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Pulau Nuhuyut
Pulau Nuhuyut (Nuhu Yuut) is an island in the Kei Islands, Maluku, Indonesia, near Ohoiwat and Fako at 5°37′S 133°02′E, elevation 278 m; the name is also the indigenous designation of Kei Besar, Great Kei.
Pulau Obi
Pulau Obi (Obira, Groot Obi), main island of the Obi Islands in South Halmahera Regency, North Maluku, Indonesia; 2,542 km2 hilly island with nickel mining by Harita Group since 2010, distinct from Pulau Ubin, Singapore.
Pulau Pagai Utara
Pulau Pagai Utara (North Pagai), 622.3 km2 Mentawai island off west Sumatra at 2.67S 100.10E; district population 6,495 (2023), main settlement Sikakap, high coastal vulnerability, 2010 tsunami affected east coast.
Pulau Pandang
Pulau Pandang (Pandang Island), an island in Batu Bara Regency, North Sumatra, in the Malacca Strait, known for granite coast, lighthouse, coral reefs, and a proposed 658.93-hectare marine conservation area.
Pulau Pantar
Pulau Pantar (Pantar Island), Indonesian island west of Alor in East Nusa Tenggara's Alor Regency; 728 km², 42,557 people (2017), active Sirung volcano, Pantar Strait marine reserve, Baranusa capital.
Pulau Rangsang
Pulau Rangsang (Rangsang Island) is a 908 km² island in Meranti Islands Regency, Riau, Indonesia, between Sumatra and Singapore, divided into three sub-districts, with severe coastal abrasion and border-zone development.
Pulau Roni
Pulau Roni is a 0.42 km² tropical island in the Halmahera Sea, East Halmahera Regency, North Maluku, Indonesia, at 0.9925° N, 127.9292° E; distinct from Pulau Reni, Pulau Rani, and Pulau Roon.
Pulau Sanana
Pulau Sanana (Sulabesi) is the smallest of the three main Sula Islands in North Maluku, Indonesia, and seat of Kepulauan Sula Regency; town of Sanana, Dutch fort of 1793, 284 km by sea from Ternate.
Pulau Simeulue
Pulau Simeulue, or Simeulue Island, is an Indonesian island about 100 km long off northwest Sumatra, part of Aceh Province and first landfall of the December 2004 tsunami.
Pulau Sorenarwa
Pulau Sorenarwa (Sorenarwa, also listed as Pulau Yapen or Japen Island) is an island in Biak Numfor Regency, Papua, Indonesia, at 1°44′S 136°10′E, elevation 313 m, near the Selat Sorenarwa strait.
Pulau Sulawesi
Pulau Sulawesi (Sulawesi Island) is Indonesia's K-shaped eleventh-largest island, assembled at the Eurasian, Indo-Australian, and Pacific plate junction from collided arcs, ophiolites, and Australian-derived continental fragments, with highly endemic Wallacean fauna.
Pulau Taliabu
Pulau Taliabu: large island and regency (Kabupaten Pulau Taliabu) in North Maluku, Indonesia, split from Kepulauan Sula in 2013; Banggai-Sula microcontinent, 4.4 TCF gas basin, seat Bobong.
Pulau Tebing Tinggi
Pulau Tebing Tinggi (Tebing Tinggi Island, Pulau Rantau) is an island in the Strait of Malacca, Meranti Islands Regency, Riau, Indonesia, east of Padang Island; a sago and peatland island with subdistricts Tebing Tinggi, Barat, and Timur.
Pulau Ubin
Pulau Ubin (Pulau Batu Jubin) is a 1,036-hectare, boomerang-shaped island located off northeastern Singapore. It is known for its granite quarrying history and surviving traditional kampong life.
Pulau Waigeo
Pulau Waigeo is the largest of the Raja Ampat Islands in West Papua, Indonesia, settled over 50,000 years ago and home to the regency capital Waisai.
