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2nd largest, Pacific Ocean island named for its resemblance to a country on Africa's west coast, part of this island is in Indonesia

3rd largest, in the Malay Archipelago, southwest of the Philippines, the southern part of which is in Indonesia

4th largest, Indian ocean island whose capital is Antananrivo

5th largest, Canadian island in Nunavut west of Greenland

6th largest, Indonesian island in the Indian Ocean northwest of Java and west of Malaysia

7th largest, Japan's largest island

8th largest, Island off the western coast of Europe made up of England, Scotland, and Wales

9th largest, Canadian island in Nunavut in the Arctic Archipelago

10th largest, Canadian island in Nunavut in the Arctic Ocean separated from Greenland by a narrow passage and having Canada's northernmost point

Portuguese volcanic islands in the Atlantic about 900 miles west of the mainland of Portugal

Island country made up of about 700 islands in the Atlantic east of Florida and Cuba

Indonesian island in the Lesser Sundas east of Java

Island country that is the easternmost island in the West Indies

Self-governing British colony made up of about 300 coral islands in the Atlantic southwest of Cape Hatteras

Island group comprising Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Hebrides, the Orkney Islands, the Shetland Islands, and over 5,000 smaller islands and islets

Southern Italian island in the Bay of Naples, famous for it's Blue Grotto

French island in the Mediterranean Sea on which Napoleon Bonaparte was born

Mediterranean island that is the largest of the Greek islands, the one on which the Minoan civilization reached its peak

Largest island in the West Indies and the island nation that is the only communist state in the Americas

Island country in the eastern Mediterranean, south of Turkey and west of Syria—it is the 3rd largest Mediterranean island and it's inhabitants are 4/5 Greek and 1/5 Turkish

Islands in the Atlantic east of the strait if Magellan controlled by Great Britain but claimed by Argentina, leading to a brief war in 1982

Pacific Ocean islands along the equator owned by Ecuador and famous for their unusual assortment of animals

2nd largest island in the Caribbean, divided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Island country in the North Atlantic Ocean near the Arctic Circle

Atlantic Ocean island country separated from Great Britain by a namesake sea and divided into namesake Northern and Republic parts

Indonesian island separated from Borneo by the namesake sea

Island and overseas department of France in the Windward Islands of the West Indies

Group of widely scattered islands of the western Pacific Ocean whose name means "small islands"—it includes the Carolines and Marianas

Collective name for the many islands of the Pacific Ocean, including Micronesia, Polynesia, and sometimes Australia—sometimes called the South Seas

Group of widely scattered islands of the central Pacific Ocean whose name means "many islands"—it includes the Hawaiian islands and Samoa

Volcanic island group in the South Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Sydney, made up of Western and American namesake parts

Italian island that is the second largest in the Mediterranean Sea, located south of Corsica and west of the Italian mainland

Largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, located in southern Italy and separated from the mainland by the Strait of Messina

French Polynesia's largest island, in the Windward Group of the Society Islands

Group of islands between North and South America including the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahamas