Islands

Yet all of us in a sense are islanders, since on a planet 70% covered by interconnected oceans, every place is an island, in being surrounded by water.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and Islands of the Indian Ocean.

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are a chain of subantarctic islands in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica. The islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom: they have no permanent residents and their administration is physically based in the Falklands, but since 1985 they have been a separate jurisdiction.

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The are a varied collection, including many of the smallest territories and one of the largest island nations. Many hug the coastlines of continents; others must be sought out hundreds of miles from any other land.

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or Bouvetøya is one of the sub-Antarctic islands, an uninhabited ice-clad place 2,600 km south-southwest of Cape Town. It has a good claim to be the world's most remote island: anywhere within 2,000 km is similarly desolate, such as mainland Antarctica.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Heard Island and McDonald Islands and French Southern and Antarctic Lands.

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are uninhabited, barren, Subantarctic islands in the Southern Ocean, far due south of and roughly 400 km southeast of Kerguelen of the .

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are a group of , about equidistant between , , and mainland along with a narrow strip of , known as Adélie Land.

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Îles or the Archipelago are 3300 km southeast of Madagascar, so far south that they lie in the Antarctic Ocean, not the Indian. They're governed as part of the Terres australes et antarctiques françaises, the .

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or Macca as it is affectionately known, is a Subantarctic island in the Southern Ocean, part of . Like , is a part of the Australian Antarctic Program, but it's not administered by the Australian Antarctic Division.

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The are a pair of rocky islands where borders the United States of America across the Bering Strait. They represent the border between and .

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The are an uninhabited Subantarctic archipelago that makes up one of the five districts of the in the southern .

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and Prince Edward Island are two Subantarctic islands, south and territory of .

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number many thousands, scattered far and wide. However most of them are associated with a continental land mass, geographically perched on the same continental shelf and with transport and cultural links there, so it's obvious where to seek further travel information on them.

