List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

This is a List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands. Sub-antarctic islands are islands in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica north of the Antarctic Circle (66° 33' 38"). Antarctic islands are the islands in the Southern Ocean or in the seas around Antarctica south of the Antarctic Circle. According to the terms of the Antarctic Treaty, all islands south of 60°S don't belong to any country. This includes all of the antarctic islands and some of the sub-antarctic islands.

Antarctica and surrounding islands

List

A

* Adams Island, Antarctica ().
* Adelaide Island or Isla Adelaida or Isla Belgrano - west side of the Antarctic Peninsula ()
* Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land or Alexander The First Island or Isla Alejandro I () (claimed by the United Kingdom, Chile and Argentina, see Antarctic Treaty)
* Antipodes Islands ( (New Zealand)
** Antipodes Island () (New Zealand)
** Bollans Island () (New Zealand)
* Anvers Island or Antwerp Island or Antwerpen Island or Isla Amberes ()
* Auckland Islands (, New Zealand)
** Adams Island, New Zealand
** Adams Rocks
** Amherst Rock
** Archer Rock
** Auckland Island
** Beacon Rock
** Blanche Rock
** Chapel Rock
** Column Rocks
** Compadre Rock
** Davis Island
** Disappointment Island
** Dundas Island
** Enderby Island
** Ewing Island
** Fabulous Island
** Figure of Eight I
** Five Sisters Rock
** Frenchs Island
** Friday Island
** Green Island
** Invercauld Rock
** Lantern Rocks
** Masked Island
** Monumental Island
** Ocean Island
** Pillar Rock
** Pinnacle Rocks
** Rose Island
** Shag Rock
** Shoe Island
** Sugar Loaf Rocks
** Yule Island

B

* Balleny Islands () (claimed by New Zealand, see Antarctic Treaty)
** Buckle Island () (claimed by New Zealand, see Antarctic Treaty)
** Sabrina Island () (claimed by New Zealand, see Antarctic Treaty)
** Sturge Island () (claimed by New Zealand, see Antarctic Treaty)
** Young Island () (claimed by New Zealand, see Antarctic Treaty)
* Bear Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Bearing Island or Direction Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Berkner Island or Berkner Ice Rise or Hubley Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Biscoe Islands (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Booth Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Bounty Islands () (New Zealand)
* Bouvet Island (Bouvetøya) () (Norway)
* Bowman Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Brabant Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Breaker Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Burke Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Burkett Islands () (under the Antarctic Treaty)

C

* Campbell Island group (New Zealand)
** Campbell Island ()
** Dent Island ()
** Folly Island or Folly Islands
** Jacquemart Island ()
* Carney Island ()
* Charcot Island or Charcot Land () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Chatham Islands () (New Zealand)
** Chatham Island ()
** Pitt Island ()
* Christine Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Cormorant Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Coulman Island () (inside of Ross Sea, claimed by New Zealand, see Antarctic Treaty)
* Crozet Islands (French: Îles Crozet or officially Archipel Crozet) (France)
** L'Occidental (Western Group)
*** Île aux Cochons (Pig Island) ()
*** Two major rocks
**** Brisants de l'Héroïne (Heroine Breakers)
**** Rochers de la Meurthe (Meurthe Rocks) ()
*** Île des Pingouins (Penguin Island) ()
**** Brisant du Tamaris
**** la Chandelle
**** les Chaudrons de l'Enfer (maybe not an island, but a coastal section)
**** Île Riou
**** le Kiosque
**** Rocher de l'Arche
*** Îlots des Apôtres (Apostle Islets) ()
**** le Caillou
**** le Clown
**** le Donjon
**** l'Enclume
**** la Grande Aiguille
**** Grand Île (the biggest island of the Îlots des Apôtres)
**** le Hangar
**** les Jumeaux
**** l'Obélisque
**** Rocher Percé
**** la Petite Aiguille
**** Petite Île (the second biggest island of the Îlots des Apôtres)
**** Rocher Fendu
**** Rocher Nord (the third biggest island of the Îlots des Apôtres)
**** Rocher Sud
**** les Sentinelles du Diable
**** la Sentinelle Perdue
**** le Torpilleur
** L'Oriental (Eastern Group)
*** Île de la Possession (Possession Island) ()
**** Roche Carrée
**** Roche Debout
**** Rochers des Moines
**** Roche Percée
**** Rocher Pyramidal
**** Rochers de la "Fortune"
*** Île de l'Est (East Island) ()
**** la Voile (small rock south of Île de l'Est)
* Cuverville Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty) - west side of the Antarctic Peninsula

