Puffin Island is the name of several islands in a number of countries. In most cases the island has been so named because it has - or used to have - a colony of puffins.
Puffin Islands include:
- Canada
- Puffin Island (Baccalieu Tickle), Newfoundland and Labrador
- Puffin Island (Greenspond), Newfoundland and Labrador
- Iceland
- Puffin Island, Reykjavík
- Ireland
- Puffin Island (County Kerry)
- United Kingdom
- Puffin Island (Anglesey), Wales
- Lundy in the Bristol Channel may also be included, as its name means "Puffin Island" in Norse
- United States
- Puffin Island (Alaska)
- Puffin Island (Maine)
- Puffin Island (Washington)
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—John Ashbery (b. 1927)