Sugarloaf Island

The tidal currents set directly through Sugarloaf Channel, except northwestward of Sugarloaf Island where a branch of the outgoing current runs along the northern shore of the island.

1943, “PORT SWATOW”, in Sailing Directions for the Coast of China, U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 524:

Luyu channel, south of the two islets Luyu (Sugarloaf island) and Muyu (Double island), is about 300 yards wide with depth of 6 to 11 fm. in the fairway; north of the islands is the less frequented Eastern channel with depths of 3½ to 8 fm.

1945, China Proper, volume III, Naval Intelligence Division, →OCLC, page 266:

Duly relieved, Edsall the next day stood out at 11:30, conned by a local pilot, Mr. Woods. She steamed down the coast past Sugarloaf Island, Good Cape Lighthouse, Bill and Green islands, and Breaker Point Lighthouse to anchor off South Nine Pin Island (Nam Kwo Chau), near the main shipping lanes, east of the British Crown Colony at Hong Kong.

2008, Donald M. Kehn Jr., A Blue Sea of Blood, Zenith Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 44:

Sugarloaf Channel
Sugarloaf Channel#English

(obsolete) An island in Sugarloaf Channel, Shantou, Guangdong, China, located in the Port of Shantou and having a lighthouse.


Double Island

At the entrance of the bay on which Swatow is located, there is a small island called Double Island, on which foreigners secured a foothold before the port was opened to the outside world.

1891 August, S. B. Partridge, “American Baptist Mission, Swatow, China.”, in The Baptist Missionary Magazine, volume LXXI, number 8, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 370:

In the 1890s, for no known reason, he took against his colleagues, the Swatow pilots stationed at Double Island, and would walk for miles along the coast to intercept incoming vessels before they could reach the official pilots.

1998, Frances Wood, “Private Life and the Social Round”, in No Dogs and Not Many Chinese: Treaty Port Life in China, 1843-1943, John Murray, published 2000, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 138:

In Shanghai we met a Christian captain who had been trading at Swatow. He made a strong case for the needs of that area. British merchants lived on Double Island, and sold opium.

2003, Hudson Taylor, “Called to Swatow”, in Looking Back: An Autobiography (Missions), OMF International, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 84–85:

The truth, however, is that the Edsall was not then in the Amoy-Kulangsu area but instead spent all of the first half of May 1939 at Swatow (Shantou), China, well to the south. Anchored near Double Island, Edsall observed Japanese aerial attacks in support of their ground offensive in the region.

2008, Donald M. Kehn Jr., “Flushdeckers”, in A Blue Sea of Blood: Deciphering the Mysterious Fate of the USS Edsall, Zenith Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 43:

An island in Sugarloaf Channel, Shantou, Guangdong, China, located inwards after Sugarloaf Island and larger than it.


Grand Cayman

The name of the island is derived from caiman (“species of alligatorid”). The element grand was added to distinguish the island from its neighbours in the Cayman Islands.

An island, the largest of the three Cayman Islands.


Somersetian

en-adj

Somersetian (comparative more Somersetian, superlative most Somersetian)

more Somersetian (comparative)
most Somersetian (superlative)


Isle of Youth

special municipality
special municipality

An island and special municipality south of the island of Cuba, across the Gulf of Batabanó.


Home Guard

Later in the year the title of Local Defence Volunteer was changed to the more appropriate one of Home Guard.

1940 December, “Railways and the War—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 629:

(military, historical) An armed citizen defence force supporting the British Army during the Second World War, in particular, defence against any invasion by enemy forces.


Eigg

An island of the Inner Hebrides, in Highland council area, Scotland; one of the Small Isles. It lies to the south of the Isle of Skye and to the north of the Ardnamurchan peninsula.


Colonsay

An island in the Inner Hebrides, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland, located north of Islay and south of Mull.


Grande-Ile

From French Grande-Île, Grande Île (literally “grand island, big island”).

bor

Saint Lawrence River
Saint Lawrence River#English

An island in Monteregie, Quebec, Canada, on the Saint Lawrence River


Grand Isle

Grand Isle County
Grand Isle County#English

An island in Grand Isle County, Vermont, United States in Lake Champlain


Durhamite

A native or inhabitant of any of various places called Durham.


Deer Island

A large number of islands in various places, including:

An island in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada.

Charlotte County
Charlotte County#English


French Island

A coastal island in Victoria, Australia, first named Île de Françoise by a French explorer.

An island in Ellis Pond, a lake in Oxford County, Maine, United States.

census-designated place
census-designated place

La Crosse County
La Crosse County#English

An island and census-designated place in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States.


Gay Village

A neighbourhood of Manchester, United Kingdom


AUKUS

Blend of AU + UK + US; Acronym of Australia + United Kingdom + United States of America.; Coined in 2021

acronym of

And so, friends, AUKUS is born — a new enhanced trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. AUKUS: a partnership where our technology, our scientists, our industry, our defense forces are all working together to deliver a safer and more secure region that ultimately benefits all.
AUKUS will also enhance our contribution to our growing network of partnerships in the Indo-Pacific region: ANZUS; our ASEAN friends; our bilateral strategic partners, the Quad; Five Eyes countries; and, of course, our dear Pacific family.
The first major initiative of AUKUS will be to deliver a nuclear-powered submarine fleet for Australia.

2021 September 15, Scott Morrison, “Remarks by President Biden, Prime Minister Morrison of Australia, and Prime Minister Johnson of the United Kingdom Announcing the Creation of AUKUS”, in White House:

Although Australia, the UK, and US partnership, AUKUS, sounds strange with all these acronyms but it's a good one, AUKUS, our nations will update and enhance our shared ability to take on the threats of the 21st century just as we did in the 20th century: together. Our nations and our brave fighting forces have stood shoulder to shoulder for literally more than one hundred years. Through the trench fighting in World War I, the island hopping of World War II, during the frigid winters of Korea and the scorching heat of the Persian Gulf, the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom have long been faithful and capable partners, and are even closer today. Today we take another historic step to deepen and formalize cooperation among all three of our nations, because we all recognize the imperative of insuring peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific over the long term.

2021 September 17, Joe Biden, Australia's decades-long balancing act between the US and China is over. It chose Washington, CNN:

On Sept. 15, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia unveiled a new security partnership, with the less-than-euphonious acronym AUKUS. The three states are close allies of long standing, but the headline item in the new arrangement is a joint effort to equip Australia with a fleet of advanced nuclear-powered submarines. U.S. President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson also announced plans for more extensive cooperation on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing.
Those basic facts about AUKUS are pretty straightforward. But why it came together—and what it means—is more complicated and far more revealing about where the world is heading.

2021 September 18, Stephen M. Walt, “The AUKUS Dominoes Are Just Starting to Fall”, in Foreign Policy:

AUKUS envisages a wide range of diplomatic and technological collaboration, from cybersecurity to artificial intelligence, but at its core is an agreement to start consultations to help Australia acquire a fleet of nuclear-propelled (though not nuclear-armed) submarines. One consequence of this is Australia cancelling a contract, worth tens of billions of dollars, signed in 2016 with France for diesel-electric submarines. In announcing AUKUS on September 15th with the prime ministers of Australia and Britain, Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson, President Joe Biden stressed that it was about “investing in our greatest source of strength—our alliances”.

2021 September 19, “The strategic reverberations of the AUKUS deal will be big and lasting”, in The Economist:

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was in the US to help announce the landmark AUKUS pact in San Diego this morning.

2023 March 14, “AUKUS deal: Jim Chalmers announces $8 billion HMAS Stirling naval base expansion”, in ABC Premium News (wire feed), Sydney:

(geopolitics, neologism) A security treaty between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States; for the construction of nuclear submarines in Australia, and cooperation on cybersecurity and espionage technology; to contain the rise of China in the Indo-Pacific region.


Isle of Arran

A large island in the Firth of Clyde, North Ayrshire council area, Scotland.


North Northamptonshire

East Northamptonshire
East Northamptonshire#English

A unitary authority in Northamptonshire, England, created on 1 April 2021 through the merger of Corby borough, East Northamptonshire district, Kettering borough, and the borough of Wellingborough; Northamptonshire County Council was also abolished.


North Channel

The strait between Northern Ireland and southwestern Scotland, connecting the Irish Sea with the Atlantic Ocean.

North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland)

Põhjaväin

strait between N. Ireland and SW. Scotland


Aratika

French Polynesia
French Polynesia#English

An atoll in the Tuamotus, French Polynesia.


South Uist

An island in the Outer Hebrides, Western Isles council area, Scotland.


Addu

Borrowed from Dhivehi އައްޑޫ (aḍḍū), from earlier 𑤀𑤘𑤾𑤘𑤳𑤩𑤳 (aḍḍuvu); equivalent to އަށް (aṣ̊, “eight”) + ދޫ (dū, “island”).


Schouwen-Duiveland

A municipality and island in Zeeland, Netherlands.


Qeshm

An Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz.


Burhou

A small island northwest of Alderney that is part of the Channel Islands.


Saint Michael

From saint + Michael, from a character named Michael proclaimed as saint, or from being named for a person named Michael who is not a religiously sainted character, with saint attached for a placename format.

Saint Michael Island
Saint Michael Island#English

Ellipsis of Saint Michael Island.; An island in Nome, Alaska, United States; named for the archangel


Salsette

An island in Konkan division of the state of Maharashtra, on the west coast of India, andd containing the cities of Mumbai and Mira-Bhayandar,, and parts of Thane.


E+W

England and Wales
England and Wales#English

(UK, law) Abbreviation of England and Wales.


England & Wales

(UK, law) Alternative form of England and Wales.


exchanging of contracts

exchange of contracts
exchange of contracts#English

Alternative form of exchange of contracts.


exchange contracts

en-verb

exchange contracts (third-person singular simple present exchanges contracts, present participle exchanging contracts, simple past and past participle exchanged contracts)

exchanges contracts (present singular third-person)
exchanging contracts (participle present)
exchanged contracts (participle past)
exchanged contracts (past)

(law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland, idiomatic) To formally contract to purchase, sell or otherwise be party to a disposition of an estate in land; usually requiring the payment of a deposit by one of the parties.

legal representative
legal representative

(law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland, chiefly by legal practitioners) To create a contract for the disposition of an estate in land between negotiating parties, by a process which is immediately followed by the exchange of executed counterparts of the contract between each party's legal representative.


exchange of contracts

en-noun

exchange of contracts (plural exchanges of contracts)

(law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) The act of exchanging contracts.

(law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland, idiomatic) The point or stage at which a conveyancing contract comes into existence between negotiating parties for the carrying out of a disposition of an estate in land; usually requiring the payment of a deposit.


mines & minerals

mines and minerals
mines and minerals#English


Mazagaon

Transliteration of Marathi माझ़गाव (māj̈hgāv).

translit

One of the seven islands of Mumbai, India.


Jindo Island

The Yellow Sea is bordered on Liaodong Peninsula in the north and adjacent to the west bank of the Korean Peninsula. The line from Zhendao Island in the south end of the Korean Peninsula to the southwestern corner of Jizhou Island is its eastern boundary. In the northwest, it is connected to the Bohai Sea via Bohai Strait.

