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Eleuthera
Eleuthera, a 160-km-long thin Bahamian island 58 miles east of Nassau, settled in 1648 by the Eleutheran Adventurers, once a pineapple exporter, now a tourism destination with Harbour Island nearby.
Ellef Ringnes Island
Ellef Ringnes Island (also spelled Ellef Ringnes) is an uninhabited 11,295 km2 island in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut, the westernmost Sverdrup Island, discovered in 1901 by Isachsen and Hassel and named for Norwegian brewer Ellef Ringnes.
Ellesmere Island
Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada's northernmost Arctic island, 196,236 km², tenth largest island in the world, home to Cape Columbia, Barbeau Peak, Quttinirpaaq National Park, and rapidly declining Arctic ice shelves.
Emma Island
Emma Island (Emma, Ile) is a small Antarctic island east of Cape Anna in Wilhelmina Bay, Danco Coast, Graham Land, at 64°36'S 62°18'W. Charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1898 and named for Emma de Gerlache de Gomery, mother of commander Adrien de Gerlache.
Enewetak Atoll
Enewetak Atoll (Eniwetok), a Marshall Islands coral atoll, hosted 43 US nuclear tests (1948–1958, 31.7 MT) including Ivy Mike; cleanup created Runit Dome on Runit Island, and resettlement began in 1980.
Eorsa Island
Eorsa is a small uninhabited island in Loch na Keal off the Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, in Scotland's Inner Hebrides, near Ulva and Inch Kenneth, at 56.46667 N, 6.08333 W.
Épi
Épi (Epi) is an island in Shefa Province, Vanuatu, 100 km north of Port Vila, with over 7,000 residents, two west-coast airstrips, dugongs at Lamen Bay, and the active East Epi submarine volcano offshore.
Erromango
Erromango: large forested volcanic island, largest in Vanuatu's Tafea Province (also called third or fourth largest in the archipelago), area 888-902 km², population about 2,000, known for sandalwood, hardwood forests, and 1774 Cook landing.
Espiritu Santo (island, Vanuatu)
Espiritu Santo (Santo), Vanuatu's largest island in the South Pacific, holds Mount Tabwemasana (1,879 m) and Luganville. Contacted by Queirós in 1606; US WWII base Base Button from 1942; kava and cattle economy.
Etolin Island
Etolin Island, Alaska: 32-mile-long island in the Alexander Archipelago between Wrangell and Prince of Wales islands, named for Russian-American governor Adolph Etolin; Tongass forest, 1990 South Etolin Wilderness, 1987 elk introduction.
Europa Island
Europa Island (Île Europa), largest of the French Scattered Islands at 30 km², is a low coralline atoll in the Mozambique Channel, a TAAF territory with major green turtle and seabird colonies and a 127,300 km² EEZ.
Ewing Island
Ewing Island: ice-covered, dome-shaped Antarctic island, 8 mi across, off the Antarctic Peninsula east coast at 69°54'S 61°13'W; discovered by air in 1947 by Ronne's RARE and named for Columbia geophysicist Maurice Ewing.
Exuma
Exuma is a chain of 365 islands in the Bahamas, divided into Great Exuma, Little Exuma, and the Exuma Cays, known for the swimming pigs of Big Major Cay, the 1958 Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park, George Town, and regatta sailing.
Eysturoy
Eysturoy, the east island, is the second-largest of the Faroe Islands (286.9 km², about 11,000 people), home to Slættaratindur, the highest peak, and linked to Tórshavn by the Eysturoyartunnilin with the world's first undersea roundabout.
Fair Isle
Fair Isle: remote Shetland island, 24 miles from mainland, about 60 residents, 761 hectares. Famous for its bird observatory (founded 1948 by George Waterston), Fair Isle knitting, and its £45.4M ferry replacement project.
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.
Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands (Føroyar) are 18 volcanic North Atlantic islands, a self-governing part of Denmark under the 1948 Home Rule Act, with 54,149 people, Tórshavn as capital, and a fisheries-dominated economy outside the EU.
Farwell Island
Farwell Island names two places: an ice-covered island and ice rise at 72°49'S 91°10'W in the Abbot Ice Shelf, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica, and a 1 m elevation islet in Calhoun County, Texas, near Pass Cavallo and Espiritu Santo Bay.
Fergusson Island
Fergusson Island (Moratau), largest of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea; 1,437 km2, volcanic, peak 2,073 m, named by Moresby in 1874, with Deidei geysers and Wapolu gold mine.
Ferin Head
Ferin Head, also historically Île Férin or Ferin Island, is a headland on the Graham Coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, 4 nautical miles north of Holtedahl Bay, charted as an island by Charcot's 1908–10 expedition and remapped as a headland by the BGLE in 1935.
Fernando de Noronha
Fernando de Noronha is a volcanic Brazilian Atlantic archipelago of 21 islands, 26 km², a UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site (2001) and Pernambuco state district, known for spinner dolphins, seabirds, ten colonial forts, and a 2027 solar energy transition.
Fernão do Pó
Fernão do Pó, also spelled Fernando Po, was a Portuguese navigator who discovered the island now called Bioko around 1471 and explored the Wouri estuary, naming it Rio dos Camarões, origin of the name Cameroon.
Fire Island
Fire Island is a roughly 50 km barrier island off Long Island's south shore, New York, with seventeen year-round communities and the Fire Island National Seashore, established in 1964.
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.
Flaherty Island
Flaherty Island, largest island of the Belcher Islands in southeastern Hudson Bay, Nunavut, Canada; about 1,858 km², named for explorer Robert J. Flaherty, and home to Sanikiluaq, Nunavut's southernmost Inuit community, on its north coast.
Fletcher Peninsula
Fletcher Peninsula, an ice-covered peninsula in Ellsworth Land, Antarctica, extends into the Bellingshausen Sea between the Abbot and Venable ice shelves at 72°45′S 88°50′W; mapped by USGS 1961–66, distinct from Fletcher Promontory and Cape Fletcher.
Flevopolder
Flevopolder is the world's largest artificial island, a 970 km² pair of reclaimed polders in the IJsselmeer built between 1950 and 1968 as part of the Zuiderzee Works.
Flinders Island
Flinders Island, largest of Tasmania's Furneaux Group in Bass Strait, about 1,367 km2 with Mount Strzelecki at 756 m; known for Aboriginal occupation over 35,000 years, the Wybalenna settlement, sealing history, agriculture, and tourism.
Flores
Flores is an Indonesian island in East Nusa Tenggara, Lesser Sunda Islands, east of Sumbawa; home of Komodo National Park, Homo floresiensis at Liang Bua, Kelimutu lakes, and major earthquakes and volcanoes.