying atop ...
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Yam Islands The Yam Islands, Yamsky Islands or Yamskiye Islands (Ямские острова; Yamskiye Ostrova), is a small island group located close to the coast in the northern Sea of Okhotsk. Administratively the Yam Islands belong to the Magadan Oblast ...


Oceania


Australia

* Archipelago of the Recherche *
Beagle Islands __NOTOC__ Picton, Lennox and Nueva () form a group of three islands (and their islets) at the extreme southern tip of South America, in the Chilean commune of Cabo de Hornos in Antártica Chilena Province, Magallanes and Antártica Chilena Regi ...
*Bird Isles *
Bonaparte Archipelago The Bonaparte Archipelago is a group of islands off the coast of Western Australia in the Kimberley region, within the Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley. The closest inhabited place is Kalumburu located about to the east of the island group. Th ...
* Breaksea Islands * Buccaneer Archipelago * Bustard Islands *Celery Top Islands *Corkwood Islands * Crocodile Islands * Dampier Archipelago * Easter Group *
Fairfax Islands Fairfax Islands is a pair of small coral cays, both of which have been used as a bombing range. They are located near the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern Great Barrier Reef, due east of Gladstone, Queensland, Australia, and north of the ...
*Fig Islands *Fisherman Islands * Furneaux Group *Glennie Group * Governor Islands *Hakea Islands *High Cliffy Islands * Home Islands * Hunter Islands * Islands on the Great Barrier Reef **Sir James Smith Group ***Anchor Islands ** Barrow Islands **Bird Isles ** Brook Islands **Bunker Group **Capricorn Group **Duke Islands **
Fairfax Islands Fairfax Islands is a pair of small coral cays, both of which have been used as a bombing range. They are located near the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern Great Barrier Reef, due east of Gladstone, Queensland, Australia, and north of the ...
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Family Islands Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Ideall ...
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Frankland Islands Frankland Group is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 1353 km northwest of Brisbane. The five continental islands of the Frankland Group are High Island, Normanby Island, Mabel Island, Round Island and Russell Island, which lie ...
** Home Islands ** Hoskyn Islands **Ingot Islets **Jeffreys Rocks **Kippel Islands **Moonboom Islands **Red Cliff Islands ** Repulse Islands ** Torres Strait Islands ***
Duncan Islands The Duncan Islands are a group of islands in the Torres Strait Islands archipelago, northwest of the Bramble Channel of Torres Strait in Queensland, Australia. The islands are situated north of Thursday Island and approximately southwest of Bad ...
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Turtle Group Turtle Group is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 1,634 km northwest of Brisbane. See also * Protected areas of Queensland Queensland is the second largest state in Australia. It contains around 500 separate protected area ...
**Two Brothers ** Two Islands ** Whitsunday Islands * Investigator Group ** Pearson Isles * Kent Group *Kingsmill Islands *Leschenaultia Islands *Louis Islands *
Maatsuyker Islands The Maatsuyker Islands are a group of islands and rocks off the south coast of Tasmania, Australia. Maatsuyker Island is the southernmost island of the group and of the Australian continental shelf. There are exposed rocks further sout ...
*Mangrove Islands *Mart Islands *
Middle Pasco Islands The Middle Pasco Islands comprise two similarly sized adjacent granite islands, with a combined area of 8.37 ha, in south-eastern Australia. They form part of Tasmania’s Pasco Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait off the north-west co ...
*Minnieritchie Islands *
Montebello Islands The Montebello Islands, also rendered as the Monte Bello Islands, are an archipelago of around 174 small islands (about 92 of which are named) lying north of Barrow Island (Western Australia), Barrow Island and off the Pilbara region of We ...
*Moonboon Islands * Mud Islands *Mulga Islands * North East Isles * Nuyts Archipelago * Pearson Islands * Pelsaert Group *
Peron Islands The Peron Islands are two low-lying islands off the west coast of the Northern Territory of Australia. They are about 5 km off Channel Point. Channel Point forms the northern end of Anson Bay which includes the mouth of the Daly Riv ...
*Quandong Islands * Saint Alouarm Islands * Sir Graham Moore Islands *
Sir Joseph Banks Group The Sir Joseph Banks Group is an archipelago in the Australian state of South Australia located in Spencer Gulf about off the eastern coast of the Eyre Peninsula. It consists of 21 islands of which eighteen are in the Sir Joseph Banks Group Co ...
*Smith Islands *The English Company Islands * Tiwi Islands *Tory Islands *Twin Peak Islands * Vernon Islands * Wallabi Group * Wellesley Islands ** South Wellesley Islands * Whitsunday Islands


