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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.
Below are islands that contain the letter O anywhere in the name. Each of the 28 islands below opens to a full profile.
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List of Islands That Contain O
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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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Bora Bora
Volcanic island in French Polynesia famed for its turquoise lagoon and the central peaks of Mount Otemanu and Pahia.
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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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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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Dominica (Island)
A mountainous volcanic island of the Lesser Antilles known as the Nature Isle for its rainforests and rivers.
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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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Galápagos
A volcanic archipelago in the eastern Pacific famous for the unique wildlife that shaped Darwin's theory of evolution.
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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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Hispaniola
Second-largest Caribbean island, shared between Haiti in the west and the Dominican Republic in the east.
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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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Lesbos
The third-largest Greek island in the northeastern Aegean Sea, separated from Turkey by a narrow strait.
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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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Mallorca
The largest of Spain's Balearic Islands, with a mountainous northwest and beaches along the eastern coast.
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Menorca
The second-largest of Spain's Balearic Islands, designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1993.
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Molokai
Fifth-largest Hawaiian island, home to the world's tallest sea cliffs and a famously slow-paced rural lifestyle.
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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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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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Oahu
Third-largest Hawaiian island and home to Honolulu, holding the majority of the state's population.
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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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Rhodes
The largest of the Dodecanese islands in the southeastern Aegean, with a medieval old town that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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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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Solomon Islands
A Melanesian double chain of six major islands and over 900 smaller ones east of Papua New Guinea.
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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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Tuamotus
The world's largest chain of coral atolls, spanning roughly 1,500 km of the South Pacific in French Polynesia.
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