D

* Danco Island or Isla Dedo () (under the Antarctic Treaty) - west side of the Antarctic Peninsula
* Debenham Islands () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
** Barry Island ()
* Deception Island
* DeLaca Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Diego Ramirez Islands () (Chile)
* Direction Island or Bearing Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Doumer Island
* Dream Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Drygalski Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Dundee Island () - off tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, under the Antarctic Treaty

E

* Eichorst Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Elephant Rocks () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Enterprise Island or Isla Lientur or Isla Nansen Norte or North Nansen Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)

F

* Falkland Islands () (United Kingdom, claimed by Argentina)
* Flat Islands ()
* Fletcher Islands () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
** Fletcher Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)

G

* Grant Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)

H

* Halfway Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) () (Australia)
** Heard Island ()
** McDonald Islands ()
* Henderson Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Hermit Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Humble Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)

I

* Ildefonso Islands ()
* Inaccessible Island ()

J

* James Ross Island - east side of the Antarctic Peninsula (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Janus Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Jenny Island ()
* Joinville Island group
** Joinville Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty) - off tip of the Antarctic Peninsula
** D'Urville Island () - off tip of the Antarctic Peninsula (under the Antarctic Treaty)

K

* Kerguelen Islands () (France)

L

* Laggard Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Latady Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Liège Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Limitrophe Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Lipps Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Litchfield Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Livingston Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)

M

* Macquarie Island () (Australia)
* Manning Island ()
* McDonald Islands (Australia)
* Masson Island or Mission Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Mill Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Millerand Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)

N

* Nansen Island or Isla Nansen Sur () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Nelson Rock ()
* North Nansen Island or Enterprise Island or Isla Lientur or Isla Nansen Norte () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Neny Island or Neny Islands () (under the Antarctic Treaty)

O

* Ohlin Island or Bailys Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Outcast Islands () (under the Antarctic Treaty)

P

* Paulet Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty) - tiny island southeast of Dundee Island
* Peter I Island (claimed by Norway under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Petermann Island (Territory of New Oscland)
* Pobeda Ice Island
* Possession Islands () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
** Possession Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Prince Edward Islands () (South Africa)
** Marion Island ()
** Prince Edward Island ()

Q

R

* Renaud Island
* Robertson Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Rongé Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Roosevelt Island (inside of Ross Sea) (, claimed by New Zealand, see Antarctic Treaty)
* Ross Island (inside of Ross Sea) () (claimed by New Zealand, see Antarctic Treaty)
* Rouse Islands ()