Melanesia

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Bismarck Archipelago 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. Its area is about 50,000 square km. History The first inhabitants o ...
** Admiralty Islands **Arawe Islands ** Duke of York Islands ** Feni Islands ** Hermit Archipelago **
Kaniet Islands The Kaniet Islands are the easternmost group islands within the Western Islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. It consists four islands and one islet. Their coordinates are , located north-east of the Hermit Islands. Sae Island is ...
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Lihir Group Lihir Group is an island group in Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, I ...
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Ninigo Islands The Ninigo Islands are a group of 31 islands within the Western Islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. Their coordinates are . History The first settlers on the Ninigo Islands were the Melanesians. Other groups later settled in ...
** Schouten Islands **
St Matthias Islands The St Matthias Islands (also known as the Mussau islands) are a small archipelago group of islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, in northern Papua New Guinea. They are within New Ireland Province. Geography There are at least 10 islands. The larg ...
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Tabar Group The Tabar Group is an island group in Papua New Guinea, located north of New Ireland. It is a part of the Bismarck Archipelago. The Tabar group consists of a short chain of three main islands - Tabar Island (a.k.a. Big Tabar) in the south, Ta ...
** Tami Islands **
Tanga Islands The Tanga Islands are an island group in Papua New Guinea, located north-east of New Ireland and part of the Bismarck Archipelago. Tanga is made up of four main islands — Boang, Maledok, Lif and Tefa — and a number of smaller, uninhabited i ...
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Vitu Islands The Vitu Islands are a volcanic group with an area of 37 sq mi (96 km²) located in the Bismarck Sea off New Britain, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. They are not technically part of the Bismarck Archipelago. Administratively they are par ...
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D'Entrecasteaux Islands 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 , has a total land area of approximately and is separated from the Papua New G ...
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Fiji Islands Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...
** Lau Islands (Also known as Lau Group, Eastern Group and Eastern Archipelago) ** Marmanuca Islands ** Moala Islands ** Rotuma Group **
Viti Levu Group The Viti Levu Group is an archipelago in Fiji consisting Viti Levu island and its outliers. Geography The group had an aggregate area of , and a population of 574,801 at the 1996 census. The outlying islands include: * Bau * Beqa * Nukulau * ...
** Yasawa Islands * Louisiade Archipelago **Bentley Islands ** Dumolin Islands *
New Caledonia ) , anthem = "" , image_map = New Caledonia on the globe (small islands magnified) (Polynesia centered).svg , map_alt = Location of New Caledonia , map_caption = Location of New Caledonia , mapsize = 290px , subdivision_type = Sovereign st ...
(Kanaky) ** Loyalty Islands * New Guinea * Shepherd Islands * Solomon Islands ** Solomon Islands (country) *** Duff Islands *** Santa Cruz Islands ***
Nggela Islands The Nggela Islands, also known as the Florida Islands, are a small island group in the Central Province of Solomon Islands, a sovereign state (since 1978) in the southwest Pacific Ocean. The chain is composed of four larger islands and about ...
*** New Georgia Islands *** Reef Islands *** Russell Islands *** Shortland Islands *** Treasurly Islands **
Northern Solomons Northern may refer to the following: Geography * North, a point in direction * Northern Europe, the northern part or region of Europe * Northern Highland, a region of Wisconsin, United States * Northern Province, Sri Lanka * Northern Range, a ...
( Bougainville) * Tonga **
Geography of Tonga Located in Oceania, Tonga is a small archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, directly south of Samoa and about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand. It has 169 islands, 36 of them inhabited, which are in three main groups – Vavaʻu ...
* Trobiand Islands * Vanuatu (New Hebrides) ** Banks Islands ** Maskelyne Islands ** Mathew and Hunter Islands (Disputed between Vanuatu and France so it could be in here or not) ** Shephard Islands **
Torres Islands The Torres Islands are in the Torba Province of the country of Vanuatu, and is that country’s the northernmost island group. The chain of islands that make up this micro-archipelago straddles the broader cultural boundary between Island Melane ...


