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Antigua
The larger of the two main islands of Antigua and Barbuda, a Lesser Antilles country in the eastern Caribbean.
Below are islands that contain the letter N anywhere in the name. Each of the 57 islands below opens to a full profile.
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List of Islands That Contain N
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Aruba (Island)
A small flat island in the southern Caribbean, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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Azores Islands
A Portuguese archipelago of nine volcanic islands in the central North Atlantic, near the triple junction of three tectonic plates.
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Bahamas (Island)
An archipelago of about 700 islands and 2,400 cays stretching across the western North Atlantic.
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Barbados (Island)
The easternmost island of the Caribbean, formed from uplifted coral on a tectonic accretionary prism.
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Bermuda (Island)
A British Overseas Territory of about 180 islands in the North Atlantic, sitting on an extinct volcanic seamount.
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Christmas Island
An Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean known for its annual mass migration of red crabs.
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Cook Islands
A self-governing Polynesian archipelago of 15 islands in free association with New Zealand.
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Corsica (Island)
A French Mediterranean island with mountainous interior, north of Sardinia and southeast of mainland France.
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Crete (Island)
The largest and most populous Greek island, anchoring the southern Aegean Sea.
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Cuba (Island)
The largest island in the Caribbean, anchoring the Greater Antilles and the Cuban archipelago.
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Curaçao (Island)
The largest of the ABC Islands in the southern Caribbean and a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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Cyprus (Island)
The third-largest Mediterranean island, divided between the Republic of Cyprus and the breakaway Turkish-administered north.
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Dominica (Island)
A mountainous volcanic island of the Lesser Antilles known as the Nature Isle for its rainforests and rivers.
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Easter Island
Remote volcanic Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific famous for its nearly 1,000 monumental moai statues.
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Faroe Islands
A self-governing archipelago of 18 volcanic islands within the Kingdom of Denmark, midway between Scotland and Iceland.
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Fiji (Island)
An archipelago of more than 330 islands in Melanesia, of which roughly 110 are permanently inhabited.
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Fuerteventura
The second-largest of the Canary Islands and the closest to the African mainland, known for long sandy beaches.
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Gran Canaria
The third-largest of the Canary Islands and a circular volcanic island known for its striking interior landscapes.
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Greenland
The world's largest island, an autonomous territory of Denmark covered overwhelmingly by an ice sheet.
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Grenada (Island)
The main island of the Grenada nation, a Lesser Antilles volcanic island known as the Spice Isle.
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Guadeloupe (Island)
A French overseas region in the Lesser Antilles formed by two main islands shaped like a butterfly.
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Guam (Island)
The southernmost and largest island in the Mariana archipelago, an unincorporated territory of the United States.
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Hawaii (Island)
The largest of the Hawaiian Islands, dominated by two active volcanoes and known as the Big Island.
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Hispaniola
Second-largest Caribbean island, shared between Haiti in the west and the Dominican Republic in the east.
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Iceland (Island)
A Nordic island nation on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, shaped by glaciers and active volcanism in nearly equal measure.
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Jamaica (Island)
Third-largest island of the Greater Antilles, lying south of Cuba and west of Hispaniola.
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Lanai
Smallest publicly accessible Hawaiian island, once the world's largest pineapple plantation and now privately owned.
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Lanzarote
The easternmost of the main Canary Islands, shaped by sustained volcanic eruptions in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Long Island
An island east of New York City, the longest and largest island in the contiguous United States.
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Madeira (Island)
The largest and most populous island of the Portuguese Madeira archipelago, known for steep coasts and laurel forests.
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Malta (Island)
The largest of the three inhabited islands of the Maltese archipelago in the central Mediterranean.
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Manhattan
A narrow island at the mouth of the Hudson River, the most densely populated borough of New York City.
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Martinique (Island)
An overseas region of France in the Lesser Antilles, dominated by the active stratovolcano Mount Pelée.
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Menorca
The second-largest of Spain's Balearic Islands, designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1993.
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Mykonos
A small Cycladic island in the Aegean Sea known worldwide for its whitewashed villages and resort nightlife.
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Nevis
The smaller of the two islands in the federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, formed by a single conical volcano.
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New Caledonia (Island)
A Melanesian archipelago of France with a long main island, Grande Terre, surrounded by the world's second-largest barrier reef.
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Newfoundland
A large island off the east coast of Canada, the bigger and more populous part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Niue
One of the world's largest raised coral atolls, a self-governing island state in free association with New Zealand.
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Pitcairn
A remote South Pacific island, the only inhabited member of the Pitcairn Islands group and a British Overseas Territory.
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Puerto Rico (Island)
An unincorporated United States territory and the smallest of the Greater Antilles, with rugged interior mountains.
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Rapa Nui
The native Polynesian name for Easter Island, used by its indigenous people and increasingly in official contexts.
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Saint Kitts
The larger and more populous of the two main islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the Lesser Antilles.
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Saint Lucia (Island)
A mountainous volcanic island in the eastern Caribbean known for the twin Piton spires on its west coast.
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Saint Vincent
The main island of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, dominated by the active La Soufrière volcano.
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Saipan
Largest island of the Northern Mariana Islands, a United States commonwealth in the western Pacific.
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Samoa (Island)
The Samoan archipelago of volcanic islands in the South Pacific, divided between independent Samoa and American Samoa.
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Santorini
A volcanic caldera in the southern Aegean known for cliffside whitewashed villages overlooking a sunken crater.
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Sardinia (Island)
The second-largest island in the Mediterranean and an autonomous region of Italy, with rugged interior highlands.
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Sicily (Island)
The largest island in the Mediterranean and an autonomous region of Italy, dominated by the active Mount Etna.
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Solomon Islands
A Melanesian double chain of six major islands and over 900 smaller ones east of Papua New Guinea.
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Staten Island
The southernmost and least densely populated borough of New York City, lying southwest of Manhattan.
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Tenerife
The largest and most populous of Spain's Canary Islands, dominated by the dormant Mount Teide volcano.
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Tonga (Island)
A South Pacific archipelago of more than 170 islands forming the constitutional kingdom of Tonga.
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Trinidad (Island)
The larger of the two main islands of Trinidad and Tobago, lying just off the northeast coast of Venezuela.
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Vanuatu (Island)
A Y-shaped Melanesian archipelago of about 80 volcanic islands in the South Pacific.
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