Islands

Latitude of center
-7.0255° or 7° 1′ 32″ south
Longitude of center
-37.9442° or 37° 56′ 39″ west
Open­Street­Map ID
way 234909064
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­sand
Wiki­data ID
Q23442
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zeeuws—“Islands” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Адгьылбжьаха”
  • Achinese: “pulo”
  • Achinese: “Pulo”
  • Afrikaans: “eiland”
  • Afrikaans: “Eiland”
  • Albanian: “Ishuj”
  • Albanian: “Ishujt”
  • Albanian: “Ishull”
  • Albanian: “Ishulli”
  • Amharic: “ደሴት”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “νῆσος”
  • Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: “ail”
  • Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: “ailaan”
  • Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: “ailan”
  • Arabic: “الجزُر”
  • Arabic: “الجزيرة”
  • Arabic: “جزر”
  • Arabic: “جزيـرة”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة”
  • Arabic: “جزيره”
  • Aragonese: “Isla”
  • Armenian: “կղզի”
  • Armenian: “Կղզի”
  • Asturian: “isla”
  • Asturian: “islla”
  • Asturian: “Islla”
  • Asturian: “islles”
  • Azerbaijani: “ada”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ada”
  • Balinese: “Nusa”
  • Banjar: “pulau”
  • Bashkir: “Утрау”
  • Basque: “Irla”
  • Basque: “uharte”
  • Basque: “Uharte”
  • Batak Toba: “Pulo”
  • Bavarian: “Insl”
  • Belarusian: “востраў”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў”
  • Belarusian: “Выспа”
  • Bengali: “দ্বীপ”
  • Bengali: “দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bhojpuri: “दीप”
  • Bhojpuri: “द्वीप”
  • Bosnian: “ostrvo”
  • Bosnian: “Ostrvo”
  • Bosnian: “otok”
  • Breton: “enezenn”
  • Breton: “Enezenn”
  • Breton: “inizi”
  • Bulgarian: “остров”
  • Bulgarian: “Остров”
  • Bulgarian: “острови”
  • Burmese: “ကျွန်း(ကုန်းမြေ)”
  • Burmese: “ကျွန်း”
  • Catalan: “illa”
  • Catalan: “Illa”
  • Catalan: “Illes”
  • Cebuano: “Isla”
  • Cebuano: “Pulo”
  • Central Bikol: “Isla”
  • Central Kurdish: “دوورگە”
  • Central Kurdish: “گراڤ”
  • Central Okinawan: “島”
  • Chechen: “ГӀайре”
  • Chinese: “Tó-sū”
  • Chinese: “岛”
  • Chinese: “岛屿”
  • Chinese: “島”
  • Chinese: “島嶼”
  • Chinese: “嶼”
  • Chuvash: “Утрав”
  • Cornish: “Enys”
  • Croatian: “otoci”
  • Croatian: “otočić”
  • Croatian: “otok”
  • Croatian: “Otok”
  • Czech: “ostrov”
  • Czech: “Ostrov”
  • Czech: “ostrovy”
  • Danish: “ø”
  • Danish: “Ø”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ade”
  • Dutch: “eiland”
  • Dutch: “Eiland”
  • Dutch: “eilanden”
  • Eastern Mari: “остров”
  • Eastern Mari: “отро”
  • Eastern Mari: “Отро”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره”
  • Erzya: “усия”
  • Erzya: “явкужо”
  • Esperanto: “insuleto”
  • Esperanto: “insulo”
  • Esperanto: “Insulo”
  • Esperanto: “insuloj”
  • Estonian: “saar”
  • Estonian: “Saar”
  • Estonian: “saared”
  • Faroese: “oyggj”
  • Faroese: “Oyggj”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Island”
  • Fijian: “Yanuyanu”
  • Finnish: “saari”
  • Finnish: “Saari”
  • French: “caye”
  • French: “ile paradisiaque”
  • French: “ile tropicale”
  • French: “ile”
  • French: “île”
  • French: “Île”
  • French: “iles”
  • French: “îles”
  • French: “ilet”
  • French: “îlet”
  • French: “ilot”
  • French: “îlot”
  • French: “isle”
  • Galician: “illa”
  • Galician: “Illa”
  • Gan Chinese: “島”
  • Georgian: “კუნძული”
  • German: “Eiland”
  • German: “Insel”
  • Gorontalo: “Pulo”
  • Greek: “νησί”
  • Greek: “Νησί”
  • Greek: “νησιά”
  • Greek: “νησίδα”
  • Greek: “νήσος”
  • Guarani: “Ypa’ũ”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Zil”
  • Haitian: “Il”
  • Hausa: “Tsibirin”
  • Hawaiian: “Mokupuni”
  • Hebrew: “אי”
  • Hebrew: “איים”
  • Hindi: “टापू”
  • Hindi: “द्वीप”
  • Hindi: “द्वीपों”
  • Hungarian: “sziget”
  • Hungarian: “Sziget”
  • Iban: “Pulau”
  • Icelandic: “Ey”
  • Icelandic: “eyja”
  • Icelandic: “Eyja”
  • Ido: “insulo”
  • Ido: “Insulo”
  • Iloko: “isla”
  • Iloko: “Isla”
  • Iloko: “puro”
  • Inari Sami: “suálui”
  • Indonesian: “gili”
  • Indonesian: “nusa”
  • Indonesian: “pulau”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau”
  • Ingush: “ГIайре”