Micronesia (Subdivision of Oceania not country)

* Caroline Islands * Faichuk Islands **Nomiwisofo Group *
Gilbert Islands The Gilbert Islands ( gil, Tungaru;Reilly Ridgell. ''Pacific Nations and Territories: The Islands of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia.'' 3rd. Ed. Honolulu: Bess Press, 1995. p. 95. formerly Kingsmill or King's-Mill IslandsVery often, this n ...
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Hall Islands The Hall Islands are a group of two large atolls in the northern part of the state of Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia. In the broader sense, a third and smaller atoll is included. Nomwin, the western atoll, and Murilo, the eastern one, a ...
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Line Islands The Line Islands, Teraina Islands or Equatorial Islands (in Gilbertese, ''Aono Raina'') are a chain of 11 atolls (with partly or fully enclosed lagoons) and coral islands (with a surrounding reef) in the central Pacific Ocean, south of the Hawa ...
*Makur Islands *
Mariana Islands The Mariana Islands (; also the Marianas; in Chamorro: ''Manislan Mariånas'') are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fifteen longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, betw ...
* Marshall Islands **
Ralik Chain The Ralik Chain ( Marshallese: , ) is a chain of islands within the island nation of the Marshall Islands. Ralik means "sunset". It is west of the Ratak Chain. In 1999 the total population of the Ralik islands was 19,915. Christopher Loeak, who b ...
** Ratak Chain *Mortlock Islands (
Nomoi Islands The Nomoi Islands, also known as the Mortlock Islands, are a group of three atolls in the state of Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia. They are located about southeast of Chuuk Lagoon. Islands The Mortlock Islands are Ettal, Namoluk, Ta, N ...
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Upper Mortlock Islands The Nomoi Islands, also known as the Mortlock Islands, are a group of three atolls in the state of Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia. They are located about southeast of Chuuk Lagoon. Islands The Mortlock Islands are Ettal, Namoluk, Ta, N ...
* Palau **
Rock Islands The Rock Islands of Palau, also called ''Chelbacheb'', are a collection of several hundred small limestone or coral uprises in the Southern Lagoon of Palau between Koror and Peleliu, now an incorporated part of Koror State. There are between 25 ...
** Southwest Islands * Phoenix Islands *
Senyavin Islands The Senyavin Islands belong to the Federated States of Micronesia. They consist of a larger volcanic Pohnpei Island (about 334 km2) and two small atolls Ant and Pakin. History On Pohnpei, pre-colonial history is divided into three eras: ...


