It was on the islet of Stac an Armin, St Kilda, Scotland, in July 1840, that the last Great Auk seen in the British Isles was caught and killed.

The protracted period of war between the Lithuanians and the Teutonic Knights was ended on 12 October 1398 by the Treaty of Salynas, named after the islet in the Neman River where it was signed.

During Venetian rule in the early 16th century, a monastery was built on the islet and a leprosarium established later in the century, after which the island was named.

In 1798, during the French occupation, the islet was occupied by the Russo-Turkish fleet, who ran it as a military hospital.

On one voyage across the Aegean Sea in 75 BC, Julius Caesar was kidnapped by Cilician pirates and held prisoner in the Dodecanese islet of Pharmacusa.

The islet of Akaiami was used as a resting stop for passengers, who often lay about until the aircraft was refuelled for two hours.

According to later tradition, Sun Quan was born on Sunzhou (" Sun Island ", later Wangzhou-" King's Island "), an islet at the intersection of the Fuchun River and one of its tributaries.

Local folklore relates a story about how Sun Quan's grandfather, Sun Zhong, was originally a melon farmer on the islet.

Snorri Sturluson claims in Olaf Tryggvson's saga that Olaf was born on an islet in Fjærlandsvatnet, where his mother Astrid daughter of Eirik Bjodaskalle, was hiding from her husband's killers, led by Harald Greyhide, the son of Eirik Bloodaxe.

A study of food-sharing practices on the West Caroline islets of Ifaluk determined that food-sharing was more common among people from the same islet, possibly because the degree of relatedness between inhabitants of the same islet would be higher than relatedness between inhabitants of different islets.

The Mojo islet was formed as part of this geological process in which Saleh Bay, collapsing into the caldera of the drained magma chamber, first appeared as a sea basin, about 25, 000 years ago.

The first settlement was probably restricted to a tiny islet in the Oker river.

The rocky islet where the woman had pointed her canoe towards doom thus was named Spirit Island which was once a nesting ground for eagles that fed on fish below the falls.

U. S. Marine Corps intelligence records and photographs at the U. S. National Archives, together with the testimony of U. S. veterans, indicate that there was a mass-burial site consolidated into one place on Kwajalein islet, at or near the current cemetery.

The islet of Rockall makes up the eroded core of an extinct volcano ( a volcanic plug ), and is one of the few pinnacles of the surrounding Helen's Reef.

* Bartolomé ( Bartholomew ) Island – Bartolomé Island is a volcanic islet just off the east coast of Santiago Island in the Galápagos Islands group.

In the sound between Mykines and Mykineshólmur, Holmgjogv, one can see one of the most copious such flows on the Faroes, with a depth of about 50 m. The interspersed layers of softer volcanic tuff between the layers of basalt are differentially eroded, so forming, especially on the steep northern side of the islet, some of the richest bird cliffs in the world.

The European rock is usually identified with an islet, about 20m wide and 200m long, which stands about 100m off the shore of a village called Rumeli Feneri (' Lighthouse of Rumeli ), and is connected to it by a modern concrete jetty.

Near this cave is the pyramidal rock islet of Am Buachaille (' The Herdsman '), a pile of basalt columns fully seen only at low tide.

* Rock-A " rock ", in the sense of a type of islet, is a landform composed of rock, lying offshore, uninhabited, and having at most minimal vegetation.

Garbh Sgeir ( Gaelic: ' rough skerry ') is a rock about 100 metres west of the islet Òigh-sgeir, in the Small Isles, Lochaber, Scotland.

Middle Ground islet is a piece of hard basalt rock, emerging from the creek bed, having an area of a few hundred square metres.

Garbh Sgeir is a rock that lies next to the islet and the landing place for Hyskeir lies in the channel between the two.

Midway between this islet and the rock the navigators sighted the Pago Pago harbor, which was marked by “ a conical hill on its western side and a flat elliptical topped hill to the eastward .” Leone village, large and prosperous, was sighted to the west of the island.

The Milton Loch interpretation is of a small islet surrounded or defined at its edges by timber piles and a gangway, topped by a typical Iron Age roundhouse.

The two found an islet near the western shore of Lake Texcoco surrounded by green water.

Kisimul sits on a rocky islet in the bay just off the coast of Barra, and as it is completely surrounded by the sea ; it can only be reached by boat making the fortification impregnable.

Originally built on a rocky islet, so that the fort was completely surrounded by water and accessible only by boat, nearby Isla de Cabras ( Goat Island ) was artificially expanded to incorporate it.

The islet is surrounded with aquifers equally and uniformly spread at the peripheral limits of the islet with white sand and pebbles.

It is built upon a rocky islet, and features a tower keep which is surrounded by granite walls and ramparts.

Nine competitors must swim out to a close-by islet surrounded by pounding surf, climb the cliffs to get an egg from the nest of a sooty tern and bring it back.

It contains the northernmost point of land, the islet of Y ' Ami in the Batanes Islands, separated from Taiwan by the Bashi Channel ( c. 50 mi / 80 km wide ).

The islet is claimed by Denmark ( for the Faroe Islands ), Iceland, Ireland and the United Kingdom.

The neighbouring Hasselwood Rock is visible by ocean surface wave | breakers directly to the right of the islet.

On his way across the Aegean Sea, he is kidnapped by Cilician pirates and held prisoner in the Dodecanese islet of Pharmacusa.

An unnamed islet off the north-eastern coast has been classified by BirdLife International as an important bird area because of its global importance as a Roseate Tern breeding site.

The islet on which it stood is now connected with the mainland by a narrow tongue of land.

The green islet centre left is Vulcanello, which is connected to Vulcano by an isthmus.

The bay is sheltered from the open sea by a long, narrow islet ( Sphacteria ).

North Uist has many prehistoric structures, including the Barpa Langass chambered cairn, the Pobull Fhinn stone circle, the Fir Bhreige standing stones, the islet of Eilean Dòmhnuill ( which may be the earliest crannog site in Scotland ), and the Baile Sear roundhouses, which were exposed by storms in January, 2005.

The islet, which sits within the rough crescent formed by the main island, is 6 square kilometres ( 1, 500 acres ) and extremely flat, rising no more than two meters above the sea.

Because the beta cells in the islets of Langerhans are selectively destroyed by an autoimmune process in type 1 diabetes, clinicians and researchers are actively pursuing islet transplantation as a means of restoring physiological beta cell function in patients with type 1 diabetes.

By the 1950s, the Marshallese population coming to work at the base at Kwajalein had grown, and the conditions in the makeshift labor camp on Kwajalein islet were such that the U. S. Navy administering the atoll at the time decided to relocate these Islanders to nearby Ebeye, an islet only three islands to the north of Kwajalein and accessible by a short boat ride or walk over the reef at low tide.

* The islet of Rockall, designated as an independent state by Greenpeace

Zadar was a Liburnian settlement, laid out in the 9th century BC, built on a small stone islet and embankments where the old city stands and tied to the mainland by the overflown narrow isthmus, which created a natural port in its northern strait.

The name Drottningholm ( literally meaning " Queen's islet ") came from the original renaissance building designed by Willem Boy, a stone palace built by John III of Sweden in 1580 for his queen, Catherine Jagellon.