Islet Totally Explained

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For human anatomy, see Islets of Langerhans An islet is a small island.

Definition of Types

Rock

A "rock", sometimes a synonym for a type of "islet", is a landform composed of rock, lying offshore, having no or minimal vegetation, and uninhabited (see Mōkōlua Rock at right).

Sandbar

An exposed sandbar is another type of islet. A more technical application is to small land features, isolated by water, lying off the shore of a larger island. And in related fashion, any emergent land on an atoll (a type of island) is also called an islet.

Size

As with many of these terms, the actual size limits of islets are subjective, and vary.

Synonymous Terms

Islets are often called cays or keys in the Caribbean and West Atlantic. Rum Cay in the Bahamas and the Florida Keys off Florida are examples of islets.

In Scotland and Ireland, they're often called inches, from the Gaelic innis, which originally meant island, but has been supplanted to refer to smaller islands. In Ireland they're often termed skerries.

In the Channel Islands, they're often identified by the suffix -hou from the Norse -holmr.

Holm or Holmen is a common suffix too in Nordic and northern European lands ("holme" means "islet" in Norwegian).

List of islets

Abagaitu Islet, China, in the Amur River, ceded by Russia

Águila Islet, the southernmost point of The Americas

Aplin Islet (Queensland)

Bay Islet or See Chau, Hong Kong

Boundary Islet, Australia

Briggs Islet, southeastern Australia

Bushy Islet (Queensland)

Islets of Caroline Island, in Kiribati

Chão, in the Madeira Islands, Portugal

Cholmondeley Islet (Queensland)

Cone Islet, southeastern Australia

Douglas Islet (Queensland)

Dugay Islet, southeastern Australia

Edwards Islet, southeastern Australia

Filfla, southern Malta

Halfway Islet (Queensland)

Imia/Kardak, between Greece and Turkey

Jardine Islet (Queensland)

Keelung Islet, off the northern shore of Taiwan

Magra Islet (Queensland)

Martin Islet (New South Wales)

Islets of Mauritius

Mid Woody Islet, southeastern Australia

Milman Islet (Queensland)

Monchique Islet, Europe's westernmost point, in the Azores, Portugal

Penguin Islet (Tasmania)

Rockall

Saunders Islet (Queensland)

Seacrow Islet, southeastern Australia

Sinclair Islet (Queensland)

Skull Islet, in British Columbia, Canada

Silver Islet, Ontario

Star Keys/Motuhope, New Zealand

Sue Islet (Queensland)

Sunday Islet (Queensland)

Thomson Islet (Queensland)

Wallace Islet (Queensland)

Westward Islet, in the Pitcairn IslandsFurther Information

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