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Ross Island
Ross Island is a volcanic island in the western Ross Sea, Antarctica, named for explorer James Clark Ross and hosting McMurdo Station and Scott Base.
Ross, Islas
Ross, Islas, also searched as the Ross islands group or James Ross Island, is an archipelago in the Weddell Sea northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Rote Island
Rote Island (Pulau Rote) is a southern Indonesian island in East Nusa Tenggara Province, located southwest of Timor. It is the principal island of the Rote Ndao Regency.
Rothschild Island (landform)
Rothschild Island, Antarctica: 39-km ice-covered island with Desko Mountains peaks, 8 km west of Alexander Island; sighted 1821, named 1909 by Charcot for Baron Édouard de Rothschild.
Rottnest Island
Rottnest Island (Wadjemup, 'place of spirits') is a 1,900 ha limestone island 18 km off Perth, a Class A Reserve famous for quokkas and beaches, formerly an Aboriginal prison (1838–1931) holding about 3,700 men and boys, now a major WA tourist destination.
Rowett Island
Rowett Island (Rowett, Isla) is a small island off Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, at about 61°17′S 55°13′W, named during Shackleton's 1921–22 expedition for sponsor John Quiller Rowett.
Rowley Island
Rowley Island: uninhabited island in Foxe Basin, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada; Arctic Archipelago, area about 1,090-1,120 km2, DEW Line site FOX-1; distinct from an Ontario islet of the same name.
Rowley Shoals
Rowley Shoals: chain of three coral atolls (Mermaid, Clerke, Imperieuse Reefs) on the edge of Australia's northwest continental shelf, about 300 km west of Broome; pristine reefs with 233 coral and 688 fish species, protected as two marine parks.
Royal Geographical Society Islands
The Royal Geographical Society Islands are an uninhabited island group in Nunavut, Canada, near where HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were abandoned in Victoria Strait in 1848.
Rügen
Rügen, Germany's largest island in the Baltic Sea off Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, covers 926 km² with chalk cliffs, Jasmund National Park, UNESCO beech forests, seaside resorts, and a Danish princely past (1168–1325).
Rugged Island
Rugged Island (Isla Rugosa, formerly Ragged Island) is a 10.4 km² island west of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, charted by sealers and named by Capt. J.P. Sheffield in February 1820.
Russell Island
Russell Island: name shared by an Arctic island in Barrow Strait, Nunavut (74°N, 98°25′W), a Glacier Bay, Alaska island named for Israel Cook Russell, a Gulf Islands BC island, and a populated Moreton Bay, Queensland island.
Ryukyu Islands (琉球諸島)
The Ryukyu Islands (琉球諸島), also called the Nansei Islands, are a 1,200 km arc of more than 900 Japanese islands, including the Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima island groups.
Saaremaa
Saaremaa, Estonia's largest island (2,673 km²) in the Baltic Sea, capital Kuressaare, about 31,000 residents, known for the Kaali meteorite craters, Kuressaare Castle, and Green Destination sustainable tourism.
Saddleback Cay
Saddleback Cay, also Saddle Back Cay or Saddleback Cays, is the name of several small Bahamian islands and rocks: an island off North Andros near Staniard Creek, an islet in the Berry Islands, and a 47-acre private horseshoe-shaped island in the northern Exuma Cays.
Sadoga Shima
Sadoga Shima (佐渡島), Sado Island, Japan's largest remote island in the Sea of Japan off Niigata, 855.34 km²; home of the 2024 UNESCO-listed Sado Island Gold Mines, exile history, and crested ibis reintroduction.
Saint Brendan's Island
Saint Brendan's Island, a phantom island of the Atlantic named for the Irish abbot Saint Brendan the Navigator, appeared on maps from the 13th to the 18th century, placed near the Canaries, west of Ireland, and later Newfoundland, inspiring expeditions until 1727.
Saint Croix
Saint Croix, largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands (84 sq mi, 41,004 people in 2020), a former Danish sugar colony bought by the U.S. in 1917 for $25 million, with towns Christiansted and Frederiksted.
Saint Helena
Saint Helena: remote volcanic British Overseas Territory island in the South Atlantic, 1,200 miles from Africa; settled 1659, site of Napoleon's exile and death (1821), over 500 endemic species, airport opened 2017.
Saint Helena Island (South Carolina)
Saint Helena Island is a rural Sea Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina, home to the country's largest Gullah community, the Penn Center civil rights landmark, and a cultural protection overlay zoning district.
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha: British Overseas Territory of three South Atlantic islands sharing one Governor since the 2009 Constitution; about 4,000 people, UK-aid dependent, airport opened 2017.
Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands
Saint John (St. John), smallest of the three main U.S. Virgin Islands, about 4,000 residents, no airport, reached by ferry from St. Thomas. Over half the island is Virgin Islands National Park, established 1956 from Laurance Rockefeller's donated land; Danish colony from 1718, sold to the U.S. in 1917.
Saint Kitts
Saint Kitts (St Christopher), volcanic island in the northern Lesser Antilles, larger island of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis; 168 km², Mount Liamuiga 1,156 m, capital Basseterre, first English Caribbean colony (1623).
Saint Lucia Island
Saint Lucia Island: volcanic Lesser Antilles island between Martinique and St Vincent, 616 km2, capital Castries. Known for the Pitons domes, the Qualibou caldera of the Soufriere Volcanic Centre, last eruption 1766, independence 1979.
Saint Martin (island)
Saint Martin (Sint Maarten) is a Caribbean island divided since the 1648 Treaty of Concordia between French Saint-Martin in the north and Dutch Sint Maarten in the south, the smallest inhabited island shared by two states, with a 10 km border settled by a 2023 agreement.
Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Saint Thomas is a 32-square-mile Caribbean island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, capital Charlotte Amalie, bought from Denmark in 1917 for $25 million in gold; mountainous, water-scarce, tourism-driven.
Sakhalin (Сахалин)
Sakhalin (Сахалин), also Karafuto, is Russia's largest island north of Hokkaido: 948 km long, about 76,400 km², capital Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, transferred between Russia and Japan in 1875, 1905, and 1945, now the core of Sakhalin Oblast with its oil, gas, and LNG industry.
Sakishima Islands
Sakishima Islands (先島諸島), the Miyako and Yaeyama island groups at the southwestern end of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan; includes Ishigaki, Iriomote, Miyako, and Yonaguni, Japan's closest islands to Taiwan, annexed by the Ryukyu Kingdom in the late 15th-16th century.
Sakurajima (桜島)
Sakurajima (桜島) is an active stratovolcano in Kagoshima Bay, Kyushu, Japan, post-caldera volcano of Aira caldera, 1,117 m, joined to Osumi Peninsula by 1914 Taisho eruption lava, continuously erupting since 1955.
Salisbury Island
Salisbury Island: name of several islands, chiefly an uninhabited 804 km2 arctic island in Hudson Strait, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, with a walrus colony; also an official island name in Halifax, Nova Scotia.