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Pulau Pantar
Pulau Pantar (Pantar Island), Indonesian island west of Alor in East Nusa Tenggara's Alor Regency; 728 km², 42,557 people (2017), active Sirung volcano, Pantar Strait marine reserve, Baranusa capital.
Pulau Rangsang
Pulau Rangsang (Rangsang Island) is a 908 km² island in Meranti Islands Regency, Riau, Indonesia, between Sumatra and Singapore, divided into three sub-districts, with severe coastal abrasion and border-zone development.
Pulau Roni
Pulau Roni is a 0.42 km² tropical island in the Halmahera Sea, East Halmahera Regency, North Maluku, Indonesia, at 0.9925° N, 127.9292° E; distinct from Pulau Reni, Pulau Rani, and Pulau Roon.
Pulau Sanana
Pulau Sanana (Sulabesi) is the smallest of the three main Sula Islands in North Maluku, Indonesia, and seat of Kepulauan Sula Regency; town of Sanana, Dutch fort of 1793, 284 km by sea from Ternate.
Pulau Simeulue
Pulau Simeulue, or Simeulue Island, is an Indonesian island about 100 km long off northwest Sumatra, part of Aceh Province and first landfall of the December 2004 tsunami.
Pulau Sorenarwa
Pulau Sorenarwa (Sorenarwa, also listed as Pulau Yapen or Japen Island) is an island in Biak Numfor Regency, Papua, Indonesia, at 1°44′S 136°10′E, elevation 313 m, near the Selat Sorenarwa strait.
Pulau Sulawesi
Pulau Sulawesi (Sulawesi Island) is Indonesia's K-shaped eleventh-largest island, assembled at the Eurasian, Indo-Australian, and Pacific plate junction from collided arcs, ophiolites, and Australian-derived continental fragments, with highly endemic Wallacean fauna.
Pulau Taliabu
Pulau Taliabu: large island and regency (Kabupaten Pulau Taliabu) in North Maluku, Indonesia, split from Kepulauan Sula in 2013; Banggai-Sula microcontinent, 4.4 TCF gas basin, seat Bobong.
Pulau Tebing Tinggi
Pulau Tebing Tinggi (Tebing Tinggi Island, Pulau Rantau) is an island in the Strait of Malacca, Meranti Islands Regency, Riau, Indonesia, east of Padang Island; a sago and peatland island with subdistricts Tebing Tinggi, Barat, and Timur.
Pulau Ubin
Pulau Ubin (Pulau Batu Jubin) is a 1,036-hectare, boomerang-shaped island located off northeastern Singapore. It is known for its granite quarrying history and surviving traditional kampong life.
Pulau Waigeo
Pulau Waigeo is the largest of the Raja Ampat Islands in West Papua, Indonesia, settled over 50,000 years ago and home to the regency capital Waisai.
Pulau Waraten
Pulau Waraten (Poelau Waraten) is a small island in Maluku, Indonesia, near the Aru Islands locality Dosi, at 5°56′46″S 134°35′55″E, elevation 21 m, GeoNames ID 12066475.
Pulau Wawonii
Pulau Wawonii (Wawonii Island), an island off southeastern Sulawesi, Indonesia, coterminous with Konawe Islands Regency; homeland of the Wawonii people, known for coconut-derived name, copra economy, and nickel-mining resistance won in court.
Pulau Yamdena
Pulau Yamdena (Jamdena) is the largest island of Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands in Maluku, between the Banda and Arafura Seas: a flat coral island 64 miles long, with Saumlaki as its main port.
Pullen Island
Pullen Island: ice-covered Antarctic island in Violante Inlet, Black Coast, Palmer Land, on the landward side of Larsen Ice Shelf; named for William A. Pullen, USN; distinct from Islote Pullen, Chile.
Pulu Keeling
Pulu Keeling (North Keeling Island) is the northern atoll of Australia's Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the site of Pulu Keeling National Park, proclaimed 12 December 1995, a Ramsar wetland and IUCN Ia reserve famed for its red-footed booby colony and the 1914 Emden wreck.
