| Siberian husky | breed of sled dog developed in northeastern Siberia, they resemble the larger Alaskan malamutes |
islands of Langerhans
isles of Langerhans
islets of Langerhans | cell clusters in the pancreas that form the endocrine part of that organ, secrete insulin and other hormones |
| Channel Islands National Park | a national park in California featuring sea birds and marine life |
| Virgin Islands National Park | a national park in the Virgin Islands having tropical plants and animals, sandy beaches and coral reefs |
| Aran Islands | three small islands belonging to Ireland at the entrance to Galway Bay |
| Cayman Islands | a British colony in the Caribbean to the northwest of Jamaica, an international banking center |
| Cape Verde Islands | a group of islands in the Atlantic off of the coast of Senegal |
| Falkland Islands | a group of over islands in the southern Atlantic off the coast of Argentina, a British Crown Colony |
Comoro Islands
Iles Comores | three main islands and numerous islets in the Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar |
| Leeward Islands | a group of islands in the eastern West Indies |
Windward Islands
Windward Isles | a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies, the southern part of the Lesser Antilles |
| Virgin Islands | a group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Columbus in , owned by United States and Britain |
| British Virgin Islands | more thannortheastern Virgin Islands ( inhabited), a dependent territory of the United Kingdom |
United States Virgin Islands
American Virgin Islands
VI | more thansoutheastern Virgin Islands, a dependent territory of the United States |
Galapagos Islands
Galapagos | a group of islands in the Pacific off South America, owned by Ecuador, known for unusual animal life |
Fiji Islands
Fijis | a group of more than islands ( inhabited) in the southwestern Pacific, larger islands (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu) are of volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs, smaller islands are coral |
Aland islands
Aaland islands
Ahvenanmaa | an archipelago of some , islands in the Gulf of Bothnia under Finnish control |
Egadi Islands
Aegadean Isles
Aegadean Islands
Isole Egadi
Aegates | a group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean |
Aleutian Islands
Aleutians | an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska |
Mariana Islands
Marianas
Ladrone Islands | a chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia (including Guam and the Northern Marianas) halfway between New Guinea and Japan, discovered by Magellan in |
Northern Marianas
Northern Mariana Islands | a self-governing territory comprising all of the Mariana Islands except Guam |
| Caroline Islands | a long archipelago of more than islands in Micronesia to the east of the Philippines |
| Marshall Islands | a group of coral islands in eastern Micronesia |
Marshall Islands
Republic of the Marshall Islands | a republic (under United States protection) on the Marshall Islands |
| Gilbert Islands | a group of islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii, formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it became part of the Republic of Kiribati in |
| Tuvalu Ellice Islands | a group of coral islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii |
| Gilbert and Ellice Islands | a former British possession in Micronesia |
| Sunda Islands | a chain of islands in the western Malay Archipelago |
| Greater Sunda Islands | a chain of islands including Borneo and Celebes and Java and Sumatra |
Lesser Sunda Islands
Nusa Tenggara | a chain of islands forming a province of Indonesia to the east of Java, includes Bali and Timor |
| Admiralty Islands | a group of islands in the Bismarck Archipelago |
Bahamas
Commonwealth of the Bahamas
Bahama Islands | island country in the Atlantic to the east of Florida and Cuba, a popular winter resort |
Scilly Islands
Isles of Scilly | an archipelago of small islands off the southwestern coast of England near the entrance to the English Channel, formerly a haven for smugglers and pirates |
Hebrides
Hebridean Islands
Hebridean Isles
Western Islands
Western Isles | a group of more than islands off the western coast of Scotland |
Moluccas
Spice Islands | a group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea, settled by the Portuguese but taken by the Dutch who made them the center for a spice monopoly, at which time they were known as Spice Islands |
Japan Japanese Islands
Japanese Archipelago | a string of more than , islands to the east of Asia extending , miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean |
| Ryukyu Islands | a chain of islands in the western Pacific to the to the southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in ) |
| Volcano Islands | a group of Japanese Islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean to the north of the Marianas |
| Frisian Islands | a chain of islands in the North Sea off the coast of northwestern Europe extending from the IJsselmeer to Jutland |
Faroe Islands
Faeroe Islands
Faroes
Faeroes | a group of volcanic islands in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetland Islands |
| Faroe Islands Faeroe Islands Faroes Faeroes | a self-governing colony that is a possession of Denmark in the Faroe Islands |
| Orkney Islands | an archipelago of aboutislands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland |
Shetland
Shetland Islands
Zetland | an archipelago of about islands in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland |
| Maldives Maldive Islands | a group of about , small coral islands (aboutinhabited) in the Indian ocean |
| New Zealand New Zealand Islands | North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific |
Palau Palau Islands
Belau
Pelew | a chain of more than islands about miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean |
| Philippines Philippine Islands | an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some islands |
Visayan Islands
Bisayas | group of islands in the central Philippines |
Madeira Islands
Madeiras | a group of volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean to the west of Morocco, the group forms an autonomous region of Portugal |
| Society Islands | an island group of French Polynesia in the South Pacific to the east of Samoa |