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A composite satellite photograph of North America in orthographic projection

The following is a list of the major island groups of North America.

West Indies

• West Indies
  • Lucayan Archipelago
    • Bahama Islands
      • Abaco
      • Acklins
      • Andros Island, largest island of the Bahamas
      • Berry Islands
      • Bimini
      • Cat Island
      • Conception Island
      • Crooked Island
      • Dolly's Cay
      • Egg Island
      • Elbow Cay
      • Eleuthera
      • Ellis Island
      • Exuma
      • Long Cay
      • Grand Bahama
      • Great Guana Cay
      • Great Harbour Cay
      • Great Isaac Cay
      • Green Turtle Cay
      • Harbour Island
      • Inagua
      • Little Stirrup Cay
      • Long Island
      • Man-O-War Cay
      • Mayaguana
      • Moore's Island
      • Musha Cay
      • New Providence
      • Norman's Cay
      • Paradise Island
      • Plana Cays
      • Ragged Island
      • Rum Cay
      • Samana Cay
      • San Salvador Island
    • Turks Islands
    • Caicos Islands
      • Middle Caicos, largest island of the Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Antilles
    • Greater Antilles
      • Cuba, world's 17th largest and 15th most populous island
      • Hispaniola, world's 22nd largest, 16th tallest, and 10th most populous island
      • Jamaica, world's 71st largest and 31st most populous island
      • Puerto Rico, world's 82nd largest and 25th most populous island
    • Lesser Antilles (Caribbees)
      • Leeward Islands
        • Anguilla
        • Antigua
        • Barbuda
        • Dominica
        • Guadeloupe Archipelago
          • Basse-Terre, largest island of Guadeloupe
        • La Désirade
        • Les Saintes
        • Marie-Galante
        • Montserrat
        • Nevis
        • Redonda
        • Saba
        • Saint Kitts (Saint Christopher Island), largest island of Saint Kitts and Nevis
        • Saint Martin
        • Saint-Barthélemy (Saint Barts)
        • Sint Eustatius
        • Virgin Islands
          • Anegada
          • Jost Van Dyke
          • Saint Croix, largest island of the United States Virgin Islands
          • Saint John
          • Saint Thomas
          • Tortola, largest island of the British Virgin Islands
          • Virgin Gorda
      • Windward Islands
        • Martinique
        • Saint Lucia
        • Saint Vincent, largest island of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
        • Grenadines
        • Grenada
      • Barbados
      • Tobago
      • Trinidad, largest island of Trinidad and Tobago and world's 116th largest island
      • Leeward Antilles
        • Aruba
        • Bonaire
        • Curaçao, largest island of the Netherlands Antilles
        • Isla de Coche
        • Isla de Cubagua
        • Isla La Tortuga
        • Isla Margarita, largest island of Venezuela
        • Venezuelan Archipelago
• Islands of the Western Caribbean Sea
  • Cayman Islands
    • Grand Cayman, largest island of the Cayman Islands
  • Islas de la Bahia
    • Roatán, largest island of Honduras
  • Saint George's Caye
  • Caye Caulker
  • Ambergris Caye, largest island of Belize
  • Cozumel
  • Isla Mujeres
  • Isla Contoy
• Islands of the Gulf of Mexico
  • Isla del Carmen
  • Padre Island, world's longest barrier island
  • Matagorda Island
  • Galveston Island
  • Marsh Island
  • Point au Fer Island
  • Saint James Island

North Atlantic Ocean

• Islands of the Western North Atlantic Ocean
  • Bermuda Islands
    • Bermuda
  • Atlantic Costal Islands
    • Florida Keys
      • Key West
      • Key Largo
    • Merritt Island
    • Sea Islands
      • Hilton Head Island
      • Port Royal Island
      • Johns Island
      • Saint Helena Island
      • Edisto Island
    • Outer Banks
    • Staten Island
    • Manhattan Island, most densely populated island of the Americas^[1]
    • Long Island, largest Atlantic island of the United States, most populous island of the United States, and the world's 17th most populous island
      • New York Barrier Islands
    • Block Island
    • Conanicut Island
    • Aquidneck Island (Rhode Island)
    • Elizabeth Islands
    • Marthas Vineyard
    • Nantucket Island
    • Monomoy Island

the thousand islands

• • • Mount Desert Island, largest island of Maine
    • Cape Breton Island, world's 77th largest island
    • Prince Edward Island, world's 104th largest island
    • Anticosti Island, world's 90th largest island
  • Newfoundland, largest Atlantic island of Canada and the world's 16th largest island
    • Ile de Saint-Pierre
    • Ile de Miquelon, largest island of Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Greenland

• Greenland, world's largest and 11th tallest island
  • Qeqertarsuaq (Disko Island), world's 85th largest island
  • Milne Land
  • Traill Island
  • Ymer Island
  • Geographical Society Island
  • Clavering Island
  • Nares Land
  • Shannon Island
• The following islands are usually associated with Europe rather than North America, despite lying closer to Greenland that to Scandinavia:
  • Iceland, world's 18th largest island
  • Jan Mayen
  • Svalbard Archipelago
    • Spitsbergen, world's 35th largest island
    • Nordaustlandet, world's 58th largest island
    • Edgeoya
    • Barentsoya

