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This is a List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands. Sub-Antarctic islands are islands in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica north of the Antarctic Circle (66° 33' 38"). Antarctic islands are the islands in the Southern Ocean or in the seas around Antarctica south of the Antarctic Circle. According to the terms of the Antarctic Treaty, claims to sovereignty over lands south of 60°S are not asserted. This includes all of the Antarctic islands and some of the sub-Antarctic islands.

List of largest Antarctic islands by size

Rank Island Area
(km²) 		Elevation
(m) 		Coordinates
1 Alexander Island 49,070 2976
2 Berkner Island 43,873 975
3 Thurston Island 15,700 .
4 Carney Island 8,500 .
5 Roosevelt Island 7,910 550
6 Siple Island 6,390 3110
7 Adelaide Island 4,463 2317
8 Spaatz Island 4,100 .
9 Bear Island 3,500 .
10 Guest Island1) 2,950 .
11 James Ross Island 2,598.4 1628
12 Ross Island 2,460 3794
13 Anvers Island 2,432 2821
  Joinville Island 1,607.4 765
  Charcot Island 1,5002) .
  King George Island 1,383.8 655
  Mill Island 1,258.1 326
  Sherman Island 1,158.6 186
  Smyley Island 1,0002) .
  Brabant Island 976.8 2522
  Livingston Island 973.5 1700
  Grant Island 767.8 580
  Latady Island 7002) .
  Drygalski Island 693.7 510
  Renaud Island 618.3 .
  Masson Island 585.4 471
  Elephant Island 557.9 852
  Rothschild Island 5002) .
  Hearst Island 5002) 365
  D'Urville Island 455.3 210
  Coronation Island 450 1278
  Sturge Island 437.4 945
1) actually a peninsula, also called Guest Peninsula
2) rough estimate from map

List of sub-Antarctic islands (north of 60° S)

  • Auckland Islands (New Zealand)
  • Bounty Islands (New Zealand)
  • Bouvet Island (Bouvetøya) (Norway)
  • Campbell Island group (New Zealand)
  • Crozet Islands (French: Îles Crozet or officially Archipel Crozet) (France)
  • Diego Ramirez Islands (Chile)
  • Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) (Australia)
  • Ildefonso Islands (Chile)
  • Kerguelen Islands (France)
  • Macquarie Island (Australia)
  • Prince Edward Islands (South Africa)
  • Saint-Paul Island (France)
  • The Snares (New Zealand)
  • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (United Kingdom; claimed by Argentina)
  • Archipelago of Tristan da Cunha and its associated islands (United Kingdom)

    List of Antarctic islands (south of 60° S)

    All these islands fall under the terms of the Antarctic Treaty.

    A

  • Adams Island, Antarctica .
  • Adelaide Island or Isla Adelaida or Isla Belgrano - west side of the Antarctic Peninsula
  • Aldea Island
  • Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land or Alexander The First Island or Isla Alejandro I (claimed by the United Kingdom, Chile and Argentina)
  • Amsler Island
  • Anvers Island or Antwerp Island or Antwerpen Island or Isla Amberes

    B

  • Balleny Islands (claimed by New Zealand)
  • Bear Island
  • Bearing Island or Direction Island
  • Berkner Island or Berkner Ice Rise or Hubley Island
  • Biscoe Islands
  • Booth Island
  • Bowman Island
  • Brabant Island
  • Breaker Island
  • Bremen Island
  • Burke Island
  • Burkett Islands

    C

  • Carney Island
  • Charcot Island or Charcot Land
  • Christine Island
  • Cockburn Island (Antarctica)
  • Cormorant Island
  • Coulman Island (inside of Ross Sea, claimed by New Zealand)
  • Cuverville Island - west side of the Antarctic Peninsula

    D

  • Danco Island or Isla Dedo - west side of the Antarctic Peninsula
  • Debenham Islands
  • Deception Island
  • DeLaca Island
  • Direction Island or Bearing Island
  • Doumer Island
  • Dream Island
  • Drygalski Island
  • Dundee Island - off tip of the Antarctic Peninsula

    E

  • Eichorst Island
  • Elephant Rocks
  • Enterprise Island or Isla Lientur or Isla Nansen Norte or North Nansen Island

    F

  • Flat Islands
  • Fletcher Islands

    G

  • Grant Island

    H

  • Halfway Island
  • Henderson Island
  • Hermit Island
  • Humble Island

    I

  • Inaccessible Island
  • Inexpressible Island

    J

  • James Ross Island - east side of the Antarctic Peninsula
  • Janus Island
  • Jenny Island
  • Joinville Island group

    K

    L

  • Laggard Island
  • Latady Island
  • Liège Island
  • Limitrophe Island
  • Lipps Island
  • Litchfield Island
  • Livingston Island

    M

  • Manning Island
  • Masson Island or Mission Island
  • Mill Island
  • Millerand Island

    N

  • Nansen Island or Isla Nansen Sur
  • Nelson Rock
  • North Nansen Island or Enterprise Island or Isla Lientur or Isla Nansen Norte
  • Neny Island or Neny Islands

    O

  • Ohlin Island or Bailys Island
  • Outcast Islands

    P

  • Paulet Island - tiny island southeast of Dundee Island
  • Peter I Island (claimed by Norway)
  • Petermann Island (Territory of New Oscland)
  • Pobeda Ice Island
  • Possession Islands

    Q

    R

  • Renaud Island
  • Robertson Island
  • Rongé Island
  • Roosevelt Island (inside of Ross Sea) (claimed by New Zealand)
  • Ross Island (inside of Ross Sea) (claimed by New Zealand)
  • Rouse Islands

    S

  • Scott Island (claimed by New Zealand)
  • Seymour Island
  • Shepard Island
  • Shortcut Island
  • Siple Island
  • South Orkney Islands, Argentina de facto claimed by the United Kingdom)
  • South Shetland Islands (claimed by Argentina/Chile/United Kingdom
  • Spaatz Island
  • Split Rock
  • Spume Island
  • Stepping Stones
  • Stonington Island
  • Surge Rocks

    T

  • Thurston Island
  • Torgersen Island
  • Tower Island
  • Trinity Island

    U

    V

  • Vega Island

    W

  • Welch Island
  • Wiencke Island
  • Williams Rocks
  • Windmill Islands

    X

    Y

    Z

    Sub-lists

  • New Zealand sub-antarctic islandsFurther Information

    Get more info on 'Subantarctic Islands'.


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