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Not to be confused with eyelet.

For human anatomy, see Islets of Langerhans

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Mōkōlea Rock in Kailua Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i, 2.2 km off North Beach, Marine Corps Base Hawaii

An islet is a very small island.

Contents

1 Types
2 Synonymous terms
3 List of islets
4 References

Types

As suggested by its origin as islette, an Old French diminutive of "isle",^[1] use of the term implies small size, but little attention is given to drawing an upper limit on its applicability.

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.
Sandbar - An exposed sandbar is another type of islet.
Sea stack - A thin, vertical landform jutting out of a body of water.
Subsidiary islets - A more technical application is to small land features, isolated by water, lying off the shore of a larger island. Likewise, any emergent land in an atoll is also called an islet.
- Tidal island - Often small islands (not necessarily always islets) which lie off the mainland of an area, being connected to it in low tide and isolated in high tide.
River island - A small islet within the current of a river.
- Ait or eyot - A term for river islands that occur within the River Thames in England.

Synonymous terms

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Holm or Holmen is a common suffix too in Nordic and northern European countries ("holme" means "islet" in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, although the meaning is more precise: a holme in Swedish is usually big enough to have wood and some fresh water but too small for a village; smaller islets have other names – there is an intricate name system to make it possible to remember and recognize different islets, hundreds of which have been important in some archipelagos).
In the Caribbean and West Atlantic, islets are often called cays or keys. Rum Cay in the Bahamas and the Florida Keys off Florida are examples of islets.
In the Channel Islands, they are often identified by the suffix -hou from the Norse -holm.
In Scotland and Ireland, they are often called inches, from the Gaelic innis, which originally meant island, but has been supplanted to refer to smaller islands. In Ireland they are often termed skerries.
In and around Polynesia, islets are widely known by the term motu, from the term for the coral-rubble islets common to the region.

Polynesian Sunset With Motu - Photograph by Patty Mooney

In and around the River Thames in England, small islands are known as aits.

List of islets

There are thousands of islets on Earth: approximately 24,000 islands and islets in the Stockholm archipelago alone. The following is a list of example islets from around the world.

Águila Islet, the southernmost point of The Americas
Anton Rock, in Buck Lake, Ontario
Aplin Islet (Queensland)
Ásmundarstakkur, Faroe Islands
Ball's Pyramid, South Pacific
Bay Islet or See Chau, Hong Kong
Black Rock, South Atlantic
Blenkinsop Islet, British Columbia, Canada
Boundary Islet, Australia
Briggs Islet, southeastern Australia
Bushy Islet (Queensland)
Chão, in the Madeira Islands, Portugal
Cholmondeley Islet (Queensland)
Clubes Island, Brasília, Brazil
Columbretes Islands, Spain
Cone Islet, southeastern Australia
Douglas Islet (Queensland)
Dry Tortugas, Florida Keys, USA
Dugay Islet, southeastern Australia
Edwards Islet, southeastern Australia
Fairway Rock, Bering Strait
Fastnet Rock, Ireland
Filfla, southern Malta
Flinders Islet, South Coast NSW Australia
Formigas, in the Azores islands
Gáshólmur, Faroe Islands
Granite Island (Australia), Victor Harbor, South Australia.
Galatasaray Islet, Istanbul, Turkey
Hoy Islet, Lake Constance
Halfway Islet (Queensland)
Herald Island, Arctic Ocean
Imia/Kardak, Greece
Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom
Islets of Caroline Island, in Kiribati
Islets of Mauritius
Islote de las Nubes (Alborán), Western Mediterranean
Jardine Islet (Queensland)
Jethou, Bailiwick of Guernsey
Keelung Islet, off the northern shore of Taiwan
Kolbeinsey, Iceland
Liancourt Rocks, administered by South Korea, claimed by Japan
Lihou Island, Bailiwick of Guernsey
Lopransholmur, in Faroe Islands
Magra Islet (Queensland)
Managaha, Saipan
Martin Islet (New South Wales)
Mid Woody Islet, southeastern Australia
Milman Islet (Queensland)
Modia Islets, located in the Ionian Sea of the Western coast of Greece.
Monchique Islet, Europe's westernmost point, in the Azores, Portugal
Montecristo, off the shore of Italy
Oodaaq, Greenland
Parece Vela, West Pacific
Perejil Island, Strait of Gibraltar
Penguin Islet (Tasmania)
Rockall, North Atlantic
Saint Peter and Saint Paul rocks, equatorial Atlantic
Salas y Gómez, Northeast from Easter Island
Saunders Islet (Queensland)
Seacrow Islet, southeastern Australia
Shag Rocks, South Atlantic
Silver Islet, Ontario
Sinclair Islet (Queensland)
Skull Islet, in British Columbia, Canada
Star Keys/Motuhope, New Zealand
Saltholm, small Islet in Oresund west of Copenhagen
Sue Islet (Queensland)
Sumbiarholmur, Faroe Islands
Sunday Islet (Queensland)
Thomson Islet (Queensland)
Tindhólmur, Faroe Islands
Vilkitsky Island, Arctic Ocean
Wallace Islet (Queensland)
Wachusett Reef, Ernest Legouve Reef, and Maria Theresa Reef, South Pacific Ocean
Westward Islet, in the Pitcairn Islands

References

^ Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, 1958

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Landforms	Anchialine pool Avulsion Archipelago Atoll Ayre Barrier bar Barrier island Bay Baymouth bar Bight Brackish marsh Cape Channel Cliff Cliffed coast Cliff-top dune Coast Coastal plain Coastal waterfall Continental margin Continental shelf Coral reef Cove Dune Estuary Firth Fjard Fjord Flat coast Freshwater marsh Fundus Geo Graded shoreline Gulf Headland Inlet Intertidal wetland Island Islet Isthmus Lagoon Marine terrace Mouth bar Raised shorelines Machair Mega delta Mudflat Natural arch Peninsula Reef Ria River delta Rocky shore Salt marsh Shore Sound Stack Steep coast Strait Strand plain Submarine canyon Tied island Tidal island Tidal marsh Tide pool Tombolo More...

Beaches	Beach cusps Beach evolution Beach ridge Beachrock Modern recession of beaches Pocket beach Raised beach Storm beach Shingle beach

Processes	Blowhole Coastal erosion Concordant coastline Current Cuspate foreland Discordant coastline Emergent coastline Feeder bluff Fetch Headlands and bays Large scale coastal behaviour Longshore drift Marine regression Marine transgression Rip current Sea cave Sea foam Shoal Spit Submergent coastline Surf break Surf zone Surge channel Swash Volcanic arc Wave-cut platform Wave shoaling Wind wave Wrack zone

Management	Coastal management Accretion Integrated coastal zone management Submersion

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