S

* Saint-Paul Island (France)
* Scott Island () (claimed by New Zealand, see Antarctic Treaty)
* Shag Rocks
* Shepard Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Shortcut Island
* Siple Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* The Snares () (New Zealand)
* South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (de facto United Kingdom; claimed by Argentina)
** South Georgia and its associated islands
*** the main island (South Georgia Island) and its surrounding (=lying immediately next or close to the main island (South Georgia Island)) islands
**** South Georgia Island, the big main island () (variant names: Isla San Pedro, Isle of Georgia, South Georgia Island, Süd-Georgien or South Georgia Main Island or historically Pepys Island)
**** Bird Island ()
**** Annenkov Island ()
**** Cooper Island ()
**** Pickersgill Islands ()
**** Welcome Islands ()
**** Willis Islands ()
***** Trinity Island ()
**** Black Rocks ()
*** The Shag Rocks and the Black Rock
**** Shag Rocks () 185 km west-northwest of South Georgia Island
**** Black Rock () 169 km west-northwest of South Georgia Island and 16 km southeast of the Shag Rocks
*** Clerke Rocks () 56 km east-southeast of South Georgia Island
** South Sandwich Islands ()
*** Traversay and Candlemas Islands
**** Traversay Islands ()
***** Leskov Island
***** Visokoi Island
***** Zavodovski Island
**** Candlemas Islands ()
***** Candlemas Island
***** Vindication Island
*** Bristol Island
*** Montagu Island
*** Saunders Island
*** Southern Thule
**** Bellingshausen Island
**** Cook Island
**** Thule Island
* South Orkney Islands () (under the Antarctic Treaty, Argentina de facto claimed by the United Kingdom)
** Coronation Island
** Larsen Islands ()
** Laurie Island
** Inaccessible Islands ()
** Powell Island
** Robertson Islands or Robertsons Islands () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
** Signy Island
* South Shetland Islands () (claimed by Argentina/Chile/United Kingdom under the Antarctic Treaty)
** Bridgeman Island (minor) ()
** Clarence Island ()
** Cornwallis Island () (minor)
** Deception Island ()
** Elephant Island ()
** Gibbs Island ()
** Greenwich Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
** Half Moon Island (minor)
** King George Island or Île du Roi Georges or Isla 25 de Mayo or Isla Rey George or Isla Veinticinco de Mayo or King George's Island or König Georg Insel or Waterloo Island (the largest of the South Shetland Islands) ()
** Livingston Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
** Low Island ()
** Nelson Island ()
** Penguin Island () (minor - one of several Penguin Islands in the Antarctic region)
** Robert Island ()
** Rowett Island () (minor)
** Rugged Island () (minor - one of several in the Antarctic region)
** Seal Island ()
** Smith Island ()
** Snow Island ()
* Spaatz Island ()
* Split Rock ()
* Spume Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Stepping Stones () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Stonington Island () (under the Antarctic Treaty)
* Surge Rocks ()

T

* Thurston Island ()
* Torgersen Island ()
* Tower Island ()
* Trinity Island ()
* Archipelago of Tristan da Cunha and its associated islands (United Kingdom)
** Tristan da Cunha (), the relatively big main island (98 km²)
*** Inaccessible Island () (10 km²)
*** Nightingale Islands (2 km²)
**** Nightingale Island () (1.8 km²)
**** Middle Island (0.1 km²)
**** Stoltenhoff (0.1 km²)
** Gough Island () (Diego Alvarez) (91 km²)

U

V

W

* Welch Island ()
* Wiencke Island ()
* Williams Rocks ()
* Windmill Islands ()
** Allison Islands ()
** Ardery Island ()
** Austral Island ()
** Bailey Rocks ()
** Beall Island ()
** Birkenhauer Island (
** Boffa Island ()
** Borrello Island ()
** Bosner Island ()
** Bousquet Island ()
** Boving Island ()
** Cloyd Island ()
** Cronk Islands ()
** Denison Island ()
** Fitzpatrick Rock ()
** Ford Island ()
** Gibney Reef ()
** Griffith Island ()
** Hemphill Island ()
** Herring Island ()
** Holl Island ()
** Hollin Island ()
** Kilby Island ()
** McIntyre Island ()
** Odbert Island ()
** Peterson Island ()
** Pidgeon Island (
** Shirley Island ()
** Smith Islands ()

X

Y

Z

Sub-lists

* New Zealand sub-antarctic islands

See also

* List of islands
* List of islands in the Atlantic Ocean
* List of islands in the Pacific Ocean
* List of islands in the Indian Ocean
* List of islands in the Arctic Ocean

External links

* U.S. Geological Survey, Atlas of Antarctic Research