Important World Islands and Groups
Sections:
5. Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf
9. North American Minor Waters
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Islands and groups |
Area in square miles |
Area in square km |
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Axel Heiberg, Canada |
16,671 |
43,178 |
|
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Baffin I., Canada |
195,928 |
507,451 |
|
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Banks I., Canada |
27,038 |
70,028 |
|
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Bathurst I., Canada |
6,194 |
16,042 |
|
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Devon I., Canada |
21,331 |
55,247 |
|
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Ellesmere I., Canada |
75,767 |
196,236 |
|
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Franz Josef Land, Russia |
8,000 |
21,000 |
|
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Melville I., Canada |
16,274 |
42,149 |
|
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Novaya Zemlya, Russia |
|
|
|
|
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Severny |
18,882 |
48,904 |
|
Yuzhny |
12,848 |
33,275 |
|
|
Prince of Wales I., Canada |
12,872 |
33,339 |
|
|
Prince Patrick I., Canada |
6,119 |
15,848 |
|
|
Somerset I., Canada |
9,570 |
24,786 |
|
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Southampton I., Canada |
15,913 |
41,214 |
|
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Spitsbergen Group, Svalbard |
23,641 |
61,230 |
|
|
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Edgeoya |
1,942 |
5,030 |
|
Nordaustlandet |
5,486 |
14,210 |
|
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Vestspitsbergen |
15,075 |
39,044 |
|
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Victoria I., Canada |
83,896 |
217,291 |
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Vrangelya (Wrangel), Russia |
3,030 |
7,850 |
|
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Islands and groups |
Area in square miles |
Area in square km |
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|
Anticosti, Canada |
3,066 |
7,941 |
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Ascension, UK |
34 |
88 |
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Azores, Portugal |
868 |
2,247 |
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Faial |
66 |
171 |
|
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Pico |
167 |
433 |
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Sao Jorge |
85 |
220 |
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Sao Miguel |
291 |
754 |
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Terceira |
153 |
396 |
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Bahamas |
5,353 |
13,864 |
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Bermuda Islands, UK |
20.6 |
53.3 |
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Bioko, Equatorial Guinea |
779 |
2,017 |
||
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Block I., Rhode Island |
11 |
28 |
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British Isles |
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Anglesey, Wales |
275 |
712 |
|
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Great Britain |
83,698 |
216,777 |
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Hebrides |
2,744 |
7,107 |
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Lewis with Harris |
770 |
1,994 |
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Mull |
357 |
925 |
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Skye, Isle of |
643 |
1,665 |
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Ireland, Ireland-UK |
32,589 |
84,406 |
||
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Man, Isle of |
221 |
572 |
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Orkney Islands |
377 |
976 |
||
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Scilly Islands, England |
6 |
16 |
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Shetland Islands |
553 |
1,432 |