Polynesia

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Adams Rocks Adams Rocks () is a pair of large rock outcrops that overlook the inner part of Block Bay from northward, located west of Mount June, Phillips Mountains, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Antarctic Service (USAS) (1939 ...
* Aldermen Islands * Antipodes Islands * Auckland Islands *
Bishop and Clerk Islets The Bishop and Clerk Islets are a group of islets, lying south of Macquarie Island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. They are, with Macquarie Island, part of the Australian state of Tasmania. The group consists of Bishop Islet, 24 smaller ...
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Bounty Islands The Bounty Islands ( mi, Moutere Hauriri; "Island of angry wind") are a small group of 13 uninhabited granite islets and numerous rocks, with a combined area of , in the South Pacific Ocean. Territorially part of New Zealand, they lie about e ...
**Main Group **Centre Group **East Group * Campbell Islands * Chatham Islands ** Forty-Fours ** The Sisters * Cook Islands (Hervey Islands) ** Northern Cook Islands **
Southern Cook Islands The Cook Islands can be divided into two groups: the Southern Cook Islands and the Northern Cook Islands. The country is located in Oceania, in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand. From March to Decembe ...
* Folly Islands *
French Polynesia )Territorial motto: ( en, "Great Tahiti of the Golden Haze") , anthem = , song_type = Regional anthem , song = " Ia Ora 'O Tahiti Nui" , image_map = French Polynesia on the globe (French Polynesia centered).svg , map_alt = Location of Frenc ...
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Acteon Group The Acteon Group (Groupe Actéon) is a rather isolated and uninhabited subgroup in the far southeast of the Tuamotu atoll group in French Polynesia. It is located about east-southeast of Tahiti at latitude: 21° 17' 60 S, longitude: 136° 29' ...
** Austral Islands ** Gambier Islands ** Marquesas **
Rurutu Rūrutu is the northernmost island in the Austral archipelago of French Polynesia, and the name of a commune consisting solely of that island. It is situated south of Tahiti. Its land area is .Society Islands *** Îles du vent (Windward Islands) *** Îles sous le vent (Leeward Islands) ** Tuamotus *** Disappointment Islands ***
Duke of Gloucester Islands The Duke of Gloucester Islands (french: Îles du Duc de Gloucester) is a subgroup of the Tuamotu group in French Polynesia. They are located southeast of Tahiti and south of the main Tuamotu atoll cluster and are rather isolated. Atolls The Duke ...
*** King George islands ***
Palliser Islands The Palliser Islands or Pallisers are a subgroup of the Tuamotu group in French Polynesia. They are located in the very northwest of the main group of atolls. Atolls The group includes: *Apataki *Arutua *Fakarava *Kaukura *Mataiva *Rangiroa *Maka ...
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Raeffsky Islands The Raeffsky Islands or Raevski Islands (french: Îles Raéffsky or ''Îles Raevski'') is a subgroup with just over 3000 people in the Tuamotu group in French Polynesia. They are located roughly in the central area of the main Tuamotu atoll clus ...
*** Two Group Islands **Tubuai Group *
Hawaiian Islands The Hawaiian Islands ( haw, Nā Mokupuni o Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaii in the south to northernmost Kur ...
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Northwestern Hawaiian Islands The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands or Leeward Hawaiian Islands are a series of islands and atolls in the Hawaiian island chain located northwest (in some cases, far to the northwest) of the islands of Kauai and Niihau. Politically, they are all p ...
*** French Frigate Shoals ***
Gardner Pinnacles The Gardner Pinnacles ( haw, Pūhāhonu) are two barren rock outcrops surrounded by a reef and located in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands at . The volcano is northwest of Honolulu and from French Frigate Shoals. The total area of the two ...
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Judge and Clerk Islets The Judge and Clerk Islets are small islands, with a total land and reef area of no more than , lying north of Macquarie Island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. They are, with Macquarie Island, part of Tasmania, Australia. They are in the ...
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Mercury Islands The Mercury Islands are a group of seven islands off the northeast coast of New Zealand's North Island. They are located off the coast of the Coromandel Peninsula, and northeast of the town of Whitianga. History The Ngāti Karaua (a hapu of ...
