Islands

Islands and territories tend to defy a tidy geographical hierarchy. On a planet covered 70% by interconnected oceans, in a literal sense every place is an island. But the really big ones we think of as continents, leaving the smaller islands – scattered far and wide – as the "leftovers" of geography, which often makes them some of the most unique and interesting destinations.

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These region articles attempt to group them logically for the traveler (sometimes bending official geography to do so):

• Islands of the Arctic Ocean - near-polar territories north of 60°
• Islands of the Atlantic Ocean - islands in the east and south Atlantic
  • Caribbean - the West Indies and more, a part of the Americas
• Islands of the Indian Ocean - island territories and nations, big and small
  • East African islands - including Madagascar and several smaller islands
• Islands of Oceania - islands found in the equatorial and southern regions of the Pacific Ocean
• Antarctic Islands and Subantarctic Islands
• Diomede Islands