List of islands named after people
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This is a list of some of the islands known to be named after individual people. It details the name of the island, its location and eponym.
Alejandro Selkirk Island, Chile – Alexander Selkirk
Alexander Island, Antarctica – Alexander I of Russia- Annenkov Island – Mikhail Annenkov
Axel Heiberg Island, Canada – named after Norwegian brewer an exploration sponsor- Baffin Island, Canada – William Baffin
- Balls Pyramid - Lieutenant Henry Ball
- Banks Island, Canada – Joseph Banks
- Bathurst Island, Canada – Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst
- Beauchene Island - Jacques Gouin de Beauchene
- Bellingshausen Island - Fabian von Bellingshausen
Bering Island, Russia – Vitus Bering- Berkner Island, Antarctica – Lloyd Berkner
Block Island, Rhode Island, United States – Adriaen Block
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea – Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Bouvet Island, Norway – Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier- Bristol Island - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol.
- Bylot Island, Canada – Robert Bylot
- Charles Alexander Island, Russia - Charles Alexander
- Cheeseman Island - TF Cheeseman
- Clerke Rocks - Charles Clerke
- Cook Island - James Cook
- Cooper Island - Robert Palliser Cooper
- Cornwallis Island, Canada – William Cornwallis
D'Oyly Carte Island, England, United Kingdom – Richard D'Oyly Carte- Dawson Island, Chile - See Dawson (surname)
- Diego Ramírez Islands, Chile – Diego Ramírez
- Drake's Island, England, United Kingdom – Francis Drake
Eilean Chaluim Chille, Scotland - Saint Columba- Eilean Donan, Scotland - Saint Donan
- Ellesmere Island, Canada – Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere
- Ellis Island, New York, United States – Samuel Ellis (colonial New Yorker)
Ernst Thälmann Island, Cuba – Ernst Thälmann- Fisher Island, Florida, United States – Carl G. Fisher
- Graham Bell Island, Russia, Graham Bell
Host, Croatia – William Hoste- Inchcolm, Scotland - Saint Columba
- Inch Kenneth, Scotland - Saint Kenneth
- Inchmarnock, Scotland - St Mearnag
- Inchmurrin, Scotland - St Meadhran/Mirren
- Innis Chonain, Scotland - Saint Conan
- Isle Martin, Scotland - Saint Martin
- Jan Mayen Island, Norway – Jan Mayen
- Jackson Island, Russia – Frederick George Jackson
- Keppel Island - Admiral Augustus Keppel
- Kerguelen - Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec
- Kermadec Islands - Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec
- King William Island, Canada – William IV of the United Kingdom
- Kupriyanov Islands - Ivan Kupriyanov
- Little Wellington Island, Chile – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Lord Howe Island - Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe
- Mackenzie King Island, Canada – William Lyon Mackenzie King
Mauritius, Indian Ocean – Maurice of Nassau- McNish Island - Harry McNish
- Montagu Island - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
- Moresby Island, Canada – Fairfax Moresby
- Nansen Island, Russia - Fridtjof Nansen
- North Rona, Scotland - Saint Ronan
Ogasawara Islands, Japan - Ogasawara Sadayori- Pickersgill Islands - Richard Pickersgill
- Pitt Island - William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Prince of Wales Island – Alaska, United States; Canada; Queensland, Australia- Prince Charles Island, Canada – Charles, Prince of Wales
- Prince Edward Island, Canada – Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, father of Queen Victoria
- Rikers Island, New York, United States – Abraham Rycken (Dutch settler)
- Robinson Island, Chile – Robinson Crusoe (fictional character)
Robinson Island, Hong Kong – Sir Hercules Robinson, former Governor of Hong Kong- Roosevelt Island, Antarctica – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Roosevelt Island, New York , United States – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Rudolf Island, Russia – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria
- Saint Helena, Atlantic Ocean – Helena of Constantinople
St. Michael's Isle, Isle of Man – Saint Michael- St Ninian's Isle, Scotland – Saint Ninian
- St Patrick's Isle, Isle of Man – Saint Patrick
- St Serf's Inch, Scotland – Saint Serf
- Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands - Charles Saunders (Royal Navy officer)
- Solander Islands - Solander Islands
- South Georgia, United Kingdom – George III of the United Kingdom
Starbuck Island, Kiribati – Valentine Starbuck- Sweyn Holm, Scotland, – Sweyn Asleifsson
- Tasmania, Australia – Abel Tasman
- Tanner Island - William G. Tanner
- Traversay Islands - Jean-Baptiste Prevost de Sansac, Marquis de Traversay
Tristan da Cunha – Tristão da Cunha- U Thant Island, New York, United States – U Thant
- Vancouver Island, Canada – George Vancouver
- Victoria Island, Canada – Queen Victoria
- Weddell Island - James Weddell
- Wellington Island, Chile – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Zavodovski Island - Lieutenant Ivan Zavodovski
Former:
- Bedloe's Island, New York, United States – Isaack Bedloo (merchant) – now Liberty Island
- Blackwell's Island, New York, United States – Robert Blackwell – now Roosevelt Island
Prince of Wales Island, Malaysia – George IV, Prince of Wales – now Penang Island- Sebald Islands - Sebald de Weert; now Jason Islands
