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Lake islands of North America: Atlin Lake, Theresa Island, highest elevation inside a freshwater lake in North America at 2059m; Lake Huron. Manitoulin Island, world's largest inland island; Saint Joseph Island, world's 8th largest inland island; Drummond Island, world's 9th largest inland island; Thirty Thousand Islands; Lake Superior
The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), [b] [11] is an unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States consisting of 14 islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. [12]
The umbrella term Pacific Islands has taken on several meanings. [1] Sometimes it is used to refer only to the islands defined as lying within Oceania. [2] [3] [4] At other times, it is used to refer to the islands of the Pacific Ocean that were previously colonized by the British, French, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, or Japanese, or by the United States.
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Map showing the location of Midway Atoll in the Hawaiian island chain. Midway Atoll (colloquial: Midway Islands; Hawaiian: Kuaihelani, lit. 'the backbone of heaven'; Pihemanu, 'the loud din of birds') [3] [4] is a 2.4 sq mi (6.2 km 2) atoll in the North Pacific Ocean.
Polynesia (North Pacific) 18 km 2 (6.9 sq mi) Unincorporated, unorganized Claimed under the Guano Islands Act on February 8, 1860. [122] [123] Annexed on May 10, 1922, and placed under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department on December 29, 1934. [125] Midway Atoll: Polynesia (North Pacific) 6.2 km 2 (2.4 sq mi) Unincorporated, unorganized
Mount Marpi in Saipan Map of soil types on the island of Saipan. Saipan is the largest island in the Northern Mariana Islands. It is about 120 mi (190 km) north of Guam and 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) northeast of Tinian, from which it is separated by the Saipan Channel.
The Mariana Islands (/ ˌ m ær i ˈ ɑː n ə / MARR-ee-AH-nə; Chamorro: Manislan Mariånas), also simply the Marianas, are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fifteen longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, between the 12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th meridian east.