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|
Wight, Isle of |
147 |
381 |
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Canary Islands, Spain |
2,808 |
7,273 |
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Fuerteventura |
668 |
1,730 |
|
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Gran Canaria |
592 |
1,533 |
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Tenerife |
795 |
2,059 |
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Cape Breton I., Canada |
3,981 |
10,311 |
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Cape Verde Islands |
1,557 |
4,033 |
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Channel Islands |
75 |
194 |
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|
|
Alderney |
3.1 |
7.9 |
|
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Guernsey |
24.5 |
63.4 |
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Jersey |
44.9 |
116.2 |
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Sark |
2.0 |
5.2 |
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Faeroe Islands, Denmark |
540 |
1,399 |
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Falkland Islands, UK |
4,700 |
12,170 |
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East Falkland |
2,550 |
6,605 |
|
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West Falkland |
1,750 |
4,532 |
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Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil |
7 |
18 |
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Grande de Tierra del Fuego, Isla, Argentina-Chile |
18,530 |
47,992 |
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Greenland |
822,700 |
2,130,800 |
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Iceland |
39,702 |
102,828 |
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|
Long Island, New York |
1,401 |
3,629 |
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Madeira Islands, Portugal |
306 |
794 |
||
|
Marajo, Brazil |
15,500 |
41,100 |
||
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Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts |
91 |
236 |
||
|
Mount Desert I., Maine |
106 |
275 |
||
|
Nantucket, Massachusetts |
57 |
148 |
||
|
Newfoundland, Canada |
42,031 |
108,860 |
||
|
Prince Edward I., Canada |
2,170 |
5,620 |
||
|
Robben I., South Africa |
2 |
5 |
||
|
St. Helena, UK |
47 |
122 |
||
|
Sao Tome |
319 |
845 |
||
|
South Georgia I., UK |
1,450 |
3,756 |
||
|
Tristan da Cunha, UK |
38 |
98 |
||
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Islands and groups |
Area in square miles |
Area in square km |
|
Aland Islands, Finland |
590 |
1,527 |
|
Bornholm, Denmark |
227.0 |
587.9 |
|
Gotland, Sweden |
1,159 |
3,001 |
|
Oland, Sweden |
519 |
1,344 |
|
Rugen, Germany |
358 |
926.4 |
|
Saaremaa, Estonia |
1,032 |
2,674 |
|
Sjaelland, Denmark |
2,714.8 |
7,031.3 |
|
Islands and groups |
Area in square miles |
Area in square km |
|
|
Antigua |
108 |
280 |
|
|
Aruba |
75 |
193 |
|
|
Barbados |
166 |
430 |
|
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Barbuda, Antigua |
62 |
161 |
|
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Bay Islands, Honduras |
100 |
261 |
|
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Cayman Islands |
100 |
260 |
|
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Cozumel, Mexico |
189 |
490 |
|
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Cuba |
40,543 |
105,007 |
|
|
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles |
171 |
444 |
|
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Dominica |
289 |
749 |
|
|
Gonave, Ile, Haiti |
270 |
700 |
|
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Grenada |
120 |
311 |
|
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Guadeloupe |
|
|
|
|
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Basse-Terre |
327 |
847 |
|
Grande-Terre |
228 |
591 |
|
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Hispaniola, Dominican Republic-Haiti |
28,840 |
74,700 |
|
|
Jamaica |
4,244 |
10,991 |
|
|
Juventud (Youth), Isla de, Cuba |
850 |
2,201 |
|
|
Margarita, Isla, Venezuela |
