Island |
Country or location |
Eponym |
Ackerman Island | United States | Joseph Ackerman |
Agios Efstratios | Greece | Saint Eustratius |
Agios Georgios | Greece | Saint George |
Alejandro Selkirk Island | Chile | Alexander Selkirk |
Alexander Island | Antarctica | Alexander I of Russia |
Allen Island | Australia | John Allen |
Amund Ringnes Island | Canada | Amund Ringnes |
Annenkov Island | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | Mikhail Annenkov |
Axel Heiberg Island | Canada | Named after Norwegian brewer an exploration sponsor |
Baffin Island | Canada | William Baffin |
Ball's Pyramid | Australia | Lieutenant Henry Ball |
Banks Island | Canada | Joseph Banks |
Baranof Island | United States | Alexander Andreyevich Baranov |
Bathurst Island | Australia | Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst |
Bathurst Island | Canada | Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst |
Beauchene Island | Falkland islands | Jacques Gouin de Beauchene |
Belcher Islands | Canada | Edward Belcher |
Bellingshausen Island | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | Fabian von Bellingshausen |
Bering Island | Russia | Vitus Bering |
Berkner Island | Antarctica | Lloyd Berkner |
Bismarck Archipelago | Papua New Guinea | Otto von Bismarck |
Block Island | United States | Adriaen Block |
Bougainville | Papua New Guinea | Louis Antoine de Bougainville |
Bouvet Island | Norway | Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier |
Bowen Island, British Columbia | Canada | James Bowen (Royal Navy officer) |
Bowen Island (Jervis Bay) | Australia | Richard Bowen RN |
Bowyer Island, British Columbia | Canada | Sir George Bowyer, 5th Baronet |
Bristol Island | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol |
Bruny Island | Australia | Bruni d'Entrecasteaux |
Burnaby Island | Canada | Robert Burnaby |
Busta Rhymes Island | United States | Busta Rhymes |
Bylot Island | Canada | Robert Bylot |
Charles Alexander Island | Russia | Charles Alexander |
Charles Island | United States | Charles Deal |
Charlton Island | Canada | Charles I of England |
Cheeseman Island | New Zealand | TF Cheeseman |
Chichagof Island | United States | Vasili Chichagov |
Chirikof Island | United States | Alexei Chirikov |
Choiseul Island | Solomon Islands | Etienne François, duc de Choiseul |
Clark Island | Australia | Lieutenant Ralph Clark |
Clarke Island | Australia | William Clarke |
Clerke Rocks | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | Charles Clerke |
Coats Island | Canada | William Coats |
Cook Island | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | James Cook |
Cooper Island | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | Robert Palliser Cooper |
Cornwallis Island | Canada | William Cornwallis |
Cortes Island, British Columbia | Canada | Hernán Cortés |
Crozier Island | Greenland | Francis Crozier |
Curtis Island | Australia | Roger Curtis |
Davaar Island | Scotland | Saint Barr |
Dawson Island | Chile | See Dawson (surname) |
Delarof Islands | United States | Evstratii Ivanovich Delarov |
D'Entrecasteaux Islands | Papua New Guinea | Bruni D'Entrecasteaux |
Diego Garcia | British Indian Ocean Territory | Diego García de Moguer |
Diego Ramírez Islands | Chile | Diego Ramírez |
Digges Islands | Canada | Dudley Digges |
Dirk Hartog Island | Australia | Dirk Hartog |
D'Oyly Carte Island | England | Richard D'Oyly Carte |
Doumer Island | Antarctica | Paul Doumer |
Drake's Island | England | Francis Drake |
D'Urville Island | New Zealand | Jules Dumont d'Urville |
Edgeøya | Norway | Thomas Edge |
Eilean Chaluim Chille | Scotland | Saint Columba |
Eilean Donan | Scotland | Saint Donan |
Ellef Ringnes Island | Canada | Named after Norwegian brewer an exploration sponsor |
Ellesmere Island | Canada | Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere |
Ellis Island | United States | Samuel Ellis (colonial New Yorker) |
Ernst Thälmann Island | Cuba | Ernst Thälmann |
Fergusson Island | Papua New Guinea | Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet |
Fernandina Island | Ecuador | Ferdinand II of Aragon |
Fernando de Noronha | Brazil | Fernão de Loronha |
Fisher Island | United States | Carl G. Fisher |
Flinders Island | Australia | Matthew Flinders |
Franklin Island | Antarctica | Sir John Franklin |
Franklin Island | Greenland | Sir John Franklin |
Franz Josef Land | Russia | Franz Joseph I |
Fraser Island | Australia | Eliza Fraser |
Gambier Island, British Columbia | Canada | James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier |
Gambier Islands | French Polynesia | James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier |
Graham Bell Island | Russia | Alexander Graham Bell |
Hall Island | Russia | Charles Francis Hall |
Hans Island | Canada or Greenland | Hans Hendrik |
Havelock Island | India | Henry Havelock |
