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Wright Island
Wright Island, Antarctica: ice-covered island 65 km long on the Bakutis Coast, Marie Byrd Land, at 74°02'S 116°50'W; named by US-ACAN for Admiral Jerauld Wright; distinct from Wright Islands in British Columbia, Ontario, Tennessee, and Oregon.
Wyck Island
Wyck Island is a small Antarctic island at 64°39'S 62°05'W, near Brooklyn Island in Wilhelmina Bay off Graham Land, discovered by the 1897-99 Belgian expedition under Gerlache; also recorded as Van Wyck Island.
Yaku-shima
Yaku-shima (屋久島, Yakushima) is a 504 km² granite island 60 km south of Kyushu, Japan, with 1,936 m Mount Miyanoura, ancient Yakusugi cedars, and a 10,747 ha World Heritage site inscribed in 1993.
Yamal Peninsula
Yamal Peninsula (Ямал), northern West Siberia, Russia: low Arctic peninsula into the Kara Sea with continuous permafrost, giant gas fields (Bovanenkovo), Nenets reindeer herders, and methane emission craters since 2014.
Yap
Yap is the westernmost state of the Federated States of Micronesia, midway between Guam and Palau, with four main volcanic islands, about 134 outer atolls, stone money (rai), and heavy US Compact aid.
Yas Island (جزيرة ياس)
Yas Island (جزيرة ياس) is a 25 sq km Abu Dhabi island developed since 2006 by Aldar and Miral, home to Ferrari World, Warner Bros. World, SeaWorld, Yas Marina Circuit, Yas Mall, a Dh12 billion Miral investment program and Disney's announced seventh theme park.
Ymer Ø
Ymer Ø (Ymer Island) is a 2,437 km² island in East Greenland between Sofia Sund and Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord, named in 1899 by A.G. Nathorst after the Swedish journal Ymer; known for Holocene lake-sediment studies and tungsten-antimony deposits.
Yonaguni
Yonaguni (与那国島) is Japan's westernmost island, in the Yaeyama group of Okinawa Prefecture, 111 km from Taiwan. Known for the disputed Yonaguni Monument, Kuroshio crossings, and Camp Yonaguni radar base.
Yoronjima (与論島)
Yoronjima (与論島), or Yoron Island, is the southernmost island of the Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, in Amami Gunto National Park. A 55 km2 coral-fringed island with 9.4 km2 of reef, 1998 bleaching killed 70-90% of south-coast corals.
Yos Sudarso Island
Kolepom, also called Pulau Yos Sudarso or Dolak, is a large Indonesian island off the south coast of New Guinea, separated from the mainland by the Muli Strait.
Yucatán Peninsula
Yucatán Peninsula: limestone karst platform in southeastern Mexico (Campeche, Yucatán, Quintana Roo, plus Belize and northern Guatemala), home of cenotes, the Chicxulub impact crater, Maya heritage, and tropical forest under tourism and Tren Maya pressure.
Zakynthos (Ζάκυνθος)
Zakynthos (Ζάκυνθος), or Zante, a Greek Ionian Sea island: third largest Ionian island, 406 km², 41,180 residents, about 2 million tourists yearly, home of Navagio beach and Caretta caretta nesting sites.
Zanzibar Island
Zanzibar Island (Unguja) is the largest island of Tanzania's semi-autonomous Zanzibar Archipelago, 1,666 km², about 40 km off the mainland, with 1.9 million people, a tourism-dominated economy near 30% of GDP, and UNESCO-listed Stone Town.
Zarembo Island
Zarembo Island (Ostrov Zarembo, Duke of York Island) is an uninhabited 180-square-mile island in the Alexander Archipelago, Southeast Alaska, in the Tongass National Forest near Wrangell, bounded by Sumner and Stikine straits, with Tertiary lava flows and a timber-harvest history.
Zealand
Zealand (Sjælland) is Denmark's largest island, home to Copenhagen and nearly half the Danish population. Distinguished from Funen and Jutland by the Great Belt and Øresund fixed links (1998, 2000) and a glacial Weichselian landscape.
Zed Islands
The Zed Islands are a small group of islands lying north of Williams Point on the northeast coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
Zemlya Georga
Zemlya Georga (Земля Георга), or Prince George Land, is the largest island of Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russian Arctic, covering about 2,821 km² with a highest point of 416 m.
Zemlya Vil’cheka
Zemlya Vil'cheka (Земля Вильчека, Wilczek Land) is the second-largest island of Franz Josef Land, Russia, in the Barents Sea: 2,203 km², up to 606 m, nearly all glaciated, uninhabited, discovered 1873 and named for Count Wilczek.