The Island

An island is a land mass entirely surrounded by water.

The Island(s) may also refer to:

Places

• Any of various islands around the world, see the list of islands
• The Island (Cache County, Utah), an island on the Bear River, Utah
• The Island, Chennai, a river island in India
• The Island, Chicago, a neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States
• The Island, Croydon, a residential building in Croydon, England
• The Island, an enclave within Hilltop, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
• The Island, Hythe End, an island on the River Thames in England
• The Island (Jefferson County, Oregon), a United States wilderness research area
• The Island, Trenton, New Jersey, a neighborhood in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States
• The Island, a neighborhood of Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
• The Island, Western Cape, in Great Brak River, South Africa
• The Islands, a defunct provincial electoral district in British Columbia

Books and publications

Fiction

• The Island (Benchley novel), 1979, by Peter Benchley
• The Island (Hislop novel), 2005, by Victoria Hislop
• L’ile, 1962, by Robert Merle, published in US as The Island (1964)

Poetry and plays

• The Island (Byron), an 1823 poem by Lord Byron
• The Island (play), 1973, by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona
• The Island (poem), 1944, an epic poem by Francis Brett Young

Periodicals

• The Island (Sri Lanka), a newspaper in Sri Lanka
• Die Insel, three German magazines

Music

• Island (band), which represented Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981

Albums

• The Island (album), by Johnny Mathis, 2017

Songs

• "An Island" (Chevelle song), 2014
• "An Island", by Owen from The King of Whys, 2016
• "The Island" (Pendulum song), 2010
• "The Island" (Paul Brady song), 1985
• "The Island", by Ivan Lins and Vítor Martins

Transport

• "The island", the superstructure of an aircraft carrier

Visual media

Film

• The Island, the U.S. title of the 1960 Japanese film The Naked Island
• The Island (1934 film), a German film directed by Hans Steinhoff
• The Island (1979 film), an Argentine film directed by Alejandro Doria
• The Island (1980 film), a film directed by Michael Ritchie with Michael Caine based on Peter Benchley's novel of 1979
• The Island (2005 film), a science fiction film directed by Michael Bay
• The Island (2006 film) (Russian: Остров, or Ostrov), a 2006 film directed by Pavel Lungin
• The Island (2007 film), an Egyptian film directed by Sherif Arafa
• The Island (2011 film), a Bulgarian film directed by Kamen Kalev with Laetitia Casta
• The Island (2018 Chinese film), a Chinese comedy film directed by Huang Bo
• The Island (2018 Nigerian film), a 2018 Nigerian action film directed by Toka McBaror

Television

• Al Jazeera, an Arabic TV station whose name translates in English as "The Island"
• The Island (Lost), the island of the show Lost, a character unto itself
• To Nisi, a Greek TV series, whose name translates in English as "The Island"
• The Island (American TV series), an American survival TV show with Bear Grylls, based on:
• The Island with Bear Grylls, a British survival TV show
• Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Island, the 16th season of the Real World/Road Rules Challenge on MTV
• Ninjago: The Island , a miniseries of the Ninjago computer-animated television series

Video games

• The Island (video game), a 1984 ZX Spectrum video game

Other uses

• Island (disambiguation)
• Ecological island, a micro-habitat within a larger differing ecosystem
• Extraction island, in linguistics, phrases out of which extraction is impossible
• Island ECN, a network for stock trading, now part of Inet
• Islands (restaurant), a casual dining restaurant chain in the United States
• The Island, a Chicago radio program on WLRA
• Island Company, clothing brand
• Island-class patrol boat, class of the United States Coast Guard Cutters