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List of islands of North America

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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.

Arctic Ocean

Islands of the western Arctic Ocean:
- Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- Islands of Hudson Bay

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 than to Scandinavia:

North Atlantic Ocean

Islands of the western North Atlantic Ocean:
- Bermuda Islands
  - Bermuda
- Atlantic Coastal Islands
  - Florida Keys
    - Key West
    - Key Largo
  - Merritt Island
  - Sea Islands
    - Hilton Head Island
    - Port Royal Island
    - Johns Island
    - Saint Helena Island
    - Edisto Island
  - Cayman 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
  - Martha's Vineyard
  - Nantucket Island
  - Monomoy Island
  - Boston Harbor Islands
  - 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

Islands of the west North Atlantic Ocean:

North Pacific Ocean

Islands of the eastern North Pacific Ocean:

Hawaii

Hawaii Islands
- Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

Inland islands

Lake islands of North America:
- Atlin Lake,
  - Theresa Island, highest elevation inside a freshwater lake in North America at 2059m
- Lake Huron
- Lake Superior
- Lake Erie
  - Mohawk Island
- Lake Ontario
  - Thousand Islands
- Lake Washington
  - Mercer Island
- Lake Nicaragua
- 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
River islands of North America:

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2009)

See also

References

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

External links

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