* New Zealand (main chain) ** Bream Islands ** Cavalli Islands **
Chetwode Islands The Chetwode Islands are a group of islands near the Marlborough Sounds along the northern coast of the South Island of New Zealand. The group consists of Nukuwaiata Island (to the southwest), rising to , and Te Kakaho Island (highest elevatio ...
**Islands of the Hauraki Gulf *** Hen and Chicken Islands (NZ) ***Marotere Islands *** Mayne Islands ***
Mercury Islands The Mercury Islands are a group of seven islands off the northeast coast of New Zealand's North Island. They are located off the coast of the Coromandel Peninsula, and northeast of the town of Whitianga. History The Ngāti Karaua (a hapu of ...
*** Mokihinau Islands ***
Motukawao Islands The Motukawao Islands are the northernmost of several small groups of islands that lie in the Hauraki Gulf off the west coast of the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. They lie some to the southwest of Colville, and are uninhabited. The larges ...
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The Noises The Noises are a collection of islands lying northeast of Rakino Island in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf, off the coast of the North Island of New Zealand. The largest and most forested islands are Ōtata and Motuhoropapa; Orarapa and Maria/Ruapuke ...
** Kermadec Islands ** Poor Knights Islands ** Simmonds Islands ** Rurima Rocks *** Moutoki Islands *** Tokata Islands **
Open Bay Islands The Open Bay Islands are located in South Westland, off the south-west coast of the South Island of New Zealand. They consist of two main islands, Taumaka and Popotai, plus several smaller islets and rocks. They lie approximately offshore from ...
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Rangitoto Islands The Rangitoto Islands are a group of islands near the Marlborough Sounds along the northern coast of the South Island of New Zealand. The group consists of Wakaterepapanui Island ( high), Tinui Island ( high) and Puangiangi Island ( high). ...
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Solander Islands The Solander Islands / Hautere are three uninhabited volcanic islets toward the western end of the Foveaux Strait just beyond New Zealand's South Island. The Māori name ''Hautere'' translates into English as "flying wind". The islands lie so ...
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Sugar Loaf Islands The Sugar Loaf Islands (often Sugarloaf; mi, Ngā Motu, ) are a collection of five small uninhabited islands and several sea stacks near Port Taranaki, New Zealand. The largest, Moturoa Island, covers approximately . Motumahanga is the island fu ...
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Tata Islands Tata Islands are a pair of small uninhabited islands off the north coast of New Zealand's South Island. They are located some to the northwest of Tākaka in the southeast of Golden Bay close to Abel Tasman Point, and are contained within Abel Tas ...
** Three Kings Islands **
Tītī / Muttonbird Islands The Tītī / Muttonbird Islands are an island group near Stewart Island in the far south of New Zealand. The islands are not permanently inhabited, and are named for the traditional seasonal harvesting ("muttonbirding") of the sooty shearwater ...
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Pitcairn Islands The Pitcairn Islands (; Pitkern: '), officially the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, is a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the sole British Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean. The four isl ...
* Samoan Islands (Navigators' Islands) ** Aleipata Islands *** American Samoa (
Eastern Samoa American Samoa ( sm, Amerika Sāmoa, ; also ' or ') is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the island country of Samoa. Its location is centered on . It is east of the International ...
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Snares Islands The Snares Islands / Tini Heke, known colloquially as The Snares, is a group of uninhabited islands lying about 200 km south of New Zealand's South Island and to the south-southwest of Stewart Island / Rakiura. The Snares consist of the m ...
* Tonga Islands (Friendly Islands) * Tokelau (Union Islands) * Tuvalu (Ellice Islands) *
Wallis and Futuna Islands Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands (; french: Wallis-et-Futuna or ', Fakauvea and Fakafutuna: '), is a French island collectivity in the South Pacific, situated between Tuvalu to the northwest, Fij ...
** Horne Islands


