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Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula, also called Península Luis Felipe (Chile) or península Trinidad (Argentina), is the northeasternmost part of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending to Prime Head; sighted by Bransfield in 1820 and losing about 40 km² of ice, 1988–2015.
Tristan da Cunha
Tristan da Cunha, part of the British Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, is the world's most remote inhabited island group, about 2,800 km from Cape Town, with 222 islanders, no airport, a 1961 volcanic evacuation, and a 700,000 km² marine protection zone.
Tromelin Island
Tromelin Island (Île de Tromelin, formerly Île de Sable) is a 1 km² French-claimed coral island in the Indian Ocean, disputed with Mauritius, known for the 1761 Utile shipwreck whose abandoned Malagasy slaves survived 15 years.
Tsushima Island (対馬)
Tsushima (対馬) is a Japanese island in the Genkai Sea between Kyushu and Korea, closer to South Korea. Known for the Sō clan's monopoly on Edo-period Japan–Korea trade, the 1274 Mongol invasion, and the endangered Tsushima leopard cat.
Tuamotus
Tuamotus (Paumotu atolls of French Polynesia): a chain of 78 low coral atolls, 850 km2 of land over 800,000 km2 of ocean; largest atolls Rangiroa, Fakarava, Makemo, Hao; black pearl farming and Fakarava biosphere reserve distinguish it.
Tubuai Islands (landform)
Tubuai Islands (Austral Islands, Îles Australes, Tuhaa Pae): southernmost archipelago of French Polynesia, five inhabited volcanic islands including Tubuai (45 km², Mount Taitaa 422 m, large lagoon), Miocene volcanism, Atiahara site settled 1215–1390 CE, 1789 Bounty episode.
Tukarak Island
Tukarak Island, an island in the Belcher Islands, Hudson Bay, Nunavut, Canada (56°16′N 78°45′W). Site of an HBC post from 1933, a 1941 trial, Inuit camps, and a soapstone quarry.
Tupinier Islands
Tupinier Islands (Islotes Tupinier), a group of nine small ice-free Antarctic islands off Cockerell Peninsula, Trinity Peninsula, charted by Dumont D'Urville 1837-40; major Chinstrap Penguin colony and Important Bird Area.
Tybee Island, Georgia
Tybee Island, Georgia: the northernmost of Georgia's barrier islands at the mouth of the Savannah River, near Savannah. Known for its 1736 lighthouse, the 1862 rifled-cannon bombardment of Fort Pulaski, Fort Screven, a $182 million visitor economy, and recurring Corps beach nourishment.
Ubekendt Ejland
Ubekendt Ejland (Illorsuit, Igdlorssuit) is a volcanic island in the Uummannaq region of central West Greenland, built of Vaigat Formation picrites and hosting the Sarqâta qáqâ gabbro-granophyre complex.
Umboi Island
Umboi Island, a 930 km2 volcanic island in Vitiaz Strait, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, largest of PNG's north coastal volcanic islands; 13 x 17 km caldera, no historical eruptions, rich endemic biodiversity and Kovai population.
Umnak Island
Umnak Island is a dumbbell-shaped volcanic island in the eastern Aleutian Islands of Alaska, separated from Unalaska by Umnak Pass and holding the chain's earliest known settlement.
Unga Island
Unga Island (Ugnaasaqax, formerly Ounga Island) is the largest and westernmost Shumagin Island off the Alaska Peninsula, Alaska; 170.73 sq mi, 36th largest US island, with a Tertiary petrified sequoia forest, historic Apollo gold mines, and the abandoned village of Unga.
Ungava Peninsula
Ungava Peninsula (Péninsule d'Ungava), northwestern arm of the Labrador Peninsula in northern Quebec, bounded by Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait, Ungava Bay, and the rivière aux Feuilles; 252,000 km² tundra plateau, Quebec's largest natural province, with continuous permafrost and coastal Inuit villages in Nunavik.
