Lists of islands

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An aerial view of islands in the Seychelles

This is a list of the lists of islands in the world grouped by country, by continent, by body of water, and by other classifications. For rank-order lists, see the other lists of islands below.

Lists of islands by country[]

Africa[]

  • Ascension Island (United Kingdom)
  • British Indian Ocean Territory (United Kingdom)
  • Saint Helena (United Kingdom)
  • Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)

Antarctica[]

Asia[]

Europe[]

North America[]

Oceania[]

South America[]

  • Argentina
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Ecuador
  • Falkland Islands (United Kingdom)
  • French Guiana (France)
  • Guyana
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (United Kingdom)
  • Suriname
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Uruguay
  • Venezuela

Lists of islands by continent[]

Lists of islands by body of water[]

By ocean:

By other bodies of water:

List of ancient islands[]

  • Afro-Eurasia (the World Island)
  • America (the New World)
  • Antarctica (the Frozen World)
  • Australia (the land Down Under)
  • Emperor Seamounts (?) (Pacific, extension of Hawaiian Islands)
  • Ile Du Sud- African Banks (in the Amirantes)
  • Insular Islands, Pacific
  • Intermontane Islands, Pacific
  • Majority of granitic Seychelles, which were remnants of India splitting from Africa to form Madagascar.
  • Majority of the Great Chagos Bank
  • Nazareth Bank
  • Owen Bank, Chagos Arch., submerged atoll
  • Owen Bank (Seychelles) (not to be confused with Chagos atoll)
  • Saya de Malha, Formerly largest Mascarene Island
  • Soudan, Mascarenes
  • The ancient volcanic island of Cargados Carajos, which sank to a coral atoll
  • The majority of the Alphonse Atoll, Seychelles
  • Thorpe Bank, Seychelles
  • Topaze Bank, Seychelles
  • Walters Shoals, just south of Madagascar, was once a large tropical island.
  • Zealandia (the Antipodes)

Other lists of islands[]

External links[]

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