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Ostrov Vaygach
Ostrov Vaygach (Остров Вайгач, Vaygach Island), Nenets 'Holy Land' (Khebidya-Ya), an Arctic island between the Barents and Kara seas in Nenets Autonomous Okrug; 3,383-3,400 km2, sacred Nenets sites, 1930s OGPU lead-zinc mining, zakaznik since 2007.
Ostrov Zemlya Aleksandry
Ostrov Zemlya Aleksandry (Alexandra Land, Земля Александры) is the westernmost large island of Franz Josef Land, Russia, in the Barents Sea; about 1,000 km², mostly ice-covered, site of Nagurskoye airbase and the Arctic Trefoil military base.
Ōsumi Islands
Ōsumi Islands (大隅諸島), also called Osumi-shoto, are Kagoshima Prefecture islands south of Kyushu: Yakushima (World Heritage cedar forests), Tanegashima (space center, surfing), and the three small Mishima-mura islands.
Outer Banks
The Outer Banks (OBX) are North Carolina's chain of barrier islands from the Virginia border to Cape Lookout, site of the Roanoke Lost Colony and Cape Hatteras National Seashore, defined by migrating sand, erosion, N.C. 12, and a $2.1 billion tourism economy.
Outer Hebrides
Outer Hebrides (Na h-Eileanan Siar), Scottish island chain of over 100 islands off northwest Scotland; population 26,020, 333,500 visitors in 2024, highest UK fuel poverty, strong wind energy resources.
Palawan Island
Palawan Island, the long main island of Palawan province, the westernmost Philippines province; a continental fragment of the Asian mainland, UNESCO biosphere reserve (1990), biodiversity hotspot with 1,768 provincial islands, two World Heritage Sites, and a 2025 50-year mining moratorium.
Palm Islands (جزر النخيل)
Palm Islands (جزر النخيل): Nakheel's artificial palm-shaped islands off Dubai, comprising Palm Jumeirah, Palm Jebel Ali, and Palm Deira, built by dredging Persian Gulf sand, with Palm Jebel Ali relaunched in 2023 after the 2008 crisis.
Palm Jebel Ali
Palm Jebel Ali (نخلة جبل علي) is Nakheel's second palm-shaped artificial island off Dubai's Jebel Ali coast: 13.4 km², 16 fronds, 110 km of new coastline, 2,002 villas, launched 2002, paused 2008, relaunched 2023.
Palm Jumeirah (نخلة جميرا)
Palm Jumeirah (نخلة جميرا), Dubai's palm-shaped artificial island developed by Nakheel from 2001, built from about 100 million m³ of dredged sand with a 2 km trunk, 17 fronds, and an 11 km crescent breakwater; first of the Palm Islands, served by the Middle East's first monorail.
Palmer Archipelago
Palmer Archipelago: island group off the west Antarctic Peninsula, from Tower Island to Anvers Island, named for sealer Nathaniel Palmer (sighted 1820); hosts NSF Palmer Station and Port Lockroy.
Palmyra Atoll
Palmyra Atoll, an uninhabited Northern Line Islands atoll halfway between Hawaii and American Samoa, is a U.S. National Wildlife Refuge, Nature Conservancy preserve, and the only incorporated U.S. territory, with over 130 coral species.
Palos Verdes Peninsula
Palos Verdes Peninsula, a coastal landform in Los Angeles County, California, home to the actively moving Portuguese Bend Landslide, the Palos Verdes Fault, and Olmsted-designed suburban communities and protected nature preserves.
Panay
Panay: sixth-largest island of the Philippines, in the western Visayas, comprising Aklan, Antique, Capiz, and Iloilo provinces; about 11,692 km², ~3.5 million people (2000), Iloilo City its main urban center.
Pantelleria
Pantelleria, a volcanic Italian island of about 83 km² in the Strait of Sicily between Sicily and Tunisia, known for dammusi dwellings, Zibibbo vineyards, thermal springs, and its 2016 national park.