414 |
1,072 |
|
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Martinique, France |
425 |
1,101 |
|
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Montserrat |
39.5 |
106 |
|
|
Puerto Rico |
3,435 |
8,897 |
|
|
St. Martin (Sint Maarten) |
34 |
88 |
|
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St. Lucia |
240 |
622 |
|
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St. Vincent |
133 |
345 |
|
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Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago |
116 |
300 |
|
|
Trinidad |
1,864 |
8,897 |
|
|
Virgin Islands, British |
59 |
153 |
|
|
|
Tortola |
21 |
54 |
|
Virgin Gorda |
8 |
21 |
|
|
Virgin Islands, U.S. |
136 |
352 |
|
|
|
St. Croix |
81.9 |
212 |
|
St. John |
19.2 |
50 |
|
|
St. Thomas |
27 |
70 |
|
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Islands and groups |
Area in square miles |
Area in square km |
|
|
Andaman Islands, India |
2,448 |
6,340 |
|
|
Bahrain, Persian Gulf |
247.8 |
642 |
|
|
Comoros |
719 |
1,862 |
|
|
Diego Garcia |
17 |
44 |
|
|
Grande Terre, Kerguelen |
2,555 |
6,617 |
|
|
Kharg I., Iran, Persian Gulf |
9 |
23 |
|
|
Madagascar |
226,658 |
587,041 |
|
|
Maldives |
115 |
298 |
|
|
Mauritius |
709 |
1,836 |
|
|
Nicobar Islands, India |
754 |
1,953 |
|
|
Pemba, Tanzania |
379 |
982 |
|
|
Penang (Pinang), Malaysia |
108 |
280 |
|
|
Reunion |
969 |
2,512 |
|
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Seychelles |
171 |
443 |
|
|
|
Mahe |
56 |
145 |
|
Sri Lanka |
25,200 |
65,268 |
|
|
Zanzibar, Tanzania |
640 |
1,658 |
|
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Islands and groups |
Area in square miles |
Area in square km |
|
|
Balearic Islands, Spain |
1,936 |
5,014 |
|
|
|
Majorca |
1,405 |
3,640 |
|
Capri, Italy |
4 |
10 |
|
|
Corfu, Greece |
228.6 |
592.1 |
|
|
Corsica, France |
3,351 |
8,681 |
|
|
Crete, Greece |
3,189.7 |
8,261.2 |
|
|
Cyprus |
3,572 |
9,251 |
|
|
Djerba, Tunisia |
197 |
510 |
|
|
Elba, Italy |
86 |
223 |
|
|
Euboea, Greece |
1,411.2 |
3,655.1 |
|
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Malta |
|
|
|
|
|
Malta |
94.9 |
246 |
|
Gozo |
25.9 |
67 |
|
|
Rhodes, Greece |
539.8 |
1,398.1 |
|
|
Santorini (Thira), Greece |
29.3 |
35.8 |
|
|
Sardinia, Italy |
9,194 |
23,813 |
|
|
Sicily, Italy |
9,830 |
25,460 |
|
|
Stromboli, Italy |
4.7 |
12 |
|
|
Islands and groups |
Area in square miles |
Area in square km |
||
|
Admiralty Island, Alaska |
1,684 |
4,362 |
||
|
Aleutian Islands, Alaska |
6,391 |
16,553 |
||
|
|
Adak |
280 |
725 |
|
|
Akutan |
127 |
329 |
||
|
Amchitka |
119 |
309 |
||
|
Amlia |
177 |
459 |
||
|
Atka |
410 |
1,061 |
||
|
Attu |
346 |
896 |
||
|
Kanaga |
142 |
369 |
||
|
Kiska |
107 |
278 |
||
|
Shemya |
6 |
16 |
||
|
Tanaga |
204 |
529 |
||
|
Umnak |
692 |
1,793 |
||
|
Unalaska |
1,051 |
2,722 |
||
|
Unimak |
1,590 |
4,119 |
||
|
Baranof Island, Alaska |
1,569 |
4,065 |
||
|
Bora Bora, Society Islands |
14 |
36 |
||
|
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea |
3,880 |
10,049 |
||
|
Caroline Islands |
472 |
1,222 |
||
|
Cheju-do, South Korea |
704.7 |
1,825.5 |
||
|
Chichagof I., Alaska |
2,080 |
5,388 |
||
|
Clipperton, France |
2 |
5 |
||
|
Cook Islands |
113 |
293 |
||
|
Easter I. (Pascua, Rapa Nui), Chile |
63 |
163 |
||
|
Fiji |
7,056 |
18,275 |
||
|
|
Vanua Levu |
2,137 |
5,535 |
|
|
Viti Levu |
4,011 |
10,388 |
||
|
Galapagos Islands, Ecuador |
3,086 |
7,994 |
||
|
|
Isabela, Isla |
1,790 |
4,640 |
|
|
Graham I., Queen Charlotte Islands, Canada |
2,456 |
6,361 |
||
|
Guam |
209 |
541 |
||
|
Hainan, China |
12,962 |
33,572 |
||
|
Hawaiian Islands, U.S. |
6,471 |
16,760 |
||
|
|
Hawaii |
4,021 |
10,414 |
|
|
Kahoolawe |
45 |
117 |
||
|
Kauai |
558.2 |
1,446 |
||
|
Lanai |
141.2 |
366 |
||
|
Maui |
728.8 |
1,888 |
||
|
Molokai |
261 |
676 |
||
|
Niihau |
72 |
186 |
||
|
Oahu |
617.6 |
1,600 |
||
|
Hong Kong Island |
30.6 |
79.2 |
||
|
Japan |
145,883 |
377,835 |
||
|
|
Awaji |
228.9 |
593 |
|
|
Hokkaido |
30,144 |
78,073 |
||
|
Honshu |
87,805 |
227,414 |
||
|
Iwo-jima |
7.8 |
20.1 |
||
|
Kyushu |
14,114 |
