Islands
- Island of Greenland 68°55′10″N 29°53′55″W / 68.91944°N 29.89861°W / 68.91944; -29.89861 (Island of Greenland) — most extensive island on Earth at 2,130,800 km2 (822,700 square miles) and tallest island of Western Hemisphere at 3694 m (12,119 feet)
- Island of Cuba 21°30′N 80°0′W / 21.5°N 80°W / 21.5; -80 (Island of Cuba) — most extensive island of the Caribbean at 104,556 km2 (40,369 square miles)
- Hispaniola 19°1′23″N 70°59′53″W / 19.02306°N 70.99806°W / 19.02306; -70.99806 (Hispaniola) — tallest island of the Caribbean at 3175 m (10,417 feet) and second most extensive island of the Caribbean at 76,480 km2 (29,529 square miles)
- Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada 45°46′N 82°12′W / 45.767°N 82.2°W / 45.767; -82.2 (Manitoulin Island) — most extensive lake island on Earth at 2,766 km2 (1,068 square miles)
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Famous quotes containing the word islands:
“we are so many
and many within themselves
travel to far islands but no one
asks for their story....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)
“What are the islands to me
if you are lost
what is Naxos, Tinos, Andros,
and Delos, the clasp
of the white necklace?”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)