The British Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, and Jost Van Dyke, along with over fifty other smaller islands and cays.

The Pitcairn Islands consist of four islands: Pitcairn Island, Oeno Island, Henderson Island and Ducie Island:

The three main islands in the group consist of Spitsbergen ( the largest island ), Nordaustlandet and Edgeøya.

The U. S. Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of Saint Croix, Saint John, and Saint Thomas, along with the much smaller but historically distinct Water Island, and many other surrounding minor islands.

Most atolls of the Maldives consist of a large, ring-shaped coral reef supporting numerous small islands.

The Outer Islands consist of five groups of coralline islands:

They consist of the Sirani ( Christian descendants of the Portuguese ), of Malays, Papuans, and immigrants from other islands.

According to Paul Altman of Altman Realty the envisioned plan, would consist of two islands, one measuring in size, and would house new tourism based developments and upscale boutique shops ; while the second island would be in size, and would serve as an open national park.

These consist of the Dutch ABC islands just off the coast of Venezuela, plus a group of Venezuelan islands.

Venezuela is divided into 23 states ( estados ), 1 Capital District ( Distrito Capital ) and the Federal Dependencies ( Dependencias Federales de Ultramar ) that consist of a large number of Venezuelan islands.

They consist of four larger islands, Büyükada (" Big Island ") with an area of, Heybeliada (" Saddlebag Island ") with an area of, Burgazada (" Fortress Island ") with an area of, Kınalıada (" Henna Island ") with an area of, and five much smaller ones, Sedef Adası (" Mother-of-Pearl Island ") with an area of, Yassıada (" Flat Island ") with an area of, Sivriada (" Sharp Island ") with an area of, Kaşık Adası (" Spoon Island ") with an area of, and Tavşan Adası (" Rabbit Island ") with an area of.

The South China Sea Islands consist of over 250 around 1-km < sup > 2 </ sup > islands, atolls, cays, shoals, reefs, and sandbars in the South China Sea, most of which have no indigenous people, many of which are naturally under water at high tide, some of which are permanently submerged.

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, these three regions, together with their islands, consist of:

The Babuyan Islands consist of five major islands: Babuyan Island, Calayan, Camiguin, Dalupiri, and Fuga.

The land mass referred to as Sheppey comprises three main islands: Sheppey, the Isle of Harty and the Isle of Elmley ( it was once known as the Isles of Sheppey before the channels separating them silted up ), but the marshy nature of the land to the south of the island means that it is so crossed by channels and drains as to consist of a multitude of islands.

The islands consist of a granitic geological formation, which has been subjected to erosion by sea and wind.

It is also somewhat confusing as Mainland Japan is defined to consist of several major islands ( Hokkaidō, Honshū, Kyūshū, Shikoku ) and many minor ones.

The Bonin Islands consist of three subgroups, which are listed below, along with their main islands:

The Great Lakes islands consist of 35, 000 islands ( scattered throughout Great Lakes ) created by uneven glacial activity in the Great Lakes Basin.

The islands are formed of marine limestone and dolostone that was uplifted during the late Miocene epoch.

: Basse-Terre is volcanic in origin with interior mountains ; Grande-Terre is low limestone formation ; most of the seven other islands are volcanic in origin

A number of islands off the coast of New Guinea have their own distinctive habitats, including the limestone islands of Biak, in the entrance to the large Cenderawasih Bay at the northwest end of the island.

Bands of limestone emerge from the Earth's surface in often spectacular rocky outcrops and islands.

The Florida Keys, islands off the south coast of Florida, are composed mainly of oolitic limestone ( the Lower Keys ) and the carbonate skeletons of coral reefs ( the Upper Keys ), which thrived in the area during interglacial periods when sea level was higher than at present.

* The Loyalty Islands, a hundred kilometers to the east, are coral and limestone islands built on top of ancient collapsed volcanoes originating due to subduction at the Vanuatu trench.

The southern islands are limestone, with level terraces and fringing coral reefs.

The southern islands are limestone, with level terraces and fringing coral reefs.

The landscape is low, limestone hills, rather than the steep volcanoes of many Indonesian islands.

The West-Estonian islands are lowlying plains resting on limestone, their average elevation being about 15 meters above sea level.

Natural resources on the islands include small deposits of gold, copper, coal, natural gas, limestone, marble, and asbestos.

The eight main islands and more than 299 smaller islands have a total land area of, primarily of low, flat limestone with extensive marshes and mangrove swamps and of beach front.

Freshwater floats in a layer known as " Ghyben / Herzberg lens " above the seawater that permeates the limestone and coral sands of the islands.

The National Park features a long peninsula with a sheltered bay, coastal dunes, swamps and a spectacular coastline of islands, reefs, limestone cliffs and white surf beaches.

This is a shale, slate, and limestone formation created 450 millions of years ago when a chain of volcanic islands collided with proto North America.

This is a shale, slate, and limestone formation created four hundred fifty millions of years ago when a chain of volcanic islands collided with proto North America.

The bay consists of a dense cluster of over 3, 000 limestone monolithic islands each topped with thick jungle vegetation, rising spectacularly from the ocean.

Another specific feature of Halong Bay is the abundance of lakes inside the limestone islands.

Made of carboniferous limestone, it is a continuation of the Mendip Hills, and two further continuations are the small islands of Steep Holm and Flat Holm.

The island chain geographically consists of two subgroups, a northern group of ten volcanic main islands, all are currently uninhabited ; and a southern group of five coralline limestone islands ( Rota, Guam, Aguijan, Tinian and Saipan ), all inhabited except Aguijan.

the town of Paldiski to Sillamäe, wherever limestone comes to the surface near the seashore ( see Baltic Klint ), as well as on the islands of the West Estonian archipelago.

In the pre-modern period arable farming was limited to the higher areas of the surrounding uplands, the fen islands and the so-called Townlands, an arch of silt ground around the Wash where the towns had their arable fields.

In Northern Europe, mutton and lamb feature in many traditional dishes, including those of the North Atlantic islands and of the United Kingdom, particularly in the western and northern uplands, Scotland and Wales.

The center of the bay is dominated by subtidal open water and extensive low-lying islands with areas of salt marsh, intertidal flats, and uplands important for colonial nesting waterbirds.

This variant of an oceanic climate is found in parts of coastal Iceland, the Faroe Islands, small sections of the Scottish Highlands, northwestern coastal areas of Norway reaching to 70 ° N on some islands, uplands near the coast of southwestern Norway, southern islands of Alaska and northern parts of the Alaskan Panhandle, the far south of Chile and Argentina, and a few highland areas of Tasmania and the Australian Alps.