island

Noun
  1. A land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water (synset 109339360)
    is a type of: dry land, earth, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma - the solid part of the earth's surface
    subtypes:
    specific instances:
    • anguilla - a British colony in the West Indies
    • aran islands - three small islands belonging to Ireland at the entrance to Galway Bay
    • antigua - the largest of the islands comprising Antigua and Barbuda
    • barbuda - an island in Antigua and Barbuda
    • redonda - an island in Antigua and Barbuda
    • bermuda, bermudas - a group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast; British colony; a popular resort
    • bouvet island - an island belonging to Norway in the South Atlantic near the Antarctic Circle
    • montserrat - a volcanic island in the Caribbean; in the West Indies
    • sao tiago island - largest of the Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic Ocean
    • falkland islands - a group of over 100 islands in the southern Atlantic off the coast of Argentina; a British Crown Colony
    • ceylon - an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India
    • chiloe - the largest Chilean island and the only one to be settled; located off south-central Chile
    • formosa, taiwan - an island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea
    • china, nationalist china, republic of china, taiwan - 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
    • guadalupe island - a Mexican island in the Pacific to the west of Baja California
    • netherlands antilles - a group of islands in the Lesser Antilles just to the north of Venezuela that are administered by The Netherlands
    • aruba - a popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles
    • bonaire - a popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles
    • curacao - a popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles
    • saba - a island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano
    • saint eustatius, st. eustatius - an island in the Netherlands Antilles
    • saint maarten, saint martin, st. maarten, st. martin - an island in the western Leeward Islands; administered jointly by France and the Netherlands
    • cuba - the largest island in the West Indies
    • guadeloupe - an island territory of France located in the eastern West Indies; tourism is the major industry
    • haiti, hayti, hispaniola - an island in the West Indies
    • porto rico, puerto rico - the smallest and easternmost of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean
    • culebra - a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico with miles of beautiful beaches
    • vieques - a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico used for target practice by the United States Navy
    • jamaica - an island in the West Indies to the south of Cuba and to the west of Haiti
    • 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
    • barbados - easternmost of the West Indies about 300 miles to the north of Venezuela
    • trinidad - an island in West Indies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela
    • tobago - island in West Indies
    • cyprus - an island in the eastern Mediterranean
    • seeland, sjaelland, zealand - the largest island of Denmark and the site of Copenhagen
    • dominica - a volcanic island in the Windward Islands that was once a stronghold of the Carib Indians
    • bioko - an island in the Gulf of Guinea that is part of Equatorial Guinea
    • spitsbergen, spitzbergen - islands in the Svalbard archipelago to the east of northern Greenland; belonging to Norway
    • galapagos, galapagos islands - a group of islands in the Pacific off South America; owned by Ecuador; known for unusual animal life
    • fiji islands, fijis - 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
    • viti levu - a volcanic island in the Fijis
    • vanua levu - a volcanic island in the Fijis
    • crete, kriti - the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 BC
    • ithaca, ithaki - a Greek island to the west of Greece; in Homeric legend Odysseus was its king
    • aegadean islands, aegadean isles, aegates, egadi islands, isole egadi - a group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean
    • lemnos, limnos - a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea; famous for a reddish-brown clay that has medicinal properties
    • capri - an island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy; a tourist attraction noted for beautiful scenery
    • ischia - a volcanic island (part of Campania) in the Tyrrhenian Sea at the north end of the Bay of Naples
    • sardegna, sardinia - an island in the Mediterranean to the west of Italy
    • sicilia, sicily - the largest island in the Mediterranean
    • greenland, gronland, kalaallit nunaat - the largest island in the world; lies between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean; a self-governing province of Denmark
    • baffin island - the 5th largest island and the largest island of Arctic Canada; lies between Greenland and Hudson Bay
    • vancouver island - an island off southwestern Canada (off the southwestern coast of British Columbia); the largest island off the west coast of North America
    • newfoundland - an island in the north Atlantic
    • cape breton island - an island that forms the northeastern part of Nova Scotia
    • tasmania - an island off the southeastern coast of Australia
    • norfolk island - an island territory of Australia in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Australia; formerly a British penal colony
    • 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
    • gu, 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
    • wake, wake island - an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii
    • nauru, nauru island, 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
    • borneo, 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
    • bougainville - the largest of the Solomon Islands; a province of Papua New Guinea
    • guadalcanal - a mountainous island; the largest of the Solomon Islands in the independent state that is a member of the British Commonwealth
    • new britain - the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea
    • new caledonia - an island to the to the east of Australia and to the north of New Zealand
    • 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
    • new ireland - an island in the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea
    • bahrain, bahrain island, bahrein, bahrein island - an island in the Persian Gulf
    • british isles - Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic
    • gb, great britain - an island comprising England and Scotland and Wales
    • emerald isle, hibernia, ireland - an island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
    • channel island - any of a group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France
    • isle of man, man - one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea
    • isle of skye - an island of northwestern Scotland noted for its rugged mountain scenery