Upernivik Ø
Upernivik Ø (Upernivik Island) is an uninhabited, heavily glaciated island in the Umanak district of northwest Greenland at 71°16'N, 52°45'W, rising above 2,100 m, about one third ice-covered, separated from Ubekendt Ejland by Igdlorssuit Sund.
Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Michigan's Upper Peninsula (U.P.), the northern peninsula bordered by Lake Superior, Wisconsin, and Lakes Michigan and Huron; home of Yooper identity, Keweenaw copper and iron mining history, 917 miles of Lake Superior shoreline, and Michigan's entire wolf population.
Uru Island
Uru Island, also written Ururu Island, is a small island off the eastern coast of Malaita Island, near Kwalakwala and Ato'ifi in Malaita Province, Solomon Islands.
Urup
Urup (Uruppu, 得撫島) is the fourth largest island of the Greater Kuril Ridge in the southern Kuril chain, Sea of Okhotsk; volcanic, 1,450 sq km, Russian since 1945, formerly Russo-Japanese border island.
Utøya
Utøya is an island in Tyrifjorden, Hole municipality, Norway, owned by the Workers' Youth League (AUF) and site of its summer camp; on 22 July 2011 a right-wing terrorist killed 69 people there. Rebuilt as a memorial and learning site.
Van Diemen's Land
Van Diemen's Land, named by Abel Tasman in 1642 after Anthony van Diemen, was the British penal colony on Tasmania from 1803, receiving over 72,000 convicts before being renamed Tasmania, proclaimed 1 January 1856.
Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island (Île de Vancouver, Van Isle) is a 460-kilometer island off Canada's Pacific coast, separated from mainland British Columbia by straits, with its capital at Victoria.
Vangunu Island
Vangunu Island, Solomon Islands (Western Province, New Georgia group): 544 km² volcanic island on Marovo Lagoon, home of the endemic Critically Endangered Vangunu giant rat and the Zaira community conservation area.
Vanua Levu
Vanua Levu, Fiji's second-largest island (about 5,560–5,590 km², ~130,000 people), formerly Sandalwood Island; main towns Labasa and Savusavu; sugar, copra, diving tourism, and the Na Vualiku development program distinguish it.
Vega Island
Vega Island, an island in the James Ross archipelago off the Antarctic Peninsula's Trinity Peninsula, named in 1903 after Nordenskiöld's ship Vega; noted for Maastrichtian fossils including Vegavis and a possible K–Pg boundary section.
Vella Lavella Island
Vella Lavella Island, Solomon Islands (also Veka Vekalla, Gore Gore): volcanic island in Western Province, most northwestern of the New Georgia Islands; 42 by 19 km, 808 m peak, Nonda lava dome, Vekalo language, 1943 battle and Barakoma airfield.
Verblyud Island
Verblyud Island (Kupol Verblyud, Camel Dome) is an uninhabited ice-covered Antarctic island at 70°0′S 15°55′E, rising 200 m above the Lazarev Ice Shelf's east margin in Queen Maud Land; mapped by the USSR in 1961.
Vesterålen
Vesterålen, Norwegian island district in Nordland north of Lofoten; five municipalities, 2,512 km², 30,869 people (2026); Møysalen 1,262 m; fishing, whales, Hurtigruten birthplace Stokmarknes.
Vestvågøya
Vestvågøya (Lófót) is the second largest island of Lofoten, Nordland, Norway, 411 km², holding over 99% of Vestvågøy municipality's people. Known for Leknes, the Borg Viking longhouse, Haukland and Uttakleiv beaches, and E10 road link.
Vieques, Puerto Rico
Vieques (Isla Nena) is an island municipality of Puerto Rico east of Humacao, population 8,249 (2020). Former U.S. Navy bombing range until 2003, now a Superfund cleanup site and home of Mosquito Bay, the world's brightest bioluminescent bay.
Virgin Gorda
Virgin Gorda, the "Fat Virgin" named by Columbus, is an island in the British Virgin Islands known for The Baths granite boulder national park, Savannah Bay, North Sound resorts, and Necker Island offshore.