[2020 [2015], Zhigang Fang [方志刚], Jingyi Cao, Yong Guan, “Service Environment of Aluminum Alloy Vessel”, in Corrosion Control Technologies for Aluminum Alloy Vessel [铝合金舰艇腐蚀控制技术], →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 53:

The third-largest island of South Korea.


St. Lawrence Island

Named by Vitus Bering on Saint Lawrence's feast day, 10 August 1728.

An island in the Bering Sea, belonging to Alaska, United States. Main settlements: Gambell and Savoonga.


Putuo

The atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 普陀 (Pǔtuó), a clipped transcription of Sanskrit पोतलक (Potalaka, literally “Brilliance”), the name of the palace of the god or bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (known in China as the goddess or bodhisattva Guanyin) in the influential Flower Garland Sutra. The island in Zhejiang has been a center of Buddhist pilgrimage related to the worship of Guanyin since at least the Tang dynasty.


maid of Kent

Coordinate term: man of Kent

A woman from the eastern part of Kent, England, as opposed to the western part (whose inhabitants are traditionally described as Kentish).


man of Kent

Coordinate term: maid of Kent

A man from the eastern part of Kent, England, as opposed to the western part (whose inhabitants are traditionally described as Kentish).


Goeree-Overflakkee

An island and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands.


Hoeksche Waard

An island and municipality of South Holland, Netherlands.


Oak Island

Lunenburg County
Lunenburg County#English

An island in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada in Mahone Bay, Atlantic Ocean, known for rumours of buried pirate treasure, and a booby trapped pit.


Tongatapu

From Tongan Tongatapu, from tonga (“south”) + tapu (“sacred”).

An island in Tonga, Oceania, on the Tonga archipelago, Polynesia, Pacific Ocean; the main island of Tonga, with its capital city, Nuku'alofa


Langeland

An island and municipality in southern Denmark.


Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai

From Hunga Tonga + Hunga Ha'apai. From Tongan Hunga Tonga+Hunga Ha‘apai.

A former island in Tonga, on the seamount; formed from a new cinder cone that rose in the strait between the islands of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha'apai, and connected them; which was destroyed in a 2022 explosive eruption, leaving the two prior islands, now smaller, separated again


Mango Island

An island in Ha'apai, Tonga, Polynesia, Oceania, Pacific Ocean


Fonoifua Island

An island in 'Otu Mu'omu'a, Tonga, Polynesia, Oceania, Pacific Ocean


Prudence Island

Named by Roger Williams after the Puritan virtue.

Narragansett Bay
Narragansett Bay#English

An island in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, United States, comprising part of the town of Portsmouth.


Aquidneck Island

Borrowed from Narragansett aquidnet. Compare Proto-Algonquian *akwinteᐧwi (“in the water”), Mi'kmaq egwitg.

An island in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, United States, comprising the towns of Portsmouth, Middletown, and Newport.


Block Island

From Dutch Block, named after Dutch explorer Adriaen Block.

named-after

Well I'm on the Downeaster Alexa / And I'm cruisin' through Block Island Sound

1989, Billy Joel (lyrics and music), “The Downeaster "Alexa"”, in Storm Front:

Block Island Sound
Block Island Sound#English

An island in Block Island Sound, Rhode Island, United States, coextensive with the town of New Shoreham.


Conanicut Island

From Narragansett, said to be named after chief Canonicus. The name Canonicus is in turn a Latinization of Qunnouone, which has been said to be from *qunni (“long, tall”). The ending -ut indicates the locative. Some sources directly translate Conanicut as "long place".

An island in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, United States, comprising the populated part of Jamestown.

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Norman, OK
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William Harris (settler)
William O. Bright


Elizabeth Islands

Named after Queen Elizabeth I of England.

An archipelago off the southern coast of Massachusetts, United States, located between Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound, and collectively comprising the town of Gosnold.


Naushon

Elizabeth Islands
Elizabeth Islands#English

The largest island of the Elizabeth Islands, comprising part of the town of Gosnold, Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States.


Cuttyhunk

The southwesternmost island of the Elizabeth Islands, comprising part of the town of Gosnold, Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States.


Buyan

From Russian Буя́н (Buján). See there for further information.

(Slavic mythology, folklore) In medieval Russian folklore, a mysterious island with the ability to appear and disappear with the tide; the home of the Zoryas (solar goddesses) and three brothers representing the Northern, Western, and Eastern Winds.

Bouïane

a mysterious island in the Russian folklore


Iturup

From Russian Итуру́п (Iturúp), itself from Ainu エツ゚ヲロㇷ゚シㇼ (Etuworop-sir, “island with many capes”). Doublet of Etrof, from the Japanese rendition of the same Ainu toponym.

der

The largest and northernmost island in the southern Kuril Islands, disputed between <.


Shikotan

From Russian Шикотан (Šikotan) and Japanese 色丹, both from Ainu シコタン, from シ + コタン (“settlement, island”).

An island in the Kurils, occupied by Russia but claimed by Japan.


Kunashir

From Japanese 国後, or Russian Кунаши́р (Kunašír). Ultimately from Ainu クンネ シㇼ (kunne sir), meaning "black island"; or Ainu キナ シㇼ (kina sir), meaning "grass island".

The southernmost island of the Kuril Islands, disputed between Japan and Russia.


Greyfriars

As a common British placename, typically derived from having been the site of a Franciscan friary prior to the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Any of various other towns and villages in the United Kingdom.


Welshy

(informal) Synonym of Welsh: of or related to Wales, similar to Welsh people or things.


English law

The common law legal system of England and Wales, supplemented in Wales by Welsh law.


Scots law

(formal) The legal system of Scotland, a hybrid of civil law and common law.


Welsh law

That part of the common law legal system of Wales that supplements English law.


Morayvian

en-adj

Morayvian (comparative more Morayvian, superlative most Morayvian)

more Morayvian (comparative)
most Morayvian (superlative)

From Moravia + -ian, influenced by the spelling Moray.

[…]onward transportation to the Morayvian salt mines.

1970, HMS Eagle Commissioning Book 1969-1970, page 29:


(UK, rail transport) Initialism of High Speed 2, a branched high-speed railway under construction between London, Birmingham, Manchester and Wigan.


Gambier Islands

An archipelago in French Polynesia, located at the southeast terminus of the Tuamotu archipelago.

A small group of islands lying between the southern tips of the Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas at the entrance to Spencer Gulf in South Australia.


Snake Island

Defense Mapping Agency
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en:Snake Island (Black Sea)

Calque of Ukrainian о́стрів Змії́ний (óstriv Zmijínyj, “Snake Island”) or Russian о́стров Змеи́ный (óstrov Zmeínyj, “Snake Island”), from Romanian Insula Șerpilor (“Serpent Island”), from Byzantine Greek Φιδονήσι (Phidonḗsi, “Snake Isle”), from Byzantine Greek φιδο (phido, “snake”) (Greek φίδι (fídi)) + νήσι (nísi, “island”).

calque

о́стрів Змії́ний

о́стров Змеи́ный

der

SNAKE ISLAND
Located in the northwestern side of the Black Sea, Snake Island, or called ostriv Zmiyinyy in Ukrainian and Insula Serpilor in Romanian, is currently administered by Ukraine but claimed by Romania. The Snake Island is a limestone formation located 35 km from the coast, east of the mouth of the Danube River.

2006, Rongxing Guo, Territorial Disputes and Resource Management: A Global Handbook, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 224:

In the Snake Island case, the court ruled that Snake Island—which is a territory of Ukraine, but is in the Black Sea on the maritime boundary with Romania— would not be given a full exclusive economic zone (EEZ) because that would distort the maritime boundary with Romania. In this way, the court ensured an equitable result of the maritime boundary between Romania and Ukraine.

2013 June, Michael A. McDevitt, Catherine K. Lea, Japan's Territorial Disputes: CNA Maritime Asia Project, Workshop Three, CNA, →OCLC, page 9:

The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine said in a statement posted to its Facebook page that the guards may be alive, after Russian media reported that they were taken as prisoners from their base on Snake Island in the Black Sea to Sevastopol, a port city that Russia controls on the Crimean Peninsula.

2022 February 26, Dan Lamothe, “Ukrainian border guards may have survived reported last stand on Snake Island”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 2022-02-28:

Ukrainian troops have landed on Snake Island where they raised Ukraine’s flag, according to officials, one week after Russian forces withdrew from the strategic islet in the Black Sea.

2022 July 7, “Ukrainian troops land on Snake Island to raise national flag”, in Al Jazeera, archived from the original on 2022-07-07:

An island in Budjak, on the Black Sea, at the Danue Delta, Danube River in Odessa Oblast, Ukraine, on the border with Romania

جَزِيرَةُ الثُّعْبَان

Black Sea island of Ukraine bordering Romania


Liuqiu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 琉球 (Liúqiú). Doublet of Ryukyu.

Much of the ocean they surveyed last summer was above 30 degrees Celsius for three months. The worst area was in Little Liuqiu, a coral island off the southwest coast in the Taiwan Strait where 55 percent of corals have now been seriously bleached.

2021 January 13, “'Corals are being cooked': A third of Taiwan's reefs are dying”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2021-01-13:

“Nothing is going to change after the military exercises, there’ll be one like this and then another,” said Li Wen-te, a 63-year-old retired fisherman in Liuqiu, an island off the southwestern coast of Taiwan, less than six miles from China’s drills.[…]
“I cherish our freedom of speech and don’t want to be unified by China,” said Huang Chiu-hong, 47, the owner of a shop that sells fried sticks of braided dough, a local snack, on Liuqiu, the Taiwanese island.

2022 August 7, Chris Buckley, Amy Chang Chien, John Liu, “After China’s Military Spectacle, Options Narrow for Winning Over Taiwan”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-07:

China said this week it would conduct more drills focusing on anti-submarine and sea assault operations - confirming the fears of some security analysts and diplomats that it would keep up the pressure on Taiwan's defences. read more
But on Liuqiu island, a picturesque tourist spot near one of the areas where the Chinese military was conducting exercises last week, people were largely indifferent.

2022 August 10, Ann Wang, I-Hwa Cheng, Aleksander Solum, Sarah Wu, Ben Blanchard, Yimou Lee, Farah Master, “Taiwan residents largely calm in the face of Chinese anger”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-08-10, Asia Pacific:

The island in Liuqiu, Pingtung County, Taiwan.


Wake Island

Translingual: Hypotaenidia wakensis

Originally Wake's Island; named after Captain William Wake of the Prince William Henry (a British trading schooner) between the 1790s and 1803. Alternatively said to be named for a Captain Samuel Wake.

Intelligence has been received at Hong Kong of the total loss of the ship Libelle while on a voyage to that port from San Francisco, having on board a valuable cargo and specie to the extent of £76,000 in dollars, and a number of passengers, among whom were Madame Anna Bishop, Miss Phelan, Mr. M. Schrutz, and Mr. Charles Lascelles, of the English Opera Company, who, with other artists, were on a musical tour. The ship was cast away on the night of the 4th of March, on an uninhabited and dangerous reef called Wake Island, in the China Seas.

1866 August 18, “LAST NEWS OF ANNA BISHOP”, in The Musical World, volume 44, number 33, London, →OCLC, page 521:

There were only some four hundred United States marines who in the heroic and historic defense of Wake Island inflicted such great losses on the enemy. Some of those men were killed in action; and others are now prisoners of war.

