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Aruba (Island)
A small flat island in the southern Caribbean, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Below are islands that contain the letter R anywhere in the name. Each of the 31 islands below opens to a full profile.
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List of Islands That Contain R
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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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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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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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Capri
A small limestone island in the Bay of Naples famed for the luminous Blue Grotto sea cave.
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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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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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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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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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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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Lanzarote
The easternmost of the main Canary Islands, shaped by sustained volcanic eruptions in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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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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Mallorca
The largest of Spain's Balearic Islands, with a mountainous northwest and beaches along the eastern coast.
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Marquesas
A volcanic archipelago in French Polynesia, among the most remote island groups on Earth.
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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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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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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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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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Tenerife
The largest and most populous of Spain's Canary Islands, dominated by the dormant Mount Teide volcano.
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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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