Arctic Ocean

• Islands of the Western Arctic Ocean:
  • Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    • Baffin Island, largest island of Canada and the world's 5th largest island
    • Victoria Island, world's 8th largest island
    • Banks Island, world's 24th largest island
    • Southampton Island, world's 34th largest island
    • Prince of Wales Island, world's 40th largest island
    • Somerset Island, world's 46th largest island
    • King William Island, world's 61st largest island
    • Bylot Island, world's 72nd largest island
    • Prince Charles Island, world's 78th largest island
    • Queen Elizabeth Islands
      • Ellesmere Island, world's 10th largest and 37th tallest island
      • Devon Island, world's largest uninhabited landmass^[1] and 27th largest island
      • Melville Island, world's 33rd largest island
      • Bathurst Island, world's 54th largest island
      • Prince Patrick Island, world's 55th largest island
      • Cornwallis Island, world's 96th largest island
      • Mackenzie King Island, world's 115th largest island
    • Sverdrup Islands
      • Axel Heiberg Island, world's 32nd largest island
      • Ellef Ringnes Island, world's 69th largest island
      • Amund Ringnes Island, world's 111th largest island
  • Islands of Hudson Bay
    • Coats Island, world's 107th largest island
    • Belcher Islands
    • Islands of James Bay
  • Islands of the Alaskan Arctic Coast

North Pacific Ocean

• Islands of the Eastern North Pacific Ocean:
  • Islands of the Bering Sea
    • Pribilof Islands
    • Saint Lawrence Island, world's 113th largest island
    • Diomede Islands
    • King Island
    • Saint Matthew Island
    • Karaginsky Island
  • Aleutian Islands
    • Fox Islands
      • Unimak Island, world's 28th tallest island
    • Islands of Four Mountains
    • Andreanof Islands
    • Rat Islands
    • Buldir Island
    • Near Islands
    • Commander Islands
  • Kodiak Archipelago
    • Kodiak Island, largest island of Alaska and the world's 80th largest island
  • Islands of the Gulf of Alaska
    • Montague Island
  • Alexander Archipelago
    • Chichagof Island, world's 109th largest island
    • Admiralty Island
    • Baranof Island
    • Wrangell Island
    • Revillagigedo Island
    • Kupreanof Island
    • Dall Island
    • Prince of Wales Island, world's 97th largest island
  • Queen Charlotte Islands
    • Graham Island, world's 101st largest island
    • Moresby Island
  • Vancouver Island, largest Pacific island of Canada and the world's 43rd largest island
  • San Juan Archipelago
    • Gulf Islands
    • San Juan Islands
      • Orcas Island, second largest island of Washington
  • Channel Islands of California
    • Santa Cruz Island, largest island of California
  • Isla de Cedros
  • Hawaiian Islands
    • Hawaiʻi island, largest island of the United States and the world's 2nd tallest and 76th largest island
    • Maui, world's 18th tallest island
    • Oʻahu
    • Kauaʻi
  • Islands of the Gulf of California
    • Isla Ángel de la Guarda
    • Isla Tiburón, largest island of Mexico
  • Isla Guadalupe
  • Revillagigedo Islands
    • Isla Socorro
  • Islas Marías
  • Clipperton Island
  • Isla Espiritu Santo (El Salvador), largest island of El Salvador
  • Isla del Coco, largest island of Costa Rica
  • Isla de Coiba, largest island of Panama
  • Archipelago de las Perlas
    • Isla del Rey

Inland islands

• Lake islands of North America
  • Atlin Lake,
    • Theresa Island, highest elevation inside a freshwater lake in North America at 2059m
  • Lake Huron
    • Manitoulin Island, world's largest inland island
    • Saint Joseph Island, world's 8th largest inland island
    • Drummond Island, world's 9th largest inland island
    • Thirty Thousand Islands
  • Lake Superior
    • Isle Royale, world's 6th largest inland island
    • Saint Ignace Island, world's 12th largest inland island
    • Michipicoten Island, world's 19th largest inland island
    • Madeline Island
  • Lake Ontario
    • Thousand Islands
  • Lake Nicaragua
    • Ometepe,11th largest inland island
    • Isla Zapatera
    • Solentiname Islands
  • Great Slave Lake
    • Simpson Islands
      • Big Simpson Island, world's 13th largest inland island
    • Blanchet Island, world's 14th largest inland island
    • Preble Island, world's 20th largest inland island
  • Manicouagan Reservoir
    • René-Levasseur Island, world's largest artificial island^[1] and 2nd largest inland island
  • Grand Lake on the Island of Newfoundland
    • Glover Island, world's 18th largest inland island
• River islands of North America
  • Saint Lawrence River
    • Île de Montréal, most populous island of Canada
  • Niagara River
    • Grand Island
    • Navy Island
    • Goat Island
    • Dufferin Islands
  • Hudson River
    • Schodack Island
    • Westerlo (Castle) Island
  • Susquehanna River
    • McCormick Island
    • Wade Island

See also

North America portal

Geography portal

• List of islands by area
• List of islands by highest point
• List of islands by population
• List of islands in lakes
• List of islands of Central America
• Clipperton Island
• Navassa Island
• Topic outline of North America
• List of islands of South America

References

External links

• Island Directory @ United Nations Environment Programme
• Wikimedia Atlas of North America
• World island information @ WorldIslandInfo.com

List of islands of North America Sovereign states Antigua and Barbuda · Bahamas · Barbados · Belize · Canada · Costa Rica · Cuba · Dominica · Dominican Republic · El Salvador · Grenada · Guatemala · Haiti · Honduras · Jamaica · Mexico · Nicaragua · Panama1  · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Lucia · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Trinidad and Tobago1 · United States Dependencies and other territories Anguilla · Aruba1  · Bermuda · British Virgin Islands · Cayman Islands · Greenland · Guadeloupe · Martinique · Montserrat · Netherlands Antilles1 · Puerto Rico · Saint Barthélemy · Saint Martin · Saint Pierre and Miquelon · Turks and Caicos Islands · United States Virgin Islands 1 Territories also in or commonly considered to be part of South America.