Punaluʻu Beach
Punaluʻu Beach, also called Punaluʻu Black Sand Beach, is a fine-grained basalt black sand beach in Kaʻū, Hawaiʻi Island, known for basking green sea turtles, freshwater springs, heiau, and a county purchase agreement after a development dispute.
Punta Mita
Punta Mita (Punta de Mita) is a peninsula and luxury resort community in Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit, Mexico, home to the Four Seasons and St. Regis resorts, two Jack Nicklaus golf courses, and the contested Playa Las Cocinas concession revoked by Semarnat in 2026.
Pyagina Peninsula
Pyagina Peninsula (Полуостров Пьягина), a remote uninhabited peninsula in Magadan Oblast, Russian Far East, east of Magadan, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from Shelikhov Bay; mountainous south rising to 1,156 m, ancient Koryak sites, and a protected coastal strip of Magadansky Nature Reserve.
Pyramid Island
Pyramid Island: name of several small islands, chiefly a 205 m pillar-shaped islet NNE of Williams Point, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica; also islands in Alaska, Tasmania, Kenya, and the Solomon Islands.
Pyramiden/Hoeyriggen (HP Disko Island)
Pyramiden (Hoeyriggen), highest point of Disko Island, Greenland: a 1,904 m basalt peak of the Maligât Formation in northeastern Disko, first climbed 22 July by an Italian party; distinct from East Greenland and Svalbard namesakes.
Qeqertarsuaq (island, Greenland)
Qeqertarsuaq (Disko, Old Norse Bjarney) is a volcanic island in Disko Bay, West Greenland, 8,620 km², highest point 1,919 m, one sixth glacier-covered, with the town Qeqertarsuaq/Godhavn, hot springs, and Copenhagen University's Arctic Station.
Qikiqtarjuaq Island (island, Canada)
Qikiqtarjuaq Island (ᕿᑭᖅᑕᕐᔪᐊᖅ), formerly Big Island, is an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, at 62.687° N, 70.602° W; distinct from the hamlet of Qikiqtarjuaq on Broughton Island.
Queen Elizabeth Islands
Queen Elizabeth Islands: Canada's northernmost Arctic island group, north of Lancaster and Viscount Melville sounds, named for Elizabeth II in 1954; includes Ellesmere, Devon, Axel Heiberg, and Melville islands, 418,961 km2 total.
Quijada, isla
Isla Quijada (Quijada, isla) is an Antarctic island or ice rise in the Ronne Ice Shelf between Berkner Island and Korff Ice Rise, named by Argentina after Vicealmirante Hermes Quijada; also called Henry Ice Rise, at about 80°35'S 62°W.
Rabot Island
Rabot Island (Isla Rabot) is an Antarctic island in the Biscoe Islands, 8 km long and 3 km wide, 1.6 km south of Renaud Island off Graham Land, charted and named for Charles Rabot by Charcot's 1903–05 expedition.
Raʻiātea
Raʻiātea (Raiatea), a volcanic high island in the Leeward Society Islands, French Polynesia, about 220 km west of Tahiti; shares a lagoon with Tahaʻa and hosts the UNESCO-listed Taputapuātea marae complex.
Raja Ampat Islands
Raja Ampat, an Indonesian archipelago and regency in Southwest Papua of about 1,500 islands including Waigeo, Misool, Salawati, and Batanta, holds 75% of the world's coral species, a 10-area marine protected network, UNESCO Geopark status, and faces nickel mining pressure.
Ralik Chain
Ralik Chain: the western "sunset" chain of the Marshall Islands, with 3 islands (Jabat, Kili, Lib) and 15 atolls including Bikini, Enewetak, and Kwajalein, site of US nuclear testing.
Randalls and Wards Islands
Randalls and Wards Islands are adjoining East River islands between Manhattan, the Bronx, and Queens, joined by landfill into a roughly 480-acre park with Icahn Stadium, 60+ athletic fields, and city facilities.