  • Ingush: “ГӀайре”
  • Interlingua: “insula”
  • Interlingua: “Insula”
  • Interlingue: “Insul”
  • Inupiaq: “Qikiqtaq”
  • Irish: “inis”
  • Irish: “oileán”
  • Irish: “Oileán”
  • Italian: “isola”
  • Italian: “Isola”
  • Italian: “isole”
  • Japanese: “アイランド”
  • Japanese: “しま”
  • Japanese: “とうしょ”
  • Japanese: “島”
  • Japanese: “島しょ”
  • Japanese: “島嶼”
  • Japanese: “自然島”
  • Javanese: “nusa”
  • Javanese: “pulo”
  • Javanese: “Pulo”
  • Kabyle: “tegzirt”
  • Kabyle: “Tegzirt”
  • Kabyle: “tigzirt”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Pulau”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Pulou”
  • Kannada: “ಗ೦ಟೆ”
  • Kannada: “ದ್ವೀಪ”
  • Kannada: “ನಡುಗಡ್ಡೆ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Ataw”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Айрыкам”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Айрымкан”
  • Kashmiri: “جزیرٕ”
  • Kashmiri: “لانٛکھ”
  • Kazakh: “Арал”
  • Khmer: “កោះ”
  • Kildin Sami: “суэл”
  • Kirghiz: “АРАЛ –”
  • Kirghiz: “Арал”
  • Komering: “Pulau”
  • Komi: “Ді”
  • Korean: “섬”
  • Korean: “유인도”
  • Kurdish: “durge”
  • Kurdish: “girav”
  • Kurdish: “Girav”
  • Kurdish: “gizirt”
  • Ladin: “Isola”
  • Ladino: “Adá”
  • Ladino: “Isla”
  • Ladino: “Isola”
  • Ladino: “izla”
  • Ladino: “Izla”
  • Lao: “ເກາະ”
  • Lao: “កោះ”
  • Latin: “insula”
  • Latin: “Insula”
  • Latvian: “sala”
  • Latvian: “Sala”
  • Limburgan: “Eilandj”
  • Lingala: “Esanga”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “isola”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Isola”
  • Lithuanian: “Sala”
  • Lojban: “daplu”
  • Lombard: “Isula”
  • Lombard: “Ìsula”
  • Lombard: “Ìzola”
  • Low German: “Eilaand”
  • Low German: “Eiland”
  • Low German: “Insel”
  • Lule Sami: “suoloj”
  • Luxembourgish: “Insel”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Nisii”
  • Macedonian: “остров”
  • Macedonian: “Остров”
  • Malagasy: “Nosy”
  • Malay: “pulau”
  • Malay: “Pulau”
  • Malay: “ڤولاو”
  • Malayalam: “Island”
  • Malayalam: “ദ്വീപ്”
  • Maltese: “gżira”
  • Manchu: “ᡨᡠᠨ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯏꯊꯠ”
  • Manx: “Ellan”
  • Maori: “motutere”
  • Maori: “moutere”
  • Marathi: “द्वीप”
  • Marathi: “बेट”
  • Mazanderani: “جزیره”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dō̤”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tó-sū”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tó”
  • Minangkabau: “Pulau”
  • Mingrelian: “კოკი”
  • Mirandese: “Ilha”
  • Moksha: “Цёнга”
  • Mongolian: “Арал”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جزيرة”
  • N'Ko: “ߕߌ߲”
  • N'Ko: “ߕߌ߲߫”
  • N'Ko: “ߜߎ߲”
  • Narom: “Ile”
  • Narom: “Île”
  • Neapolitan: “Isula”
  • Nepali: “द्वीप”
  • Newari: “न्हसिभु”
  • Northern Frisian: “eilun”
  • Northern Frisian: “Eilun”
  • Northern Sami: “suolu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “ø”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “øy”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “vulkansk øy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “øy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Øy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “øyar”
  • Norwegian: “Øy”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “illa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Illa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “illas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “isla”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “islas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “isola”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “isolas”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܓܙܪܬܐ”
  • Ossetian: “сакъадæхтæ”
  • Ossetian: “сакъадах”
  • Ossetian: “Сакъадах”
  • Pampanga: “isla”
  • Pampanga: “pulu”
  • Panjabi: “ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Papiamento: “Isla”
  • Pedi: “Sehlakehlake”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Eiland”
  • Persian: “آبخست”
  • Persian: “آبخوست”
  • Persian: “ابخست”
  • Persian: “ابخوست”
  • Persian: “جزیره”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “ailen”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “ailens”