Pulau Waraten
Pulau Waraten (Poelau Waraten) is a small island in Maluku, Indonesia, near the Aru Islands locality Dosi, at 5°56′46″S 134°35′55″E, elevation 21 m, GeoNames ID 12066475.
Pulau Wawonii
Pulau Wawonii (Wawonii Island), an island off southeastern Sulawesi, Indonesia, coterminous with Konawe Islands Regency; homeland of the Wawonii people, known for coconut-derived name, copra economy, and nickel-mining resistance won in court.
Pulau Yamdena
Pulau Yamdena (Jamdena) is the largest island of Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands in Maluku, between the Banda and Arafura Seas: a flat coral island 64 miles long, with Saumlaki as its main port.
Pullen Island
Pullen Island: ice-covered Antarctic island in Violante Inlet, Black Coast, Palmer Land, on the landward side of Larsen Ice Shelf; named for William A. Pullen, USN; distinct from Islote Pullen, Chile.
Pulu Keeling
Pulu Keeling (North Keeling Island) is the northern atoll of Australia's Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the site of Pulu Keeling National Park, proclaimed 12 December 1995, a Ramsar wetland and IUCN Ia reserve famed for its red-footed booby colony and the 1914 Emden wreck.
Pummel Peak
Pummel Peak (Pommel Peak), a 6,620-foot summit in the Chisos Mountains at Panther Junction, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas; named by surveyors Stiles and Penick in 1902, class 4 offtrail climb.
Punaluʻu Beach
Punaluʻu Beach, also called Punaluʻu Black Sand Beach, is a fine-grained basalt black sand beach in Kaʻū, Hawaiʻi Island, known for basking green sea turtles, freshwater springs, heiau, and a county purchase agreement after a development dispute.
Puncak Jaya
Puncak Jaya, or Carstensz Pyramid, is a 4,884 m limestone peak in Papua, Indonesia, the highest point of New Guinea and Oceania on the Messner Seven Summits list, first climbed in 1962 by Heinrich Harrer, with rapidly vanishing tropical glaciers.
Puncak Mandala
Puncak Mandala (Julianatop, Mandala Peak, Aplim Apom) is a 4,760 m limestone peak in Highland Papua, Indonesia, highest of the Jayawijaya Range and Indonesia's second-highest independent mountain; its small tropical ice cap vanished before 2003.
Punta Mita
Punta Mita (Punta de Mita) is a peninsula and luxury resort community in Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit, Mexico, home to the Four Seasons and St. Regis resorts, two Jack Nicklaus golf courses, and the contested Playa Las Cocinas concession revoked by Semarnat in 2026.
Puntiagudo-Cordon Cenizos
Puntiagudo-Cordón Cenizos, a Chilean volcanic chain between Lago Rupanco and Lago Todos Los Santos: a 2,493 m glacially dissected andesitic stratovolcano with an 18-km NE fissure system, last erupting in 1850 (VEI 1).
Purog Kangri
Purog Kangri (Puruogangri, 普若岗日) is the largest ice field in Tibet and China, in Nagqu on the central Tibetan Plateau; highest point 6,482 m, area about 390–427 km², shrinking with accelerating mass loss since 2012.
Putorana Plateau (landform)
Putorana Plateau (плато Путорана), Siberian Traps basalt tableland in northern Central Siberia, ~100 km north of the Arctic Circle; 25,000+ lakes, thousands of waterfalls, Lake Khantayskoye 420 m deep, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2010.
Pyagina Peninsula
Pyagina Peninsula (Полуостров Пьягина), a remote uninhabited peninsula in Magadan Oblast, Russian Far East, east of Magadan, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from Shelikhov Bay; mountainous south rising to 1,156 m, ancient Koryak sites, and a protected coastal strip of Magadansky Nature Reserve.
Pyramid Island
Pyramid Island: name of several small islands, chiefly a 205 m pillar-shaped islet NNE of Williams Point, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica; also islands in Alaska, Tasmania, Kenya, and the Solomon Islands.