    • islay - an island of western Scotland at the southern end of the Inner Hebrides
    • mull - an island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides
    • staffa - an island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides to the west of Mull; site of Fingal's Cave
    • anglesea, anglesea island, anglesey, anglesey island, mona - an island to the northwest of Wales
    • java - an island in Indonesia to the south of Borneo; one of the world's most densely populated regions
    • bali - an island in Indonesia to the east of Java; striking volcanic scenery; culture is known for elaborate dances and rituals and for handicrafts
    • timor - an island in Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago; the largest and most eastern of the Lesser Sunda Islands
    • sumatra - a mountainous island in western Indonesia
    • celebes, sulawesi - a mountainous island in eastern Indonesia
    • moluccas, 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
    • ezo, hokkaido, yezo - the second largest of the four main islands of Japan; to the north of Honshu
    • hondo, 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
    • kyushu - the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan; contains coal fields
    • 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
    • okinawa - the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands
    • iwo jima - the largest of the Volcano Islands of Japan
    • ile-st-louis - island in Paris on the Seine
    • corse, corsica - an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France
    • martinique - an island in the eastern Caribbean in the Windward Islands; administered as an overseas region of France
    • faeroe islands, faeroes, faroe islands, faroes - a group of 21 volcanic islands in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetland Islands
    • iceland - a volcanic island in the North Atlantic near the Arctic Circle
    • madagascar - an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa; the 4th largest island in the world
    • maldive islands, maldives - a group of about 1,200 small coral islands (about 220 inhabited) in the Indian ocean
    • malta - a strategically located island to the south of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea
    • mauritius - an island in the southwestern Indian Ocean
    • new zealand, new zealand islands - North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific
    • north island - the smaller but more populous of two main islands of New Zealand; separated from South Island by Cook Strait
    • south island - the larger but less populous of two main islands of New Zealand; separated from North Island by Cook Strait
    • cebu - one of the Visayan islands of the central Philippines; important for its fine harbor
    • luzon - the main island of the Philippines
    • mindanao - the second largest island of the Philippines at the southern end of the archipelago; mountainous and volcanic
    • mindoro - a mountainous island in the central Philippines
    • bisayas, visayan islands - group of islands in the central Philippines
    • acores, azores - islands in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to Portugal
    • madeira - an island in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa; the largest of the Madeira Islands
    • saint christopher, saint kitts, st. christopher, st. kitts - the largest of the islands comprising Saint Christopher-Nevis
    • nevis - one of the islands of Saint Christopher-Nevis
    • sombrero - one of the islands of Saint Christopher-Nevis
    • saint lucia, st. lucia - a volcanic island in the Windward Isles to the south of Martinique
    • saint vincent, st. vincent - an island in the center of the Windward Islands; the largest of the islands comprising Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
    • tahiti - an island in the south Pacific; the most important island in French Polynesia; made famous by Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin
    • samoa, 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
    • principe - an island in the Gulf of Guinea that is part of Sao Tome and Principe
    • seychelles, seychelles islands - a group of about 90 islands in the western Indian Ocean to the north of Madagascar
    • singapore, singapore island - an island to the south of the Malay Peninsula
    • nova zembla, novaya zemlya - two islands in the Arctic Ocean belonging to Russia; site of a test center for nuclear warheads
    • majorca - the largest of the Balearic Islands
    • canaries, canary islands - a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish provinces
    • tenerife - a Spanish island in the Atlantic off the northwestern coast of Africa; the largest of the Canary Islands
    • zanzibar - an island in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa; part of the United Republic of Tanzania
    • admiralty island - an Alaskan island in the Alexander Archipelago near Juneau
    • catalina island, santa catalina - an island resort in the Pacific off the southwestern coast of California
    • hawaii, hawaii island - the largest and southernmost of the Hawaii islands; has several volcanic peaks
    • kahoolawe, kahoolawe island - an island of south-central Hawaii
    • kauai, kauai island - an island of Hawaii to the northwest of Oahu
    • lanai, lanai island - an island of central Hawaii; a pineapple-growing area
    • maui, maui island - the second largest of the Hawaiian Islands
    • molokai, molokai island - an island of central Hawaii (between Maui and Oahu)
    • nihau, nihau island - the most northwestern Hawaiian island (beyond Kauai)
    • oahu, oahu island - an island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai); the chief island of the state
    • martha's vineyard - an island summer resort off of Cape Cod
    • nantucket - an island resort off Cape Cod; formerly a center of the whaling industry
    • bedloe's island, liberty island - an island in New York Bay to the southwest of Manhattan where the Statue of Liberty stands
    • manhattan island - an island at the north end of New York Bay where the borough of Manhattan is located
    • ellis island - an island in New York Bay that was formerly the principal immigration station for the United States
    • long island - an island in southeastern New York; Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end
    • galveston island - an island at the entrance of Galveston Bay
    • krakatao, krakatau, krakatoa - a small volcanic island in Indonesia between Java and Sumatra; its violent eruption in 1883 was the greatest in recorded history
    • new siberian islands - a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia and to the east of the Laptev Sea
    • isle, islet - a small island
    • kodiak, 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
    belongs to: archipelago - a group of many islands in a large body of water
  2. A zone or area resembling an island (synset 103592487)
    is a type of: zone - a locally circumscribed place characterized by some distinctive features
    subtypes:

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