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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.
Florida Peninsula
The Florida Peninsula is the low-lying peninsula of the southeastern United States, extending between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean to the Everglades and Florida Keys.
Foley Island
Foley Island (Nunavut) is a 637 km2 low-lying Arctic island in Foxe Basin off southern Baffin Island, discovered by 1948 aerial surveys; distinct from smaller Foley Islands in New Brunswick and Ontario.
Ford Island
Ford Island (Moku'ume'ume) is a 441-acre islet in Pearl Harbor's East Loch, O'ahu, site of Battleship Row and the naval air station attacked on December 7, 1941; today it hosts the USS Missouri, USS Utah and Oklahoma memorials, and the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum.
Formentera
Formentera, the smallest inhabited Balearic island (83 km², Pityusic Islands with Ibiza), has no airport and is reached by ferry. Known for Ca na Costa megalithic tomb, UNESCO-listed Posidonia meadows, and vehicle limits under Law 7/2019.
Forøya
Forøya is the name of several Norwegian islands and islets, including one in Kvæfjord, Troms (82 m), one in Aure, Møre og Romsdal, a protected pine-forest reserve in Senja, and gannet islands near Bleik, Nordland.
Fortunate Isles
Fortunate Isles (Fortunatae Insulae, makáron nêsoi): mythical Atlantic paradise islands of Greco-Roman tradition, from Hesiod to Ptolemy's six islands, most closely identified with the Canary Islands.
Foxe Peninsula
Foxe Peninsula, southwestern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, between Foxe Basin and Hudson Strait; treeless permafrost shield with the Foxe Moraine, marine limit 192 m, final deglaciation 7.1–6.9 cal. ka BP.
Foyn Coast
Foyn Coast: stretch of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Alexander and Cape Northrop, discovered 1893 by C.A. Larsen and named for Norwegian whaler Svend Foyn; formerly Foyn Land.
Francis Island
Francis Island (弗朗西斯島), Antarctic island off the east coast of Graham Land, 22 km ENE of Choyce Point; 13 km long, 9 km wide, named 1947 by FIDS for surveyor S.J. Francis; distinct from Francis Islands in Ontario, Kerguelen, and Chile.
Franz Josef Land
Franz Josef Land (Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa), a Russian Arctic archipelago of 192 islands at about 80°N, the northernmost land of Eurasia, about 85% glaciated, discovered in 1873 by the Austro-Hungarian Payer-Weyprecht expedition and named for Emperor Franz Joseph I.
Fridtjof Island
Fridtjof Island (Fridtjof, Isla; Îlot Fridtjof) is a small island in Gerlache Strait off Wiencke Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in February 1898 and named, probably for explorer Fridtjof Nansen.
Frisian Islands
Frisian Islands, also called Wadden Islands: barrier island chain from the Netherlands through Germany to Denmark, divided into West, East, and North Frisian groups, sheltering the Wadden Sea UNESCO World Heritage tidal flats.
Fuerteventura
Fuerteventura, the second largest and oldest Canary Island, is Spain's driest and flattest major island: 1,661.3 km², 129,541 residents (2025), Pico de la Zarza 807 m, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 2009, conquered 1402–1405, famous for Corralejo dunes and Majorero cheese.
Funafuti
Funafuti is the capital atoll of Tuvalu in the South Pacific (8°30′S, 179°12′E), site of the 1896–1898 Royal Society drilling tests of Darwin's atoll theory, home to about 60% of Tuvaluans, and a global focal point for sea-level rise research and coastal adaptation.
Furness
Furness, also known as the Furness Peninsula or Low Furness, is a peninsula in Cumbria, England, between the Irish Sea and Morecambe Bay; its main town is Barrow-in-Furness.
Fyn
Fyn (Funen, Fyen) is Denmark's third-largest island, about 3,099.7 km², between Zealand and Jutland, centered on Odense, Hans Christian Andersen's birthplace, linked by the Great Belt and Little Belt bridges.
Galápagos Islands
The Galápagos Islands, an Ecuadorian volcanic archipelago about 1,000 km offshore, also called the Enchanted Islands, host extreme endemism, a 133,000 km² marine reserve, and the wildlife that inspired Darwin's theory of evolution.
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.
Gallipoli
Gallipoli names a Turkish peninsula and town (Gelibolu) on the European shore of the Dardanelles, the ancient Thracian Chersonese and 1915 battlefield, and a separate tourist town on the Ionian coast of Salento, Apulia, Italy.
Galveston Island
Galveston Island, also called Isla de Culebras historically, is a 27-mile sand-barrier island on the upper Texas Gulf coast two miles offshore, home to the city of Galveston, the Port of Galveston, and the site of the deadliest U.S. natural disaster, the 1900 hurricane.
Gambier Islands
Gambier Islands (Îles Gambier), French Polynesian archipelago southeast of the Tuamotus; chief town Rikitea on volcanic Mangareva; 30 km², about 1,400–1,600 people; annexed by France 1881; Mururoa and Fangataufa hosted French nuclear tests 1966–1996; black pearl farming.
Gand Island
Gand Island (Île Gand, Ghent Island) is a flat, ice-covered Antarctic island, about 6 km by 3 km, at the north end of Schollaert Channel between Anvers and Brabant Islands, discovered and named by de Gerlache's 1897-99 Belgian expedition after Ghent.
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.
Gåseøen
Gåseøen ("Goose Island") names several places: a flat bird-rich island in Vega Sund, East Greenland, named Gåsøya by NSIU in 1929, and a stone-ridge islet in Gurre Sø near Elsinore, Denmark.
Gaspé Peninsula
The Gaspé Peninsula (French: Gaspésie) is a peninsula in eastern Quebec, Canada, bounded by the St. Lawrence estuary and Chaleur Bay, where Jacques Cartier claimed land for France in 1534.
Gaston Islands
Gaston Islands: two islands and rocks 2 km NW of Reclus Peninsula tip, Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula, at 64°29'S 61°50'W. Charted 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, named for Gaston de Gerlache; group name adopted by the UK in 1960.
Gavdos (Γαύδος)
Gavdos (Γαύδος), Greek island south of Crete and the southernmost point of Greece and Europe; 142 residents (2021), Natura 2000 site with Gavdopoula, oil-fired power, and a noted Miocene Metochia geological section.
Gaztelugatxe
Gaztelugatxe (San Juan de Gaztelugatxe), a rocky islet on the Bizkaia coast between Bermeo and Bakio with a 10th-century hermitage reached by 241 steps; a protected Natural Monument of 157.95 ha and Game of Thrones' Dragonstone, capped at 1,462 visitors daily.
Geography of the Maldives
Geography of the Maldives: a double chain of 26 coral atolls, about 1,190-1,555 islands southwest of Sri Lanka, over 99% sea, highest land about 2.4 m, lowest country on Earth.