Definition of island
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a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
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Anguilla
a British colony in the West Indies
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Aran Islands
three small islands belonging to Ireland at the entrance to Galway Bay
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Antigua
the largest of the islands comprising Antigua and Barbuda
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Barbuda
an island in Antigua and Barbuda
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Redonda
an island in Antigua and Barbuda
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Bermudas
a group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast; British colony; a popular resort
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Bouvet Island
an island belonging to Norway in the South Atlantic near the Antarctic Circle
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Montserrat
a volcanic island in the Caribbean; in the West Indies
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Sao Tiago Island
largest of the Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic Ocean
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Falkland Islands
a group of over 100 islands in the southern Atlantic off the coast of Argentina; a British Crown Colony
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Ceylon
an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India
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Chiloe
the largest Chilean island and the only one to be settled; located off south-central Chile
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Formosa
an island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea
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Nationalist China
a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong
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Guadalupe Island
a Mexican island in the Pacific to the west of Baja California
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Netherlands Antilles
a group of islands in the Lesser Antilles just to the north of Venezuela that are administered by The Netherlands
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Aruba
a popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles
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Bonaire
a popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles
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Curacao
a popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles
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Saba
a island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano
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Saint Eustatius
an island in the Netherlands Antilles
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Saint Maarten
an island in the western Leeward Islands; administered jointly by France and the Netherlands
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Cuba
the largest island in the West Indies
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Guadeloupe
an island territory of France located in the eastern West Indies; tourism is the major industry
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Hispaniola
an island in the West Indies
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Puerto Rico
the smallest and easternmost of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean
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Culebra
a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico with miles of beautiful beaches
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Vieques
a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico used for target practice by the United States Navy
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Jamaica
an island in the West Indies to the south of Cuba and to the west of Haiti
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Virgin Islands
a group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493; owned by United States and Britain
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Barbados
easternmost of the West Indies about 300 miles to the north of Venezuela
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Trinidad
an island in West Indies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela
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Tobago
island in West Indies
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Cyprus
an island in the eastern Mediterranean
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Sjaelland
the largest island of Denmark and the site of Copenhagen
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Dominica
a volcanic island in the Windward Islands that was once a stronghold of the Carib Indians
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Bioko
an island in the Gulf of Guinea that is part of Equatorial Guinea
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Spitsbergen
islands in the Svalbard archipelago to the east of northern Greenland; belonging to Norway
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Galapagos Islands
a group of islands in the Pacific off South America; owned by Ecuador; known for unusual animal life
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Fiji Islands
a group of more than 800 islands (100 inhabited) in the southwestern Pacific; larger islands (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu) are of volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs; smaller islands are coral
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Viti Levu
a volcanic island in the Fijis
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Vanua Levu
a volcanic island in the Fijis
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Crete
the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 BC
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Ithaca
a Greek island to the west of Greece; in Homeric legend Odysseus was its king
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Aegadean Islands
a group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean
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Lemnos
a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea; famous for a reddish-brown clay that has medicinal properties
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Capri
an island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy; a tourist attraction noted for beautiful scenery
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Ischia
a volcanic island (part of Campania) in the Tyrrhenian Sea at the north end of the Bay of Naples
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Sardegna
an island in the Mediterranean to the west of Italy
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Sicilia
the largest island in the Mediterranean
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Kalaallit Nunaat
the largest island in the world; lies between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean; a self-governing province of Denmark
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Baffin Island
the 5th largest island and the largest island of Arctic Canada; lies between Greenland and Hudson Bay
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Vancouver Island
an island off southwestern Canada (off the southwestern coast of British Columbia); the largest island off the west coast of North America
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Newfoundland
an island in the north Atlantic
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Cape Breton Island
an island that forms the northeastern part of Nova Scotia
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Tasmania
an island off the southeastern coast of Australia
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Norfolk Island
