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The Isle of Wight, off the southern mainland in the English Channel, and the Scilly Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean off the southwestern tip of the mainland, are considered part of England.
Scilly Islands consist of over 140 small islands and rocky islets.
Source : http://www.answers.com/England?cat=travel&gwp=11&method=3&ver=2.3.0.609
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 14y agoThe main "single" islands are:
Isle of Wight
Anglesey (& Holy Island)
Isle of Man
Lindisfarne
St Kilda
Ailsa Crag
Arran
Gigha
The archipelagoes are:
Scilly
Inner Hebrides
Outer Hebrides
Orkneys
Shetlands
In addition, there are several smaller islands.
In the Thames estuary and on the Essex coast there are low-lying islands that were once sandbanks.
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∙ 7y agoThe UK has over 6,000 islands however many of those islands are incredibly small and uninhabitable. Only 267 islands in the UK are permanently inhabited.
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∙ 6y agoThe major ones are the Channel Islands of which there are 4.
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