(historical) A British protectorate from 1892 and colony from 1916 until 1976, when the islands were divided into two colonies that shortly afterward became the countries of Kiribati and Tuvalu.

The small islands and atolls in the Hawaiian island chain located northwest (in some cases, far to the northwest) of the islands of Kauai and Niihau.

a group of islands near Puerto Rico, west of the U.S. Virgin Islands, separated by a channel from them, under the administration of Puerto Rico. They are part of the Virgin Islands chain but not part of the Virgin Islands archipelago, being separated by the Virgin Passage channel

A group of hundreds of small islands which lie in the Torres Strait, between Australia and New Guinea.

An extinct species of merganser, Mergus australis.

An archipelago that is a component of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the northern islands north of the Parry Channel (the Straight East-West Northwest Passage), west of the Nares Strait, and bounded on the north and west by the Arctic Ocean.

A group of islands off the coast of New Guinea, part of the Bismarck Archipelago.

(historical) Haida Gwaii.

A census-designated place in Ventura County, California, United States.

A province of Indonesia. Capital: Pangkal Pinang