an island territory of Australia in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Australia; formerly a British penal colony
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Saipan
the largest island in the Northern Marianas and the administrative center of the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in union with the United States
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Guam
the largest and southernmost island in the Marianas which is administered as a territory of the United States; it was ceded by Spain to the United States in 1898
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Wake Island
an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii
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Pleasant Island
a small island in the central Pacific Ocean 2,800 miles to the southwest of Hawaii; in Micronesia to the west of the Gilbert Islands
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Kalimantan
3rd largest island in the world; in the western Pacific to the north of Java; largely covered by dense jungle and rain forest; part of the Malay Archipelago
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Bougainville
the largest of the Solomon Islands; a province of Papua New Guinea
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Guadalcanal
a mountainous island; the largest of the Solomon Islands in the independent state that is a member of the British Commonwealth
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New Britain
the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea
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New Caledonia
an island to the to the east of Australia and to the north of New Zealand
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New Guinea
a Pacific island to the north of Australia; the 2nd largest island in the world; the western part is governed by Indonesia and the eastern part is Papua New Guinea
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New Ireland
an island in the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea
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Bahrain Island
an island in the Persian Gulf
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British Isles
Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic
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Great Britain
an island comprising England and Scotland and Wales
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Emerald Isle
an island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
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Channel Island
any of a group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France
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Isle of Man
one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea
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Isle of Skye
an island of northwestern Scotland noted for its rugged mountain scenery
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Islay
an island of western Scotland at the southern end of the Inner Hebrides
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Mull
an island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides
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Staffa
an island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides to the west of Mull; site of Fingal's Cave
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Anglesea Island
an island to the northwest of Wales
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Java
an island in Indonesia to the south of Borneo; one of the world's most densely populated regions
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Bali
an island in Indonesia to the east of Java; striking volcanic scenery; culture is known for elaborate dances and rituals and for handicrafts
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Timor
an island in Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago; the largest and most eastern of the Lesser Sunda Islands
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Sumatra
a mountainous island in western Indonesia
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Sulawesi
a mountainous island in eastern Indonesia
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Spice Islands
a group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea; settled by the Portuguese but taken by the Dutch who made them the center for a spice monopoly, at which time they were known as Spice Islands
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Hokkaido
the second largest of the four main islands of Japan; to the north of Honshu
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Honshu
the central and largest of the four main islands of Japan; between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean; regarded as the Japanese mainland
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Kyushu
the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan; contains coal fields
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Shikoku
the smallest of the four main islands of Japan; to the south of Honshu and to the east of Kyushu; separated from Honshu by the Inland Sea; forested and mountainous
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Okinawa
the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands
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Iwo Jima
the largest of the Volcano Islands of Japan
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Ile-St-Louis
island in Paris on the Seine
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Corsica
an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France
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Martinique
an island in the eastern Caribbean in the Windward Islands; administered as an overseas region of France
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Faeroe Islands
a group of 21 volcanic islands in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetland Islands
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Iceland
a volcanic island in the North Atlantic near the Arctic Circle
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Madagascar
an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa; the 4th largest island in the world
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Maldive Islands
a group of about 1,200 small coral islands (about 220 inhabited) in the Indian ocean
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Malta
a strategically located island to the south of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea
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Mauritius
an island in the southwestern Indian Ocean
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New Zealand Islands
North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific
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North Island
the smaller but more populous of two main islands of New Zealand; separated from South Island by Cook Strait
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South Island
the larger but less populous of two main islands of New Zealand; separated from North Island by Cook Strait
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Cebu
one of the Visayan islands of the central Philippines; important for its fine harbor
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Luzon
the main island of the Philippines
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Mindanao
the second largest island of the Philippines at the southern end of the archipelago; mountainous and volcanic
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Mindoro
a mountainous island in the central Philippines
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Visayan Islands
group of islands in the central Philippines
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Acores
islands in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to Portugal
