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Lesser Antilles
The Lesser Antilles are an island arc in the Caribbean Sea, stretching from the Virgin Islands south to Grenada and formed by subduction of the Atlantic plate.
Lesser Sunda Islands
The Lesser Sunda Islands (Nusa Tenggara) are an island chain east of Java, mostly in Indonesia, running from Bali to Timor. Key facts: volcanic Sunda-Banda arc, area 73,144 sq km, Wallacean biodiversity, Komodo National Park.
Leyte
Leyte is the largest province of Eastern Visayas in the Philippines, occupying most of the island of the same name, where Magellan landed in 1521.
Liancourt Rocks
Liancourt Rocks, also Dokdo (Korean) and Takeshima (Japanese), are islets in the Sea of Japan between Korea and Japan, named after the 1849 French whaling ship Le Liancourt; Korea controls them and Japan disputes sovereignty.
Liaodong Peninsula
The Liaodong Peninsula (辽东半岛) is one of China's three major peninsulas, in southern Liaoning Province, home to the ports of Dalian and Lushun and ceded briefly to Japan in 1895.
Liard Island
Liard Island (Isla Liard) is a mountainous Antarctic island, 24 km long and 11 km wide, rising to 1,000 m in north-central Hanusse Bay off Graham Land's west coast, discovered and named by Charcot's French Antarctic Expedition of 1908-10.
Liberty Island
Liberty Island, formerly Bedloe's Island, is a 15-acre island in New York Harbor, part of New York State, home to the Statue of Liberty and Fort Wood, administered by the National Park Service since 1933 and renamed in 1956.
Liège Island
Liège Island (Ile Liège, Isla Lieja): island 9 mi long, 3 mi wide in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, immediately NE of Brabant Island at 64°02'S 61°55'W; charted and named for Belgium's Liège province by the Belgica expedition 1897-99 under de Gerlache.
Lindenberg Island
Lindenberg Island (Lindenbergzuckerhut) is a small circular volcanic island rising 200 m above the Larsen Ice Shelf off the Nordenskjöld Coast, Antarctic Peninsula, discovered and named by Carl Anton Larsen on 11 December 1893 for C. Lindenberg of Hamburg.
Lindisfarne
Lindisfarne, or Holy Island, is a tidal island off Northumberland linked by a causeway, site of the 635 monastery of St Aidan, the 793 Viking raid, the Lindisfarne Gospels, and Lutyens' castle.
Line Islands
Line Islands: central Pacific coral atoll chain south of Hawaii; 8 of 11 atolls belong to Kiribati, 3 (Kingman Reef, Palmyra Atoll, Jarvis Island) are US territories; Kiritimati is the world's largest atoll.
Lisianski Island
Lisianski Island (Papaʻāpoho), Northwestern Hawaiian Islands: a 1.5 km² sandy island with Neva Shoals (979 km²), discovered 1805 by the grounded Russian ship Neva; part of Papahānaumokuākea, hit hard by 2014 coral bleaching.
List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands
Antarctic and subantarctic islands: over 800 islands in 22 major Southern Ocean groups, including South Georgia, Kerguelen, Crozet, Macquarie, and the five New Zealand subantarctic groups, governed by the Antarctic Treaty south of 60°S and by national law elsewhere.
List of Caribbean islands
The Caribbean islands are the more than 7,000 islands, islets, reefs, and cays of the West Indies, grouped into the Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles, and Lucayan Archipelago.
List of Curaçaoans
Curaçaoans are people born on Curaçao, with family roots there, or closely tied to its culture; also called Lijst van bekende Curaçaoënaars. Notable figures include Louis Brion, Izaline Calister, Churandy Martina, and the 2026 World Cup squad, with a Dutch diaspora of nearly 100,000.
List of islands in the Mediterranean
List of islands in the Mediterranean: about 3,000 islands, nine over 1,000 km2 (Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, Corsica, Crete, Euboea, Majorca, Lesbos, Rhodes), Aegean groups, volcanic arcs, and the sovereign islands Cyprus and Malta.
List of islands in the Pacific Ocean
List of islands in the Pacific Ocean: around 25,000 islands, over half the world's total, across Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Largest is New Guinea (~786,000 km²); highest Mauna Kea (4205 m); 1,779 catalogued under a ≥1 ha definition.
List of islands of Australia
Islands of Australia: 8,222 islands counted by Geoscience Australia, largest being Melville (5,786 km2) and Kangaroo (4,416 km2); includes K'gari, the world's largest sand island, Torres Strait islands, and remote Macquarie Island.
List of islands of England
Islands of England: offshore and tidal islands excluding the mainland of Great Britain. Largest is the Isle of Wight (380 sq km); England has nine islands over 5 sq km; the Isles of Scilly are England's only archipelago.
List of islands of France
Islands of France: Corsica (8,680-8,722 km², largest metropolitan island), Atlantic islands like Île de Ré and Noirmoutier, overseas islands such as French Polynesia, and the TAAF and Scattered Islands.
List of islands of Greece
List of islands of Greece: the roughly 6,000 Greek islands and islets, 227 inhabited, organized by GNTO into eight groups: Argosaronic, Crete, Cyclades, Dodecanese, Evia, Ionian, North Aegean, and Sporades.
List of islands of Hawaii
Islands of Hawaii (Mokupuni Hawaiʻi): the Hawaiian archipelago of 8 major islands, 7 inhabited, plus 124 named islets, from Hawaiʻi Island northwest to Kure Atoll over 2,400 km, with island sizes, ages, and Papahānaumokuākea protection.
List of islands of India
Islands of India: the Andaman & Nicobar archipelago (836 islands, Bay of Bengal) and Lakshadweep (12 atolls, Arabian Sea), plus coastal islands such as Abdul Kalam Island.
List of islands of Indonesia
The islands of Indonesia, also called the Indonesian Archipelago, number about 17,000, with Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Papua the largest; the 2024 official count was 17,380.
List of islands of Italy
Islands of Italy: Sicily and Sardinia, the two largest Mediterranean islands, plus 79 minor islands (Eurostat definition, 26 uninhabited) grouped in archipelagos such as the Tuscan, Aeolian, Aegadian, Pontine, and La Maddalena.
List of islands of Japan
Islands of Japan: the Japanese archipelago, also called Nihon retto, comprises 14,125 counted islands per GSI's 2023 recount (previously 6,852 from 1987), defined as natural land above high tide with perimeter over 0.1 km, dominated by Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku.
List of islands of Michigan
Islands of Michigan: over 3,000 Great Lakes islands; largest are Isle Royale (139,021 acres, Lake Superior), Drummond, Beaver, Sugar, and Bois Blanc; includes Mackinac, Belle Isle, and the Manitou Islands.
List of islands of New Zealand
Islands of New Zealand: the North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui), South Island (Te Waipounamu), Stewart Island/Rakiura, and offshore groups from the Kermadecs to Campbell Island, with their Māori and European naming history and conservation status.
List of islands of Scotland
Islands of Scotland: over 790 offshore islands, 93 inhabited at the 2011 census, in Shetland, Orkney, and the Inner and Outer Hebrides; official Scottish Government geographies list 160–161 islands in nine regions.
List of islands of the Philippines
Islands of the Philippines: 7,641 islands (formerly 7,107) in three groups, Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao; largest islands, 2020 census populations, extreme points, and NAMRIA inventory.