Islands and dry-land coastal features

British Isles

The British Isles: a geographical term for the North Atlantic archipelago of Great Britain, Ireland, and about 5,000 smaller islands, holding about 70 million people across the UK and Republic of Ireland; the name is contested in Ireland.

Brock Island

Brock Island (île Brock) is an uninhabited 764 km2 Queen Elizabeth Island in the Northwest Territories, Canada, discovered and claimed by Vilhjalmur Stefansson in June 1915 and named for R.W. Brock of the Geological Survey of Canada.

Brooklyn Island

Brooklyn Island, Antarctica: 5-km-long island in eastern Wilhelmina Bay off Graham Land, 2 km south of Nansen Island; discovered and named 1897-1899 by de Gerlache's Belgian Antarctic Expedition for Brooklyn, NY, home of surgeon Frederick A. Cook.

Bryde Island

Bryde Island, an 11 km by 6 km Antarctic island off the Danco Coast, Graham Land, west of Paradise Harbour at 64°52'S 63°02'W; charted and named Île Bryde by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in February 1898.

Bugge Islands

Bugge Islands (Ruth Bugge Islands) are a small group of three ice-covered Antarctic islands, Ramírez, Aldea, and Landrum, off the Wordie Ice Shelf, Fallières Coast; photographed 1936 by the BGLE and named 1947 by Finn Ronne for his niece Ruth Bugge.

Buka Island

Buka Island, northern counterpart of Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea's Autonomous Region of Bougainville; raised coral limestone island hosting Buka Town, the region's capital, separated from Bougainville by the fast-flowing Buka Passage.

Buru

Buru (Boeroe) is an island in eastern Indonesia known for its mountainous interior, colonial history, and its notoriety as a political prison between 1969 and 1979.

Busuanga Island

Busuanga Island: largest island of the Calamian Group, northern Palawan, Philippines (~971 km²), split into Busuanga and Coron municipalities; non-volcanic continental-fragment geology, dry Dec–May climate, 1944 Coron Bay shipwrecks, and a dugong stronghold.

Bylot Island

Bylot Island, Nunavut, an 11,100 km² uninhabited Canadian Arctic island off northern Baffin Island in Sirmilik National Park; a biodiversity hotspot with a greater snow goose colony and a 35-year tundra food web monitoring program.

Calamian Islands

Calamian Islands (Calamianes), northernmost island group of Palawan Province, Philippines: Busuanga, Coron, Culion, Linapacan. Reefs hold 70% of Philippine coral and seagrass species; over ten MPAs; Tagbanwa ancestral waters; Coron tourism boom.

Calvert Island

Calvert Island is an island on the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, west of the entrance to Rivers Inlet and home of the Hakai Institute's field station.

Cameron Island

Cameron Island, Nunavut: uninhabited 1,059 km² island in the Governor General Group off Bathurst Island, Queen Elizabeth Islands; site of the Bent Horn oil field, the only Arctic Islands oil ever produced (1985–1996).

Camiguin

Camiguin: island province in the Bohol Sea, Northern Mindanao, Philippines; second smallest province, capital Mambajao. Volcanic "Island Born of Fire" with Hibok-Hibok volcano, Sunken Cemetery, White Island, and a tourism-led economy.

Canadian Atlantic Islands

Canadian Atlantic Islands is FEOW freshwater ecoregion 115, a Nearctic temperate coastal rivers unit covering Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Anticosti, the Magdalen Islands, and St. Pierre and Miquelon, with depauperate, saltwater-tolerant fish fauna and no known endemic species.

Canary Islands

The Canary Islands (Islas Canarias) are a Spanish volcanic Atlantic archipelago 97 km off Morocco, with eight main islands, Teide (3,715.58 m, Spain's highest peak), 2.26 million people, and a tourism-dominated economy.

Canisteo Peninsula

Canisteo Peninsula, an ice-covered peninsula about 30 mi long in the eastern Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica, between Ferrero and Cranton Bays; delineated in 1946, named for the USS Canisteo, and an ice-core drilling site since 2024.

Canvey Island

Canvey Island: reclaimed 18.5 km² island below sea level on the north bank of the Thames Estuary, Essex, in Castle Point. Drained by Dutch engineers from 1622 (Croppenburg, Vermuyden), hit by the 1953 floods that killed 58, now home to over 40,000 behind 14 miles of sea walls.

Cape Adams

Cape Adams (Cabo Adams, Mys Adams) is a cape on the Palmer Land coast of Antarctica, at the south tip of Bowman Peninsula, named for RARE pilot Charles J. Adams.

Cape Adriasola

Cape Adriasola (Adriasola, Cabo; Cabo Adriosola) is an Antarctic cape at 67°38.0'S 69°09.0'W, 27.2 km from Cape Alexandra, listed in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Cape Agassiz

Cape Agassiz, a cape at the east end of Kenyon Peninsula on the Antarctic Peninsula's east coast (about 68°28'S 62°57'W); first named Cape Joerg, renamed for naturalist Louis Agassiz; marks the Graham Land–Palmer Land boundary.

Cape Agulhas

Cape Agulhas (Cabo das Agulhas, Cape of Needles) is Africa's southernmost point and the Atlantic-Indian Ocean boundary, about 150 km southeast of the Cape of Good Hope, site of the 1849 Agulhas Lighthouse.

Cape Alexander

Cape Alexander, Antarctic Peninsula cape at the south tip of Churchill Peninsula (66°44'S, 62°37'W), dividing Oscar II and Foyn Coasts; named 1951 for First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander.

Cape Anna

Cape Anna (Cabo Ana, Cap Anna Osterrieth) is a cape at 64°35'S 62°26'W, the north point of the Arctowski Peninsula, Danco Coast, Antarctica, charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1898 and named for Anna Osterrieth of Antwerp.

Cape Astrup

Cape Astrup, also Cap Eivind Astrup, is a bluff at the northeast point of Wiencke Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, charted by the Belgica expedition 1898 and named by Gerlache in 1899 for Norwegian explorer Eivind Astrup.

Cape Bellue

Cape Bellue (Cabo Bellue) is an Antarctic cape forming the north side of the entrance to Darbel Bay on the west coast of Graham Land, at 66°18′S 65°53′W; discovered by Charcot's 1908–10 French expedition and named for Admiral Bellue of Cherbourg.

Cape Berteaux

Cape Berteaux (Cabo Berteaux) is a dark rock cape on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, at the north side of the Wordie Ice Shelf in southeastern Marguerite Bay; discovered by Charcot's 1908-1910 French expedition and identified as a cape by Rymill's BGLE 1934-37.

Cape Boggs

Cape Boggs, also gazetteered as Boggs, Cape, is an ice-covered headland at 70°33'S 61°23'W on the east extremity of Eielson Peninsula, Palmer Land, Antarctica; discovered by USAS East Base in 1940 and named for State Department geographer S.W. Boggs.

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Cape Bojador

Cape Bojador, called Abu khatar, "father of danger," by the Arabs, is a headland in Western Sahara first doubled by Gil Eanes for Portugal in 1434.

Cape Bowles

Cape Bowles is the southernmost cape of Clarence Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, at 61°19'S 54°06'W, named for Captain W. Bowles, RN, landed on by Bransfield in 1820, and an Important Bird Area holding 33,000 chinstrap penguin pairs.