List of islands of the Great Lakes
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The Great Lakes islands consist of about 35,000 islands in the Great Lakes, a series of interconnected freshwater lakes on the Canada–United States border. The islands were created by uneven glacial activity in the Great Lakes Basin.
About 80% of the islands are located along the east side of Georgian Bay on the Canadian side of Lake Huron. These form the Thirty Thousand Islands, the world's largest freshwater archipelago.[1] Many more islands are to the west of Georgian Bay, including Manitoulin Island, the world's largest lake island.[2]
Largest islands
The following are regarded as the ten largest islands of the Great Lakes:[2]
- Manitoulin Island, Ontario (Lake Huron) 2,770 km2 (1,068 sq mi)
- Isle Royale, Michigan (Lake Superior) 535 km2 (207 sq mi)
- St. Joseph Island, Ontario (Lake Huron) 365 km2 (141 sq mi)
- Drummond Island, Michigan (Lake Huron) 350 km2 (140 sq mi)
- St. Ignace Island, Ontario (Lake Superior) 274 km2 (106 sq mi)
- Michipicoten Island, Ontario (Lake Superior) 184 km2 (71 sq mi)
- Cockburn Island, Ontario (Lake Huron) 169 km2 (65 sq mi)
- Beaver Island, Michigan (Lake Michigan) 145 km2 (56 sq mi)
- Sugar Island, Michigan (St. Marys River) 128 km2 (49 sq mi)
- Wolfe Island, Ontario (Lake Ontario) 120 km2 (48 sq mi) largest of the Thousand Islands
List of notable Great Lakes islands and archipelagos
- Adventure Island, Wisconsin
- Apostle Islands
- Ballast Island
- Barker's Island[citation needed]
- Bass Islands
- Beaver Island, Michigan
- Beaver Islands, including Beaver Island and nearby islands, see Beaver Islands State Wildlife Research Area
- Belle Isle
- Bois Blanc Island, Michigan
- Bois Blanc Island (Ontario)
- Calf Island, Grosse Ile, Michigan
- Cana Island
- Caribou Island (near Michipicoten Island)
- Caribou Island (Thunder Bay)
- Catawba Island - former island presently connected to mainland Ohio
- Celeron Island, Gibraltar, Michigan
- Chambers Island, Wisconsin, in Lake Michigan's Green Bay
- Cockburn Island
- Detroit Island, Wisconsin
- Dickinson Island, Saint Clair River[citation needed]
- Drummond Island (contains Drummond Township, Michigan), Michigan
- Edmond Island - Gibraltar, Michigan
- Elba Island - Grosse Ile, Michigan
- Fawn Island, Saint Clair River
- Fighting Island, Detroit River
- Fish Island (Wisconsin)
- Flowerpot Island, Tobermory, Ontario
- Foleys Island, Luna Pier area
- Fox Island[citation needed]
- Fox Islands, Michigan
- Fox Islands (Ontario)[citation needed]
- Gard Island, Michigan–Ohio border area
- Grassy Island - Wyandotte, Michigan
- Gravel Island (Wisconsin)
- Green Bay Islands
- Green Island, Saint Clair River[citation needed]
- Green Island, Wisconsin, in Lake Michigan's Green Bay
- Grosse Ile, Michigan
- Gull Island, Wisconsin
- Gull Island, Michigan
- Gull Island, Saint Clair River[citation needed]
- Harsens Island
- Hat Island, Wisconsin, in Lake Michigan's Green Bay
- Hickory Island, Grosse Ile, Michigan
- Hog Island (Wisconsin)
- Horse Island, city of Gibraltar in the state of Michigan, in the Detroit River
- Horseshoe Island, Wisconsin, in Lake Michigan's Green Bay
- Howe Island
- Ile Parisienne
- Indian Island, Michigan-Ohio border area
- Isle Royale, Michigan
- Johnson's Island
- Kelleys Island
- Mackinac Island, Michigan
- Madeline Island
- Manitou Islands, Michigan:
- Manitoulin Island
- McDonald Island, Saint Clair River[citation needed]
- Meso Island, Grosse Ile, Michigan
- Michipicoten Island
- Middle Island, Saint Clair River[citation needed]
- Neebish Island, Michigan
- North Island, Saint Clair River[citation needed]
- Parry Island
- Pelee Island
- Pilot Island, Wisconsin
- Plum Island (Wisconsin)
- Potawatomi Islands on the eastern side of Lake Michigan's Green Bay
- Washington Island, Wisconsin; largest of the Potawatomi Islands
- Rattlesnake Island
- Rock Island (Wisconsin)
- Saint Ignace Island
- Saint Joseph Island, Ontario
- Sister Islands in Lake Michigan's Green Bay
- Slate Islands, Ontario
- South Bass Island
- Spider Island (Wisconsin)
- Strawberry Island, Saint Clair River[citation needed]
- Strawberry Islands in Lake Michigan's Green Bay
- Sugar Island, Michigan
- Sugar Island, Ohio
- Swan Island, Grosse Ile, Michigan
- Thirty Thousand Islands archipelago
- Toronto Islands
- Walpole Island
- Wolfe Island, Ontario
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