36,555 |
||
|
Okinawa |
459 |
1,189 |
||
|
Sado |
330.7 |
857 |
||
|
Shikoku |
7,251 |
18,780 |
||
|
Kiritimati (Christmas), Kiribati |
150 |
388 |
||
|
Kodiak I., Alaska |
3,588 |
9,293 |
||
|
Little Diomede I., Alaska |
2 |
5 |
||
|
Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia |
405 |
1,049 |
||
|
Marshall Islands |
70 |
181 |
||
|
Moorea, French Polynesia |
51 |
132 |
||
|
Nauru |
8.2 |
21.3 |
||
|
New Britain, Papua New Guinea |
14,098 |
36,514 |
||
|
New Caledonia |
6,467 |
16,750 |
||
|
New Guinea, Papua New Guinea-Indonesia |
309,000 |
800,000 |
||
|
New Ireland, Papua New Guinea |
3,344 |
8,661 |
||
|
New Zealand |
104,454 |
270,535 |
||
|
|
Chatham Islands |
372 |
963 |
|
|
North I. |
44,035 |
114,050 |
||
|
South I. |
58,200 |
150,737 |
||
|
Stewart I. |
674 |
1,746 |
||
|
Northern Mariana Islands |
184 |
477 |
||
|
Nunivak I., Alaska |
1,625 |
4,209 |
||
|
Philippines |
115,831 |
300,001 |
||
|
|
Bohol |
1,492 |
3,864 |
|
|
Cebu |
1,707 |
4,421 |
||
|
Jolo |
335 |
869 |
||
|
Leyte |
2,785 |
7,215 |
||
|
Luzon |
40,419 |
104,684 |
||
|
Masbate |
1,262 |
3,268 |
||
|
Mindanao |
36,537 |
94,627 |
||
|
Mindoro |
3,759 |
9,735 |
||
|
Negros |
4,905 |
12,706 |
||
|
Palawan |
4,550 |
11,784 |
||
|
Panay |
4,446 |
11,515 |
||
|
Samar |
5,050 |
13,079 |
||
|
Pitcairn Island |
2 |
5 |
||
|
Prince of Wales I., Alaska |
2,577 |
6,675 |
||
|
Quemoy (Chinmen), Taiwan |
56 |
145 |
||
|
Ratmanova (Big Diomede), Russia |
11 |
28 |
||
|
Saint Lawrence I., Alaska |
1,983 |
5,135 |
||
|
Sakhalin, Russia |
29,500 |
76,400 |
||
|
Samoa Islands |
1,170 |
3,030 |
||
|
American Samoa |
77 |
199 |
||
|
|
Tutuila |
52 |
135 |
|
|
Western Samoa |
1,093 |
2,830.8 |
||
|
|
Savaii |
659.4 |
1,707.8 |
|
|
|
Upolu |
431.5 |
1,117.6 |
|
|
San Juan Islands, Washington |
|
|
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|
|
Orcas I. |
59 |
153 |
|
|
|
San Juan I. |
57 |
148 |
|
|
Santa Catalina I., California |
75 |
194 |
||
|
Solomon Islands |
|
|
||
|
|
Choiseul |
1,145 |
2,966 |
|
|
|
Guadalcanal |
2,047 |
5,302 |
|
|
|
Malaita |
1,572 |
4,071 |
|
|
|
Santa Isabel |
1,460 |
3,780 |
|
|
Tahiti, French Polynesia |
402 |
1,042 |
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|
Taiwan |
13,823 |
35,801 |
||
|
Tasmania, Australia |
23,412 |
60,637 |
||
|
Tonga Islands |
300.9 |
779 |
||
|
Vancouver I., Canada |
12,079 |
31,285 |
||
|
Vanuatu |
4,707 |
12,191 |
||
|
|
Espiritu Santo |
1,420 |
3,677 |
|
|
Islands and groups |
Area in square miles |
Area in square km |
|
|
Bali, Indonesia |
2,147 |
5,561 |
|
|
Bangka, Indonesia |
4,375 |
11,330 |
|
|
Borneo, Indonesia-Malaysia-Brunei |
280,100 |
725,500 |
|
|
Buru, Indonesia |
3,670 |
9,505 |
|
|
Celebes (Sulawesi), Indonesia |
67,400 |
174,600 |
|
|
Flores, Indonesia |
5,520 |
14,300 |
|
|
Java, Indonesia |
48,900 |
126,700 |
|
|
Komodo, Indonesia |
185 |
479 |
|
|
Madura, Indonesia |
2,042 |
5,290 |
|
|
Moluccas (Maluku) Islands, Indonesia |
32,307 |
83,675 |
|
|
|
Ambon (Amboina) |
311 |
806 |
|
Ceram (Seram) |
6,621 |
17,148 |
|
|
Halmahera |
6,865 |
17,780 |
|
|
Singapore |
220.2 |
570.4 |
|
|
Sumatra, Indonesia |
164,000 |
425,000 |
|
|
Sumba, Indonesia |
4,306 |
11,153 |
|
|
Sumbawa, Indonesia |
5,965 |
15,448 |
|
|
Timor, Indonesia - East Timor |
11,883 |
30,777 |
|
|
Yos Sudarso (Dolak), Indonesia |
4,500 |
11,600 |
|
|
Islands and groups |
Area in square miles or acres |
Area in square km or hectares |
|
Alcatraz, San Francisco Harbor |
22 acres |
9 ha |
|
Beaver I., Lake Michigan, Michigan |
56 |
145 |
|
Ellis Island, New York Harbor |
27.5 acres |
11 ha |
|
Governors I., New York Harbor |
173 acres |
70 ha |
|
Isle Royale, Lake Superior, Michigan |
209 |
541 |
|
Liberty I., New York Harbor |
13.4 acres |
5.4 ha |
|
Manhattan I., New York City |
22 |
57 |
|
Manitoulin I., Lake Huron, Ontario |
1,068 |
2,766 |
|
Montreal, Ile, Quebec |
201 |
521 |
|
Rhode I. (Aquidneck), Rhode Island |
39 |
101 |
|
Staten Island, New York City |
59 |
153 |
|
Wizard Island, Crater Lake, Oregon |
300 acres |
1.2 |
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