Islands and dry-land coastal features

Desventuradas Islands

Desventuradas Islands (Islas Desventuradas): remote uninhabited Chilean archipelago of San Ambrosio and San Félix, about 840 km off Antofagasta, with extreme marine endemism and the Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park.

Devon Island

Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada: the world's largest uninhabited island (55,247 km2), a High Arctic polar desert with the Haughton impact crater, Franklin expedition sites, and NASA Mars analog stations.

Diego Garcia

Diego Garcia is a coral atoll in the Chagos Archipelago in the central Indian Ocean, the largest island of the group and home to a joint UK-US military base.

Diomede Islands (острова Диомида)

Diomede Islands (острова Диомида): two Bering Strait islands, Big Diomede (Russia, Ratmanova/Imaqłiq) and Little Diomede (US, Krusenstern/Iŋaliq), 3.8 km apart, split by the International Date Line and US–Russia border, 21 hours apart.

Dirk Hartog Island

Dirk Hartog Island (Wirruwana), Western Australia's largest island at Shark Bay, site of the first European landing on WA's coast by Dirk Hartog in the Eendracht on 25 October 1616, marked by a pewter plate at Cape Inscription.

Djerba (جربة)

Djerba (جربة) is a 514 km² Tunisian Mediterranean island, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2023 for its dispersed menzel-houma settlement pattern, defensive mosques, and Ibadi and Jewish communities.

Dodecanese (Δωδεκάνησα)

The Dodecanese (Δωδεκάνησα), meaning "twelve islands", are a Greek island group in the southeastern Aegean Sea near Turkey, with 18 large islands and Rhodes as capital and largest island.

Dodson Peninsula

Dodson Peninsula: ice-covered Antarctic peninsula at the west end of the Filchner Ice Shelf, Palmer Land; discovered by RARE 1947-48 under Ronne, first mapped as Dodson Island, named for Robert H.T. Dodson.

Dolleman Island

Dolleman Island, also Isla Dolleman, is a rounded ice-covered island off Palmer Land, Antarctica, at 70°37'S 60°45'W. Discovered in 1940 by the US Antarctic Service East Base and named for Hendrik Dolleman; a BAS ice-core drilling site.

Dominica

Dominica (Commonwealth of Dominica), the Nature Isle of the Caribbean: a mountainous Eastern Caribbean island between Martinique and Guadeloupe, independent since 1978, with nine volcanoes, Morne Trois Pitons UNESCO park, and a tourism, agriculture, and citizenship-by-investment economy.

Dorsey Island

Dorsey Island (Spanish: Dorsey, Isla) is an ice-covered Antarctic island at about 70°22'S, 71°30'W in the Wilkins Ice Shelf region near Alexander Island, notable for a rare 2-by-2-km sea lake at its northeast end.

Drepanon (promontory)

Drepanon (Δρέπανον, "sickle") is the name of several ancient promontories: in Achaia (modern Drepano), on Crete near Chania, on Cyprus, in Sicily (Trapani), and on Egypt's Red Sea coast (Ras Gargub), each named for a sickle-like shape.

Ducie Island

Ducie Island is an uninhabited atoll of the Pitcairn Islands, the most easterly island on the Pacific Plate, hosting over 90% of the world's Murphy's Petrels.

Dundee Island

Dundee Island: ice-covered Antarctic island, 450 km², south of Joinville Island at 63°29'S; named 1892-93 by Captain Thomas Robertson of Dundee whaling fleet; site of Argentina's Petrel Base and the Cape Purvis volcano.

Dungeness

Dungeness, Kent: a cuspate shingle foreland on Romney Marsh, the largest shingle feature in Europe, with lighthouses since 1615, Dungeness A and B nuclear stations, an NNR, and Prospect Cottage.

Dutch Caribbean

Dutch Caribbean: the six Caribbean islands of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Saba), reorganized on 10 October 2010 when the Netherlands Antilles dissolved into three constituent countries and three Dutch special municipalities.

Eadie Island

Eadie Island (イーディー島), also Ostrov Edi or Isla Eadie, is a roughly 2 km island in the South Shetland Islands between Aspland and O'Brien Islands, named in 1937 by Lt. L. C. Hill after the Melbourne Harbour Trust dockyard manager.

Eagle Island

Eagle Island, Antarctica: island in Prince Gustav Channel off Trinity Peninsula, 5 by 4 miles, rising to 560 m; named in 1949 after the FIDS ship Eagle; also Isla Aguila (Chile).

Edgell Island

Edgell Island is a Nunavut island off Baffin Island's southeastern tip in Davis Strait, near the Frobisher Bay entrance; 61°50′N 65°W, elevation 148 m, official Canadian name since 1946, distinct from a British Columbia namesake.

Edgeøya

Edgeøya (Edge Island), uninhabited island of Svalbard, Norway; third largest at 5,073 km², between Storfjorden and Freemansundet, named for whaler Thomas Edge, glacier-covered, in Søraust-Svalbard Nature Reserve since 1973.

Éfaté Island

Éfaté (Efate, Vaté) is Vanuatu's most populated island, third largest at about 900 km², in Shefa Province. It hosts the capital Port Vila, the Teouma Lapita cemetery (~3000 BP), and about 80% of national economic activity.

Egg Island (landform)

Egg Island (landform): name shared by many small islands worldwide, e.g. Antarctic Trinity Peninsula, a dozen in Alaska (Russian Ostrov Yaichnoy, 1792), plus examples in Canada, the Bahamas, and California, named for eggs, shape, or grouped features.

Eglinton Island

Eglinton Island, uninhabited island in the Northwest Territories Canadian Arctic Archipelago at 75°45'N 118°50'W, west of Melville Island; charted in 1853 by M'Clintock and Mecham during Franklin searches.

Eielson Peninsula

Eielson Peninsula (Eielson, península) is a rugged, mainly snow-covered peninsula, about 20 mi long, between Smith Inlet and Lehrke Inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica, named for pilot Carl Ben Eielson of Wilkins' 1928 Antarctic flights.

Eilean Àird

Eilean Àird (Eilean Aird) is a small island in Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, near Jura, at 55.96904 N, 5.91269 W, elevation 6 m, grid NR559820, near Lagg, Tarbert, and Loch Tarbert.

Eilean Cubhraidh

Eilean Cubhraidh (Eilean Cùbhraidh) is a small islet on the Isle of Lewis in the Western Isles, Scotland, near Sgàparaid and Lochganvich, at 58.14235°N, 6.6585°W, elevation 53 m; the Gaelic name combines eilean (island) with cubhraidh (scented).

Eilean Donan

Eilean Donan ("Island of Donan") is a Scottish castle on a tidal island where Lochs Long, Duich, and Alsh meet. Ruined in 1719 after a Spanish Jacobite garrison, it was rebuilt 1912–1932 by John MacRae-Gilstrap and opened to the public in 1955.

Eklund Islands

Eklund Islands, a group of mainly ice-covered islands near the southwest end of George VI Sound, Antarctica (73°16'S, 71°45'W), discovered December 1940 by Finn Ronne and Carl R. Eklund and named for Eklund, ornithologist of the U.S. Antarctic Service.

Elba

Elba (Isola d'Elba), largest island of the Tuscan Archipelago, 223.5 km2, 10 km off Tuscany; historic iron mines (60 million tons), Napoleon's 1814-15 exile, tourism economy.