30 Largest Islands

Severny Island

30th largest island in the world. has an inner ice cap with numerous glaciers, most of which have their terminus in the eastern or western shore of the island. known for its glaciers.

Sumatra

A large island in western Indonesia that is part of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island that is located entirely in Indonesia (after Borneo, which is shared between Indonesia and other countries) and the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2

The largest Island of Antartica. The surface is predominantly ice-covered. These mountains, peaks, hills, and uplands are surrounded by a permanent ice sheet, which consists of glaciers that flow off of the island

Alexander Island

Newfoundland

Canada's fourth-largest island. Is off the east coast of the North American mainland.

Cuba (main island)

Cuba is the largest country by land area in the Caribbean. Its main island is the seventeenth-largest island in the world by land area. The island rises between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean. Terrain is mostly flat to rolling plains, with rugged hills and mountains in the southeast

South Island

The larger and more southern of the two islands composing New Zealand.It has a 32 percent larger landmass than the North Island so is sometimes referred to as the "mainland" of New Zealand

North Island

The smaller and more northern of the two islands composing New Zealand. The island has an extensive flora and bird population

Sakhalin

Is a large Russian island in the North Pacific Ocean. Nearly two-thirds of Sakhalin is mountainous. has a cold and humid climate

Greenland

The world's largest island lying northeast of the coast of North America and mostly within the Arctic Circle. It is almost completely covered in ice

Borneo

Third largest island and an island that includes Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia. Home to one of the oldest rainforests in the world

Banks Island

This is one of the larger islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, located in between Victoria Island and the Beaufort Sea and north of Northwest Territories, which it is part of. It contains the majority of the world's population of muskoxen, and is separated from Prince Patrick and Melville Islands by the M'Clure Strait. The first confirmed polar-grizzly bear hybrid was found in the wild on this island that is separated from the mainland by the Amundsen Gulf.

Victoria Island

This is the second largest island in Canada and the eighth largest in the world, located just north of Nunavut. Banks Island is to its west across the Prince of Wales Strait, and Melville Island is to the north across the Parry Channel. This island is shared by both Nunavut and Northwest Territories, and is home to only about 2,000 people.

Ellesmere Island

This is the third largest island in Canada and the tenth largest in the world, located at the northern tip of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. It is the largest and northernmost of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, and it lies just across the Nares Strait from Greenland. This island is covered by the Arctic Cordillera, making it the most mountainous in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, and its Cape Columbia is the northernmost point of land in Canada.

Hokkaido

Japan's northernmost and second largest island. It serves as habitat and transportation corridors for animals and hikers.

Luzon

Northern island of Philippines; conquered by Spain during the 1560s; site of major Catholic missionary effort. Is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines.

Madagascar

a large island in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast of southern Africa, east of Mozambique. It is the fourth largest island in the world. The highest point is Maromokotro, in the Tsaratanana Massif region in the north of the island, at 2,876 metres (9,436 ft).

Java

almost entirely of volcanic origin; it contains thirty-eight mountains. home to 56.7 percent of the Indonesian population and is the world's most populous island.

Sri Lanka

an island nation in the Indian Ocean. climate includes tropical monsoons: the northeast monsoon (December to March), and the southwest monsoon (June to October). Its terrain is mostly low, flat to rolling plain, with mountains in the south-central interior. The highest point is Pidurutalagala at 2,524.13 m. Natural resources include limestone, graphite, mineral sands, gems, phosphates, clay, hydropower.

Ireland

e second-largest island of the British Isles. The island's geography comprises relatively low-lying mountains surrounding a central plain, with several navigable rivers extending inland. Its lush vegetation is a product of its mild but changeable climate which is free of extremes in temperature. It was covered by thick woodlands until the Middle Ages.

Devon Island

is an island in Canada and the largest uninhabited island on Earth. because of its relatively high elevation and its extreme northern latitude, it supports only a meagre population of muskox and small birds and mammals

Tasmania

located directly in the pathway of the notorious "Roaring Forties" wind that encircles the globe. The island south of Australia and the most mountainous state

Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego

near the southern tip of South America from which it is separated by the Strait of Magellan. Its highest point is Monte Darwin.

Mindanao

still commonly known as Southern Philippines, is the second largest island in the Philippines. Mindanao and the smaller islands surrounding it make up the island group of the same name. Eight of the top 10 agri-commodities exported from the Philippines come from the island.

Honshu

the largest and most populous island of Japan, the island separates the Sea of Japan, which lies to its north and west, from the North Pacific Ocean to its south and east. It is the seventh-largest island in the world, and the second-most populous after the Indonesian island of Java. The island is linked to the other three major Japanese islands by a number of bridges and tunnels. Its climate is humid and mild.

Baffin Island

the largest island in the Canadian archipelago and the fifth largest island in the world. Its area is 507,451 km2 (195,928 sq mi) and its population is about 11,000 (2007 estimate). It is located 65.4215 N and 70.9654 W. Named after English explorer William Baffin

Great Britain

the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island, and the ninth-largest island in the world. The island is dominated by a maritime climate with quite narrow temperature differences between seasons.

Hispaniola

the second-largest island in the Caribbean. The island has five major mountain ranges. divided between two separate, sovereign nations: the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic and Haiti

Sulawesi

the third-largest island in Indonesia. The central part of the island is ruggedly mountainous, such that the island's peninsulas have traditionally been remote from each other, with better connections by sea than by road.

Iceland (main land)

the world's 18th largest in area and possessing almost all of the country's area and population. It is the westernmost European country with more land covered by glaciers than in all of continental Europe.

New Guinea

world's second largest island. Off the continent of Australia. The largest wholly or partly within the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania.