List of islands of North America

A composite satellite photograph of North America in orthographic projection

Main article: Geography of North America

The following is a list of the major island groups of North America.

West Indies

West Indies
- Lucayan Archipelago
- Antilles
  - Greater Antilles
  - Lesser Antilles (Caribbees)
Islands of the Western Caribbean Sea
Islands of the Gulf of Mexico
- Isla del Carmen
- Padre Island, world's longest barrier island
- Matagorda Island
- Galveston Island
- Marsh Island
- Point au Fer Island
- Saint James Island
- Santa Rosa Island

North Atlantic Ocean

Islands of the Western North Atlantic Ocean
- Bermuda Islands
  - Bermuda
- Atlantic Costal Islands
  - Florida Keys
    - Key West
    - Key Largo
  - Merritt Island
  - Sea Islands
  - Outer Banks
  - Staten Island
  - Manhattan Island, most densely populated island of the Americas^[1]
  - Long Island, largest Atlantic island of the United States, most populous island of the United States, and the world's 17th most populous island
    - New York Barrier Islands
  - Block Island
  - Conanicut Island
  - Aquidneck Island (Rhode Island)
  - Elizabeth Islands
  - Marthas Vineyard
  - Nantucket Island
  - Monomoy Island
  - Mount Desert Island, largest island of Maine
  - Cape Breton Island, world's 77th largest island
  - Prince Edward Island, world's 104th largest island
  - Anticosti Island, world's 90th largest island
- Newfoundland, largest Atlantic island of Canada and the world's 16th largest island
  - Ile de Saint-Pierre
  - Ile de Miquelon, largest island of Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Greenland

Greenland, world's largest and 11th tallest island
The following islands are usually associated with Europe rather than North America, despite lying closer to Greenland than to Scandinavia:

Arctic Ocean

Islands of the Western Arctic Ocean:
- Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- Islands of Hudson Bay
  - Coats Island, world's 107th largest island
  - Belcher Islands
  - Islands of James Bay
- Islands of the Alaskan Arctic Coast

North Pacific Ocean

Islands of the Eastern North Pacific Ocean:

South Pacific Island(s)

Hawaii Islands

Inland islands

Lake islands of North America
- Atlin Lake,
  - Theresa Island, highest elevation inside a freshwater lake in North America at 2059m
- Lake Huron
  - Manitoulin Island, world's largest inland island
  - Saint Joseph Island, world's 8th largest inland island
  - Drummond Island, world's 9th largest inland island
  - Thirty Thousand Islands
- Lake Superior
  - Isle Royale, world's 6th largest inland island
  - Saint Ignace Island, world's 12th largest inland island
  - Michipicoten Island, world's 19th largest inland island
  - Madeline Island
- Lake Ontario
  - Thousand Islands
- Lake Washington
  - Mercer Island
- Lake Nicaragua
- Great Slave Lake
  - Simpson Islands
    - Big Simpson Island, world's 13th largest inland island
  - Blanchet Island, world's 14th largest inland island
  - Preble Island, world's 20th largest inland island
- Manicouagan Reservoir
  - René-Levasseur Island, world's largest artificial island^[1] and 2nd largest inland island
- Grand Lake on the Island of Newfoundland
  - Glover Island, world's 18th largest inland island
River islands of North America

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See also

References

1 2 3 Island Superlatives @ WorldIslandInfo.com

External links

List of islands of North America

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