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Island nations

From Wikitravel

Island nations and territories tend to defy a tidy geographical hierarchy. On a planet covered 70% by interconnected oceans, in a literal sense every place is an island. But the really big ones we think of as continents, leaving the smaller islands – scattered far and wide – as the "leftovers" of geography. Which often makes them some of the most unique and interesting destinations.

These region articles attempt to group them logically for the traveler (sometimes bending official geography to do so):

Islands of the Arctic Ocean - near-polar territories north of 60°
Islands of the Atlantic Ocean - islands in the east and south Atlantic, mostly near(ish) Africa

Caribbean - the West Indies and more, near the Americas

Islands of the Indian Ocean - a random assortment of island territories and nations, big and small
Islands of the Pacific Ocean - Oceania

Australasia - Australia, New Zealand, and neighbours
Melanesia - islands to the northeast of Australia
Micronesia - tiny islands in the western Pacific
Polynesia - islands across the southern and central Pacific

Islands of the Southern Ocean - near-polar territories south of 45°