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Farallon Islands
Farallon Islands: rocky Pacific archipelago about 28 miles west of San Francisco, a 211-acre national wildlife refuge hosting the largest seabird colony in the continental U.S. south of Alaska, site of the 1863 Egg Wars.
Fisher Island, Florida
Fisher Island, Florida (ZIP 33109): a 216-acre private barrier-island community off Miami Beach, ferry-only access, created by the 1905–1911 Government Cut dredging, owned successively by Carl Fisher, Vanderbilt II, and Rebozo interests.
Fishers Island, New York
Fishers Island is a resort island in Southold, New York, in eastern Long Island Sound, four miles from Connecticut and reachable only by ferry or plane.
Florida Keys
The Florida Keys are an island chain off southern Florida along North America's only coral barrier reef, protected by Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (1990), linked by the Overseas Highway, and facing coral bleaching and disease decline.
Galiano Island
Galiano Island is a Southern Gulf Island in the Strait of Georgia, BC, named 1859 for Spanish commander Dionisio Alcalá Galiano, formerly Kilmorey Island; forested, in the imperiled Coastal Douglas-fir zone, reached by ferry from Tsawwassen.
Gardiners Island
Gardiners Island, also called Manchonake, is a 3,300-acre private island in Gardiners Bay off eastern Long Island, bought from the Montauketts by Lion Gardiner in 1639, held by his family since, and closed to the public.
Gilford Island
Gilford Island, a 388 sq km island in the Broughton Archipelago, British Columbia, between Tribune Channel and Knight Inlet; home of Gwa'yas'dums, main village of the Kwikwasut'inuxw Haxwa'mis First Nation.
Governors Island
Governors Island: 172-acre island in New York Harbor, half a mile from Lower Manhattan; former Army and Coast Guard post (1800–1996), now a public park with a 22-acre National Monument and a climate research mission.
Graham Island
Graham Island, British Columbia: the northern and largest island of Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), over 6,000 square km, named 1853 by Commander Prevost after Sir James Robert Graham; distinct from Graham Islands in Nunavut, Australia, and Graham Land, Antarctica.
Hagemeister Island
Hagemeister Island is a 24-mile-long, 67,000-acre uninhabited island in northern Bristol Bay, Alaska, about 19-25 miles southwest of Togiak, part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, named for Russian captain Leonti Hagemeister and noted for its walrus haulout.
Hawkesbury Island
Hawkesbury Island is an island on the eastern side of Douglas Channel, south of Kitimat, British Columbia, named by Captain Vancouver after Baron Hawkesbury (Charles Jenkinson); surrounded by Douglas Channel, Devastation Channel, and Verney Passage.
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina: a large Sea Islands barrier island in Beaufort County, named for Captain William Hilton in 1663, site of Mitchelville, the first self-governing freedmen's village, and transformed by Charles Fraser's Sea Pines resort development after the 1956 bridge.
Hinchinbrook Island (island, United States)
Hinchinbrook Island, Alaska: a 22-mile-long forested island at the southeast entrance to Prince William Sound, 15 mi southwest of Cordova; named by Captain Cook in 1778, site of Cape Hinchinbrook Light, Tertiary bedrock, and Chugach National Forest lands.
Isla Tiburón
Isla Tiburón (Tahéjöc), largest island of Mexico and the Gulf of California (~1,200 km²), off Sonora; sacred communal property of the Comcáac (Seri), protected since 1963, separated by Canal del Infiernillo, with Tecomate archaeological site and introduced bighorn sheep.
Jekyll Island
Jekyll Island is a 5,700-acre Georgia barrier island and State Park in Glynn County, formerly the exclusive Jekyll Island Club, purchased by the state in 1947 and managed by the Jekyll Island Authority.
Kanaga Island
Kanaga Island, an uninhabited Andreanof island in Alaska's western Aleutians, hosts Kanaga Volcano, a 1,307 m andesitic stratovolcano within the collapsed Mount Kanaton caldera, erupting as recently as 1993-95 and 2023.
Key West
Key West (Cayo Hueso) is a Florida city on the westernmost major Florida Keys island, incorporated 1828, county seat of Monroe County, population 26,444 (2020), home of the 1982 Conch Republic secession and a tropical-maritime climate with no recorded frost.
Kiawah Island, South Carolina
Kiawah Island is a barrier island in Charleston County, South Carolina, south of Charleston between the Stono and North Edisto Rivers. A plantation island turned resort community, it was sold in 1974 for $17.4 million and incorporated as a town in 1988.
Kodiak Island
Kodiak Island, largest island in Alaska and second largest in the U.S., part of the Kodiak Archipelago; home of the Alutiiq people for 7,800+ years, first capital of Russian America, and center of a fishing economy with Kodiak brown bears.
Kosciusko Island
Kosciusko Island (Wyspa Kościuszki), an island in the Alexander Archipelago, southeastern Alaska, near northwest Prince of Wales Island across El Capitan Passage; coordinates 56.04°N 133.54°W, elevation about 1,096 feet, Silurian geology, Tongass and Alaska DNR management.
Kruzof Island
Kruzof Island, also historically Ostrov Tlikh, San Jacinto, and Crooze Island, is a 23-mile-long island in Alaska's Alexander Archipelago about 13 miles west of Sitka, dominated by the dormant 3,200-foot volcano Mount Edgecumbe and mostly Tongass National Forest land.
Kugong Island
Kugong Island, an uninhabited island in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, also known in Eastern Canadian Inuktitut; the westernmost member of the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay, about 321 km² and 54 km long, with 15 m base elevation, Belcher Group geology, and significant seabird and polar bear habitat.
Kuiu Island
Kuiu Island, an island of the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska's Tongass National Forest, about 750 square miles (1,900 km2), between Chatham and Sumner Straits, sparsely inhabited, with Tebenkof Bay archaeology and the Kuiu Tlingit.
Kupreanof Island
Kupreanof Island is a large island in the Alexander Archipelago, southeastern Alaska, within Tongass National Forest, about 90 by 45 km with elevations near 1,200 m; distinct from Kupreanof Strait, Kupreanof Point, and Mount Kupreanof volcano.
Kwaikans Island
Kwaikans Island, once mapped as Watson Island and locally called Reject Island, is a small official-named island off the northwest side of Masset Inlet, Graham Island, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, named by George Mercer Dawson in 1878.
Liberty Island
Liberty Island, formerly Bedloe's Island, is a 15-acre island in New York Harbor, part of New York State, home to the Statue of Liberty and Fort Wood, administered by the National Park Service since 1933 and renamed in 1956.
Lisianski Island
Lisianski Island (Papaʻāpoho), Northwestern Hawaiian Islands: a 1.5 km² sandy island with Neva Shoals (979 km²), discovered 1805 by the grounded Russian ship Neva; part of Papahānaumokuākea, hit hard by 2014 coral bleaching.
List of islands of Michigan
Islands of Michigan: over 3,000 Great Lakes islands; largest are Isle Royale (139,021 acres, Lake Superior), Drummond, Beaver, Sugar, and Bois Blanc; includes Mackinac, Belle Isle, and the Manitou Islands.
Little Diomede Island
Little Diomede Island (Ignaluk) is a US island in the Bering Strait, 2.4 miles from Russian Big Diomede across the International Date Line, home to the Iñupiat village of Diomede, population 82 in 2020.
Long Island
Long Island: 118-mile island in southeastern New York spanning Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties; 2.9 million suburban residents, glacial moraine origin, sole-source aquifer, and the LIRR commuter rail.