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Isla Freire

Isla Freire is a small island in Chile's Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena, at 52°31′S 73°57′W, altitude 8 m, near Isla Raby and Cerros Altos; GeoNames ID 3889320.

Isla Gertie

Isla Gertie names two islands: one at 49°30'S 75°01'W in Chile's Magallanes fjords, in Laguna María Ester, named by the German cruiser Albatross; and a Kuna village island (Isla Ailidup) in Guna Yala, Panama, at 9.52°N 79.06°W.

Isla Gordon

Isla Gordon (Gordon Island) is an uninhabited Chilean island in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago between Isla Grande and Hoste Island, dividing the Beagle Channel into northwest and southwest arms; area 616.73 km², maximum elevation 2,293 m, with uplifted Rocas Verdes ophiolitic rocks.

Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego

Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, the largest island of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago and of South America, split between Chile (~29,000 km2) and Argentina (~18,000 km2), named for fires seen by Magellan in 1520.

Isla Herve Mangon

Isla Herve Mangon (Isla Hervé Mangón) is a 50 km² Chilean island off southern Isla Hoste, Magallanes region, between the Hahn and Carfort channels, named for French engineer and 1885 agriculture minister Hervé Mangon.

Isla Holbox

Isla Holbox is a 42-km car-free barrier island off northern Quintana Roo, Mexico, in the Yum Balam protected area, known for whale shark tours (May–September), flamingos, bioluminescence, lobster pizza, and fishing-to-tourism transition pressures.

Isla Jungfrauen

Isla Jungfrauen is an island in Tortel commune, Capitán Prat Province, Aysén Region, Chile, 9 km west of Archipielago Wellington; also recorded as Islas Jungfrauen or Grupo Jungfrauen, with a 180 m filter-feeder site and indigenous camp Isla Jungfrauen 3.

Isla Little Wellington

Isla Little Wellington, an island in Chile's Aysén Region at 48°30′S 74°45′W; largely within Katalalixar National Reserve, holding its highest summit at 995 m, separated from Isla Wellington by Canal Adalberto.

Isla Londonderry

Isla Londonderry, or Londonderry Island, is a Chilean island south of the Beagle Channel in southern Tierra del Fuego, named in homage to the ancestors of Captain Fitz Roy.

Isla Melchor

Isla Melchor is a Chilean island in the Archipiélago de los Chonos, Aysén Region, at about 45°S 73°40'W on Canal Moraleda, charted by the IGM at 1:50.000 with a 1,330 m elevation and hosting the CES Melchor 4 salmon farm.

Isla Merino Jarpa

Isla Merino Jarpa is a large Chilean island in Seno Baker, Golfo de Penas, Aysén Region, Capitán Prat province; about 560–623 km², named for Navy captain Vicente Merino Jarpa, mapped by the IGM in 1989.

Isla Moreina

Isla Moreina is a small island in Delta Amacuro state, Venezuela, in the Orinoco Delta region of Guayana, at 8.75352° N, 60.87989° W, altitude 17 m, near Jobure and Palmito; GeoNames ID 3763181.

Isla Mujeres

Isla Mujeres (Island of Women) is a Caribbean island in Quintana Roo, Mexico, 6 km northeast of Cancún, about 7 km long, a former Maya sanctuary of Ixchel, named for female statues found by Spanish conquistadors, and a Pueblo Mágico since 2015.

Isla Navarino

Isla Navarino (Navarino Island) is a Chilean island of about 2,473-2,514 km2 in the Beagle Channel, Region of Magallanes, south of Tierra del Fuego. Home of Yaghan culture, Puerto Williams, the Dientes de Navarino range, and the Cabo de Hornos Biosphere Reserve.

Isla Patricio Lynch

Isla Patricio Lynch (Patricio Lynch Island) is a 560.8 km² island in the Pacific off southern Chile, south of Golfo de Penas, part of Archipiélago Campana in Aysén Region's Capitán Prat province, named after Admiral Patricio Lynch and within Reserva Nacional Katalalixar.

Isla Prat

Isla Prat: uninhabited Chilean island in the Pacific, south of Golfo de Penas, Wellington archipelago, Aysén Region. 760.8 km², 18th largest Chilean island; part of Reserva Nacional Katalalixar.

Isla Puentes

Isla Puentes is a small islet in the Aysén Region of southern Chile, near Península Skyring in the South Pacific, covered in dense evergreen broadleaf forest.

Isla Puná

Isla Puná (Isla de la Puná), Ecuador's largest island outside the Galápagos, lies at the head of the Gulf of Guayaquil; about 920 km², 15,275 inhabitants, fishing and shrimp farming, reached only by sea.

Isla Renato

Isla Renato (Île Renato) is an island in Chile's Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena at 50°10′S 75°12′W, elevation 143 m; GeoNames ID 3873455, Wikidata Q22453661, near Isla Leandro and Punta Caracol.

Isla Rivero

Isla Rivero is an island in the Chonos Archipelago of Chile, in the Aysén Region of northern Patagonia between the canals Utarupa and Pulluche, named for Captain Galvarino Rivero.

Isla San Salvador

Isla San Salvador names Santiago Island (James Island) in the Galápagos and San Salvador Island in the Bahamas, the debated 1492 Columbus landfall; also a Peruvian river island and El Salvador's volcano.

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.

Isla Visible

Isla Visible is a small island in the Region of Magallanes, Chile, at about 50.91° S, 74.65° W, elevation 87 m, near Hanover Island; GeoNames ID 3868063, Wikidata Q22455881.

Island country

An island country, also called an island nation, is a sovereign state made up entirely of islands with no mainland territory, such as the United Kingdom and Japan.

Islay

Islay, also called the Isle of Islay, is the southernmost of the Inner Hebrides off Scotland's west coast, known for its whisky distilleries and medieval Finlaggan.

Isle of Arran

Isle of Arran, "Scotland in miniature": largest island in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland's seventh largest, 167 sq mi, Goat Fell 874 m, population 4,629 (2011); UNESCO Global Geopark since April 2025, Neolithic monuments at Machrie Moor, CalMac ferries from Ardrossan and Troon.

Isle of Bute

Isle of Bute (Eilean Bhòid), a Firth of Clyde island in Argyll and Bute, Scotland; population 6,039 (2022), main town Rothesay, ferries from Wemyss Bay and Colintraive, Rothesay Castle and Mount Stuart House.

Isle of Lewis

Isle of Lewis: northern two-thirds of the largest Outer Hebrides island, Scotland, main town Stornoway. Known for Lewisian gneiss (~2900 Ma), Norse place-names, the Lewis Chess-pieces hoard, and crofting, fishing and weaving economy.

Isle of Mull

The Isle of Mull (An t-Eilean Muileach) is the second largest Inner Hebrides island, Scotland, population about 3,000, reached by a 45-minute CalMac ferry from Oban to Craignure, with Tobermory as its main town.

Isle of Portland

The Isle of Portland is a tied limestone island off Dorset, England, joined to the mainland by Chesil Beach tombolo beside the Fleet lagoon. Known for Portland Stone quarried since the 14th century, Jurassic Coast World Heritage status, and landslipping coasts.