Cape Verde Islands - a group of islands in the Atlantic off of the coast of Senegal

Tierra del Fuego - an archipelago off southern South America; separated from the continent by the Strait of Magellan; islands are administered by Chile and by Argentina

Comoro Islands, Iles Comores - three main islands and numerous islets in the Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar

the Indies, West Indies - the string of islands between North and South America; a popular resort area

Antilles - a group of islands in the West Indies

Greater Antilles - a group of islands in the western West Indies

Caribees, Lesser Antilles - a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies

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

Svalbard - a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean

Lofoten - a string of islands off the northwestern coast of Norway in the Norwegian Sea

Aaland islands, Ahvenanmaa, Aland islands - an archipelago of some 6,000 islands in the Gulf of Bothnia under Finnish control

Arctic Archipelago - all the islands that lie north of mainland Canada and the Arctic Circle

Aleutian Islands, Aleutians - an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwestern from Alaska

Oceania, Oceanica - a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)

Australasia - Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands in the South Pacific

Austronesia - islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia)

Melanesia - the islands in the southwestern part of Oceania

Micronesia - the islands in the northwestern part of Oceania

Ladrone Islands, Mariana Islands, Marianas - 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 1521

Caroline Islands - a long archipelago of more than 500 islands in Micronesia east of the Philippines

Marshall Islands - a group of coral islands in eastern Micronesia

Gilbert Islands - a group of islands in Micronesia southwest of Hawaii; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it became part of the Republic of Kiribati in 1979

Ellice Islands, Tuvalu - a group of coral islands in Micronesia southwest of Hawaii

Polynesia - the islands in the eastern part of Oceania

East India, East Indies, Malay Archipelago - a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia

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 east of Java; includes Bali and Timor

Bismarck Archipelago - a group of islands in the southwestern Pacific northeast of New Guinea; part of Papua New Guinea

Admiralty Islands - a group of islands in the Bismarck Archipelago

Isles of Scilly, Scilly Islands - 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

Hebridean Islands, Hebridean Isles, Hebrides, Western Islands, Western Isles - a group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland

Inner Hebrides - islands between the Outer Hebrides and the western coast of Scotland

Outer Hebrides - a 130-mile long archipelago northwest of Scotland

Japan, Japanese Archipelago, Japanese Islands - a string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean

Ryukyu Islands - a chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972)