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# Island

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An island is any piece of land smaller than a continent and larger than a rock that is completely surrounded by water. Very small islands--say, islands smaller than necessary for any useful purpose, but still larger than rocks--are called islet?s.

Here is a list of the largest islands of the world:

1. Greenland
2. [New Guinea]?
3. Borneo?
4. Madagascar
5. [Baffin Island]?
6. Sumatra?
7. Honshu?
8. [Victoria Island]?
9. Great Britain
10. [Ellesmere Island]?
11. Celebes?
12. [South Island]? (New Zealand)
13. Java
14. [North Island]? (New Zealand)
15. Newfoundland
16. Cuba
17. Luzon?
18. Iceland
19. Mindanao?
20. Ireland
21. Hokkaido?
22. Sakhalin?
23. Hispaniola?
24. [Banks Island]?
25. Sri Lanka (Ceylon?)

Other notable islands and groups of islands (in alphabetical order):

- Alcatraz?
- Aleutian Islands (Alaska)
- Azores?
- Bahamas
- Bali?
- Canary Islands
- Capri?
- Channel Islands (UK)
- Cook Island
- Cornwall (UK)
- Corsica?
- Cyprus
- [Ellis Island]?
- Enniskillen (Northern Ireland)
- Falkland Islands (UK)
- [Galapagos Islands]?
- Saint Helena
- [Hawaiian Islands]?
- [Hong Kong Island]?
- Jamaica
- [Kodiak Island]?
- [Long Island]?
- Isle of Man (UK)
- Manhattan
- Malden Island
- [Novaya Zemlya]?
- Pitcairn Island
- Puerto Rico
- Rockall
- Sardinia?
- Sicily
- Singapore
- Svalbard
- Tahiti?
- Taiwan
- Tasmania
- Tierra del Fuego (Argentina,Chile)
- Timor?
- [Vancouver Island]?
- Vanuatu

See also atoll?; reef?; [volcanic island]?; archipelago, physical geography.

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