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Madeira
an island in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa; the largest of the Madeira Islands
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Saint Christopher
the largest of the islands comprising Saint Christopher-Nevis
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Nevis
one of the islands of Saint Christopher-Nevis
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Sombrero
one of the islands of Saint Christopher-Nevis
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Saint Lucia
a volcanic island in the Windward Isles to the south of Martinique
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Saint Vincent
an island in the center of the Windward Islands; the largest of the islands comprising Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Tahiti
an island in the south Pacific; the most important island in French Polynesia; made famous by Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin
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Samoan Islands
a group of volcanic islands in the South Pacific midway between Hawaii and Australia; its climate and scenery and Polynesian culture make it a popular tourist stop
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Principe
an island in the Gulf of Guinea that is part of Sao Tome and Principe
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Seychelles islands
a group of about 90 islands in the western Indian Ocean to the north of Madagascar
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Singapore Island
an island to the south of the Malay Peninsula
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Novaya Zemlya
two islands in the Arctic Ocean belonging to Russia; site of a test center for nuclear warheads
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Majorca
the largest of the Balearic Islands
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Canary Islands
a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish provinces
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Tenerife
a Spanish island in the Atlantic off the northwestern coast of Africa; the largest of the Canary Islands
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Zanzibar
an island in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa; part of the United Republic of Tanzania
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Admiralty Island
an Alaskan island in the Alexander Archipelago near Juneau
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Catalina Island
an island resort in the Pacific off the southwestern coast of California
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Hawaii Island
the largest and southernmost of the Hawaii islands; has several volcanic peaks
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Kahoolawe Island
an island of south-central Hawaii
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Kauai Island
an island of Hawaii to the northwest of Oahu
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Lanai Island
an island of central Hawaii; a pineapple-growing area
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Maui Island
the second largest of the Hawaiian Islands
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Molokai Island
an island of central Hawaii (between Maui and Oahu)
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Nihau Island
the most northwestern Hawaiian island (beyond Kauai)
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Oahu Island
an island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai); the chief island of the state
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Martha's Vineyard
an island summer resort off of Cape Cod
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Nantucket
an island resort off Cape Cod; formerly a center of the whaling industry
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Bedloe's Island
an island in New York Bay to the southwest of Manhattan where the Statue of Liberty stands
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Manhattan Island
an island at the north end of New York Bay where the borough of Manhattan is located
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Ellis Island
an island in New York Bay that was formerly the principal immigration station for the United States
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Long Island
an island in southeastern New York; Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end
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Galveston Island
an island at the entrance of Galveston Bay
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Krakatao
a small volcanic island in Indonesia between Java and Sumatra; its violent eruption in 1883 was the greatest in recorded history
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New Siberian Islands
a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia and to the east of the Laptev Sea
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islet
a small island
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Kodiak Island
an island off southern Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska; site of the first European settlement in the area which was founded by the Russians in 1784
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Aegina
an island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf
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Chios
an island in the Aegean Sea off the west coast of Turkey; belongs to Greece
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Kikladhes
a group of over 200 islands in the southern Aegean
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Dhodhekanisos
a group of islands in the southeast Aegean Sea
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Mytilene
an island of eastern Greece in the eastern Aegean Sea; in antiquity it was famous for lyric poetry
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Rhodes
a Greek island in the southeast Aegean Sea 10 miles off the Turkish coast; the largest of the Dodecanese; it was colonized before 1000 BC by Dorians from Argos; site of the Colossus of Rhodes
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Hatteras Island
a barrier island running parallel to the North Carolina shore
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Caribbean Island
an island in the Caribbean Sea
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Aegean island
an island in the Aegean Sea
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barrier island
a long narrow sandy island (wider than a reef) running parallel to the shore
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South Sea Islands
any islands in the southern or southwestern of central parts of the Pacific Ocean
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dry land, earth, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma
the solid part of the earth's surface
a zone or area resembling an island
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kitchen island
an unattached counter in a kitchen that permits access from all sides
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safety island, safety isle, safety zone, traffic island
a curbed area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded; provides safe area for pedestrians
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zone
a locally circumscribed place characterized by some distinctive features
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Words that contain island
Aaland islands
Admiralty Island
Admiralty Islands
Aegadean Islands
Aegean island
Aland islands
Aleutian Islands
American Virgin Islands
Anglesea Island
Anglesey Island
Aran Islands
Austral Islands
Baffin Island
Bahama Islands
Bahrain Island
Bahrein Island
Balearic Islands
barrier island
Battle of Wake Island
Bedloe's Island