1942 January 6, Franklin Roosevelt, 1942 President's Annual Message to Congress:

"I went out to Wake Island to see General MacArthur because I did not want to take him far away from Korea, where he is conducting very important operations with great success.[...]
"At the same time I believed my trip to Wake Island would give emphasis to the historic action taken by the United Nations on Korea.[...]
"At Wake Island we talked over the Far Eastern situation and its relationship to the problem of world peace.[...]
"Now I want Wake Island to be a symbol of our unity of purpose for world peace. I want to see world peace from Wake Island west all the way around back again. I want to see world peace from Wake Island all the way east and back again — and we are going to get it!

1956, Harry S. Truman, Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial And Hope, volume II, Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, pages 368–369:

It takes only a brief glimpse at a 1941 map of the Pacific to see why Wake Island was considered to be of such strategic value to the United States and why it was such an early target in Japan's program of conquest. As the war planners on both sides saw the situation in the late 1930s, possession of Wake was vital to the defense of their territory.

1978, Duane Schultz, “"To Deny Wake to the Enemy"”, in Wake Island: The Heroic, Gallant Fight, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 13:

An island of the United States, among the islands of Micronesia in the Pacific Ocean, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs of the United States Department of the Interior and used solely by the United States Air Force.

Columbia University Press
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Saul B. Cohen
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Wake Island


Zhenbao Island

Partial calque from Mandarin 珍寶島／珍宝岛 (Zhēnbǎo Dǎo, literally “treasure (Zhenbao) island”)

zh-l

In Beijing’s view, in the absence of an explicit treaty provision, the central line of the main channel—the Thalweg principle—provided a legal basis for delimiting the boundary in the two rivers. On this basis, Beijing claimed that 600 of the rivers’ 700 islands—including Zhenbao Island on the Ussuri River, just 180 miles southwest of an important Soviet city, Khabarovsk—belonged to the P.R.C.

1980, Melvin Gurton, Byong-Moo Hwang, China under Threat: The Politics of Strategy and Diplomacy, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 210:

Later, in the 1980s, western scholars found that, notwithstanding the substantial Soviet military buildup near the Chinese borders in the late 1960s, it was Beijing that initiated the clash on Zhenbao (Damanski) Island. Peter Zwick has argued that the Soviets were in a generally reactive mode during the height of the conflict and exhibited restraint in responding to what they saw as Chinese provocations.

2005, Vitaly Kozyrev, “Soviet Policy Toward the United States and China, 1969-1979”, in William C. Kirby, Robert S. Ross, Gong Li, editors, Normalization of U.S.-China Relations: An International History, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 258:

In January 1969, Chinese and Soviet soldiers fought around Zhenbao Island in the Ussuri River.

2005, Michael P. Colaresi, “Climbing the Wall: The Sino-American Rivalry”, in Scare Tactics: The Politics of International Rivalry, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 202:

In mid-1969, both countries fought a brief border war over Zhenbao Island [13], along the Ussuri River halfway between Vladivostok and Khabarovsk, killing dozens of conscripts on either side.

2012 February 21, Frank Jacobs, “Manchurian Trivia”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-29, Borderlines:

Photo taken on Sept. 28, 2016 shows the scenery of the Zhenbao Island wetland in Hulin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The 29,275-hectare wetland has been designated as a wetland of international importance by the Ramsar Convention in 2011 for its vital importance as a unique wetland for biological diversity.

2016 September 29, “Scenery of Zhenbao Island wetland in Heilongjiang(1/6)”, in Li Yan, editor, China News Service, archived from the original on 2016-10-06:

In 1969, Chinese forces instigated a brutal ambush on unsuspecting Soviet border guards at Zhenbao Island, a contested bank on the Ussuri River. After numerous rough but not lethal hand-to-hand scuffles in the past, the island became the epicenter of a pitched battle and weeks-long exchange of fire. The initial ambush, conducted with small arms, escalated into deployment of heavy armor supported by rocket artillery. Hundreds of people were killed. Within two weeks, both sides were contemplating the possibility of a nuclear exchange.

2021 March 29, Blake Herzinger, “China’s Military Could Turn Small Clashes Into Major Conflicts”, in Foreign Policy, archived from the original on 2021-03-29:

An island in Zhenbaodao, Hulin, Jixi, Heilongjiang, China


North Wales

A geographic region of Wales, covering the most northern part of the country.


Palmyra Atoll

An island in the United States, among the islands of Polynesia in the Pacific Ocean


Navassa Island

"Kingston, Jamaica, 2d.-Yesterday morning, the Volcano, bomb-ship, Captain Price,[...]"On Sunday night, about 12 o'clock, off Navassa Island, the Volcano perceived a schooner standing towards her, which fired several shot, which were returned.

1861 [1815 November 2], George Coggeshall, “Chapter IX”, in History of the American Privateers, and Letters-of-marque, During our War with England in the Years 1812, '13, and '14, 3rd edition, New York, →OCLC, page 311:

An island in the United States, in the Caribbean Sea


Orchid Island

Calque of Chinese 蘭嶼 (Lányǔ, literally “orchid island”)

calque

Orchid Island is a rocky, mountainous bit of land thrown up from the sea by volcanic action eons ago. It has barely more than ten and a half square miles of area, with little arable or level land. Yet it is home to some 2,600 people.
There really are orchids on Orchid Island, although they are found at higher elevations not usually seen by visitors—also sizeable trees and numerous birds and butterflies. Almost everything is green from the combination of a tropical climate and heavy rainfall.
The people of Orchid Island are Yamis, members of the smallest of the Taiwan aborigine tribes. They are handsome people. with black hair, brown eyes and complexions deeply bronzed from exposure to sun and wind.

1977 January 9, “Visitors drawn to Lanyu, Land forgotten by time”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XVIII, number 2, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 4:

While 2020 will be remembered by many as a year of travel bans and cancelled vacations, the indigenous Tao people of Orchid Island will remember it as the year unprecedented numbers of visitors descended on their once tranquil home.

2020 November 4, Sally Jensen, “Indigenous Tao way of life under threat on Taiwan island”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2020-11-05, Big Story 10:

A ship transporting cargo from Taitung to Orchid Island sank early Tuesday after it was struck by a large merchant vessel off Green Island, but all nine crew members were safely rescued, according to the Coast Guard Administration (CGA).

2022 April 26, Tyson Lu, Matthew Mazzetta, “Ship delivering supplies to Orchid Island sinks after collision”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2022-04-26, Society:

The waste site in Lanyu, also known as Orchid Island, or Ponso no Tao, has been among the highest-profile causes taken up by Indigenous Taiwanese, who were the main inhabitants of these islands until four centuries ago, when colonial settlers began arriving from mainland China, Europe and, later, imperial Japan.

2023 January 5, Amy Qin, Amy Chang Chien, “The Nuclear Dump That Created a Generation of Indigenous Activists”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-05:

An island of Taitung County, Taiwan, in the Pacific Ocean (Philippine Sea), home of the Tao (Yami) indigenous people

Columbia University Press
Orchid Island
Saul B. Cohen


Larak

Larak is oval-shaped and measures six miles from the east-northeast to west-southwest by about four miles across; the chief irregularity of outline is a small sandy cape which juts out from the north coast.

1976, Ludwig W. Adamec, Historical Gazetteer of Iran, page 273:


Manono

An island in Samoa, situated in the Apolima Strait.


Apolima

The smallest of the four inhabited islands of Samoa.


Fernando de Noronha

An archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean off the northeastern coast of, and belonging to, Brazil.

The largest island of the above archipelago.


Anacapa

From Chumashan Anyapakh or Anyapax (deception or mirage).

An island in Ventura County, California, off the coast, one of the Channel Islands.


San Nicolas

An island in Ventura County, California, United States, off the coast, one of the Channel Islands.


Rome rule

(derogatory, chiefly historical) The control of an autonomous or independent Ireland by the Pope and the Catholic Church, as claimed by Protestant unionists.


angloid

"Angloid on the inside.” You may not be familiar with this term. When I first heard it I had to look it up. It is a derogatory term for white people.

2021, AD Robles, Social Justice Pharisees:

(slang, derogatory) An English person or person of English ancestry.


Scottish verdict

en-noun

Scottish verdict (plural Scottish verdicts)


Black Irish

Alternative letter-case form of black Irish.


Dongyin

From Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 東引 (Dōngyǐn).

Taiwan's minor islands offer numerous opportunities. Matsu National Scenic Area, especially Dongyin Island, is excellent for spotting migrants between mid-April and mid-May and again from mid-September to mid-October.

2014, Steven Crook, Taiwan (Bradt Guides), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 76:

The army and navy have purchased six sets of the short-range weapons systems to be in part deployed on Lienchiang County’s Dongyin Island (東引) and Kinmen County’s Wuchiu Island (烏坵).
The Chinese-language United Daily News (UDN) yesterday reported that the Wuchiu system is expected to be deployed by June, while the system in Dongyin should become operational by the end of this year.

2022 April 11, Kayleigh Madjar, “Deployment of short-range defense systems moved up”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 2022-04-10:

Anita Tsai, who runs a restaurant in Dongyin, Matsu’s northernmost island, shared the same frustrations over the frequent internet disruptions. “At its worst, it took me five minutes to watch a ten-second video,” said Tsai.

2023 March 9, Meaghan Tobin, Vic Chiang, “Internet outage has Taiwan worried about threat from Chinese sabotage”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-10, Asia:

An island in Dongyin, Lienchiang County, Taiwan.


Merritt Island

An island in the Sacramento River delta and viticultural area in Yolo County, California, United States.


Tinian

When we were maroon’d in the uninhabited Iſland of Tinian, at the Diſtance of ſeven or eight hundred Leagues from the Continent of Aſia, and had little Hopes of ever recovering our Ship, the Commodre---[…]
Guam, the Principal, South of Tinian, is inhabited by a few Spaniards, who claim the Property indeed of them all, and of all the other Iſlands in theſe Seas— But even Tinian, tho’ now deſolate, has formerly had more magnificent Maſters than thoſe Waſters of the World, as appears by the Ruins of ſeveral auguſt and venerable Fabricks, which diſcover a Taſte not unworthy of the greateſt Aſian Majeſty.

1744 August 25, The Universal Spectator, and Weekly Journal, number 829, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 2:

There are uſually reckoned twelve of theſe Iſlands ; but it will appear, from the chart of the North part of the Pacific Ocean hereafter inſerted, that if the ſmall iſlets and rocks are counted in, then their whole number will amount to above twenty. They were formerly moſt of them well inhabited ; and, even not ſixty years ago, the three principal Iſlands, Guam, Rota, and Tinian together, are ſaid to have contained above fifty thouſand people : But ſince that time Tinian hath been entirely depopulated ; and only two or three hundred Indians have been left at Rota, to cultivate rice for the Iſland of Guam ; ſo that now no more than Guam can properly be ſaid to be inhabited.