Heard Island and McDonald Islands | Australia | William Heard and John McDonald |
Hearst Island | Antarctica | William Randolph Hearst |
Henry Lawrence Island | India | Henry Montgomery Lawrence |
Hooker Island | Russia | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Hormuz Island | Iran | Hormizd I |
Hornby Island, British Columbia | Canada | Geoffrey Hornby |
Hutt Island, British Columbia | Canada | John Hutt (Royal Navy officer) |
Île Saint-Louis | France | Louis IX of France |
Inchcolm | Scotland | Saint Columba |
Inch Kenneth | Scotland | Saint Kenneth |
Inchmarnock | Scotland | Saint Mearnag |
Inchmurrin | Scotland | Saint Meadhran/Mirren |
Innis Chonan | Scotland | Saint Conan |
Isabela Island | Ecuador | Isabella I of Spain |
Isle Martin | Scotland | Saint Martin |
Jackson Island | Russia | Frederick George Jackson |
James Ross Island | Antarctica | James Clark Ross |
Jan Mayen Island | Norway | Jan Jacobs May van Schellinkhout |
Jens Munk Island | Canada | Jens Munk |
John Lawrence Island | India | John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence |
Jorge Montt Island | Chile | Jorge Montt |
Juan Fernández Islands | Chile | Juan Fernández (explorer) |
Keats Island (British Columbia) | Canada | Richard Goodwin Keats |
Kennedy Island | Solomon Islands | John F. Kennedy |
Keppel Island | Falkland Islands | Admiral Augustus Keppel |
Kerguelen | French Southern and Antarctic Lands | Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec |
Kermadec Islands | New Zealand | Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec |
King George Island | Antarctica | George III of the United Kingdom |
King George Islands | Canada | George III of the United Kingdom |
King George Islands | French Polynesia | George III of the United Kingdom |
King Island | Australia | Philip Gidley King |
King William Island | Canada | William IV of the United Kingdom |
Kupreanof Island | United States | Ivan Antonovich Kupreianov |
Kupriyanov Islands | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | Ivan Kupriyanov |
Lady Julia Percy Island | Australia | Lady Julia Helen Percy |
Little Wellington Island | Chile | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington |
Lockwood Ø | Greenland | James Booth Lockwood |
Lord Howe Island | Australia | Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe |
Mackenzie King Island | Canada | William Lyon Mackenzie King |
MacKlintok Island | Russia | Francis Leopold McClintock |
Manoel Island | Malta | António Manoel de Vilhena |
Mansel Island | Canada | Robert Mansell |
Manuel Rodriguez Island | Chile | Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza |
Margaret Island | Hungary | Saint Margaret of Hungary |
Mauritius | Indian Ocean | Maurice of Nassau |
McNish Island | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | Harry McNish |
Melville Island | Australia | Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville |
Melville Island | Canada | Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville |
Milne Land | Greenland | David Milne |
Montagu Island | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich |
Moresby Island | Canada | Fairfax Moresby |
Moreton Island | Australia | James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton |
Mornington Island | Australia | Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (also Earl of Mornington) |
Moore Island | Canada | Elwood S. Moore |
Nansen Island | Antarctica | Fridtjof Nansen |
Nansen Island | Russia | Fridtjof Nansen |
Neil Island | India | James George Smith Neill |
Nicholson Island | India | R.T. Nicholson |
Normanby Island | Papua New Guinea | George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby |
North Rona | Scotland | Saint Ronan |
North Tweedsmuir Island | Canada | John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir |
Ogasawara Islands | Japan | Ogasawara Sadayori |
Ostrovul Sfintu Gheorghe | Romania | Saint George |
Palmerston Island | Cook Islands | Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston |
Pavlof Islands | United States | Pitka Pavlof |
Peter I Island | Antarctica (claimed by Norway) | Peter I of Russia |
Pickersgill Islands | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | Richard Pickersgill |
Pitt Island | New Zealand | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham |
Pribilof Islands | United States | Gavriil Pribilof |
Prince of Wales Island (Alaska) | United States | |
Prince of Wales Island (Nunavut), | Canada | |
Prince of Wales Island (Queensland) | Australia | |
Prince Charles Island | Canada | Charles, Prince of Wales |
Prince Edward Island | Canada | Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, father of Queen Victoria |
Prince Patrick Island | Canada | Prince Arthur William Patrick, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn |
