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Hawaiʻi, Maui, Kahoʻolawe. Lānaʻi, Molokaʻi, Oʻahu, Kauaʻi, Niʻihau. The following is a list of the islands in Hawaii. The state of Hawaii, consisting of the Hawaiian Islands, has the fourth-longest ocean coastline of the 50 states (after Alaska, Florida, and California) at 750 miles (1,210 km). It is the only state that consists ...
The 2007 book Asia in the Pacific Islands: Replacing the West, by New Zealand Pacific scholar Ron Crocombe, considers the phrase Pacific Islands to politically encompass American Samoa, Australia, the Bonin Islands, the Cook Islands, Easter Island, East Timor, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, the Galápagos Islands, Guam, Hawaii, the Kermadec Islands, Kiribati, Lord Howe ...
The Hawaiian Islands ( Hawaiian: Mokupuni Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll. Formerly called the Sandwich Islands[ a] by Europeans ...
Japanese islands outlined. Japan is an island country of 14,125 islands, of which approximately 260 are inhabited. [1] [2] Japan is the fourth-largest island country in the world, behind Indonesia, Madagascar, and Papua New Guinea. [3] Japan is also the second-most-populous island country in the world, only behind Indonesia.
Tonga. Tokunoshima. Amami Islands part of the Satsunan Islands part of the Ryukyu Islands. Japan. Tomek Island 2. Platte River, Nebraska. United States. Tonches. Georgian Bay, Ontario.
Island's Name Island group(s) Country/Countries Kachelotplate: East Frisian Islands Germany Kácsa-sziget: Tisza Hungary: Kagalaska: Andreanof Islands group of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska United States Kahoolawe: Hawaiian Islands United States Kakawaie: Lake Kagawong, Ontario Canada Kakeromajima
Many island countries are spread over an archipelago, as is the case with Indonesia, Japan, and the Philippines —these countries consist of thousands of islands. Others consist of a single island, such as Barbados, Dominica, and Nauru; a main island and some smaller islands, such as Cuba, Iceland, and Sri Lanka; a part of an island, such as ...
List of islands by area. Dymaxion map (Fuller map) with continental landmasses (I,II,III,IV) and largest islands (1–30) roughly to scale. This list includes all islands in the world larger than 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi). For size and location reference, the four continental landmasses are also shown.