1748, Richard Walter, A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. by George Anson, Eſq; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majeſty's Ships, ſent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas., London: J. and P. Knapton, →OCLC, pages 337–338:

The Southern Island is called Guam, the next Rota, both of which are inhabited, and under the Spanish Government. Tinian, the next to the North, is occupied as a penal settlement, and Saypan, still farther North, is inhabited by natives from the Caroline group of Islands, and Gregan, the most Northern part of the chain, by some King's Mill group natives, and two white men, runaways.[…]Sometimes, also, ships in want of hogs stop a day at Rota, or Tinian, as they are getting rather scarce at Guam.[…]The principal city is situated five miles from the harbor, and contains about 2,500 inhabitants. The whole Island contains 8,000, and Rota 500. Formerly they contained a great many more; report says when first discovered, the 4 Southern Islands, Guam, Rota, Tinian, and Saypan, alone, contained 60,000, the descendants of which have intermixed with the Spaniards, and are now reduced to about 8,500 souls.

1847 December 16, Blue Water, “Ladrone Islands.”, in The Friend, volume V, number XXIV, Honolulu, →OCLC, page 189, column 1:

After shaking off a pre-dawn counterattack on Tinian Monday, the American forces that invaded that island Sunday broadened and deepened their hold. Heavy casualties were inflicted on the Japanese in breaking up the attack and five enemy tanks destroyed.

1944 July 26 [1944 July 25], “Yank Forces Join on Shore Of Apra Harbor”, in The Washington Post, number 24,877, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 7:

A specialized B-29 unit, known as the 509th Composite Group, had been selected for the task, and seven of the modified B-29's, with pilots and crews, were ready and waiting for orders. Meanwhile ships and planes were rushing the materials for the bomb and specialists to assemble them to the Pacific island of Tinian in the Marianas.

1955, Harry S Truman, chapter 26, in Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Year of Decisions, volume I, Signet Books, published 1965, →OCLC, →OL, page 464:

Coast Guard crews are also bringing supplies to the island of Tinian, which took a direct hit from the typhoon that was packing 180 mph (290 kph) winds when it struck Thursday morning.

2018 October 27, “The Latest: Saipan airport reopens for limited service”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-05-25:

The tiny island of Tinian was the launch point for American planes carrying atomic bombs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Now a new runway is being carved from the jungle, just south of World War II ruins inked with mildew.
And on a blustery February morning a few hundred yards away at Tinian’s civilian airport, American airmen refueled Japanese fighter jets during a military exercise using more airstrips, islands and Japanese planes than the two enemies-turned-allies have ever mustered for drills in the North Pacific.

2023 March 25, Damien Cave, “An Anxious Asia Arms for a War It Hopes to Prevent”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-25:

Northern Mariana Islands
Northern Mariana Islands#English

An island in the Northern Mariana Islands, United States.


Shamian

No Chinaman, except those employed by foreigners, is allowed to cross any of the bridges over the stream, which completely surrounds the foreign settlement, and makes the suburb of Shameen a perfect island.

[1879 [1877 March 1], Anna Brassey, “To Canton Up the Pearl River”, in A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam': Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months, 6th edition, Toronto: Rose-Belford Publishing, →OCLC, page 383:

Last year, more than 1,500 American families came to this hotel to lodge, tour and shop while waiting to have their adoptions approved by Chinese and American authorities.
Because the hotel is located in the consulate district on Shamian Island, a tiny, flowery strip of land that is tethered to the city of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton), there is no better place to stay.

2003 March 31, David Barboza, “A Chinese Hotel, Full of Proud American Parents”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-01-28:

Today, Shamian Island is a shadow of its former self. For the 85 years leading up to the first Opium War between China and Britain in 1841, it was the centre of the universe for foreigners doing business in China, being the only port open to foreign trade.

2004 August 25, Michael Taylor, “Past waits patiently for a blast”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-11-05:

A less bustling, less overwhelming — okay, I’ll say it — more Westernized part of town is Shamian Island, a territory created as a result of the Second Opium War and deeded to the British and French in 1859. Americans arriving for adoptions come here to process the papers. (The U.S. Consulate General operates from four locations scattered throughout Guangzhou. A centralized building, now under construction, is expected to open in 2013.)
On a rare solo excursion, I wander Shamian’s broad pedestrian walkway, lined with elegant Baroque, neo-classical and Palladian architecture.

2012 January 7, Necee Regis, “In Guangzhou, China, plenty to discover — and to buy”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-10-23, Travel:

“Significant work remains,” Froman told a business lunch at a venue on Shamian Island, on the banks of the Pearl River, a historical trading port for China and the West over centuries past, in the city formerly known as Canton.

2015 November 22, James Pomfret, Michael Martina, “U.S. pushes China on market access, little progress seen”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-08-27, Business News:

An island in Liwan district, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China


Clipperton

Named after English privateer John Clipperton (1676–1722).


Kungsholmen

An island and borough in Stockholm, Sweden.


Wallasea Island

Uncertain. Wikipedia claims it comes from Old English wala (foreigner) + island, though the Old English word for foreigner is not "wala", rather it is "elþēodiġ".

An island with a small settlement in the River Crouch and Canewdon parish, Rochford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ9494).


Dadan

Mainland China and Taiwan do not border each other by land; they face each other across a 140-km-wide ocean strait. Taiwan-held Dadan Island sits 2 km away from Xiamen. Xiamenese can use binoculars to observe their kinfolk on Dadan Island, with whom they have traditionally intermarried (Mellor, 1993).

2005, Xiangming Chen, “The Greater Southeast China Subregion”, in As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 91–92:

Jinmen, known historically as Quemoy, has had some success building a tourist industry on the back of its even closer link to the mainland, close enough that Taiwanese defectors were said to have swum from there to the Chinese city of Xiamen. The military is also in the process of handing over to civilian control other islands that are now restricted zones, including small islets named Erdan and Dadan.

2013 June 3, Sarah Mishkin, “Taiwan’s small islands turn to tourism to stay afloat”, in Financial Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-04-28, Asia-Pacific:

Visits to Dadan, a Taiwan-held island off the coast of China and a major battleground during the Cold War, proved an instant hit following the start of tour bookings earlier this week.

2019 February 16, “Tours to Dadan Island prove a big hit with Taiwanese”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2022-06-20, Society:

An island in Lieyu, Kinmen County, Taiwan.


Dongding

At present, America has committed itself to an "all-round responsibility" policy along our coast. It seems to me that the Americans will only feel comfortable if they take complete responsibility for Jinmen and Mazu, or even for such small islands as Dadan, Erdan, and Dongding [small islands within the Jinmen archipelago]. America has fallen into our noose. Thereby, America's neck is hanging in China's iron noose. Although Taiwan is [for America] another noose, it is a bit farther from [the mainland]. America is now moving its head closer to us, since it wants to take responsibility for Jinmen and other islands. Someday we will kick America, and it cannot run away, because it is tied up by our noose.

2001 [1958 September], Chen Jian, quoting Mao Zedong, “Beijing and the Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1958”, in Mao's China and the Cold War, University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 187:

Additionally, the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis from August to September 1958 saw an unsuccessful attempt being made to invade Dongding Island held by the ROC.

2019, Robert J. Bunker, China's Securing, Shaping, and Exploitation of Strategic Spaces: Gray Zone Response and Counter-shi Strategies, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=EWrnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT72:

Their plans for a large wedding were interrupted when Chinese guns bombarded Kinmen County, which triggered the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis and prompted the army to send him to the front, he said.
For a month, Taiwanese and Chinese forces engaged in gunnery duels, aerial skirmishes and one naval action off the coast of Dongding Island (東碇島).

2019 September 24, Lo Chih, Jonathan Chin, “Octogenarians mark anniversary with ceremony”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-09-24, Taiwan News, page 4:

The PLA attempted amphibious operations to seize the main Kinmen Island in 1949, and nearby Tungting (Dongding) Island in 1958, but was repelled by ROC defensive emplacements.

2023 February, Andrew Chubb, “Taiwan Strait Crises: Island Seizure Contingencies”, in Asia Society, archived from the original on 2023-04-02:

An island in Jinhu, Kinmen County, Taiwan.


Capstan Island

The island is named after a capstan used to trap seals in the harbor and to haul ships to the shore.
The community is named after the island.

Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador#English

An island in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.


Great Bernera

An island of the Outer Hebrides in Western Isles council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NB13).


Fogo Island

The name of the island derives from Portuguese fogo (“fire”), possibly referring to a forest fire or its aftermath.
The town is named after the island.

An island in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.


Zmiinyi Island

From Ukrainian О́стрів Змії́ний (Óstriv Zmijínyj, “Snake Island”), from Romanian Insula Șerpilor (“Serpent Island”), from Russian Змеиный (Zmeinyj, “Serpent”), from Byzantine Greek Φιδονήσι (Phidonḗsi, “Snake Isle”), from Byzantine Greek φιδο (phido, “snake”) (Greek φίδι (fídi)) + νήσι (nísi, “island”).

der

О́стрів Змії́ний

Snake Island (an island in Budjak, on the Black Sea, at the Danue Delta, Danube River in Odessa Oblast, Ukraine, on the border with Romania)


TERF Island

NY Times does another article about the terrible women of TERF Island...but without talking to any of them of course.

2021 February 26, Maya Forstater (@MForstater), Twitter:

Do I want to know why the Queen of TERF island is trending?
 I do not.

2021 December 13, Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu), Twitter:

When I came back to the UK this year people said, “are you sure you want to leave the US? It’s really bad in the UK right now.”
Yeeeeah I’m gonna take my chances on Terf Island.
That should say a lot about how terrifying the US has become.

2022 May 3, James Stephanie Sterling (@JimSterling), Twitter:

gender-critical feminism
gender-critical feminism

(slang, derogatory) Great Britain or the United Kingdom, viewed as a centre of gender-critical feminism, or more broadly of transphobic policies and attitudes.


New Englishman

(uncommon, historical) A (male) inhabitant of New England; a New Englander.

(historical) An Englishman who settled in Ireland in the 16th or 17th centuries, as distinct from earlier Old English settlers.


Britbong

Blend of Brit + bong (“the clang of a large bell”). Believed to originate from a 4chan greentext in which a user jokingly claims to have witnessed Londoners chanting "SIX BONG" in the streets after Big Ben chimed six-o-clock.

blend

(slang, humorous, sometimes derogatory, 4chan) A British person.


maids of honour tart

en-noun

maids of honour tart (plural maids of honour tarts)

Said to date back to Henry VIII when he witnessed some of the Queen’s maids of honour eating some cakes and demanded to taste one. He found them delicious and named them after the maids. However, there is another theory that they were named after Anne Boleyn, a maid of honour at the time, who made the cakes for Henry VIII.

A traditional English baked tart consisting of a puff pastry shell filled with curds, sometimes with jam or almonds and nutmeg.


Long Key

An island in the Florida Keys, Monroe County, Florida, United States.


Xiyin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西引 (Xīyǐn).

One of the four fishermen from Lianjiang County of east China’s Fujian Province was shot dead by soldiers of the Taiwan authorities stationed on the Xiyin Island when the fishermen were looking for fishing tackle near the island that day. The Taiwan soldiers continued shooting as the fishermen were sailing to the Xiyin Island to rescue the wounded.[…]
At about 0110 on 6 August, four crew members of the "Minlianyu 0210" fishing boat of Nan Village of Lianjiang County’s Tailu Town were looking for fishing tackle near the Latou Reef south of the Xiyin Island, when troops of the Taiwan authorities on Xiyin Island fired at them and 28-year old^([sic – meaning year-old]) captain Chen Yingtong of the fishing boat was wounded twice in the left side of his chest.