Papa Stronsay
Papa Stronsay is a small, low-lying island in the Orkney archipelago off northern Scotland, lying just north of Stronsay and home to Golgotha Monastery since 1999.
Papuan Peninsula
Papuan Peninsula (Bird's Tail): southeastern tail of New Guinea in Papua New Guinea, separating the Solomon and Coral seas; Owen Stanley Range backbone, Mt. Victoria over 4000 m, and nearly 20 endemic freshwater fishes.
Paracel Islands
Paracel Islands (Hoang Sa, Xisha): about 130 South China Sea features 300 km southeast of Hainan, claimed by China, Taiwan, and Vietnam, occupied by the PRC since its January 1974 battle with South Vietnam.
Paradise Island
Paradise Island, Bahamas: resort island off New Providence, connected by bridges to Nassau, home of the Atlantis resort (opened 1994 by Sol Kerzner), Cabbage Beach, and the Royal Beach Club.
Paramushir
Paramushir (Парамушир, 幌筵島) is the second-largest Kuril island, about 2,000 km², with active Ebeko volcano and the town of Severo-Kurilsk, hit by a deadly 1952 tsunami.
Paros (Πάρος)
Paros (Πάρος), Greek island in the central Cyclades, third largest of the group, capital Parikia. Famous for translucent Parian marble quarried at Marathi, ancient colonies Thasos, Parion and Pharos, the Katapoliani basilica, and mass tourism with about 789,000 port arrivals in 2025.
Patmos (Πάτμος)
Patmos (Πάτμος) is a small Greek island in the Dodecanese in the Aegean Sea, where Saint John is traditionally said to have written Revelation around 95 AD.
Paulet Island
Paulet Island (Isla Paulet) is a small circular volcanic island in the northwestern Weddell Sea off the Antarctic Peninsula, known for its large Adélie penguin colony.
Pearl and Hermes Atoll
Pearl and Hermes Atoll (Holoikauaua), a mostly submerged Northwestern Hawaiian Islands atoll 400 km SE of Midway, named for the British whalers Pearl and Hermes wrecked there in 1822; noted for high fish biomass, seabirds, and documented shipwreck sites.
Peary Land
Peary Land: uninhabited ~50,000 km² peninsula in northeastern Greenland, named for Robert E. Peary; mountains to 1,950 m, ice-free in summer, and home to Kap Morris Jesup and Inuit Qeqertaat, the northernmost land on Earth.
Pelee, Ontario
Pelee Island, Ontario: largest of the nine-island Township of Pelee in western Lake Erie, Canada's southernmost inhabited land at 41 degrees north. Reached by ferry from Leamington, Kingsville, or Sandusky, Ohio, with winter air service to Windsor; noted for alvars, rare species, and viticulture.
Pelseneer Island
Pelseneer Island, also known as Pic Luigi de Savoie, is a small ice-covered island in Wilhelmina Bay off Graham Land, discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–99.
Pemba Island
Pemba Island (al Khudhra, the Green Island), Tanzania: smaller Zanzibar island, ~1,070 km2, 55 km offshore across the deep Pemba Channel; oceanic island, clove economy, Ngezi forest, PECCA marine area.
Pendine Sands
Pendine Sands, a seven-mile Carmarthenshire beach in Wales, hosted world land speed records 1924-1927 (Campbell, Parry Thomas's fatal Babs crash), and remains a record venue, MOD range, and SAC dune site.
Penghu
Penghu (澎湖, Pescadores) is an archipelago of about 90 basalt islands in the Taiwan Strait and Taiwan's only island county, the earliest Chinese-administered part of the Taiwan area (office established 1281), with about 93,000 residents.
Peninsula
Peninsula: land almost entirely surrounded by water but connected to the mainland on one side, from Latin paeninsula (almost an island). Attached by an isthmus; examples include Iberian, Korean, Florida, and Baja California.