Prinsesse Dagmar Island | Greenland | Princess Dagmar of Denmark |
Príncipe Island | São Tomé and Príncipe | Prince of Portugal |
Quadra Island, British Columbia | Canada | Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra |
Queen Adelaide Archipelago | Chile | Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen |
Rikers Island | United States | Abraham Rycken (Dutch settler) |
Robinson Island | Chile | Robinson Crusoe (fictional character) |
Robinson Island | Hong Kong | Sir Hercules Robinson, former Governor of Hong Kong |
Roosevelt Island | Antarctica | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Roosevelt Island | United States | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Ross Island | Antarctica | James Clark Ross |
Rothschild Island | Antarctica | Edouard Alphonse de Rothschild |
Rudolf Island | Russia | Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria |
Sabine Island | Greenland | Edward Sabine |
St Catherine's Island | Wales | Catherine of Alexandria |
Saint Helena | Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | Helena of Constantinople |
Saint Kitts | Saint Kitts and Nevis | Saint Christopher |
Saint Lucia | Caribbean Sea | Saint Lucy |
Saint Martin | France Sint Maarten | Martin of Tours |
St Martin's | England | Martin of Tours |
St Mary's | England | Saint Mary |
St Michael's Isle | Isle of Man | Saint Michael |
St Ninian's Isle | Scotland | Saint Ninian |
St Patrick's Isle | Isle of Man | Saint Patrick |
St Paul's Island | Malta | Saint Paul of Tarsus |
Saint Pierre Island | France | Saint Peter |
St Serf's Inch | Scotland | Saint Serf |
Saint Tudwal's Islands | Wales | Tudwal |
Saint Vincent | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Vincent of Saragossa |
Salisbury Island | Russia | Rollin D. Salisbury |
San Andrés Island | Colombia | Saint Andrew |
San Clemente Island | United States | Saint Clement |
San Cristóbal Island | Ecuador | Saint Christopher |
San Domino | Italy | Saint Domnius |
San Niccolò | Italy | Saint Nicholas |
San Nicolas Island | United States | Saint Nicholas |
San Pietro Island | Italy | Saint Peter |
Santa Catalina Island | United States | Catherine of Alexandria |
Santa Isabel Island | Solomon Islands | Saint Elizabeth |
Santa Maria Island | Portugal | Saint Mary |
Sant'Antioco | Italy | Saint Antiochus |
Santiago Island | Cape Verde | Saint James |
Santo Antão Island | Cape Verde | Saint Anthony |
Santorini | Greece | Saint Irene |
São Jorge Island | Portugal | Saint George |
São Miguel Island | Portugal | Saint Michael |
São Nicolau Island | Cape Verde | Saint Nicholas |
São Tomé Island | São Tomé and Príncipe | Saint Thomas |
São Vicente Island | Cape Verde | Vincent of Saragossa |
Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | Charles Saunders (Royal Navy officer) |
Schouten Island | Australia | Joost Schouten |
Seychelles | Indian Ocean | Jean Moreau de Séchelles |
Shumagin Islands | United States | Nikita Shumagin |
Sint Eustatius | Caribbean Netherlands | Saint Eustace |
Sir Hugh Rose Island | India | Hugh Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn |
Sir William Peel Island | India | Sir William Peel |
Solander Islands | New Zealand | Daniel Solander |
Søren Norby's Island | Greenland | Søren Norby |
South Georgia | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | George III of the United Kingdom |
South Tweedsmuir Island | Canada | John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir |
Starbuck Island | Kiribati | Valentine Starbuck |
Stefansson Island | Canada | Vilhjalmur Stefansson |
Stewart Island | New Zealand | William W. Stewart |
Sveti Đorđe | Montenegro | Saint George |
Sveti Nikola | Montenegro | Saint Nicholas |
Sveti Stefan | Montenegro | Saint Stephen |
Sweyn Holm | Scotland | Sweyn Asleifsson |
Tagg's Island | England | Tom Tagg |
Tasmania | Australia | Abel Tasman |
Tanner Island | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | William G. Tanner |
Townshend Island | Australia | Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney |
Traill Island | Greenland | Thomas Stewart Traill |
Traversay Islands | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | Jean-Baptiste Prevost de Sansac, Marquis de Traversay |
Tristan da Cunha | Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | Tristão da Cunha |
U Thant Island | United States | U Thant |
Vancouver Island | Canada | George Vancouver |
Victoria Island | Canada | Queen Victoria |
Weddell Island | Falkland Islands | James Weddell |
Wellesley Islands | Australia | Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley |
Wellington Island | Chile | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington |
Wrangel Island | Russia | Ferdinand von Wrangel |
Yos Sudarso Island | Indonesia | Yos Sudarso |
Zavodovski Island | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | Lieutenant Ivan Zavodovski |