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Crown Colony of Seychelles
The Crown Colony of Seychelles was a British colony in the western Indian Ocean, created in 1903 after rule from Mauritius, lasting until independence in 1976.
Crown Prince Frederik Island
Crown Prince Frederik Island, an uninhabited 401 km2 island in Nunavut's Qikiqtaaluk Region, Gulf of Boothia, off western Baffin Island at 70°02′N 86°50′W; polar bear denning habitat, official Canadian name since 1951.
Crozet Islands
The Crozet Islands (Îles Crozet, Archipel Crozet) are five sub-Antarctic volcanic islands (340 km²) in the southern Indian Ocean, a TAAF district discovered in 1772 by Marion du Fresne, with the Alfred Faure base on Possession Island and UNESCO-listed seabird and marine-mammal sanctuaries.
Cruls Islands
Cruls Islands, also called Islotes Cruls, are a group of small islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Graham Coast, Antarctica, discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition 1897-1899 and named for astronomer Luis Cruls.
Culebra, Puerto Rico
Culebra (Isla Culebra) is an island municipality of Puerto Rico, 17 miles east of the main island, with about 1,735 residents, a 1909 national wildlife refuge, a former Navy training ground, and ferry and air links via Ceiba.
Cumberland Peninsula
Cumberland Peninsula, southeastern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, near 66.5N 65W; a late Mesozoic rift-flank peninsula with low-relief high-elevation topography, shaped by Cretaceous uplift, differential erosion, and glaciation.
Curaçao
Curaçao (Kòrsou), southern Caribbean island and autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 2010; Dutch since 1634, slave-trade hub, oil refinery, tourism-led economy, UNESCO Willemstad, population 158,006 in 2026.
Curtis Island (island)
Curtis Island: large Queensland continental island east of Gladstone in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area; third largest of its kind, with 35,600+ ha of protected areas and three LNG plants on its south-west coast.
Cuverville Island
Cuverville Island: Antarctic island in the Errera Channel, Graham Land, charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1898; home to the Antarctic Peninsula's largest gentoo penguin colony and a heavily managed tourist landing site.
Cyclades (Κυκλάδες)
Cyclades (Κυκλάδες): dense Greek island cluster in the central Aegean, part of the South Aegean region. Home to sacred Delos, seat of the Delian League; today defined by metamorphic geology, Santorini and Mykonos tourism, and water scarcity.
D'Urville Island
D'Urville Island is the name of two islands honoring French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville: one in New Zealand's Marlborough Sounds, one off the Antarctic Peninsula.
Dahlak Archipelago
Dahlak Archipelago (Dehalak): about 220 islands off Massawa, Eritrea, in the southern Red Sea; salt-diapir coral islands, Dahlak Kebir largest at 64,500 ha, famed for pearl diving, seabird colonies, early Islamic ruins, and a proposed marine national park.
Daitō Islands
Daitō Islands (大東諸島), Daito Islands, three uplifted coral atolls of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, about 360 km east of Okinawa Island; settled from Hachijo in 1900, sugarcane and phosphate plantation history, population about 2,100.
Dall Island
Dall Island, Alaska: island in the Alexander Archipelago west of Prince of Wales Island, 275 sq mi, named for explorer William Healey Dall; 105,780-acre Tongass roadless area near Cape Muzon.
Dampier Peninsula
Dampier Peninsula (Dampierland), Kimberley, Western Australia: peninsula north of Broome between the Indian Ocean and King Sound, home to Bardi, Jawi, Nyul Nyul and other groups, with pindan soils, pearling heritage and Cape Leveque at its tip.
Danger Islands
The Danger Islands are a group of small, largely ice-free Antarctic islands southeast of Joinville Island, home to one of Antarctica's largest Adélie penguin populations.
Dannebrog Islands
Dannebrog Islands (Îles Dannebrog, Islas Dannebrog), small islands NW of Booth Island in the north Wilhelm Archipelago, Graham Coast, Antarctica, at 65°02'S 64°06'W; named 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition after the Danish flag.
Darién Gap
The Darién Gap, in Spanish Tapón del Darién, is a roadless stretch of rainforest and swamp on the Colombia–Panama border, the only break in the Pan-American Highway.
Darwin Island
Darwin Island names two islands honoring Charles Darwin: the largest of the Danger Islands off the Antarctic Peninsula (charted by Ross, 1842) and Culpepper Island, the northernmost Galápagos island near Wolf Island.
Dau Peninsula
Datu Peninsula (Tanjung Datu), westernmost tip of Sarawak, Malaysia, on the Borneo Indonesia border; home to Tanjung Datu National Park, 1,379 ha, gazetted 1994, with turtle beaches, primates, and Telok Melano village.
Daufuskie Island
Daufuskie Island: 5,200-acre boat-only South Carolina sea island southwest of Hilton Head, Gullah Geechee heritage, 1982 National Register historic district, plantation and oyster history, erosion and ferry access.
Dauphin Island, Alabama
Dauphin Island is a 14-mile barrier island in Mobile County, Alabama, guarding Mobile Bay; Alabama's only barrier island, with French colonial history, Fort Gaines, tourism, and major restoration efforts.
Davis Coast
Davis Coast: northwest coast of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula, from Cape Herschel to Cape Kjellman, named for seal captain John Davis of New Haven. Distinct from Davis Sea and Australia's Davis station, named for John King Davis.
Dean Island
Dean Island is an ice-covered Antarctic island, 37 km long and 19 km wide, within the Getz Ice Shelf between Grant and Siple islands; sighted from USS Glacier in 1962 and named for S.L. Dean, distinct from a British Columbian namesake.
Deception Island
Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: an active horseshoe-shaped volcano around the flooded caldera Port Foster, entered via Neptune's Bellows; site of the largest Holocene Antarctic eruption (VEI 6), 1967–1970 eruptions, and an Antarctic Specially Managed Area.
Dee Island
Dee Island, a small crescent-shaped Antarctic island off the north side of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, English Strait; charted and named in 1935 by Discovery II personnel, with a 260 m peak at its south end.
Dejima (出島)
Dejima (出島, Deshima) is an artificial fan-shaped island in Nagasaki harbor, built 1634–1636 to confine Portuguese traders and the VOC's Japanese factory from 1641 to 1859, Japan's sole European trade window.
Delaite Island
Delaite Island (Delaire Ile, Isla Delaite) is an island in Wilhelmina Bay, Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula, west of Nansen Island at 64°34'S 62°12'W, charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1898 and named for sponsor Julien Delaite.
Delmarva Peninsula
Delmarva Peninsula, also called the Eastern Shore, is a 180-mile East Coast peninsula spanning Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia between Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic, with thick coastal-plain aquifers and migrating barrier islands.
Dendtler Island
Dendtler Island: ice-covered Antarctic island, 26 km long, in the eastern Abbot Ice Shelf between Farwell Island and Fletcher Peninsula at 73°01'S 90°13'W; named 1968 for Major Robert Dendtler of Operation Deep Freeze; also claimed by the Westarctica micronation.