List of islands of North America
The following is a list of the major island groups of North America.
Arctic Ocean
- Islands of the Western Arctic Ocean:
- Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- Baffin Island, largest island of Canada and the world's 5th largest island
- Victoria Island, world's 8th largest island
- Banks Island, world's 24th largest island
- Southampton Island, world's 34th largest island
- Prince of Wales Island, world's 40th largest island
- Somerset Island, world's 46th largest island
- King William Island, world's 61st largest island
- Bylot Island, world's 72nd largest island
- Prince Charles Island, world's 78th largest island
- Queen Elizabeth Islands
- Ellesmere Island, world's 10th largest and 37th tallest island
- Devon Island, world's largest uninhabited landmass[1] and 27th largest island
- Melville Island, world's 33rd largest island
- Bathurst Island, world's 54th largest island
- Prince Patrick Island, world's 55th largest island
- Cornwallis Island, world's 96th largest island
- Mackenzie King Island, world's 115th largest island
- Sverdrup Islands
- Islands of Hudson Bay
- Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Greenland
- Greenland, world's largest and 11th tallest island
- Qeqertarsuaq (Disko Island), world's 85th largest island
- Milne Land
- Traill Island
- Ymer Island
- Geographical Society Island
- Clavering Island
- Nares Land
- Shannon Island
- The following islands are usually associated with Europe rather than North America, despite lying closer to Greenland than to Scandinavia:
North Atlantic Ocean
- Islands of the Western North Atlantic Ocean:
- Bermuda Islands
- Atlantic Coastal Islands
- Florida Keys
- Merritt Island
- Sea Islands
- Hilton Head Island
- Port Royal Island
- Johns Island
- Saint Helena Island
- Edisto Island
- Cayman 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
- Boston Harbor Islands
- 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
North Pacific Ocean
- Islands of the Eastern North Pacific Ocean:
- Islands of the Bering Sea
- Pribilof Islands
- Saint Lawrence Island, world's 113th largest island
- Diomede Islands
- King Island
- Saint Matthew Island
- Karaginsky Island
- Aleutian Islands
- Kodiak Archipelago
- Islands of the Gulf of Alaska
- Alexander Archipelago
- Queen Charlotte Islands
- Vancouver Island, largest Pacific island of Canada and the world's 43rd largest island
- San Juan Archipelago
- Whidbey Island
- Channel Islands of California
- Isla de Cedros
- Islands of the Gulf of California
- Isla Ángel de la Guarda
- Isla Tiburón, largest island of Mexico
- Isla Guadalupe
- Revillagigedo Islands
- Isla Socorro
- Islas Marías
- Clipperton Island
- Isla Espiritu Santo (El Salvador), largest island of El Salvador
- Isla del Coco, largest island of Costa Rica
- Isla de Coiba, largest island of Panama
- Archipelago de las Perlas
- Isla del Rey
- Islands of the Bering Sea
Hawaii
- 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 Erie
- Lake Ontario
- Lake Washington
- Mercer Island
- Lake Nicaragua
- Ometepe, 11th largest inland island
- Isla Zapatera
- Solentiname Islands
- 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
- Simpson Islands
- 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
- Atlin Lake,
See also
- Clipperton Island
- List of islands by area
- List of islands by highest point
- List of islands by population
- List of islands in lakes
- List of islands of Central America
- List of islands of South America
- List of the highest islands of North America
- Navassa Island
- Topic outline of North America
References
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