Islet

Islets are small islands with little or no vegetation and are mostly uninhabited. Examples are Ortac in the English Channel[1] and the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.[2]

List of islets

The Earth has many islets. The following is a list of example islets from around the world.

  • Águila Islet, the southernmost point of The Americas
  • Aplin Islet (Queensland)
  • Apia
  • Auster Lake Islet
  • Ball's Pyramid, South Pacific
  • Bay Islet or See Chau, Hong Kong
  • Benggala Island, Indonesia
  • Bikirrin, in Majuro, Marshall Islands
  • Black Rock, South Atlantic
  • Boundary Islet, Australia
  • Bogskär, Finland
  • Briggs Islet, southeastern Australia
  • Bushy Islet (Queensland)
  • Capitancillo, in Bogo City, Cebu, Philippines
  • Chão, in the Madeira Islands, Portugal
  • Cholmondeley Islet (Queensland)
  • Clubes Island, Brasília, Brazil
  • Columbretes Islands, Spain
  • Cone Islet, southeastern Australia
  • Douglas Islet (Queensland)
  • Dry Tortugas, Florida Keys, USA
  • Dugay Islet, southeastern Australia
  • Edwards Islet, southeastern Australia
  • Enekalamur in Majuro, Marshall Islands
  • Enemanit in Majuro, Marshall Islands
  • Fairway Rock, Bering Strait
  • Fastnet Rock, Ireland
  • Filfla, southern Malta
  • Formigas, in the Azores islands
  • Gáshólmur, Faroe Islands
  • Granite Island, Victor Harbor, South Australia
  • Galatasaray Islet, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Halfway Islet, Queensland, Australia
  • Herald Island, Arctic Ocean
  • Île Vierge, France
  • Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom
  • Kid Island, Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri United States
  • Islets of Caroline Island, in Kiribati
  • Islets of Mauritius
  • Isla de Alborán, Spain, Western Mediterranean
  • Jardine Islet (Queensland)
  • Jethou, Bailiwick of Guernsey
  • Keelung Islet, off the northern shore of Taiwan
  • Klein Bonaire, Netherlands
  • Rockall, North Atlantic
  • Saint Peter and Saint Paul rocks, equatorial Atlantic
  • Salas y Gómez, Northeast from Easter Island
  • San Juan Islet, Puerto Rico
  • Saunders Islet (Queensland)
  • Seacrow Islet, southeastern Australia
  • Shag Rocks, South Atlantic
  • Silver Islet, Ontario
  • Sinclair Islet (Queensland)
  • Skull Islet, in British Columbia, Canada

References

  1. ↑ Sea-Seek, Casquettes; Channel Islands Control Zone, Destination Guernsey Archived 2012-02-04 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2011-12-23.
  2. ↑ GlobalSecurity.org, "Senkaku/Diaoyutai Islands"; retrieved 2011-10-10.


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