1995 August 10 [1995 August 9], “ARATS Condemns Killing of Mainland Fisherman”, in Daily Report: China, number 95-154, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing XINHUA, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 68:

Dongyin is connected with the neighboring island of Xiyin (西引) by a causeway, and while this sister islet is less visited, it has several natural and militaristic sights of great interest.

2017 September 22, Richard Saunders, “Off the Beaten Track: Dongyin Island: The Northern Frontier”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-09-21, Features, page 13:

Dongyin Island and Siyin Island have been linked together by an embankment. Dongyin Island is 3.22 square kilometers, while Siyin Island is 1.13 square kilometers. Including the uninhabited subordinate islands and reefs, the total are of the Dongyin Islet is 4.35 square kilometers.

[2020s, “Introduction of Dongyin”, in Dongyin Township Administration, Matsu, archived from the original on 2021-10-19:

On the second day of massive live-fire drills being held by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) around Taiwan, Taiwan's Army also conducted live-fire exercises in Lienchiang County's Dongyin Township from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. However, during the exercises, witnesses gave differing accounts of either tracer fire or flares landing on a hill behind Sanjia Village on Xiyin Island and starting a fire, reported UDN.

2022 August 5, Keoni Everington, “Fire breaks out on outer Taiwan island during artillery drill”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2022-08-05, Society:

An island in Dongyin, Lienchiang County, Taiwan, in the Matsu Islands.


Dras

From South Asian languages
* (Dras Islands): From basaltic rocks found near the hill station, which were identified as indication of a former volcanic island chain that was accreted by plate tectonics.

Dras Volcanic Island Arc
Dras Volcanic Island Arc#English

(geology, historical) Ellipsis of Dras Volcanic Island Arc. A former archipelago in the Neotethys; south of in Eurasia (c. 150 Mya-50Mya). A former island chain that accreted onto the northern edge of the Indian Subcontinent when it crashed into the southern shore of Eurasia (Mega-Laurasia), forming part of the mountains separating the Tibetan Plateau from South Asia


Dhanbidhoo

Borrowed from the Malé Latin form of Dhivehi ދަނބިދޫ (daᵐbidū), from earlier 𑤞𑤢𑤳𑤝𑤳𑤩𑤳 (dhabuduvu /daᵐbuduvu/), ultimately from Sanskrit जम्बुद्वीप (jambudvīpa, “Rose-apple island”).

der

An island in the Maldives' Haddhunmathi Atoll.


Pacific Islands

The islands in the Pacific Ocean, consisting of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.


Husvær

From Norwegian hus (house) + vær (fishing village).

An island group in Herøy, Nordland, Norway, containing Prestøya and Brasøya islands, among others.

An island in Husvær, Herøy, Nordland, Norway.


Eireboo

for the record my recent Éireboo posting is because i might be spending some time in Ireland soon, its not a muh heritage thing.

2020 February 23, mold (@mac_mold), Twitter:

i did an essay about the play this film is based on, the writer/director is such a plastic paddy eireboo, and it's written soooo badly lmao.

2020 November 11, Max Kane (@MaxTKane), Twitter:

I’m a bit of an Eireboo if im honest. An unhealthy level of interest in Ireland. Love reading and learning about Irish history.

2021 April 14, celestial garbage (@paranoidfemoid), Twitter:

(slang, often derogatory) A non-Irish person who is obsessed with Ireland and Irish culture.


Anglo-Dutch

Of or pertaining to both England (the English) and the Netherlands (the Dutch).


Hullensian

Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull#English

A person from Kingston upon Hull, England.


Absecon Island

A barrier island in Atlantic County on the coast of New Jersey, United States. The largest settlement is Atlantic City.


Erdan

From the Mandarin 二擔.
# Synonym of Erdan
#*
2009, “Mr. Chen Hung-po”, in The 1958 Quemoy Crisis: An Oral History, Ministry of National Defense, ROC, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 87, 94:
Our defense area was in the main island of Kinmen, and after a short period of stationing, we were shifted to Lieyu in October 1957. The troops were stationed there until August 7 in the following year, when we were transferred to defend Erdan Island, which was still called “Er-dan” , rather than “Er-dǎn” the common name today.¹
1. Dadǎn Island was originally named Dadan Island. After the war, President Chiang Kai-shek dubbed the 9th Division stationed there the "Dadǎn Troop"—"Courageous Troop," for their valiant performance, and renamed the island Dadǎn Island—"Courage Island"—to commemorate their feat. Other islands, such as Erdan Island, Sandan Island, and etc. were not renamed, but also became "Erdǎn Island" and "Sandǎn Island" in the written form.
#*
2022 February, Yongming Chen, Zhiyu Zhang, “Practicing the Cold War: What Communism Meant for Xiamen Fishermen/Women in the 1950s and 1960s*”, in The China Review, volume 22, number 1, sourced from Xiamen Municipal Publicity Department of the Communist Party and Xiamen Association of Social Sciences, ed., Koushu lishi: xiamengang jiyi (Oral History: Memory of Xiamen Harbor) (Xiamen: Lujiang Press, 2014), p. 6., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 268:
Sometimes, I also used the night to set off a bamboo raft from Xiamen harbor. I followed the current to the Dadan Island (大擔島) and the Erdan Island (二擔島) to observe the KMT’s situation. There were also some public security boats of the CPC in the distance.
From the Mandarin 二膽 (Èrdǎn).

quote-book

The 1958 Quemoy Crisis: An Oral History

quote-journal

[2009, “Mr. Chen Hung-po”, in The 1958 Quemoy Crisis: An Oral History, Ministry of National Defense, ROC, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 87, 94:

Jinmen, known historically as Quemoy, has had some success building a tourist industry on the back of its even closer link to the mainland, close enough that Taiwanese defectors were said to have swum from there to the Chinese city of Xiamen. The military is also in the process of handing over to civilian control other islands that are now restricted zones, including small islets named Erdan and Dadan.[…]
While some in the military are uncomfortable ceding more territory, such as Erdan Island, to tourists, local officials and many military officers in Matsu on the islands have welcomed the development of the resort targeting mainland visitors.

2013 June 3, Sarah Mishkin, “Taiwan’s small islands turn to tourism to stay afloat”, in Financial Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-04-28, Asia-Pacific:

In a statement late Wednesday, the defence command of Kinmen, a group of Taiwan-controlled islands that sit opposite China's Xiamen and Quanzhou cities, said the incident occurred on Aug. 16 on Erdan islet, and confirmed the soldiers had thrown stones to see off what it called a civilian drone.

2022 August 24, Ben Blanchard, Yimou Lee, “Taiwan to deploy drone defence systems after rock-throwing video emerges”, in Gerry Doyle, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-08-25, Asia Pacific:

Kinmen defence command spokesman Chang Jung-shun said the live rounds were fired just before 6 p.m. (1000 GMT) at the drone which had approached Erdan islet, with flares being used previously. The drone then flew off back to China, he said.

2022 August 30, Ben Blanchard, Roger Tung, Yimou Lee, “Taiwan shoots at Chinese drone after president warns of 'strong countermeasures'”, in Tomasz Janowski, Angus MacSwan, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-08-31, Asia Pacific:

Chen was reported missing on Erdan island following a roll call, the Taiwanese Defense Ministry said in a statement Thursday, adding it had set up a special task force to locate him.
Erdan, part of the Taipei-controlled Kinmen islands, is located less than 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) from the Chinese port city of Xiamen in southeastern Fujian province.

2023 March 13, Eric Cheung, Nectar Gan, “Taiwan says soldier who went missing has been found in China”, in CNN, archived from the original on 2023-03-13:

An island in Lieyu Township, Kinmen County, Taiwan.


Hathifushi

Borrowed from Dhivehi ހަތިފުށި (hatifuṣi).


Kiska

OUR knowledge of the geography of the Aleutian Islands was very inexact until, in 1901, the Coast and Geodetic Survey sent two vessels to survey the Fox Island passes and eastward to the Sanak Islands. Westward of these passes and Unalaska Bay no surveys have yet been made, if we except one small harbor at Kiska Island.

1905, J. J. Gilbert, “Some Notes on the Fox Island Passes, Alaska”, in National Geographic Magazine, volume XVI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 427, column 1:

A U.S. Coast Guard ship on routine patrol in the Bering Sea came across a guided missile cruiser from China, officials said Monday.
But it turned out the cruiser wasn’t alone as it sailed about 86 miles (138 kilometers) north of Alaska’s Kiska Island, on Sept. 19.

2022 September 27, Mark Thiessen, “Patrol spots Chinese, Russian naval ships off Alaska island”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-09-27:

Aleutian Islands
Aleutian Islands#English

An island in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States.


Beef Island

Potentially named after the practice of smoking beef to create provisions for long sea voyages on the island.

British Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands#English

An island in the British Virgin Islands.


Bellamy Cay

The island is named after the infamous English pirate captain Samuel Bellamy (around 1689 - 1717).


Buck Island

The islands are named for the presence of buckwood (“Guaiacum sp.”).

United States Virgin Islands
United States Virgin Islands#English

An island in the United States Virgin Islands near Saint Croix.

An island in the United States Virgin Islands near Saint Thomas.


Anegada

/ˌænəˈɡɑː.də/

Derived from the female past participle of Spanish anegar (“inundate, flood”). The low-lying island is prone to flooding.


Fallen Jerusalem Island

The island is named after several large rock formations which vaguely resemble a destroyed city. Compare Old Jerusalem Island.


Cooper Island

Etymology uncertain. The island may have been named after its first settlers, a Dutch family by the name of Koop. Alternatively, the island may have been named after coopers who used the local white cedar (Tabebuia heterophylla) trees to make rum barrels.


Great Camanoe

Derived from caiman (“species of alligatorid”). The element great was added to distinguish the island from Little Camanoe.


Jost van Dyke

Likely named after Dutch privateer Joost van Dyk.


Little Camanoe

Derived from caiman (“species of alligatorid”). The element little was added to distinguish the island from Great Camanoe.


Green Cay

/ˈɡɹiːn ˈkiː/

The cays are named after their greenery.

An island in the United States Virgin Islands.


Sandy Cay

The island was named for its sandy surface.


Salt Island

The island is named after its salt ponds, once an important source of income for the British Virgin Islands.


Round Rock

/ˈɹaʊnd ˈɹɒk/

The island is named for its rounded shape.


Prickly Pear

The island is named for the prickly pear (“Opuntia sp.”) plants which grow on it.


Sandy Spit

The island was named for its sandy surface and shape.


Norman Island

Etymology uncertain. Allegedly named after a pirate captain.


Peter Island

Named after Dutch colonial administrator Pieter Adriensen.


Old Jerusalem Island

The island is named after several large rock formations which vaguely resemble a destroyed city. Compare Fallen Jerusalem Island.


Virgin Gorda

/ˈvɜː(ɹ).dʒɪn ˈɡɔː(ɹ).də/

Partial derivation from Spanish. The element virgin refers to the island's location in the Virgin Islands. Gorda is the feminine form of Spanish gordo (“fat”). Coined by Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus, allegedly because the island's profile resembles a portly woman lying on her back.


