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The following is a list of the major island groups of North America.

Arctic Ocean

  • Islands of the western Arctic Ocean:
  • Canadian Arctic Archipelago
  • Baffin Island, largest island of Canada and the world's 5th largest island
  • Victoria Island, world's 8th largest island
  • Banks Island, world's 24th largest island
  • Southampton Island, world's 34th largest island
  • Prince of Wales Island, world's 40th largest island
  • Somerset Island, world's 46th largest island
  • King William Island, world's 61st largest island
  • Bylot Island, world's 72nd largest island
  • Prince Charles Island, world's 78th largest island
  • Queen Elizabeth Islands
  • Alexander Island
  • Baillie-Hamilton Island
  • Borden Island, world's 171st largest island
  • Ellesmere Island, world's 10th largest island and 37th tallest island
  • Ward Hunt Island
  • Cornwall Island, world's 186th largest island
  • Eglinton Island, world's 249th largest island
  • Graham Island, world's 268th largest island
  • Lougheed Island, world's 275th largest island
  • Byam Martin Island, world's 298th largest island
  • Île Vanier, world's 302nd largest island
  • Cameron Island, world's 314th largest island
  • Brock Island
  • North Kent Island
  • Emerald Isle
  • Massey Island
  • Little Cornwallis Island
  • Coburg Island
  • Helena Island
  • Griffith Island
  • Hoved Island
  • Lowther Island
  • Buckingham Island
  • Beechey Island
  • Seymour Island
  • Browne Island
  • Cocked Hat Island
  • Crescent Island
  • Des Voeux Island
  • Dundas Island
  • Edmund Walker Island
  • Eight Bears Island
  • Ekins Island
  • Exmouth Island
  • Fairholme Island
  • Fitzwilliam Owen Island
  • Garrett Island
  • Grosvenor Island
  • Houston Stewart Island
  • Hyde Parker Island
  • Île Marc
  • John Barrow Island
  • Margaret Island
  • Nookap Island
  • Norman Lockyer Island
  • Patterson Island
  • Philpots Island
  • Pim Island
  • Pioneer Island
  • Princess Royal Island
  • Skraeling Island
  • Spit Island (Kate Island)
  • Stupart Island
  • Table Island
  • Thor Island
  • Truro Island
  • Devon Island, world's now moved down to second uninhabited landmass
  • Long Island, largest Atlantic island of the United States, most populous island of the United States, and the world's 17th most populous island
  • New York Barrier Islands
  • Block Island
  • Conanicut Island
  • Aquidneck Island (Rhode Island)
  • Elizabeth Islands
  • Martha's Vineyard
  • Nantucket Island
  • Monomoy Island
  • Boston Harbor Islands
  • Mount Desert Island, largest island of Maine
  • Cape Breton Island, world's 77th largest island
  • Prince Edward Island, world's 104th largest island
  • Anticosti Island, world's 90th largest island
  • Newfoundland, largest Atlantic island of Canada and the world's 16th largest island
  • Ile de Saint-Pierre
  • Ile de Miquelon, largest island of Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Islands of the west North Atlantic Ocean:

  • Flores Island (Azores)
  • Corvo Island

North Pacific Ocean

  • Islands of the eastern North Pacific Ocean:
  • Islands of the Bering Sea
  • Pribilof Islands
  • Saint Paul Island
  • St. George Island
  • Otter Island
  • Walrus Island
  • Saint Lawrence Island, world's 113th largest island
  • Diomede Islands
  • Big Diomede Island
  • Little Diomede Island
  • King Island
  • Saint Matthew Island
  • Karaginsky Island
  • Aleutian Islands
  • Fox Islands
  • Unimak Island, world's 134th largest island, world's 28th tallest island
  • Umnak Island, world's 223rd largest island
  • Unalaska Island, world's 174th largest island
  • Amaknak Island (Umaknak Island)
  • Akutan Island
  • Akun Island
  • Sanak Island
  • Islands of Four Mountains
  • Amukta Island
  • Chagulak Island
  • Yunaska Island
  • Herbert Island
  • Carlisle Island
  • Chuginadak Island
  • Uliaga Island
  • Kagamil Island
  • Andreanof Islands
  • Tanaga Island
  • Kanaga Island
  • Adak Island
  • Kagalaska Island
  • Great Sitkin Island
  • Little Tanaga Island
  • Atka Island, world's 313th largest island
  • Amlia Island
  • Seguam Island
  • Delarof Islands
  • Gareloi Island
  • Amatignak Island
  • Ilak Island
  • Kavalga Island
  • Ogliuga Island
  • Skagul Island
  • Tanadak Island
  • Ugidak Island
  • Ulak Island
  • Unalga Island
  • Rat Islands
  • Kiska Island
  • Little Kiska Island
  • Segula Island
  • Buldir Island
  • Near Islands
  • Commander Islands
  • Kodiak Archipelago
  • Kodiak Island, largest island of Alaska and the world's 80th largest island
  • Islands of the Gulf of Alaska
  • Montague Island
  • Alexander Archipelago
  • ABC Islands
  • Admiralty Island
  • Baranof Island
  • Chichagof Island, world's 109th largest island
  • Dall Island
  • Kupreanof Island
  • Prince of Wales Island, world's 97th largest island
  • Revillagigedo Island
  • Wrangell Island
  • Haida Gwaii
  • Graham Island, world's 101st largest island
  • Moresby Island
  • Vancouver Island, largest Pacific island of Canada and the world's 43rd largest island
  • Islands of the Salish Sea
  • Discovery Islands
  • Texada Island
  • San Juan Archipelago
  • Gulf Islands
  • San Juan Islands
  • Orcas Island, second largest island of Washington
  • Whidbey Island
  • Channel Islands of California
  • Santa Cruz Island, largest island of California
  • Isla de Cedros
  • Islands of the Gulf of California
  • Isla Ángel de la Guarda
  • Tiburón Island, largest island of Mexico
  • Guadalupe Island
  • Revillagigedo Islands
  • Isla Socorro
  • Islas Marías
  • Clipperton Island
  • Isla Espiritu Santo, largest island of El Salvador
  • Isla del Coco, largest island of Costa Rica
  • Isla de Coiba, largest island of Panama
  • Pearl Islands
  • Isla del Rey

Hawaii

  • Hawaii Islands
  • Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

Inland islands

  • Lake islands of North America:
  • Atlin Lake,
  • Theresa Island, highest elevation inside a freshwater lake in North America at 2059m
  • Lake Huron
  • Manitoulin Island, world's largest inland island
  • Saint Joseph Island, world's 8th largest inland island
  • Drummond Island, world's 9th largest inland island
  • Thirty Thousand Islands
  • Lake Superior
  • Isle Royale, world's 6th largest inland island
  • Saint Ignace Island, world's 12th largest inland island
  • Michipicoten Island, world's 19th largest inland island
  • Madeline Island
  • Lake Erie
  • Mohawk Island
  • Lake Ontario
  • Thousand Islands
  • Lake Washington
  • Mercer Island
  • Lake Nicaragua
  • Ometepe, 11th largest inland island
  • Isla Zapatera
  • Solentiname Islands
  • Great Slave Lake
  • Simpson Islands
  • Big Simpson Island, world's 13th largest inland island
  • Blanchet Island, world's 14th largest inland island
  • Preble Island, world's 20th largest inland island
  • Manicouagan Reservoir
  • René-Levasseur Island, world's largest artificial island