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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

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
  - 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
  - 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
The following islands are usually associated with Europe rather than North America, despite lying closer to Greenland that to Scandinavia:

Arctic Ocean

Islands of the Western Arctic Ocean:
- Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- 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:

Inland islands

Lake islands of North America
- Lake Huron
- Lake Superior
- Lake Ontario
  - Thousand Islands
- Lake Nicaragua
  - Ometepe, world's tallest^[1] and 11th largest inland island
  - Isla Zapatera
  - Solentiname Islands
- 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
  - Glover Island, world's 18th largest inland island
- an unnamed island in a lake on an island in a lake on Victoria Island, world's largest island on an island on an island^[1]
River islands of North America
- Saint Lawrence River
  - Île de Montréal, most populous island of Canada

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)

See also

galapagos islands

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Island Superlatives @ WorldIslandInfo.com

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Sovereign states	Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Canada Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago United States
Dependencies and other territories	Anguilla Aruba Bermuda Bonaire British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Curaçao Greenland Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat Puerto Rico Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saba Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten Turks and Caicos Islands United States Virgin Islands

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