Islands of the Great Lakes

Islands of the Great Lakes

The Great Lakes islands consist of 35,000 Great Lakes islands created by uneven glacial activity in the Great Lakes Basin.

At 1,068 square miles (2,766 km²), the largest lake island in the world is Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron in Canada's province of Ontario.

List of notable Great Lakes islands and archipelagos

*Amherst Island
*Apostle Islands
*Ballast Island
*Bass Islands
*Beaver Island
*Belle Isle
*Bois Blanc Island
*Bois Blanc Island
*Cana Island
*Caribou Island
*Cockburn Island
*Drummond Island
*Fox Island ???
*Fox Islands ???
*Fox Islands
*Green Bay Islands
*Green Island
*Grosse Ile
*Harsens Island
*Horseshoe Island
*Howe Island
*Isle Royale
*Johnson's Island
*Kelleys Island
*Mackinac Island
*Manitou Islands
*Manitoulin Island
*Michipicoten Island
*Neebish Island
*Pelee Island
*Pilot Island
*Rattlesnake Island
*South Bass Island
*St. Ignace Island
*St. Joseph Island
*Slate Islands
*Sleeping Giant Island
*Sugar Island
*Thirty Thousand Islands
*Toronto Islands
*Walpole Island
*Washington Island
*Wolfe Island

See also

*List of islands of Michigan
*Lake Erie Islands
*List of islands of Ontario in Lake Erie
*List of islands of Ontario in the Detroit River
*List of islands of Ontario in Lake Huron
*List of islands of Ontario in Lake Ontario
*List of islands of Ontario in Lake Superior
*List of islands of Ontario in Lake Saint Clair
*List of islands of Ontario in the St. Clair River
*Thousand Islands


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