Southern Ocean

Islands of the Southern Ocean: * Antarctica **
Aagaard Islands Aagaard Islands also known as Bjarne Aagaard Islands or Ostrova B'yarne-Ogor, are a group of small islands lying to the west of Proclamation Island and Cape Batterbee, near the coast of Antarctica in the Southern Ocean. They were discovered in ...
** Afuera Islands ** Allison Islands ** Al'bov Rocks **
Auster Islands The Auster Islands are a group of small islands at the northeast end of the Robinson Group, located north of Cape Daly, Mac. Robertson Land. They were mapped from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) surveys and from air ...
** Austin Rocks ** Azimuth Islands **
Balleny Islands The Balleny Islands () are a series of uninhabited islands in the Southern Ocean extending from 66°15' to 67°35'S and 162°30' to 165°00'E. The group extends for about in a northwest-southeast direction. The islands are heavily glaciated an ...
** Biscoe Islands ***
Adolph Islands The Adolph Islands are a group of small islands and rocks off northwest Watkins Island, in the Biscoe Islands. Mapped from air photos by Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) (1956–57). Named by United Kingdom ...
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Barcroft Islands The Barcroft Islands () are a group of small islands and rocks about in extent, lying close south of Watkins Island, Biscoe Islands. The group comprises St. Brigid, Irving, St. Isidore, Chakarov, Hervé, Montojo, Alcheh, Leppe and Bedford ...
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Bugge Islands The Bugge Islands are a small group of ice-covered islands lying close off the front of Wordie Ice Shelf and between northwest of Mount Guernsey, off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. They were first seen from the air and photographed ...
** Burkett Islands ** Colbeck Archipelago **
Dellbridge Islands The Dellbridge Islands are a group of four islands in the Antarctic, just south of Cape Evans and Ross Island. They are individually called Inaccessible Island, Tent Island, Big Razorback Island, and Little Razorback Island. They are named a ...
** Dumoulin Islands **
Faure Islands The Faure Islands (68° 06' S, 68° 52' W) are an archipelago west of Palmer Land in Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded b ...
** Flat Islands **
Hydrographer Islands The Hydrographer Islands are a prominent group of small islands in the bay just south of Sakellari Peninsula, Enderby Land, Antarctica. They were photographed by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (''Lena'') in March 1957, and by the Australian Natio ...
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Joinville Island group Joinville Island group is a group of antarctic islands, lying off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which Joinville Island group is separated by the Antarctic Sound. Joinville Island, located at , is the largest island of the ...
*** Danger Islands ** Law Islands **
Marshall Archipelago The Marshall Archipelago () is an extensive group of large ice-covered islands within the Sulzberger Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Discovery and name Several of the islands in the Marshall Archipelago were discovered and plotted by the Byrd Antarctic ...
**Mikkelsen Islands **Nøkkelholmane Islands **Palmer Archipelago ***Melchior Islands **Ross Archipelago **Smith Islands **South Orkney Islands ***Flensing Islands ***Gosling Islands ***Governor Islands (South Orkney Islands), Governor Islands ***Inaccessible Islands ***Larsen Islands ***Monk Islands ***Murray Islands ***Oliphant Islands ***Robertson Islands ***Whale Skerries **South Shetland Islands ***Aim Rocks ***Aitcho Islands (South Shetland Islands), Aitcho Islands ****Okol Rocks ***Alepu Rocks ***Atherton Islands ***Avren Rocks ***Dunbar Islands, Dubar Islands ***Meade Islands ***Onogur Islands ***Potmess Rocks ****Asses Ears (South Shetland Islands), Asses Ears ***Syrezol Rocks ***Vardim Rocks ***Voluyak Rocks ***Zed Islands **Wilhelm Archipelago ***Anagram Islands ***Argentine Islands ***Betbeder Islands ***Cruls Islands ***Dannebrog Islands ***Myriad Islands ***Roca Islands ***Vedel Islands ***Wauwermans Islands ****Vetrilo Rocks ****Yato Rocks ***Yalour Islands **Windmill Islands ***Swain Islands *Bouvet Island *Heard Island and McDonald Islands *
Kerguelen Islands The Kerguelen Islands ( or ; in French commonly ' but officially ', ), also known as the Desolation Islands (' in French), are a group of islands in the sub-Antarctic constituting one of the two exposed parts of the Kerguelen Plateau, a large ...
*South Georgia *South Sandwich Islands


