Islands
- Island of Hawaiʻi, Hawaiʻi 19°49′15″N 155°28′5″W / 19.82083°N 155.46806°W / 19.82083; -155.46806 (Island of Hawaii) — most extensive island in all U.S. territory at 4,028 square miles (10,433 km2) and tallest island in all U.S. territory and the entire Pacific Ocean at 13,796 feet (4205 m)
- Kodiak Island, Alaska 57°28′N 153°26′W / 57.46667°N 153.43333°W / 57.46667; -153.43333 (Kodiak Island) — most extensive Gulf of Alaska island at 3,595.09 square miles (9,311.24 km2)
- Island of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico 18°15′N 66°30′W / 18.25°N 66.5°W / 18.25; -66.5 (Island of Puerto Rico) — most extensive island of U.S. Caribbean territory at 3,515.1 square miles (9104.0 km2)
- Prince of Wales Island, Alaska 55°37′55″N 132°54′27″W / 55.63194°N 132.9075°W / 55.63194; -132.9075 (Prince of Wales Island) — most extensive island of the Alexander Archipelago at 2,577 square miles (6,674 km2)
- Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska 63°24′54″N 170°23′58″W / 63.415°N 170.39944°W / 63.415; -170.39944 (Saint Lawrence Island) — most extensive Bering Sea island at 1,791.56 square miles (4,640.12 km2)
- Unimak Island, Alaska 54°46′6″N 164°11′12″W / 54.76833°N 164.18667°W / 54.76833; -164.18667 (Unimak Island) — most extensive Aleutian island at 1,571.41 square miles (4,069.9 km2)
- Long Island, New York 26°50′40″N 97°22′04″W / 26.84444°N 97.36778°W / 26.84444; -97.36778 (Long Island) — most extensive island of the U.S. Atlantic coast at 1,401 square miles (3,629 km2)
- Padre Island, Texas 26°50′40″N 97°22′04″W / 26.84444°N 97.36778°W / 26.84444; -97.36778 (Padre Island) — most extensive Gulf of Mexico island at 209 square miles (541 km2) and longest barrier island on Earth at 113 miles (182 km)
- Isle Royale in Lake Superior, Michigan 48°0′N 88°55′W / 48°N 88.91667°W / 48; -88.91667 (Isle Royale) — most extensive island in a lake in all U.S. territory at 206.73 square miles (535.43 km2)
- Whidbey Island, Washington 48°8′11″N 122°34′57″W / 48.13639°N 122.5825°W / 48.13639; -122.5825 (Whidbey Island) — most extensive island of Puget Sound at 168.67 square miles (436.85 km2)
- Santa Cruz Island, California 34°0′13″N 119°43′35″W / 34.00361°N 119.72639°W / 34.00361; -119.72639 (Santa Cruz Island) — most extensive of the Channel Islands of California at 97 square miles (250 km2)
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“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)
“Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple of Irishmen have a private sparring- match on one of them, as it is a government monopoly; all the great seaports are in a boxing attitude, and you must sail prudently between two tiers of stony knuckles before you come to feel the warmth of their breasts.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)