Necker Island

The island in the British Virgin Islands is named after Dutch squadron commander Jonathan de Neckere.


Little Jost van Dyke

Named after the nearby island of Jost van Dyke.


Pelican Island

The islands are named after the pelicans which roost there.

Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda#English

Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago#English


Great Thatch

/ˈɡɹeɪt ˈθæt͡ʃ/

Etymology uncertain. According to local folklore, the island is named after infamous pirate Edward Teach (around 1680 - 1718). The element great was added to distinguish the island from Little Thatch.


Little Thatch

/ˈlɪtl̩ ˈθæt͡ʃ/

Etymology uncertain. According to local folklore, the island is named after infamous pirate Edward Teach (around 1680 - 1718). The element little was added to distinguish the island from Great Thatch.


Great Tobago

/ˈɡɹeɪt təˈbeɪ.ɡəʊ/

The element great was added to distinguish the island from Little Tobago.


West Dog Island

The island is named for formerly hosting Caribbean monk seals, the barking of which was at first thought to be produced by dogs. The element west was added to specify the island's location in the western end of the Dog Islands.


East Seal Dog Island

The island is named for formerly hosting Caribbean monk seals, the barking of which was at first thought to be produced by dogs. The element east was added to specify the island's location in the eastern end of the Dog Islands.


Little Tobago

/ˈlɪtl̩ təˈbeɪ.ɡəʊ/

* (British Virgin Islands) The element little was added to distinguish the island from Great Tobago.
* (Trinidad and Tobago) Named for its size compared to neighbouring Tobago.


Great Dog Island

/ˈɡɹeɪt ˈdɒɡ ˈaɪ̯.lənd/

The island is named for formerly hosting Caribbean monk seals, the barking of which was at first thought to be produced by dogs. The element great was added to distinguish the island from neighbouring islands in the Dog Islands.


George Dog Island

/ˈdʒɔː(ɹ)dʒ ˈdɒɡ ˈaɪ̯.lənd/

The island is named for formerly hosting Caribbean monk seals, the barking of which was at first thought to be produced by dogs. The element George was added to distinguish the island from neighbouring islands in the Dog Islands.


Little Seal Dog Island

The island is named for formerly hosting Caribbean monk seals, the barking of which was at first thought to be produced by dogs. The element little was added to distinguish the island among the other islands of the Dog Islands.


Carvel Rock

/ˈkɑɹ.vɪl ˈɹɑk/

Several theories exist about the origin of the names of the islets:
* The islets are shaped roughly like a caravel;
* The islets were mistaken for a hostile caravel by sailors and were entered as such on early maps;
* A vessel mistook the islet(s) for a hostile caravel and opened fire on it;
* The islets were used as a target for artillery practice and/or a way to unload ammunition before travelling to demilitarised islands.


Salt Cay

The island is named after the salt industry which was formerly the dominant source of income of the island.

Turks and Caicos Islands
Turks and Caicos Islands#English

An island and district of the Turks and Caicos Islands.


Shark Island

/ˈʃɑɹk ˈaɪ̯.lənd/


Ruth Island

/ˈɹuːθ ˈaɪ̯.lənd/


Trunk Cay

/ˈtɹʌŋk ˈkiː/

The island is named after the presence of leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea), locally known as trunks.


Mingo Cay

/ˈmɪŋ.ɡoʊ ˈkiː/


Little Hans Lollik Island

The island was so named to distinguish it from the larger Hans Lollik Island.


Dog Island

A small island and lighthouse in Foveaux Strait, near the port of Bluff, New Zealand.


Thatch Cay

/ˈθæt͡ʃ ˈkiː/

The name of the island in the Turks and Caicos Islands is uncertain, although it likely refers to the presence of thatch palm trees on the island.
The island in the United States Virgin Islands is named after the presence of Tyre palm (Coccothrinax alta) trees, which were used to make thatched roofs and sacks.

An island in the Turks and Caicos Islands.


Cinnamon Cay

The island is named for the cinnamon or bay rum (“Pimenta racemosa”) trees present.


Congo Cay

/ˈkɑŋ.ɡoʊ ˈkiː/

Named after the former Kingdom of Kongo. The island was used as a holding location for slaves transported from Africa. Compare Lovango Cay.


Lovango Cay

Named after the former Kingdom of Loango. The island was used as a holding location for slaves transported from Africa. Compare Congo Cay.
An erroneous local legend holds that the toponym derives from "love-and-go" and refers to a former brothel on the island. This folk etymology arose because of the insertion of a v into the toponym.


Grass Cay

/ˈɡɹæs ˈkiː/


Turtledove Cay

The island is named after the presence of wildfowl on it.


Hassel Island

The island is named after the Danish Hassel family, which owned large parts of the island.


Great Saint James

The element great was added to distinguish the island from Little Saint James.


Water Island

The island is named for the potable water sources and wells present on it.


Little Saint James

The element little was added to distinguish the island from Great Saint James.


Outer Brass

/ˈaʊtɚ ˈbɹæs/

The element outer was added to distinguish the island from Inner Brass.


Protestant Cay

The island is allegedly named after its use as a place of burial for non-Catholic residents during the period of French rule over Saint Croix.


Inner Brass

/ˈɪnɚ ˈbɹæs/

The element inner was added to distinguish the island from Outer Brass.


Little Scrub Island

The island is named after its small size when compared to the neighbouring Scrub Island.


Sandy Island

The islands are named for their sandy surfaces.


Anguillita

/æŋˈɡwɪ.lɪ.tə/

Derived from a Romance source. Equivalent to the toponym Anguilla suffixed with the diminutive suffix -ita.


Sombrero

/sʌmˈbɹɛ.ɹəʊ/

The island is named for its resemblance to the headgear.


Grand Turk Island

The island is named for the presence of Turk's cap cactus (Melocactus intortus).


Parrot Cay

The name derives from a (deliberate or gradual) change of the older name Pirate Cay.


Pine Cay

The island is named after a small forest of Caicos pine (“Pinus caribaea var. bahamensis”) trees present on the island.


North Caicos

Derived from the Taíno words cayo (“island”) and hico (“string”). The element north was added to indicate the island's position within the Caicos Islands.


Middle Caicos

Derived from the Taíno words cayo (“island”) and hico (“string”). The element middle was added to indicate the island's position within the Caicos Islands.


East Caicos

Derived from the Taíno words cayo (“island”) and hico (“string”). The element east was added to indicate the island's position within the Caicos Islands.


West Caicos

Derived from the Taíno words cayo (“island”) and hico (“string”). The element west was added to indicate the island's position within the Caicos Islands.


South Caicos

Derived from the Taíno words cayo (“island”) and hico (“string”). The element south was added to indicate the island's position within the Caicos Islands.


Dellis Cay

The island is named after skin diver and entrepreneur John Dellis, who attempted to establish a sponging industry in the Turks and Caicos Islands.


Cotton Cay

The island was formerly used to grow Sea Island cotton (“Gossypium barbadense”).


French Cay

/ˈfɹɛnt͡ʃ ˈkiː/

Apparently named after the presence of either infamous French pirate François l'Olonnais (around 1630 - around 1669) or that of a French naval engineer who investigated whether the island was fit to host a lighthouse.


Little Ambergris Cay

The island is named for the presence of ambergris on its shores. The element little was added to distinguish the island from Big Ambergris Cay.


Big Ambergris Cay

/ˈbɪɡ ˈæm.bɚ.ɡɹɪs ˈkiː/

The island is named for the presence of ambergris on its shores. The element big was added to distinguish the island from Little Ambergris Cay.


Long Cay

The island is named for its elongated shape.


Gibbs Cay

The island is possibly named after Grand Turk resident George Judson Gibbs.


Joe Grant Cay

/ˈd͡ʒəʊ ˈɡɹɑːnt ˈkiː/


McCartney Cay

The island is named after the first Chief Minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands, James Alexander George Smith McCartney (1945 - 1980).


Silly Cay

The island is named after Irish entrepreneur George Silly.


Mangrove Cay

/ˈmæŋ.ɡɹəʊv ˈkiː/

The island in the Bahamas is named for the presence of mangrove trees on the island.
The island in the Turks and Caicos Islands is named for the presence of red mangrove (“Rhizophora mangle”) trees.


Round Cay

The island is named for its rounded shape.


Grand Cay

/ˈɡɹænd ˈkiː/


Fort George Cay

/ˈfɔːt ˈdʒɔː(ɹ)dʒ ˈkiː/

The island is named after a former fort, named in turn after Saint George (d. 303).


Dragon Cay

/ˈdɹæ.ɡən ˈkiː/

The island is named after a rock formation shaped vaguely like a dragon.


Little Cayman

The name of the island is derived from caiman (“species of alligatorid”). The element little was added to distinguish the island from its neighbours in the Cayman Islands.

An island and district of the Cayman Islands.


Cayman Brac

Derived from the term cayman (“species of alligatorid”) and Scottish Gaelic brac (“bluff”). The island is named for its higher elevation when compared to the other Cayman Islands.


Prickly Pear Island

The island is named for the presence of prickly pear (“Opuntia sp.”).


Great Bird Island

The island is named for the abundance of birds found there.


Guiana Island

/ɡaɪˈɑː.nə ˈaɪ̯.lənd/


Booby Island

The island is named for the presence of boobies (“seabirds of the Sulidae family”).

Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis#English


Huevos

Derived from the plural form of Spanish huevo (“egg”). The island is named for the ease of gathering iguana and bird eggs there.


Caledonia Island

The island was given its name by a former owner of Scottish descent.


Craig Island

The island was named by one of its former owners.


Nelson Island

Named after a former owner of the island (one Dr. Neilson). When the owner lost his land grant, the island began to be referred to by its current name.


Monos

Derived from the plural form of Spanish mono (“monkey”). The island formerly housed Guyanan red howlers (“Alouatta macconnelli”).


Chacachacare

/ʃɑ.kə.ʃəˈkɑː.ɹi/

Possibly derived from a compound of a Native American term meaning cotton and the name of estate owner Don Geraldo Carry.


Lenagan Island

Named after a former owner of the island, businessman Louis Lenagan.


Gaspar Grande

/ˈɡæs.pɑɹ ˈɡɹɑn.deɪ/

Derived from the name of its first owner (Gaspar de Percin Roque) and Spanish grande (“great, big”).


Soldado Rock

/səlˈdɑː.dəʊ ˈɹɒk/

Derived from Spanish soldado (“soldier”). The toponym refers to the rescue of Spanish soldiers and civilians from the island.


Farallon Rock

/ˈfæɹ.ə.lən ˈɹɒk/

Derived from Spanish farallón (“stack, sea cliff”).


Carrera Island

/kəˈɹæɹ.ə ˈaɪ̯.lənd/

Probably from Spanish carrera (“race”), but the reason why is unknown. From at least the 18th century.

Boysie landed four years’ hard labour in the jail on Carrera Island, off the north-east tip of Trinidad, a place with rat big like cat running wild.

2024, Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh, Faber & Faber, page 20:


Saut d'Eau

Derived from French saut d’eau (“waterfall”).


Goat Island

/ˈɡəʊt ˈaɪ̯.lənd/

An island in Niagara Falls, Niagara river, on the border of United States and Canada, shared between New York State and Ontario, splitting the American Falls from the Canadian Falls.