Lakes and rivers

*Angai Archipelago *Archipelago of Saint-Pierre Lake *Apostle Islands *Beaver Archipelago *Channel Islands *Dome Islands *Lake Erie Islands *Hen and Chicken Islands (Raquette Lake), Hen and Chicken Islands (USA) *Hochelaga Archipelago *Mabanda Islets *Sandy Islands (Manitoba), Sandy Islands (Lake Winnipeg) *Sandy Islands (Wollaston Lake, Lake Wollasten) *Si Phan Don *Slate Islands (Ontario), Slate Islands *Solentiname Islands * Solovetsky Islands *Spider Islands *Ssese Islands *Thousand Islands *The McKivens Archipelago *Thirty Thousand Islands *Ushkan Islands *Vesi Archipelago


By population

* Malay Archipelago 380,000,000 inhabitants Indonesia 267,000,000 Philippines 108,576,000 * Japanese archipelago Japan 125,950,000 Sakhalin 498,000 Kuril Islands 19,434 * British Isles 71,900,000 Great Britain 60,800,000 Ireland 6,572,728 * Antilles 43,563,500 Greater Antilles 38,400,500 Lesser Antilles 3,950,000 Lucayan Archipelago 443,000 Leeward Antilles 770,000 * Danish Archipelago 3,000,000 * Maluku Islands 2,844,131 * Riau Islands 2,241,570 *
Mascarene Islands The Mascarene Islands (, ) or Mascarenes or Mascarenhas Archipelago is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar consisting of the islands belonging to the Republic of Mauritius as well as the French department of Réunion. Thei ...
2,195,087 *
Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Morocc ...
2,153,400 * Sulu Archipelago 1,996,970 * Ryukyu Islands 1,550,161 *
Hawaiian Islands The Hawaiian Islands ( haw, Nā Mokupuni o Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaii in the south to northernmost Kur ...
Hawaii 1,415,870 * Zanzibar Archipelago 1,350,379 * Comoro Islands 1,153,195 *
Balearic Islands The Balearic Islands ( es, Islas Baleares ; or ca, Illes Balears ) are an archipelago in the Balearic Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. The archipelago is an autonomous community and a province of Spain; its capital is ...
1,107,200 * Gulf of Guinea islands 550,695 Bioko 334,463 São Tomé and Príncipe 211,000 Annobón 5,232 *
Cape Verde , national_anthem = () , official_languages = Portuguese , national_languages = Cape Verdean Creole , capital = Praia , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , demonym ...
550,483 * Malta 493,559 * Maldives 374,775 *
Andaman Islands The Andaman Islands () are an archipelago in the northeastern Indian Ocean about southwest off the coasts of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region. Together with the Nicobar Islands to their south, the Andamans serve as a maritime boundary between th ...
343,125 * Madeira 289,000 * Society Islands 275,918 * Samoan Islands 257,574 * Azores 246,772 *
Mariana Islands The Mariana Islands (; also the Marianas; in Chamorro: ''Manislan Mariånas'') are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fifteen longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, betw ...
228,600 * Ionian Islands 207,855 * Channel Islands 169,592 * Virgin Islands 145,727 * Caroline Islands 122,368 * Croatian Archipelago 121,366 * Cyclades 119,549 *
Gilbert Islands The Gilbert Islands ( gil, Tungaru;Reilly Ridgell. ''Pacific Nations and Territories: The Islands of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia.'' 3rd. Ed. Honolulu: Bess Press, 1995. p. 95. formerly Kingsmill or King's-Mill IslandsVery often, this n ...
83,382 * Frisian Islands 81,341 * Lakshadweep 70,365 * Bermuda 64,055 * Faroe Islands 52,337 * Hebrides 46,632 *
Nicobar Islands The Nicobar Islands are an archipelagic island chain in the eastern Indian Ocean. They are located in Southeast Asia, northwest of Aceh on Sumatra, and separated from Thailand to the east by the Andaman Sea. Located southeast of the Indian s ...
36,842 * Tuscan Archipelago 34,389 * Bissagos Islands 30,000 * Åland 29,884 * Caicos Islands 26,519 * Galapagos Islands 25,124 * Lofoten 24,500 * Shetland 23,210 * Orkney 22,100 *
Grenadines The Grenadines is a chain of small islands that lie on a line between the larger islands of Saint Vincent and Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. Nine are inhabited and open to the public (or ten, if the offshore island of Young Island is counted): ...
20,880 * San Juan Islands 17,582 * Southern Cook Islands 16,418 * Kerkennah Islands 15,501 *
Aeolian Islands The Aeolian Islands ( ; it, Isole Eolie ; scn, Ìsuli Eoli), sometimes referred to as the Lipari Islands or Lipari group ( , ) after their largest island, are a volcanic archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily, said to be named after ...
15,419 * Tuamotus 15,346 * Arctic Archipelago 14,000 * Bocas del Toro Archipelago 13,000 * Magdalen Islands 12,781 * Islands of the Clyde 12,534 * Marquesas Islands 9,346 *
Line Islands The Line Islands, Teraina Islands or Equatorial Islands (in Gilbertese, ''Aono Raina'') are a chain of 11 atolls (with partly or fully enclosed lagoons) and coral islands (with a surrounding reef) in the central Pacific Ocean, south of the Hawa ...
8,813 * Aleutian Islands 8,162 * Austral Islands 6,965 * Pelagie Islands 6,556 * Haida Gwaii 4,761 * Torres Strait Islands 4,514 * Vestmannaeyjar 4,500 *
Aegadian Islands The Aegadian Islands ( it, Isole Egadi; scn, Ìsuli Ègadi, la, Aegates Insulae; gr, Aἰγάται Νῆσοι, , the islands of goats) are a group of five small mountainous islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the northwest coast of Sicily, ...
4,292 * Pontine Islands 4,066 * Falkland Islands 4,000 *
Chagos Archipelago The Chagos Archipelago () or Chagos Islands (formerly the Bassas de Chagas, and later the Oil Islands) is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean about 500 kilometres (310 mi) south of the Maldives archi ...
3,000–5,000 * Fernando de Noronha 3,061 * Dahlak Archipelago 3,000 *
Svalbard Svalbard ( , ), also known as Spitsbergen, or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. North of mainland Europe, it is about midway between the northern coast of Norway and the North Pole. The islands of the group range ...
2,667 * Bonin Islands 2,440 * Isles of Scilly 2,224 * Gambier Islands 1,533 * Aran Islands 1,225 * Northern Cook Islands 1,041 * Paracel Islands 1,000+ * Juan Fernandez Islands 900 * Chatham Islands 663 * Commander Islands 613 * Tremiti Islands 489 * Diomede Islands 135 * Phoenix Islands 24


See also

*Archipelagic state *Archipelago *
Archipelago Sea The Archipelago Sea ( fi, Saaristomeri, sv, Skärgårdshavet) is a part of the Baltic Sea between the Gulf of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland and the Sea of Åland, within Finnish territorial waters. By some definitions it contains the largest ar ...
*List of archipelagos by number of islands *List of islands by name *Lists of islands


References

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