Islet

Not to be confused with eyelet.

For human anatomy, see I'lets of Langerhans

Mōkōlea Rock in Kailua Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i, 2.2 km off North Beach, Marine Corps Base Hawaii

An i'let is a small i'land.

Types

As suggested by its origin as islette, an Old French diminutive of "isle", use of the term implies small size, but little attention is given to drawing an upper limit on its applicability.

Rock:
A "rock", in the sense of a type of i'let, is a landform composed of rock, lying offshore, uninhabited, and having at most minimal vegetation.

Sandbar:
An exposed sandbar is another type of i'let.

Sea stack:
A thin, vertical landform jutting out of a body of water.

Subsidiary i'lets:
A more technical application is to small land features, isolated by water, lying off the shore of a larger i'land. Likewise, any emergent land in an atoll is also called an i'let.

Towhead:
A small i'let within the current of a river.

Synonymous terms

* Holm or Holmen is a common suffix too in Nordic and northern European countries ("holme" means "i'let" in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish).

• In the Caribbean and West Atlantic, i'lets are often called cays or keys. Rum Cay in the Bahamas and the Florida Keys off Florida are examples of i'lets.
• In the Channel I'lands, they are often identified by the suffix -hou from the Norse -holm.
• In Scotland and Ireland, they are often called inches, from the Gaelic innis, which originally meant i'land, but has been supplanted to refer to smaller i'lands. In Ireland they are often termed skerries.

List of i'lets

• Águila I'let, the southernmost point of The Americas
• Anton Rock, in Buck Lake, Ontario
• Aplin I'let (Queensland)
• Bay I'let or See Chau, Hong Kong
• Boundary I'let, Australia
• Briggs I'let, southeastern Australia
• Bushy I'let (Queensland)
• Chão, in the Madeira I'lands, Portugal
• Cholmondeley I'let (Queensland)
• Cone I'let, southeastern Australia
• Dokdo, between Korea and Japan
• Douglas I'let (Queensland)
• Dugay I'let, southeastern Australia
• Edwards I'let, southeastern Australia
• Filfla, southern Malta
• Gáshólmur, Faroe Islands
• Granite I'land (Australia), Victor Harbor, South Australia.
• Galatasaray I'let, Istanbul, Turkey
• Halfway I'let (Queensland)
• Imia/Kardak, between Greece and Turkey
• I'lets of Caroline I'land, in Kiribati
• I'lets of Mauritius
• Jardine I'let (Queensland)
• Keelung I'let, off the northern shore of Taiwan
• Magra I'let (Queensland)
• Martin I'let (New South Wales)
• Mid Woody I'let, southeastern Australia
• Milman I'let (Queensland)
• Monchique I'let, Europe's westernmost point, in the Azores, Portugal
• Montecristo, off the shore of Italy
• Penguin I'let (Tasmania)
• Rockall
• Saunders I'let (Queensland)
• Seacrow I'let, southeastern Australia
• Silver I'let, Ontario
• Sinclair I'let (Queensland)
• Skull I'let, in British Columbia, Canada
• Star Keys/Motuhope, New Zealand
• Sue I'let (Queensland)
• Sunday I'let (Queensland)
• Thomson I'let (Queensland)
• Tindhólmur, Faroe I'lands
• Wallace I'let (Queensland)
• Westward I'let, in the Pitcairn I'lands

• Modia I'lets, located in the Ionian Sea of the Western coast of Greece.