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Latin names of islands

Here are some listings of islands in Latin, and English on the right.

Latin[English], [other name], [older name], [island chain/region], [state/nation]
AeginaAegina, Greece (Aigina)
Insulis Aeolium?Aeolian Islands
AmorgosAmorgos, Aegean, Greece
Andros¹Andros
AnticostiIle d'Anticosti, Quebec
Anticythera¹Anticythera, Cythera, Greece
Antipoda¹Antipodes
Insula Australis?South Island, New Zealand
BalearicaBalearic Islands
Insula Borealis?North Island, New Zealand
BritanniaBritain
Calymnus¹, Calymnos¹Kalymnos, Dodecanese, Aegean, Greece
Canaris InsulaCanary Islands
Carpathos¹Carpathos, Dodecanese, Greece
Cassos¹Cassos, Dodecanese, Greece
Cauda?Cauda (Gauda/Gaf(v)da), Greece
Cephallenia¹Kefallinia, Cephallonia
CorcyraCorfu, Ionian, Greece (Kerkyra)
CorsicaCorsica
Cos¹Cos, Dodecanese, Aegean, Greece
CretaCrete (Kriti/Krete)
CubaCuba
Cyclades Ins.Cyclades
CyprusCyprus (Kypros)
Cynthos¹Cynthos, Cyclades, Aegean, Greece
Cythera¹Cythera, Kythera, Greece
Delos¹Delos, Cyclades, Aegean, Greece
DodecanesusDodecanese, Greece
DominicaDominica
EbususIbiza
Euboea¹Euboea, Greece
Helena, former name of MacronesusMakronisos (Macro-nesus)
HiberniaIreland
Icaria¹Icaria
ImbrosImbros Island
Ionia Ins.Ionian Islands
Ithaca¹Ithaca
Lemnos¹Lemnos
LerosLeros, Aegean, Greece
Lesbos¹Lesbos
Melitta¹Malta
Myconos¹Myconos
Nova Britannia OccidentalisNew West Britain, Papua New Guinea
Nova CaledoniaNew Caledonia
Nova HiberniaNew Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Nova TerraNewfoundland
OphiussaFormentera
OrcadiaOrkney Island, Scotland
ParosParos, Cyclades, Aegean, Greece
I. Prin. EduardusPrince Edward Island
Reg. Elis.Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut
Reg. Carlt.?Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia
Rho¹Ro, E of Rhodes, Greece
RhodusRhodes, Dodecanese, Aegean, Greece
SalamisSalamis, Greece
SardiniaSardinia
Scyrus, ScyrosScyros, Sporades, Greece
SiciliaSicily
Skopelos, Sc?opelosSkopelos, Sporades, Greece
StrophadesStrophades, S of Zante, Greece
SyrosSyros
ThasosThasos, Aegean, Greece
ZelandiaZealand, Zeeland
Zycanthus, ZacynthusZante (Zakynthos), Ionian, Greece

See also

External Links

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