Islands and dry-land coastal features

New Georgia

New Georgia: largest island of the New Georgia Islands group in Western Province, Solomon Islands, in New Georgia Sound. Includes Marovo Lagoon, Roviana culture, Munda, Gizo, and 1942-43 WWII fighting.

New Guinea

New Guinea, the world's second-largest island after Greenland, lies north of Australia, split between Indonesian Papua and Papua New Guinea; known for its central mountain range, Puncak Jaya, extreme biodiversity, and over 800 languages.

New Siberia

Ostrov Novaya Sibir' (Новая Сибирь, New Siberia) is a ~6,200 km² uninhabited island, easternmost of the Anzhu Islands in Russia's New Siberian archipelago; discovered 1806, explored by Toll 1886, permafrost 316–337 m thick.

New Siberian Islands

The New Siberian Islands (Novosibirskiye Ostrova) are a Russian Arctic archipelago of about 28,200 sq km between the Laptev and East Siberian seas, in Sakha Republic, comprising the Anzhu, Lyakhovsky, and De Long island groups with continuous permafrost.

New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands

New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands: five island groups (Snares, Bounty, Antipodes, Auckland, Campbell) between 47° and 53°S, a 1998 UNESCO World Heritage site with 76,458 ha land, endemic seabirds, sea lions, and megaherbs.

Newfoundland (island)

Newfoundland (island): large North Atlantic island forming, with Labrador, the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Known for L'Anse aux Meadows Norse site, Beothuk history, 903-km Trans-Canada Highway, and Marine Atlantic ferries.

Ngan Kyun

Ngan Kyun is a small island in Rakhine State, Myanmar, near the villages Pan Tu Ma and Nga Mauk Kywain, at 19.513°N, 93.815°E, elevation −3 m; GeoNames ID 1304546, Wikidata Q27698442.

Nias

Nias is an Indonesian island off western Sumatra, home of the Ono Niha people, megalithic culture, earthquake-resistant Omo Hada houses, late Dutch pacification (1914), the 2005 Mw 8.6 earthquake, and Sorake surfing.

Nicholl Head

Nicholl Head (Punta Nicholl) is a headland on the north-west Antarctic Peninsula at 67°47'S, 67°06'W, listed in the US Gazetteer of Antarctica and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, with a September 1956 survey record.

Nicoya Peninsula

Nicoya Peninsula (Península de Nicoya), Costa Rica's largest peninsula on the Pacific coast across the Gulf of Nicoya; built of the Jurassic-Cretaceous Nicoya Complex ophiolite, sits above the Middle America Trench subduction zone, and is a validated blue zone of exceptional longevity.

Nīhoa

Nihoa (Moku Manu, Bird Island) is a 72-ha basalt island remnant at the southeastern end of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, about 250 km from Kauaʻi, with 89 Hawaiian archaeological sites, endemic finch and millerbird, and 900-foot cliffs.

Niʻihau

Niʻihau is a small privately owned Hawaiian island west of Kauaʻi, sold to the Sinclair family in 1864 and known as the Forbidden Island for its closed access.

Nikumaroro

Nikumaroro, formerly Gardner Island, is an uninhabited Phoenix Islands atoll in Kiribati, site of a 1938-1963 British colony and of the TIGHAR hypothesis that Amelia Earhart died there as a castaway.

Nisí Ándros

Nisí Ándros (Άνδros), or Andros, is the northernmost and second-largest Cyclades island in Greece, 374 km², peak Profitis Ilias 997 m; Neolithic Strofilas, Geometric Zagora, Byzantine silk wealth, and a major shipping tradition.

Nisída Goúvino

Nisída Goúvino, also called Lazareto or Lazaretto, is a small uninhabited islet two nautical miles northeast of Corfu town, formerly a Venetian quarantine station and the 1946-1949 Civil War execution site, transferred to Corfu Municipality in 2025.

Nisyros (Νίσυρος)

Nisyros (Νίσυρος) is a Greek Dodecanese volcanic island south of Cos with a 3.8 km caldera, thirteen historical phreatic eruptions (last 1888), 1996 unrest, and UNESCO Global Geopark status in 2026.

Nootka Island

Nootka Island, British Columbia: 526 sq km island on the NW side of Nootka Sound off Vancouver Island's west coast; home of Yuquot (Friendly Cove), the Mowachaht village and 1923 national historic site; formerly Isla de Mazarredo.

Nordaustlandet

Nordaustlandet (North-East Land), Svalbard's second largest island at 14,467 km², lies northeast of Spitsbergen across Hinlopenstretet and is mostly covered by the Vestfonna and Austfonna ice caps, Europe's largest glacier.

Norman's Cay

Norman's Cay is a small Exuma island in The Bahamas, 42 miles southeast of Nassau, that served as Carlos Lehder's Medellín Cartel cocaine transit base from 1978 to about 1982 before a 1982 Bahamian crackdown; it is now a private resort island with a famous plane-wreck dive site.

Normanby Island

Normanby Island, southernmost of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea; about 900–1,000 km², rises to 1,158 m in the Prevost Range, named by Captain John Moresby in 1873, and hosts the Normanby Dome metamorphic core complex.

North Andaman Island

North Andaman Island is the northernmost of the four large islands of Great Andaman, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Main town Diglipur; area about 1376 sq km; Saddle Peak (731 m), the archipelago's highest point; seismic zone V.

North Cape (Norway)

North Cape (Nordkapp, Davvenjárga) is a 309 m cliff plateau on Magerøya, Finnmark, Norway, at 71°10′21″N, reached by E69 and marketed as mainland Europe's northernmost point, though Knivskjellodden and Kinnarodden lie farther north.

North Foreland

North Foreland is a cape at the northeastern point of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, forming the eastern entrance point of Emerald Cove.

North Island

North Island (Te Ika a Māui), the smaller but more populous of New Zealand's two main islands at 113,729 sq km, holding 75% of the population, with volcanic features including the Taupō caldera and active cones such as Ruapehu and Taranaki.

North Kent Island

North Kent Island is an uninhabited, ice-capped island in Nunavut, Canada, lying in Cardigan Strait between Devon and Ellesmere Islands, with a recurring polynya attracting walruses, seals, and narwhals.

Northern Philippine Islands

The Northern Philippine Islands is a freshwater ecoregion, FEOW number 755, covering most of the Philippine archipelago from Luzon to Negros, Bohol, and Siargao, while excluding Mindoro and Palawan.

Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (Leeward Islands, NWHI) are the mostly uninhabited northwestern three quarters of the Hawaiian archipelago, from Nihoa to Kure Atoll, within Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, with predator-dominated coral reefs and 2025 sanctuary designation.

Noto Peninsula

Noto Peninsula (能登半島, Noto Hantō), northern Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, a 100 km rural peninsula on the Sea of Japan; reverse-fault tectonics, a 2020-2024 seismic swarm, and the destructive January 1, 2024 M7.6 earthquake with major coastal uplift.

Nottingham Island

Nottingham Island (Inuktitut: Tujjaat) is an uninhabited 1,358 km² island in western Hudson Strait, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, near the entrance to Hudson Bay; site of the 1927 Hudson Strait Expedition Base B and radio station VCB, closed 1970.