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Masbate
Masbate (Lalawigan ng Masbate) is a three-island Philippine province in the Bicol Region, capital Masbate City, known as the Cattle Country of the Philippines and for gold mining in Aroroy.
Massey Island
Massey Island is an uninhabited 440 km² island in the Bathurst Island group, Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic. It is part of the Governor General Group.
Masson Island
Masson Island: ice-covered Antarctic island in the Shackleton Ice Shelf, Queen Mary Land, about 33 km long, 22 km wide, rising to 471 m; discovered by the AAE 1911-14 and named by Douglas Mawson after Sir David Orme Masson of Melbourne.
Matsu Islands (马祖列岛)
Matsu Islands (马祖列岛), Lienchiang County, ROC (Taiwan): 36 granite islands near the Minjiang Estuary, Eastern Min culture, militarized 1949–1992, now battlefield-heritage tourism under PRC gray-zone pressure.
Matty Island
Matty Island is an uninhabited island in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada, between King William Island and the Boothia Peninsula, known for the phantom Franklin wreck tradition and Amundsen's 1903 grounding on its shoals.
Maui
Maui, the Valley Isle, is Hawaii's second largest island (728 sq mi), formed by Haleakala and the West Maui volcano, home to 143,574 people, historic Lahaina, and recovering from the August 2023 wildfires.
Mavericks Beach
Mavericks Beach, at Pillar Point near Half Moon Bay, California, fronts the famous Mavericks big-wave reef break half a mile offshore, named after a dog in 1963, pioneered by Jeff Clark in 1975, and home to a winter surf contest since 1998.
Mawson Coast
Mawson Coast, part of Mac.Robertson Land in East Antarctica between 60°E and Murray Monolith (66°53'E), discovered on the 1929-30 BANZARE voyage and named for Sir Douglas Mawson; home to Mawson station since 1954.
Mawson Peninsula
Mawson Peninsula, George V Land, East Antarctica: a narrow peninsula over 57 km long rising to about 457 m, named after Sir Douglas Mawson, approved 1959; distinct from Mawson research station.
Mbusihite Island
Mbusihite Island is a small islet in Western Province, Solomon Islands, near Roviana Lagoon off New Georgia, at 8°16′57″S 157°33′14″E, elevation 2 m, near Hapai and Mbusinomana Island; GeoNames ID 2105710, Wikidata Q49657877.
McNeil Island
McNeil Island, in Pierce County, Washington, housed a unique prison from 1875 to 2011 that evolved into the Special Commitment Center and a wildlife preserve.
Meighen Island
Meighen Island: uninhabited Nunavut island in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Canadian Arctic, named for Prime Minister Arthur Meighen (named 1921). Home to the stagnant, shrinking Meighen Ice Cap, a reference glacier monitored since 1960.
Melbourne Island
Melbourne Island, Nunavut: uninhabited island in western Queen Maud Gulf, Canada, at 68.5 N, 104.7 W; largest island in the gulf's west end, hills to 60 m, brant and eider nesting coasts; distinct from islands in British Columbia and French Polynesia.
Melchior Islands
Melchior Islands: low, ice-covered islands in Dallmann Bay, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctic Peninsula, named by Charcot 1903-05 after Admiral Melchior; site of Argentina's 1947 Base Melchior and the 1942 Primero de Mayo lighthouse.
Melville Island (island, Australia)
Melville Island, Tiwi Islands, is Australia's second largest island (5,786 km2) after Tasmania, lying 80 km north of Darwin in the Arafura Sea, separated from Bathurst Island by Apsley Strait, Tiwi-owned Aboriginal freehold with Milikapiti and Pirlangimpi communities.
Melville Island (island, Canada)
Melville Island is a large uninhabited island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, split between the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Known for deep permafrost, Parry's 1819 wintering, and the Cape Bounty Arctic Watershed Observatory; distinct from Halifax's Melville Island and Melville Peninsula.
Melville Peninsula
Melville Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada: Arctic mainland peninsula, about 400 km long and 100 km wide, west of Foxe Basin, joined to the mainland by Rae Isthmus, separated from Baffin Island by Fury and Hecla Strait; highest point 521 m.
Menorca
Menorca (Catalan: Menorca), second largest Balearic Island in the western Mediterranean, Spain. Known for Talayotic Menorca, UNESCO World Heritage since 2023 with cyclopean monuments from 1600 BCE to 123 BCE, and for being an entire-island UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1993.
Merritt Island, Florida
Merritt Island, Florida: unincorporated Brevard County CDP between the Indian and Banana rivers, population 34,518 (2020), home to Kennedy Space Center and the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge on its northern portion.
Meta Incognita Peninsula
Meta Incognita Peninsula (Мета-Инкогнита) is a peninsula on southern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, at 62°45'N/68°30'W, named by Elizabeth I after Frobisher's 1576-1578 voyages and underlain by Paleoproterozoic Lake Harbour Group rocks.
Mex Island
Mex Island is a small island in Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, near Amchitka in the Rat Islands, at 51.47232° N, 179.02916° E, elevation 19 m; it appears on maps of the Amchitka underground nuclear test monitoring network.
Middle Andaman
Middle Andaman Island, one of the Great Andaman islands in India's Andaman and Nicobar territory, North and Middle Andaman district; 1535.5 sq km, 62,414 people (2011), seismic zone V, separated by Austen and Homfray's Straits.
Miers Bluff
Miers Bluff (Punta Elefante, Mirounga Point) is a 400 m bluff at the southwest tip of Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, marking the northwest entrance to False Bay and lending its name to the Miers Bluff Formation.
Mikhaylov Island
Mikhaylov Island, a small Antarctic island in East Antarctica plotted near 66°48'S 85°30'E, with an ice cap climate from -34 to -8°C; named for Pavel Mikhaylov, artist of the Bellingshausen expedition, and distinct from Mikhaylov Point and Cape Mikhaylov.
Mill Island (island, Antarctica)
Mill Island, Antarctica: domed ice island 48 km long, 30 km wide, about 38 km north of the Bunger Hills on Knox Coast at the Shackleton Ice Shelf calving front; discovered February 1936 by the William Scoresby Expedition, named for Antarctic historian Dr H.R. Mill; site of a 120 m ice core.
Milne Land
Milne Land (Ilimananngip Nunaa) is the largest island in Scoresby Sound, East Greenland: uninhabited, 3,800 km², highest point 2,434 m, named for British general David Milne, with monazite, rutile, and zircon finds.
Milos (Μήλος)
Milos (Μήλος) is a 151 km2 volcanic Greek island in the southwestern Cyclades, on the Aegean volcanic arc, famed for Neolithic obsidian trade, Phylakopi, the Venus de Milo found in 1820, mining, and geothermal activity.
Minamidaitōjima (南大東島)
Minamidaitōjima (南大東島), Minami-Daito Island, is a raised coral atoll in the Daito Islands, Okinawa, Japan, about 360 km east of Okinawa Island; 30.52 km², population 1,204, discovered 1820 by the Russian ship Borodino, settled 1900 from Hachijō.
Mindanao
Mindanao, the second largest island of the Philippines (about 10.14 million ha), is the country's agricultural breadbasket, hosts the BARMM autonomous region, and faces seismic, power, and infrastructure challenges.
Mindoro
Mindoro, seventh largest island of the Philippines, divided since 1950 into Oriental and Occidental Mindoro provinces in MIMAROPA; home of the endemic tamaraw and Mangyan peoples, historically the Chinese trade partner "Mai".