Physical map of the world – islands part 1: Europe and Asia

The island is part of the mainland surrounded by reservoirs. If we look at the globe, then all land can be called a huge island, right? And when we compare the largest island – Greenland, with the smallest continent – Australia, three Greenland could fit in the land of kangaroos.

Apart from similar discussions today, there are maps with the most important islands and island archipelagos. Due to a large amount of material, I divided the topic into two parts: in the first, I will show the islands around Eurasia, and in the other continents.

The maps come from Wikipedia and Google Maps. And as usual, please take a correction for minor inaccuracies in their graphic processing. At the archipelagos, in parentheses, I have included all the main islands. If you still need a higher resolution map, open the image in a separate tab.

I marked the islands or archipelagos with green, the larger islands of the archipelagos with orange, and the yellow groups of islands that are nearby so that the signatures are unambiguous.

Europe

1. Iceland
2. British Isles (also: Isles of Scilly, Anglesey, Man, Arran, Wight, Bute)
   1. Ireland
   2. Hebrides
   3. Shetland Islands
   4. Orkney Islands
   5. United Kingdom
3. Jan Mayen
4. Channel Islands (Guernsey and Jersey)
5. Soroya
6. Faroe Islands
7. Lofoten
8. Åland Islands
9. Hiiumaa
10. Saaremaa
11. Gotland
12. Oland
13. Bornholm
14. Zealand
15. Fiona
16. Lolland
17. Falster
18. North Frisian Islands
19. East Frisian Islands
20. West Frisian Islands
21. Usedom
22. Wolin
23. Rugen
24. Crete
25. Cyprus
26. Sicilia
27. Corsica
28. Sardinia
29. Aeolian Islands
30. Tuscan Islands (Giglio, Capraia, Montecristo)
    1. Elba
31. Malta
32. Ionian Islands (Lefkada, Kithira, Skorpios, Kalamos, Paxos)
    1. Corfu
    2. Ithaca
    3. Kefalonia
    4. Zakynthos
33. Cyclades (Kea, Andros, Tinos, Siros, Paros, Naxos, Amorgos, Santorini)
34. Sporades (Kalimnos, Tilos, Saria, Karpathos, Kasos)
    1. Ikaria
    2. Rhodes
    3. Samos
    4. Cos
35. Chios
36. Lesbos
37. Limnos
38. Thasos
39. Samothrace
40. Imroz
41. Marmara
42. Northern Sporades (Skiros, Skopelos, Alonisos and several smaller ones)
43. Balearic Islands
    1. Mallorca
    2. Minorca
    3. Ibiza
    4. Formentera

Azja

1. Wajgacz * contractually belongs to Europe
2. Kolguyev Island
3. Northern Land (Komsomolec [k], October Revolution Island [rp], Bolshevik [b])
4. New Siberian Islands (Anjou Islands, New Siberia, Kotlielnyj, Lachiv Islands)
5. Wrangel Island
6. Commander Islands
7. Sakhalin
8. Kurile
9. Japanese Islands
   1. Hokkaido
   2. Honshu
   3. Shikoku
   4. Kyushu
10. Riukiu Islands (largest Okinawa, Sakishima Islands, Amami Islands, Tokara Islands)
11. Taiwan
12. Hong Kong
13. Hainan
14. Paracel Islands
15. Malay Archipelago (Small and Great Sunda Islands, Moluki, Philippines)
16. Philippines (Luzon, Mindanao, Palawan, Sulu Archipelago)
17. Great Sunda Islands
    1. Sumatra
    2. Java
    3. Borneo
    4. Sulawesi
18. Small Sunda Islands
    1. Bali
    2. Lombok
    3. Sumbawa
    4. Komodo
    5. Sumba
    6. Flores
    7. Timor
19.  Maluku
20. Ceylon
21. Maldives
22. Laccadive Islands
23. Chagos Islands
24. Andaman Islands
25. Nicobar Islands