Hochelaga Archipelago
Hochelaga Archipelago#English

Saint Lawrence River
Saint Lawrence River#English

An island in Hochelaga Archipelago, Saint Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, co-terminous with the neighbourhood Goat Island, located offshore to the south of Lachine, Montreal Island, at the Lachine Rapids, next to and to the north of Heron Island


Sanibel

From Spanish Sanibel, from San Nibel. from Santa Ybel, from santa+Isabella. From being named after Queen Isabella I of Castille and Saint Elizabeth (Santa Isabella), the mother of John the Baptist.
The city is named after the island upon which it sits. From Spanish Puerto de Sanibel, from Puerto de San Nibel.

A city on Sanibel Island, Lee County, Florida, United States.


Culpepper Island

Named after a family of settlers which inhabited the island in the past.


Frigate Island

Probably named after the abundance of frigatebirds on the island (or in the area).


Glover Island

An island in Grand Lake, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.


Sugar Loaf Island

/ˈʃʊɡ.ə(ɹ)ˈləʊf ˈaɪ̯.lənd/

The island is named for its shape, which resembles a sugar-loaf.


Caille Island

Derived from French caille (“quail”). The island was named for the presence of a quail species.


Union Island

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines#English

An island in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.


Petite Dominique

Derived from French petit (“small”) and the toponym Dominique. The island was named after Dominica. Compare Petit Canouan, Petit Nevis, Petit Saint Vincent, Petite Martinique and Petite Mustique.


Petit Saint Vincent

Derived from French petit (“small”) and the toponym Saint Vincent. The island was named after Saint Vincent. Compare Petit Canouan, Petit Nevis, Petite Dominique, Petite Martinique and Petite Mustique.


Tobago Cays

An archipelago in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.


Five Islands

The group is named for the presence of five islands within it. There are actually six islands, but two of them (Caledonia Island and Craig Island) were joined by a causeway in the past and were counted as a single island.


Dog Islands

The islands are named for the former presence of Caribbean monk seals (“Neomonachus tropicalis”). The barking of the seals was confused with that of dogs by early visitors.

An archipelago in the British Virgin Islands.


Church Cay

/ˈt͡ʃɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃ ˈkiː/


Sand Cay

The island is named for its sandy surface.


Palm Island

The island is named after its palm cover. The palms were planted by a former owner of the island and his wife.


Young Island

Named after British colonial administrator Sir William Young, 1st Baronet, of North Dean (1724 or 1725 - 1788).


Petit Canouan

Derived from French petit (“small”) and the toponym Canouan. Compare Petit Nevis, Petit Saint Vincent,
Petite Dominique, Petite Martinique and Petite Mustique.


Petit Nevis

Derived from French petit (“small”) and the toponym Nevis. Compare Petit Canouan, Petit Saint Vincent,
Petite Dominique, Petite Martinique and Petite Mustique.


Petite Mustique

Derived from French petit (“small”) and the toponym Mustique. Compare Petit Canouan, Petit Nevis, Petit Saint Vincent,
Petite Dominique and Petite Martinique.


Pribilof Islands

Named after Russian navigator Gavriil Pribylov.

named-after

An archipelago in the Bering Sea, now part of the state of Alaska


Lion Rock

From lion + rock.
* (Lion Rock, Kowloon): From being a rock formation having a form reminiscent of a crouching lion

The Kinmen Defense Command said the drone entered restricted airspace over Shiyu island just after noon.

[2022 September 1, “Taiwanese troops shoot down drone over island outpost”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-09-01:

The Kinmen command said in a statement on Tuesday evening that soldiers stationed on three islets — Dadan (大膽), Erdan (二膽) and Shiyu (獅嶼) — each detected a Chinese commercial drone flying in restricted areas near their respective outposts at about 4:23pm.

[2022 September 1, Chen Cheng-yu, Jake Chung, “Defense ministry lauded after action against drones”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-31, Front Page, page 1:

After the shoot-down of the drone, Taiwan’s military rushed extra drone jammers — which can disrupt signals of approaching drones — to its bases on Kinmen and Matsu Islands, said Maj. Gen. Chang Jun-Shen of the Kinmen Defense Command. The two islands, with substantial garrisons, send soldiers to Shiyu, or Lion Islet, the tiny outlying island where soldiers shot down the drone. Fewer than 20 soldiers are posted on the islet, defense analysts said.[…]
“There is no evidence these commercial drones flown over outlying islands, including Lion Rock, were under military control,” he said.

2022 September 10, Jane Perlez, Amy Chang Chien, quoting Drew Thompson, “Chinese Drones: The Latest Irritant Buzzing Taiwan’s Defenses”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-11, Asia Pacific:

An island in Kinmen County, Taiwan, in the Taiwan Strait, also known as Shi Islet


Santa Catalina Island

Santa Catalina Island (California)
Santa Catalina Island (Colombia)

Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County#English

An island of the Channel Islands in Los Angeles County, California, United States. .

An island off the coast of Colombia, named Isla Santa Catalina in Spanish.


Castle Rock

A number of rock outcrops, mountains and islands in various places around the world. Many of the settlements are named after rock outcrops.


St. Barts

You can spin out various possible futures for the island: In one version, disaster capitalists and bitcoin entrepreneurs arrive in their yachts and private jets, turning Puerto Rico into a crypto St. Barts; in another, post-capitalists build a paradise powered by solar microgrids, community gardens and the rebirth of local fisheries; […]

2018 September 12, Jeff Goodell, “The Perfect Storm: How Climate Change and Wall Street Almost Killed Puerto Rico”, in Rolling Stone:

Saint Barthélemy
Saint Barthélemy#English

(informal) Saint Barthélemy (an island and overseas collectivity of France in the Caribbean).


Xiyu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西嶼 (Xīyǔ).

Taiwan's first Mazu temple, dating back to the 14th century, can be found here, along with the ancient West Fort Xitai on Xiyu and a wealth of restored houses in the southern Fujian style.

2011, Phil Macdonald, “Strait Islands”, in Taiwan, 3rd edition (Travel), National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 192, column 1:

There is much to see and do in Magong City and the adjacent township of Huxi, but even those staying on the islands for just one night should make good use of the bridges and causeways that provide access to the islands of Baisha and Xiyu.[…]
Xiyu was originally known as Yuweng Island, which is why the beacon on its westernmost promontory is called Yuweng Island Lighthouse.

2018 June 4, “The Windswept Allure of Penghu”, in Taiwan Business TOPICS, archived from the original on 2020-09-25:

In the 11 years since he moved from Taipei to one of Taiwan’s outlying Penghu islands for the peace and fishing, Lin Chih-cheng has grown accustomed to the roar of PLA fighter jets puncturing the lull of the surf.
“If there’s a day where they don’t take off, it feels weird,” said Lin, an affable 61-year-old who runs a juice stall with his wife on the western Xiyu Islet.[…]
Xiyu also hosts a radar station that would give vital early warning of any planned attack.

2022 June 17, “On Taiwan’s frontline islands ‘life goes on’ as jets scream overhead”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-06-18:

An island in Xiyu, Penghu County, Taiwan.


Inishmeane

From Irish Inis Meáin, from inis (island) meáin (middle), literally "Middle Island".


Perfidious Albion

Calque of French perfide Albion. First coined by French poet and playwright Augustin Louis de Ximénès at the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars.

coin

Alternative form: perfidious Albion

Vice-President Dick Cheney viewed the move by Britain—“perfidious Albion,” as he put it—as “a stab in the back,” according to a former senior intelligence official.

2009 March 30, Dick Cheney, quotee, “Albion, I stab at thee”, in The Economist, →ISSN:

international relations
international relations

(poetic or international relations, derogatory) The United Kingdom, seen as a country that is manipulative, deceptive, or treacherous on the international stage.

perfide Albion

pejorative phrase referring to the United Kingdom


Gilbert Islands

Named after Thomas Gilbert (sea captain).

Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Gilbert and Ellice Islands#English

A chain of islands and atolls forming the main part of Kiribati, historically part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.


Liverpolitan

Influenced by similar terms Neapolitan, metropolitan. Possibly popularized as a more high-class alternative to Liverpudlian.

Indeed, the Liverpolitan accent had more in common with that spoken in surrounding parts of Lancashire in 1914 than it does today.

2005, Helen B. McCartney, Citizen Soldiers, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 86:


Liverpolitan

The man, it will be seen, was himself a Liverpolitan, and I dare say he voiced very fairly the general Liverpolitan sentiment in these matters.

1907, Dixon Scott, Liverpool, A. and C. Black, page 112:


Ambergris Caye

The island is likely named after the presence of ambergris on the island.


Laughing Bird Caye

/ˈlɑːf.ɪŋ ˈbɜːd ˈkiː/

The island formerly hosted a breeding population of laughing gulls (“Leucophaeus atricilla”).


St. George's Caye

The island was named after Saint George (d. 303) by English settlers, replacing the earlier Spanish name of the island.


Tobacco Caye

The island was likely named for the cultivation of tobacco.


Viti Levu

The largest island of Fiji, where the capital, Suva, is situated.


Bear Island

Calque of Dutch Beeren Eiland, Bereneiland, from beer (“bear”) + eiland (“island”).


Saint Christopher

From Christopher. In reference to the Caribbean island, a calque of Spanish San Cristóbal. Doublet of San Cristobal and Saint Kitts.

doublet

(historical) Former name of Saint Kitts, an island in Saint Kitts and Nevis.


Bạch Long Vĩ

/ˌbɑːk ˌlɒŋ ˈviː/

Borrowed from Vietnamese Bạch Long Vĩ (白龍尾).

An island in Bạch Long Vĩ, Hải Phòng, Vietnam, in the Gulf of Tonkin.


Kanaky

New Caledonia (an archipelago and overseas territory of France in Oceania).


woodkern

From wood + kern. Calque of Irish ceithearn choille.

(historical) In medieval Ireland, a bandit operating in the forest.


Ioto

A macronless form of Iōtō, romanization of a separate pronunciation of the same Japanese name as Iwo Jima, officially adopted within Japan since 2007.

Synonym of Iwo Jima, one of the Volcano Islands administered by Japan as part of Tokyo's Ogasawara Subprefecture.


Ioshima

/ˈioʊˌʃiːmə/

A macronless form of Iōshima, an alternate—and technically incorrect—pronunciation of the same Japanese name as Iwo Jima.


Molene

From French Molène, from Breton Molenez, from moal (“bald”) + enez (“island”), from a lack of trees.

An archipelago around the island off Brittany, France.


Phillip Island

An island in Bass Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia.

An island off Norfolk Island, a territory of Australia.


Westray

From Old Norse vestr (“west”) + ey (“island”).

An island, one of those in Orkney Islands council area, Scotland.


Devil's Island

Devil or devil and island
* (Bermuda): Calque from Portuguese. From the calls of the cahow (“Bermuda petrel”), mistaken for calls of ghosts and spirits
* (French Guiana): Calque of French Île du Diable From the notorious conditions on the penal exile island

(historical) Former name of Bermuda. An archipelago in North America, in the Atlantic

Salvation Islands
Salvation Islands#English

An island in the Salvation Islands, Caribbean, Atlantic


Flood Rock

Long Island Sound
Long Island Sound#English

(historical) An islet and reef in New York City, New York State, United States in Hell Gate, East River, New York Harbor, at the narrow end of Long Island Sound, A former rocky islet and rock reef that was destroyed in 1885 to clear the channel of this navigation hazard, that was mostly submerged at high tide, becoming a 9-acre island at low tide.


