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List of islands of the United Kingdom
The list of islands of the United Kingdom covers the several hundred UK islands, from Great Britain to islets, with the Isle of Wight the most populous.
List of U.S. states and territories by coastline
List of U.S. states and territories by coastline: NOAA ranks Alaska (33,904 mi), Florida (8,436), Louisiana (7,721) among 95,439 statute miles of tidal shoreline; a 2021 CUSP tabulation gives 221,923 miles.
Little Cornwallis Island
Little Cornwallis Island, a low-lying Nunavut island in the Queen Elizabeth Islands at 75.5N 96.5W, hosted Cominco's Polaris lead-zinc mine, the world's northernmost base-metal mine, from 1981 to 2002.
Little Diomede Island
Little Diomede Island (Ignaluk) is a US island in the Bering Strait, 2.4 miles from Russian Big Diomede across the International Date Line, home to the Iñupiat village of Diomede, population 82 in 2020.
Little Saint James, U.S. Virgin Islands
Little Saint James is a roughly 70-acre private island off St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, owned by Jeffrey Epstein from 1998, alleged site of trafficking, sold in 2023 to Stephen Deckoff.
Livingston Island (landform)
Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica; second largest island of the archipelago, 798 km2, first land discovered south of 60°S (William Smith, 1819); ice cap, Tangra Mountains, Mount Friesland.
Lofoten
Lofoten is a roughly 200 km island chain in Nordland, Norway, above the Arctic Circle, famed for the winter skrei (Northeast Arctic cod) fishery, stockfish trade, medieval Vágar, the Borg Viking longhouse, and dramatic alpine scenery.
Loks Land
Loks Land is an island in Nunavut's Canadian Arctic Archipelago, off Baffin Island's Blunt Peninsula at the entrance to Frobisher Bay, named by Martin Frobisher for Michael Lok.
Lombok
Lombok: Indonesian island in West Nusa Tenggara east of Bali, homeland of the Muslim Sasak people, dominated by 3,726 m Mount Rinjani and the 1257 Samalas caldera, ruled by Balinese rajas until the 1894 Dutch expedition.
Long Beach Island
Long Beach Island (LBI) is an 18-mile developed barrier island off Ocean County, New Jersey, between Barnegat and Little Egg inlets, with six shore towns, a 19th-century whaling and railroad resort history, and engineered beach nourishment since the 1930s.
Long Island
Long Island: 118-mile island in southeastern New York spanning Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties; 2.9 million suburban residents, glacial moraine origin, sole-source aquifer, and the LIRR commuter rail.
Looe Island
Looe Island, also called St George's Island, is a 22-acre tidal island in Looe Bay, Cornwall, managed by Cornwall Wildlife Trust as the county's only marine nature reserve, with a medieval St Michael chapel, smuggling history, and restricted boat-trip access.
Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands
Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands: subtropical volcanic island groups in the southwest Pacific (29°S–31°S) with the world's southernmost coral reefs, high endemism, and large Australian marine parks.
Lord Howe Island
Lord Howe Island: volcanic Tasman Sea island 570 km east of Port Macquarie, NSW; World Heritage since 1982; endemic woodhen and phasmid; rodent eradication in 2019.
Lougheed Island
Lougheed Island, Nunavut, is a 1,308 km2 uninhabited island in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, named by explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson in 1916 after Senator Sir James Lougheed; largest of the Findlay group, under 150 m elevation.
Louise Island
Louise Island (Antarctica), also Île Louise or Isla Luisa, is a 1 km ice-covered island 2 km east of Cape Anna at the entrance to Wilhelmina Bay, Danco Coast, Graham Land, discovered and named by Adrien de Gerlache's 1897-99 Belgian expedition for his sister.
Louisiade Archipelago
Louisiade Archipelago, island chain in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, southeast of New Guinea; over 80 islands named by Bougainville in 1768 after Louis XV, with Tagula the largest, extensive barrier reefs, high coral diversity, and sea cucumber and shark fin fisheries.
Low Head
Low Head is a headland on the south-central coast of King George Island in Antarctica, charted in 1937 and now a reference site for Antarctic soil, permafrost, and fossil research.
Low Island
Low Island (Isla Baja, Jameson Island) is the southernmost island of the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, 9 by 5 miles, 14 mi SE of Smith Island, known to sealers since 1820, mostly ice-covered with Jurassic-Cretaceous rocks at Cape Wallace.
Lower Mortlock Islands - Ettal Atoll
Lower Mortlock Islands - Ettal Atoll, or Ettal (Etal), is a small triangular atoll in the Nomoi (Mortlock) Islands, Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia, at 5°34'N 153°35'E, with a closed lagoon, about 15 islets, and 672 residents in 2010.
Lower Mortlock Islands - Lukunor Atoll
Lower Mortlock Islands - Lukunor Atoll (Nomoi Islands) is a region of Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia: an 18-islet atoll of 2.82 km2 about 264 km southeast of Chuuk, with 1,432 residents, low 3–5 m elevation, and a history of typhoon and high-tide flooding.
Loyalty Islands
The Loyalty Islands (Îles Loyauté) are uplifted coral islands in the southwest Pacific between New Caledonia's main island and Vanuatu, forming one of New Caledonia's three provinces.
Lucayan Archipelago
Lucayan Archipelago: the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos islands, a 1,000-km chain of low-lying carbonate platforms in the western Atlantic, named for the extinct Lucayan Taíno people.
Luitpold Coast
Luitpold Coast, also Prinzregent-Luitpold-Land, is the northwest coast of Coats Land, Antarctica, fringed by the Filchner Ice Front between about 76°40'S and 78°00'S. Discovered by Wilhelm Filchner's German expedition in January 1912 and named for Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria.
Lundy
Lundy: granite island in the Bristol Channel, 19 km off North Devon, largest island there; former pirate and smuggler base, National Trust-owned, Landmark Trust-managed, England's first marine nature reserve, rat-free since 2006.
Luzon
Luzon (Luzón) is the largest, most populous Philippine island, about 105,000-110,000 km², holding Metro Manila and eight administrative regions with roughly 57 percent of the national population; crossed by the active Philippine Fault.
Lyddan Island
Lyddan Island (利丹島), an ice-covered Antarctic island about 45 mi long with three trefoil arms, at the SW end of the Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf, separating it from the Brunt Ice Shelf; discovered 1967, named for USGS engineer Robert H. Lyddan.
Macaronesia
Macaronesia: biogeographical region of the volcanic NE Atlantic archipelagos Azores, Madeira-Selvagens, Canaries, and Cabo Verde; coined by Philip Barker Webb ca. 1850; ~14,600 km² with ~6,400 endemic terrestrial species.
Machias Seal Island
Machias Seal Island: small disputed island in the Bay of Fundy claimed by both Canada and the United States, with a lighthouse manned since 1832, a 1944 migratory bird sanctuary hosting over 1,000 puffin pairs, and contested gray-zone lobster waters.
Mackenzie King Island
Mackenzie King Island is an uninhabited island in the Queen Elizabeth Islands of the Canadian Arctic, mostly in the Northwest Territories. About 5,048 km², largest of the Prime Minister group, named for Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in 1950.