Portal:Islands

The Islands Portal

A view of some of the Thousand Islands, photographed in 2015 from atop the 1000 Islands Tower, facing northwest. The Thousand Islands are a North American archipelago of 1,864 islands that straddles the Canada–US border in the St. Lawrence River as it emerges from the northeast corner of Lake Ontario.

This is a list of the lists of islands in the world grouped by country, by continent, by body of water, and by other classifications. For rank-order lists, see the other lists of islands below. (Full article...)

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Amchitka Island from space

Amchitka Island (/æmˈtʃɪtkə/; Aleut: Amchixtax̂;) is a volcanic, tectonically unstable and uninhabited island in the Rat Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in southwest Alaska. It is part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. The island, with a land area of roughly 116 square miles (300 km2), is about 42 miles (68 km) long and 1 to 4 miles (1.6 to 6.4 km) wide. The area has a maritime climate, with many storms, and mostly overcast skies.

Amchitka was populated for more than 2,500 years by the Aleut people, but has had no permanent population since 1832. The island has been part of the United States since the Alaska Purchase of 1867. During World War II, it was used as an airfield by US forces in the Aleutian Islands Campaign. (Full article...)

Selected cuisines, dishes and foods –

Indonesian cuisine is a collection of regional culinary traditions of the various ethnic groups that form the archipelagic nation of Indonesia. There are a wide variety of recipes and cuisines in part because Indonesia is composed of approximately 6,000 populated islands of the total 17,508 in the world's largest archipelago, with more than 600 ethnic groups.

There are many regional cuisines, often based upon indigenous cultures, with some foreign influences. (Full article...)

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Credit: NASA (Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC)
Satellite view of Hawaii archipelago

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General images –

The following are images from various island-related articles on Wikipedia.

WikiProjects

WikiProject Islands WikiProject Geography

Topics

Categories

Islands
Islands by body of water
Islands by city
Islands by continent
Islands by country
Islands by dependent territory
Islands by type
Lists of islands
Categories by island
Archipelagoes
Car-free islands
Island countries
Disputed islands
Islands in fiction
Former islands
Island Games
Insular ecology
International islands
Private islands
Island resorts
Island restoration
Sacred islands
Songs about islands
Island stubs
Wikipedia categories named after islands

Associated Wikimedia

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Things to do
Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
  • Assess : Locate and tag all relevant article talk pages with the project's banner: {{WikiProject Islands|class=|importance=}}. Remember to properly assess all articles, using the project's quality-scale. Assess the backlog of unassessed articles in Category:Unassessed Islands articles.
  • Infobox : If an article needs it, add {{Infobox islands}}, filling in the relevant information.
  • Maintain : Island
  • Photo : If the article doesn't include either a photo or map, tag the talk page with either {{photo requested}} or {{map requested}}.
  • Other : Add links to the Islands Portal to island articles using {{Portal|Islands}}

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