  • Pite Sami: “suolo”
  • Polish: “wyspa”
  • Polish: “Wyspa”
  • Portuguese: “ilha”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha”
  • Portuguese: “ilhas”
  • Portuguese: “insular”
  • Pushto: “ټاپو”
  • Quechua: “Isla”
  • Quechua: “Wat’a”
  • Romanian: “Insula”
  • Romanian: “insulă”
  • Romanian: “Insulă”
  • Russia Buriat: “Арал”
  • Russian: “остров”
  • Russian: “Остров”
  • Rusyn: “остров”
  • Rusyn: “Остров”
  • Sakizaya: “subal”
  • Samogitian: “Sala”
  • Sango: “Zûa”
  • Saraiki: “جزیرہ”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Ailound”
  • Scots: “island”
  • Scots: “Island”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Eilean”
  • Serbian: “острва”
  • Serbian: “острво”
  • Serbian: “Острво”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “ostrvo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ostrvo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “otok”
  • Shan: “ၵုၼ်”
  • Shan: “ၵုၼ်ဢွၼ်ႇ”
  • Shona: “Chitsuwa”
  • Shona: “Chiwi”
  • Shona: “Zvitsuwa”
  • Sicilian: “Ìsula”
  • Silesian: “wyspa”
  • Silesian: “Wyspa”
  • Sindhi: “ٻيٽ”
  • Sinhala: “දූපත”
  • Sinhala: “දූපත්”
  • Skolt Sami: “suâl”
  • Slovak: “ostrov”
  • Slovak: “Ostrov”
  • Slovenian: “ostrov”
  • Slovenian: “otoček”
  • Slovenian: “otok”
  • Slovenian: “Otok”
  • Somali: “aw-badeed”
  • Somali: “Awdal”
  • Somali: “Jasiirad”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آدا”
  • Southern Sami: “sååle”
  • Spanish: “insular”
  • Spanish: “isla”
  • Spanish: “Isla”
  • Spanish: “islas”
  • Spanish: “isleño”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⴳⵣⵉⵔⵜ”
  • Sundanese: “pulo”
  • Sundanese: “Pulo”
  • Swahili: “Kisiwa”
  • Swahili: “Visiwa”
  • Swedish: “Ö (landområde)”
  • Swedish: “ö”
  • Swedish: “öar”
  • Swiss German: “Insle”
  • Tagalog: “isla”
  • Tagalog: “pulo”
  • Tagalog: “Pulo”
  • Tajik: “ҷазира”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазира”
  • Tamil: “தீவு”
  • Tatar: “утрау”
  • Tatar: “Утрау”
  • Telugu: “దీవి”
  • Telugu: “దీవులు”
  • Telugu: “ద్వీపం”
  • Telugu: “ద్వీపము”
  • Telugu: “ద్వీపములు”
  • Telugu: “ద్వీపాలు”
  • Telugu: “ధ్వీపం”
  • Thai: “กลุ่มเกาะ”
  • Thai: “เกาะ”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Ailan”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “motu”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Insel”
  • Tumbuka: “Nkhoska”
  • Turkish: “ada”
  • Turkish: “Ada”
  • Turkmen: “Ada”
  • Tyap: “a̱byin a̱ka̱wa̱tyia̱ a̱sa̱khwot”
  • Tyap: “sa̱khat”
  • Udmurt: “шормуӵ”
  • Udmurt: “Шормуӵ”
  • Ukrainian: “острів”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів”
  • Ukrainian: “острови”
  • Upper Sorbian: “kupa”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kupa”
  • Upper Sorbian: “kupy”
  • Urdu: “جزائر”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ”
  • Uzbek: “Orol”
  • Venetian: “Isola”
  • Venetian: “Ixola”
  • Venetian: “Ìxoła”
  • Venetian: “Ixołe”
  • Venetian: “Ixula”
  • Venetian: “ìzoła”
  • Venetian: “Ìzoła”
  • Vietnamese: “đảo”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo”
  • Vietnamese: “hải đảo”
  • Vietnamese: “hòn đảo”
  • Vlaams: “Eiland”
  • Vlax Romani: “Dvip”
  • Võro: “Saar”
  • Walloon: “Île”
  • Walloon: “Iye”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Puro”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Purô”
  • Welsh: “ynys”
  • Welsh: “Ynys”
  • Western Armenian: “Կղզի”
  • Western Frisian: “eilân”
  • Western Frisian: “Eilân”
  • Western Mari: “Ошмаоты”
  • Western Panjabi: “جزیرہ”
  • Wolof: “Dun yi”
  • Wolof: “Dun”
  • Wolof: “Iil”
  • Wu Chinese: “岛”
  • Wu Chinese: “岛屿”
  • Wu Chinese: “島”
  • Xhosa: “Isiqithi”
  • Yakut: “Арыы”
  • Yiddish: “אינדזל”
  • Yiddish: “אינזל”
  • Yiddish: “אינזעל”
  • Yoruba: “Erekusu”
  • Yoruba: “Erékùsù”
  • Yoruba: “Erékùṣù”
  • Yoruba: “Island”
  • Yue Chinese: “島”
  • Yue Chinese: “島嶼”
  • Yue Chinese: “嶼”
  • Yue Chinese: “洲”
  • Zeeuws: “Eiland”
  • “Îsla”
  • “Îṡla”
  • “ma lili”
  • “ma lon telo”
  • “ma telo”
  • “Nisii”
  • “pulo”
  • “Pulo”
  • “Saar”
  • “Sala”
  • “Tlalhuac”
  • “Tlālhuac”
  • “Tlālhuāctli”
  • “दीप”

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