Lismore

From Irish lios mór and Scottish Gaelic Lios Mòr.

An island in Loch Linnhe, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NM84).


Easdale

A small island and settlement in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NM7317).


Xiju

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 西莒 (Xījǔ).

This is the southernmost inhabited island in the Matsu archipelago, actually consisting of two islands, Dongju and Xiju.[…]Xijyu^([sic]) is a little more lively, but you'll likely be the main attraction, given the island's lack of actual tourist sights.

2011, Phil Macdonald, “Strait Islands”, in Taiwan, 3rd edition (Travel), National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 206, column 1:

Three ferries per day sail from Nangan to Xiju’s Qingfan Port and Dongju’s Mengao Harbour (departs 🕘 07.00, 11.00 & 14.30; takes 50mins; NTD200 one-way). These boats sometimes stop at Dongju before Xiju; confirm the first destination when buying your ticket. Sailing time between Xiju and Dongju is 15 minutes. Ferries return to Nangan right away.

2014, Steven Crook, Taiwan (Bradt Guides), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 328:

The islands of Jyuguang Township (莒光鄉; Jǔguāng xiāng), Dongju (東莒; Dōngjǔ; Tongchu) and Xiju (西莒; Xījǔ; Hsichu), are the most southerly of Matsu’s islands. Both are remote and sparsely inhabited, but there's some pretty scenery.

2017 May, Piera Chen, Dinah Gardner, “Taiwan's Islands”, in Lonely Planet Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 10th edition (Travel), Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 299:

In the past, stowaways often used intermediaries at sea to pick them up and take them to Nangan (南竿) or Xiju (西莒) islands to wait for an opportunity to sneak into Taiwan proper, she said.

2019 June 19, “Matsu authorities aim to crack down on smuggling”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-06-18, Taiwan News, page 2:

In addition to daily flights often disrupted by fog between March and May from and to Taiwan proper, ferries are the main means of transportation between Taiwan and Matsu and between islands in Matsu, including services from Nangan to Jyuguang Township two main islands -- Dongju and Xiju.

2023 March 6, Joseph Yeh, “Taiwan military plane taking meat to frontline troops amid supply shortage”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2023-03-06, Politics:

An island in Juguang, Lienchiang County, Taiwan, in the Matsu Islands.


Dongju

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 東莒／东莒 (Dōngjǔ).

The main Nationalist island bases off Fukien include Big and Little Quemoy, which are within artillery range of Communist-held Amoy; Matsu, forty miles northeast of Foochow, and the Paichuan Islands (Hsichuan and Tungchuan), about fifteen miles southeast of Matsu. Among the major Chekiang bases are the Yüshan Islands, about 160 miles southeast of Shanghai; the Tachen Islands, about thirty miles southeast of Haimen on Taichow Bay, and Peishan about forty miles northeast of Wenchow.

[1972 [1952 November 24], Henry R. Lieberman, “Islands Outposts for War on Peiping”, in O. Edmund Clubb, editor, China, Arno Press, sourced from Hong Kong, The New York Times, December 7, 1952, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 161, column 2:

This is the southernmost inhabited island in the Matsu archipelago, actually consisting of two islands, Dongjyu (Dongju) and Sijyu (Xiju).

2007, Phil Macdonald, “Straits Islands”, in National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, 2nd edition, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 206, column 1:

This is the southernmost inhabited island in the Matsu archipelago, actually consisting of two islands, Dongju and Xiju. About 600 civilians live on the islands, most in the village of Dapu, in the center of Dongju. At the island's northern tip is the Dongju Lighthouse, buijt by the British after the Opium Wars of the mid-19th century and still in use.

Located in the border area of Matsu, Dongju Island (formerly known as Dongquan) has developed relatively slowly compared to the other three townships in Matsu. However, this has also preserved the natural resources, geographical landscapes, and historical assets of Juguang Township.

2023 September 14, “Dongju Community Development Association [東莒社區發展協會]”, in Ministry of Culture, archived from the original on 2023-11-04, Community Builders:


Tsing Yi

The police have not caught the arsonists who burned the ship off Tsing Yi Island on Jan. 9, 1972. The fire was officially attributed to sabotage.

1997 January 5, Reuters, “Hong Kong to Build Port At Site of Sunken Liner”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-12-27, Section 1, page 7:

A coach carrying Cathay Pacific employees to Hong Kong’s airport collided with a stationary taxi on Tsing Sha Highway in Tsing Yi island at around 4.54am, crushing both vehicles.

2018 November 30, Jennifer Creery, “Footage of deadly coach crash emerges, as Hong Kong leader says ‘too early’ to determine cause”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-10-06, Hong Kong:

The back half of the taxi was completely crushed and both sides of the bus were damaged with traces of blood on the outside following the crash on the island of Tsing Yi.

2018 November 30, “Five dead, 32 injured in Hong Kong coach crash”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2018-11-30, Live news:

Tsing Ma Bridge (Figure 63.31), a highway-railway bipurpose suspension bridge on the freeway between the new airport and the urban district, connecting the Tsing Yi Island and Mawan Island in Hong Kong, is the world's longest of its kind.

2021, Bridge Engineering Handbook, volume 3, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 63-35:

An island in Kwai Tsing district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


Banaba

The last decent rain on Banaba was more than a year ago. […] Alofa says elders would like to see Australia and New Zealand fund a team of researchers to travel to Banaba to assess the damage and repair the caves.

2021 June 8, Joshua Mcdonald, “The island with no water: how foreign mining destroyed Banaba”, in The Guardian:

An island in Kiribati, in the Pacific Ocean, a former site of phosphate mining.


Kolhufushi

Borrowed from Dhivehi ކޮޅުފުށި (koḷufuṣi), from ކޮޅު (koḷu, “end”) + ފުށި (fuṣi, “islet”).

af

An inhabited island of Mulaku Atoll, Maldives.


Shektongtsui

(historical) A district of Victoria, Hong Kong, United Kingdom


Ha Wan

(historical) A district of Victoria, Hong Kong, United Kingdom.


Kennedy Town

Named after Arthur Kennedy, the 7th Governor of British Hong Kong.


Bowrington

Named after John Bowring, the 4th Governor of British Hong Kong.


Ap Lei Chau

From Cantonese 鴨脷洲／鸭脷洲 (aap³ lei⁶ zau¹).

An island in Southern district, Hong Kong.


Ma Wan

The developers, a group of Hong Kong construction professionals, said work would start on the park, on Ma Wan island, in late 2001, and will be completed in 2003.

2000 November 26, “BUSINESS: DIARY; Ski Hong Kong (You Read It Right)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-07-17:

Ma Wan, an island between Lantau and Tsing Yi in Hong Kong, is best known today for the Park Island residential development.

2022 March 21, Stuart Heaver, “The little island that could have been Hong Kong, but for a British naval officer’s bad weather day 230 years ago”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-03-20, Travel & Leisure:

An island in Tsuen Wan district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


Aegean Islands

Meronyms: Crete, Cyclades, Dodecanese, Ionian Islands, Saronic Islands, Sporades


Leros

Hugely expensive “closed controlled” holding facilities have replaced squalid camps on Samos, Leros and Kos, and similar centres for asylum seekers are expected to open in Lesbos and Chios this year.

2023 February 26, Helena Smith, “Greece fortifies border to block refugees from Turkish-Syrian earthquakes”, in The Guardian:

An island and municipality of Greece, part of the Dodecanese in the southeastern Aegean Sea.


Scexit

Blend of Scotland + exit, by analogy with Brexit.

As Brexit becomes a settled fact of life, it will still be a cause of remainer grievance. But it could also fuel reluctance to go through the same trauma all over again as “Scexit”. […] The message that Scexit would be even worse than Brexit can still be delivered, just not by Johnson himself.

2021 February 9, Rafael Behr, “Sturgeon and Johnson have made Scottish independence seem inevitable. It isn't”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics) The (possible) act of Scotland becoming independent from the United Kingdom.


Peleng

The Indonesian islands of Taliabu, Peleng and Batudaka are in a region named Wallacea, after Alfred Russel Wallace, the 19th-century naturalist who developed a theory of evolution alongside Charles Darwin’s.

2020 January 9, Karen Weintraub, “Trove of New Bird Species Found on Remote Indonesian Islands”, in The New York Times:

Central Sulawesi
Central Sulawesi#English

An island of the Banggai archipelago, in the province of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.


Batudaka

An island of the Togian archipelago, in the province of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.


Floreana

From Spanish isla Floreana, from floreana, from Ecuadorian president Juan José Flores + -ana (“-an: forming adjectives”), a name bestowed in 1832 upon Ecuador's annexation of the Galapagos Islands.

An island in San Cristobal canton, Galapagos, Ecuador.


Rum Cay

From the loss of a vessel transporting rum on its reefs. Its identity with Christopher Columbus's Santa María de la Concepción is disputed.


Duke of Norfolk's Island

Bestowed by William Ambrosia Cowley in 1684 honor of Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk; his son Henry, the 7th duke; or both.

(historical) Former name of Santa Cruz, an island in Galapagos, Ecuador.

Duke of Norfolk's Island
Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk
Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk
William Ambrosia Cowley


King Charles's Island

Bestowed by William Ambrosia Cowley in 1682 in honor of Charles II, the then-reigning king of England.

(historical) Former name of Floreana, an island in Galapagos, Equador.

Charles II of England
King Charles's Island
William Ambrosia Cowley


San Cristobal

From Spanish San Cristóbal, various places named in honor of Saint Christopher, q.v. Doublet of Saint Christopher and Saint Kitts.


Indefatigable

Named by the British Admiralty in honor of the HMS Indefatigable.

Synonym of Santa Cruz, an island in Galapagos, Ecuador.

HMS Indefatigable (1784)
Indefatigable Island


DDJ

deputy district judge
deputy district judge#English

(law, Hong Kong, England, Wales) Abbreviation of deputy district judge.


Silicon Roundabout

Before long, Silicon Roundabout had indeed been adopted by estate agents, local councillors and even No 10. Silicon Roundabout became the cornerstone of the government's new Tech City strategy, whose idea was to nurture our little homegrown tech district to see if it couldn't be fanned into full flame.

2014 March 10, Cory Doctorow, “The slow death of Silicon Roundabout”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Silicon Roundabout started as a very British joke. When the now-defunct travel social networking company Dopplr moved from above a pub in Hoxton to 100 City Road beside Old Street Roundabout in March 2008, they found not only more space but a burgeoning social scene.

2020, Chris McMillan, “Producing Cool”, in The London Dream: Migration and the Mythology of the City, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:

Less than a year earlier, Tech Hub, London’s first tech-focused co-working space, had also closed down, citing falling demand and rising rents. Insiders say London’s tech sector is now as strong as it has ever been, but is the closure of these spaces evidence that Cameron’s Silicon Roundabout vision failed, or that it succeeded?

2021 September 16, Oscar Williams, “The last days of Silicon Roundabout”, in The New Statesman:

(UK, humorous) East London Tech City, a technology cluster in Shoreditch, East London.