This is a list of islands in the world grouped by oceans and by continents. For rank-order lists, see the other lists below.
List of islands by continent
List of islands by ocean, sea or lake(s)
Islands by Country
Asia
Europe
North America
South America
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Chile
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- French Guiana
- Guyana
- Paraguay
- Suriname
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
Oceania
List of ancient islands
- The majority of the Alphonse Atoll, Seychelles
- The ancient volcanic island of Cargados Carajos, which sank to a coral atoll
- Emperor Seamounts (?) [Pacific, extension of Hawaiian Islands)
- Ile Du Sud- African Banks (in the Amirantes)
- Majority of the Great Chagos Bank
- Intermontane Islands, Pacific
- Insular Islands, Pacific
- Nazareth
- Owen Bank, Chagos Arch., submerged atoll
- Owen Bank, Seychelles (not to be confused with Chagos atoll)
- Saya de Malha, Formerly largest Mascarene Island
- Majority of granitic Seychelles, which were remnants of India splitting from Africa.
- Soudan, Mascarenes
- Thorpe Bank, Seychelles
- Topaze Bank, Seychelles
- Unnamed bank just south of Madagascar was once a large tropical island
- Island of the Batavians in the Netherlands. It used to be an island in the Rhine delta between the rivers Waal and Rhine. The island disappeared due to silting up of the Rhine, floods and the building of dikes, canals and dams for irrigation. Cities in the area that used to be the island are (most of) Rotterdam, The Hague, (half of) Leiden, Gouda, Nieuwegein, Tiel, (part of) Arnhem, (part of) Nijmegen.
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