This is a list of islands of Jamaica. There are about 49

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Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

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Islands

The islands of the country of Jamaica include:Islands with coordinates are in the GeoNames database. Additional references are included that mention specific islands. *

Bajo Nuevo Bank Bajo Nuevo Bank, also known as the Petrel Islands ( es, Bajo Nuevo, Islas Petrel), is a small, uninhabited reef with some small grass-covered islets, located in the western Caribbean Sea at , with a lighthouse on Low Cay at . The closest neighbo ...

(uninhabited), *Bare Bush Cay, *Big Half-Moon Cay, *Big Pelican Island, *Big Portland Cay, *Blake Cay *Blower Rock, *Bogue Islands (Bog Islands), *Bolt Cay *Booby Cay, **Booby Cay - Negril **Booby Cay - Pedro Cays **Booby Cay - Pedro Cays **Booby Cay - Morant Cays *Bush Cay, *Bushy Cay *Cabarita Island, *Careening Cay, *Christmas Island *Dolphin Island, *Drunken Man's Cay *East Crall *Emerald Island, *Fort Island, *Gordon Cay *

Great Goat Island Great Goat Island is a cay located less than a mile off the coast of Jamaica, southwest of the Hellshire Hills. It is part of Saint Catherine Parish. Along with Little Goat Island located northwest of it, these two cays make up the Goat Islands, ...

, *Green Cay *Green Island, *Gun Cay, *Hogsty Cay, *Jamaica, *Lilyroot Cay, *

Lime Cay Lime Cay is the main islet off the shore of Port Royal Cays, Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba ...

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Little Goat Island Little Goat Island along with Great Goat Island are the cays that make up the Goat Islands, located less than a mile off the coast of Jamaica, southwest of the Hellshire Hills. It is part of Saint Catherine Parish. Little Goat Island is adjacent to ...

, *Little Half-Moon Cay, *Little Pelican Island, *Little Portland Cay *Long Island, *Maiden Cay, *Man O' War Cays *Mango Cay, *Mid Crall *Middle Cay, *

Morant Cays The Morant Cays is an offshore island group 51 km Points of the compass#Compass point names, SSE off Morant Point, Jamaica. It is one of two offshore island groups belonging to Jamaica, the other one is the Pedro Bank#Cays, rocks and reefs, Pedr ...

, *Morant Bank *

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, *Needles *Northeast Cay - Morant Cays, *Northeast Cay - Pedro Cays, *One Tree Island *

Pedro Bank Pedro Bank is a large bank of sand and coral, partially covered with seagrass, about 80 km south and southwest of Jamaica, rising steeply from a seabed of 800 metres depth. It slopes gently from the Pedro Cays to the west and north with depths f ...

, *Pelican Cay *Pellen Island (Pellew Island or Monkey Island), *Pigeon Island, *Portland Rock, * Rackhams Cay, *Refuge Cay, *Rocky Cay *Salt Island, *Sandbank Cay * Sandals Royal Caribbean Resort & Offshore Island (Sandals Cay), *Santamaria Island, *Sapphire Island *Short Island *South Cay, , *Southeast Cay -

Port Royal Cays The Port Royal Cays is a small group of uninhabited islands or cays off Port Royal, Jamaica, located at {{coord, 17, 55, 06.36, N, 76, 49, 11.96, W and arranged in the shape of an atoll with a diameter between 4 and 5 km, and a total area of ...

(uninhabited), *Southeast Cay - Morant Cays *Southwest Cay - Pedro Cays *Southwest Rock *Tern Cay, *West Crall *Woods Island,

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{{Caribbean topic, List of islands of List of islands of Jamaica

Islands

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