List of islands of North America
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Main article: Geography of North America
The following is a list of the major island groups of North America.
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[edit] 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
- Bahama Islands
- Antilles
- Greater Antilles
- Lesser Antilles (Caribbees)
- Leeward Islands
- Windward Islands
- Barbados
- Tobago
- Trinidad, largest island of Trinidad and Tobago and world's 116th largest island
- Leeward Antilles
- Lucayan Archipelago
- Islands of the Western Caribbean Sea
- Islands of the Gulf of Mexico
[edit] North Atlantic Ocean
- Islands of the Western North Atlantic Ocean
- Bermuda Islands
- Atlantic Costal Islands
- Florida Keys
- Merritt Island
- Sea Islands
- 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
- Block Island
- Conanicut Island
- Aquidneck Island (Rhode Island)
- Elizabeth Islands
- Marthas Vineyard
- Nantucket Island
- Monomoy Island
- 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
[edit] Greenland
- Greenland, world's largest and 11th tallest island
- The following islands are usually associated with Europe rather than North America, despite lying closer to Greenland that to Scandinavia:
[edit] 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
- Islands of Hudson Bay
- Islands of the Alaskan Arctic Coast
- Canadian Arctic Archipelago
[edit] North Pacific Ocean
- Islands of the Eastern North Pacific Ocean:
- Islands of the Bering Sea
- Aleutian Islands
- Kodiak Archipelago
- Islands of the Gulf of Alaska
- Alexander Archipelago
- Queen Charlotte Islands
- Vancouver Island, largest Pacific island of Canada and the world's 43rd largest island
- San Juan Archipelago
- Channel Islands of California
- Isla de Cedros
- Islands of the Gulf of California
- Isla Guadalupe
- Revillagigedo Islands
- 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
[edit] Inland islands
- Lake islands of North America
- Atlin Lake,
- Theresa Island (page does not exist) , highest elevation inside a freshwater lake in North America at 2059m
- Lake Huron
- Lake Superior
- Lake Ontario
- Lake Nicaragua
- Great Slave Lake
- Manicouagan Reservoir
- René-Levasseur Island, world's largest artificial island[1] and 2nd largest inland island
- Grand Lake on the Island of Newfoundland
- Atlin Lake,
- River islands of North America
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[edit] See also
- 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
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- Island Directory @ United Nations Environment Programme
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