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Bioko
Bioko, also known as Fernando Pó, is a volcanic island in the Gulf of Guinea belonging to Equatorial Guinea and situated 32 km southwest of Cameroon.
Biscoe Islands (landform)
Biscoe Islands: Antarctic island group off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, from Pitt to Barcroft Islands, discovered by John Biscoe on 17-18 February 1832 and named Biscoe's Range by the Enderby firm.
Bishop Rock
Bishop Rock, westernmost rock of the Isles of Scilly, England, site of the 1858 Trinity House lighthouse strengthened in 1887; 49 m tall, automated 1992, famed as the smallest island with a building.
Bismarck Archipelago (landform)
Bismarck Archipelago: volcanic island group northeast of New Guinea in Papua New Guinea, comprising New Britain, New Ireland, and Manus; settled 44,000-39,000 years ago, Lapita homeland, named for Otto von Bismarck in 1884.
Black Island
Black Island is the name of several islands worldwide, best known being a volcanic island in Antarctica's Ross Archipelago and an island in the Argentine Islands, Graham Coast.
Blake Island
Blake Island, Antarctica: small island in Bone Bay, Trinity Peninsula (63°39'S, 59°02'W), named Blake Islet in 1948 for Midshipman Patrick John Blake of Bransfield's 1819-20 Williams voyage; also Isla Blake and Islote Laura. Distinct from Blake Island, Washington.
Blåskimen
Blåskimen is a high, ice-covered island in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, at the juncture of the Jelbart and Fimbul ice shelves, about 80 km north of Novyy Island.
Block Island
Block Island (Manisses) is a 10-square-mile glacial moraine island and Rhode Island town about 10-12 miles offshore, settled in 1661, home to New Shoreham, the first US offshore wind farm (2016), and heavily conserved land.
Bob Island
Bob Island is a small rocky Antarctic island, 2 km long and 145 m high, in the Palmer Archipelago near Wiencke Island; surveyed by Gerlache's 1898 Belgian expedition and originally named Ile Famine.
Bohol
Bohol: island province in Central Visayas, Philippines, capital Tagbilaran City; tenth largest island, home of the Chocolate Hills and the Philippines' first UNESCO Global Geopark; tourism-driven economy.
Bolshevik Island
Bolshevik Island (остров Большевик), southernmost and second largest island of Severnaya Zemlya, Russia, between the Kara and Laptev seas; 11,296.45 km², about 30% glaciated, discovered 1913, mapped 1930–1932.
Bolshoy Begichev Island
Ostrov Bol'shoy Begichev (Большой Бегичев), a 1,764 km² uninhabited island in the Khatanga Gulf, Laptev Sea, Sakha Republic, Russia; proved an island by Nikifor Begichev in 1908, formerly mapped as a peninsula named Sizoy.
Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island
Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island (Большой Ляховский остров), southernmost and largest of the Lyakhovsky Islands, New Siberian Archipelago, in the Dmitry Laptev Strait; famed for 200,000-year Yedoma Ice Complex permafrost exposures and an ophiolite-blueschist geology.
Bonaire
Bonaire (Boneiru), a Caribbean special municipality of the Netherlands since 2010 in the Caribbean Netherlands, capital Kralendijk; Dutch- and Papiamentu-speaking, US-dollar island famed for its 1979 marine park, shore diving, and tourism-based economy.
Bonaparte Archipelago
Bonaparte Archipelago: island group on the northwest Kimberley coast of Western Australia, named by Baudin's 1801 French expedition after Napoleon Bonaparte; known for 225 intertidal coral species, 8 m tides, and reefs that survived the 2016 bleaching event.
Bonin Islands
Bonin Islands (Ogasawara Islands, 小笠原諸島): chain of over 30 subtropical volcanic islands about 1,000 km south of Tokyo, uninhabited until 1830, with extreme endemism and UNESCO World Heritage status since 2011.
Booth Island
Booth Island (Booth-Insel, Île Wandel) is a Y-shaped Antarctic island, 5 nmi long and 980 m high, in the Wilhelm Archipelago, separated from Graham Coast by Lemaire Channel; discovered by Dallmann 1874, wintered by Charcot in 1904.
Bora Bora
Bora Bora, an almost-atoll in the Leeward Islands of French Polynesia's Society archipelago about 250 km from Tahiti, features a 727 m volcanic peak, a 78 km² lagoon, motu ring, WWII-era airport, and a luxury tourism economy.
Boracay
Boracay is a 10.32 sq km resort island in Malay, Aklan, Philippines, off Panay, famed for White Beach. Over 2 million tourists in 2017; closed six months in 2018 by Duterte as a 'cesspool' for sewage rehabilitation; reopened with carrying-capacity limits.
Borden Island
Borden Island, an uninhabited 2,794 km2 island of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago; discovered by Vilhjalmur Stefansson in 1915 as First Land, named for Prime Minister Robert Borden, split between Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
Borneo
Borneo, the world's third-largest island in Southeast Asia, is divided among Indonesian Kalimantan, Malaysian Sabah and Sarawak, and Brunei; known for tropical rainforest, orangutan conservation, the 1963 Malaysia Agreement, and Nusantara.
Bornholm
Bornholm is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea south of Sweden, covering 588 km², known for its round churches, granite cliffs, and sunny climate.
Bougainville Island
Bougainville Island, main island of Papua New Guinea's Autonomous Region of Bougainville (with Buka Island), former German then Australian territory, site of the Panguna mine, civil war, and a 2019 referendum where 97.7% voted for independence.
Bouvet Island
Bouvet Island (Bouvetøya), an uninhabited Norwegian volcanic dependency in the South Atlantic at 54°25′S, is one of the world's most isolated islands: 49 km², 89% glacier-covered, a 1971 nature reserve with no introduced species, annexed by Norway in 1927.
Bowman Coast
Bowman Coast: Antarctic Peninsula east coast between Cape Northrop and Cape Agassiz, discovered by Hubert Wilkins' 20 December 1928 flight, named for Isaiah Bowman of the American Geographical Society.
Bowman Peninsula
Bowman Peninsula: ice-covered peninsula on Palmer Land's east coast, Antarctic Peninsula, at 74°49'S 62°16'W, dividing Lassiter Coast from Orville Coast; about 25 mi long, named for geographer Isaiah Bowman, photographed by RARE in 1947.
Brabant Island (landform)
Brabant Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica; French Île Brabant. Second largest island between Anvers and Liège Islands, 33 mi long, Mount Parry 2,520 m; named 1897-99 by Gerlache's Belgian expedition for Belgium's Brabant province; classified as an island, not an undersea feature.
Brač
Brač (Italian Brazza, Chakavian Broč) is Croatia's third largest Adriatic island, 395.4 km², 13,825 people (2021), off Split. Highest Adriatic island peak Vidova gora (780 m); Venetian 1420–1797; famous for limestone and Zlatni Rat.
Bransfield Island
Bransfield Island: small island at the east entrance of Antarctic Sound, Antarctic Peninsula, at 63°11'S 56°38'W, separated from d'Urville Island by Burden Passage; named for explorer Edward Bransfield, identified as an island by FIDS survey in 1947.
Bridgeman Island
Bridgeman Island: small 900 x 600 m volcanic island, 240 m high, east of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands; site of the first recorded Antarctic eruption, observed in 1821.