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Deleted patently wrong list entry for "British Isles" UNDER United Kingdom. Moved Rockall out from under any country because its sovereignty is under dispute.
Ryan_Lackey (talk)
m Added Sealand to European islands (no one disputes that it physically exists, as I'm standing there right now)
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**[[Isle of Wight|Wight, Isle of]]
**[[Isle of Wight|Wight, Isle of]]



*[[Sealand]]





Revision as of 02:32, 17 November 2001

Islands of the world by size:

  1. Greenland
  1. New Guinea
  1. Borneo
  1. Madagascar
  1. Baffin Island
  1. Sumatra
  1. Honshu
  1. Victoria Island
  1. Great Britain
  1. Ellesmere Island
  1. Celebes
  1. South Island (New Zealand)
  1. Java
  1. North Island (New Zealand)
  1. Newfoundland
  1. Cuba
  1. Luzon
  1. Iceland
  1. Mindanao
  1. Ireland
  1. Hokkaido
  1. Sakhalin
  1. Hispaniola
  1. Banks Island
  1. Sri Lanka (Ceylon)


Islands of the world by region:


Africa



Antarctica (& sub-Antarctica islands)


Asia





    • there are literally thousands of islands in the Phillipines.






Atlantic



Australia


Caribbean


Europe




(and many, many more)










Indian Ocean


North America











      • (California was believed to be an island from the late 1600's through the mid 1700's and appears as an island on some antique maps of North America from this period.)


Pacific









South America




Phantom Islands - (mythical islands believed at one time, to be real)



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