List of divided islands

This is a list of islands whose land is divided by one or more international borders.

Sea islands

Island Area
km2
Countries (percentage of island's area)
New Guinea 785,753[1]  Indonesia (53.52%) Papua, West Papua
 Papua New Guinea (46.48%)
Borneo 748,168[1]  Indonesia (73%) Central Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, West Kalimantan
 Malaysia (26%) Sabah, Sarawak
 Brunei (1%)
Ireland 81,638[1]  Ireland (83%)
 United Kingdom (17%) Administered as Northern Ireland.
Hispaniola 76,192[2][3]  Dominican Republic (64%)
 Haiti (36%)
(Isla Grande de) Tierra del Fuego 47,992[1]  Chile (56%) Tierra del Fuego
 Argentina (44%) Tierra del Fuego
Timor 28,418[1]  Indonesia (53%) East Nusa Tenggara
 East Timor (47%)
Cyprus 9,234[1] De jure
 Republic of Cyprus (97%)
 United Kingdom (3%) Akrotiri and Dhekelia, Sovereign Base Areas
De facto
 Republic of Cyprus (58%)
 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (37%)
 United Kingdom (3%) Akrotiri and Dhekelia, Sovereign Base Areas
 United Nations buffer zone (2%)
Dall Island 655.2[1]  United States (<100%)
 Canada (>0%) The tip of Cape Muzon was established as the "point of commencement" of the international boundary with Alaska in the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1825.[4] A Court of Arbitration in 1903 ruled that Point "A" ( 54°39′43.993″N 132°41′3.093″W / 54.66222028°N 132.68419250°W / 54.66222028; -132.68419250 )[5] was the initial point of this boundary.[6] Canada has accepted this as a demarcated boundary; however, the U.S. disputes that Point "A" is a boundary point.[7]
Sebatik Island 452.2[1]  Indonesia, North Kalimantan
 Malaysia, Sabah
Usedom 445[8]  Germany (79%)[8] Vorpommern-Greifswald
 Poland (21%) West Pomeranian Voivodeship
Saint Martin 91.9[1]  France (61%) Saint-Martin, an overseas collectivity
 Kingdom of the Netherlands (39%) Sint Maarten, a constituent country
Kataja (including Inakari) 0.71  Finland
 Sweden[9]
Passport Island (Middle Island), King Fahd Causeway 0.66[10]  Saudi Arabia
 Bahrain
Märket 0.03  Finland (50%) Åland Islands
 Sweden (50%) Uppsala County and Stockholm County
Koiluoto <0.03  Finland (>50%)
 Russia (<50%)[11]
Musura Island, or Nova Zemlia (Нова Земля)[12][13]  Ukraine (>50%)
 Romania (<50%)[14][15]


Musura Island, a barrier island formed at the mouth of the Danube River in 1988
Rotten Sea islands De facto
 Russia (Crimea) (>50%) (Disputed)
 Ukraine (<50%)[16][17][18]
one of the shoals in Adam's Bridge  India
 Sri Lanka

Lake islands

River islands

Historically divided islands

Other islands have been divided by international borders in the past but they are now unified.

The definite borders of modern nation-states do not apply in other forms of societal organisation, where "divided" islands may consequently be less noteworthy. For example, in Ancient Greece, the island of Euboea was divided among several city states, including Chalcis and Eretria; and before its settlement by Europeans, the Island of Tasmania was divided among nine indigenous tribes.

Islands in wartime may be divided between an invading and defending power, as with Crete in 1645–69 between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice.

Examples of formerly divided islands include:

A few former islands have disappeared because of changes in water levels:

Subnational divided islands

There are islands that lie across different provinces or states of the same country. An example would be Killiniq Island of Canada, which is divided between Newfoundland and Labrador and Nunavut, whereas Melville Island and Victoria Island are divided between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. In Australia, the Boundary Islet is divided between Tasmania and Victoria. Smith Island in Chesapeake Bay and Assateague Island, a barrier island on the Atlantic coast of the United States, are divided between the states of Maryland and Virginia. Fenwick Island, on the coast immediately to the north, is divided between Maryland and Delaware. Ellis Island, itself in the United States state of New Jersey, contains a true exclave of the state of New York; elsewhere in New York Harbor, the northern tip of Shooters Island, otherwise in New York, is in New Jersey. Zhongshan Island, in China, is divided between the province of Guangdong and the special administrative region of Macau.

The island of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) has also two nationalities – Sinhalese and Tamils. Tamils live in the North and Eastern Provinces, whereas Sinhala people live in other provinces. Tamils call their place Eelam. The island is naturally divided when mapped by language, religion and ethnicity race.

See also

References

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  49. Portion of Kivisarijärvi with divided island marked from Citizen's Mapsite of Finland. 69°44′09″N 28°52′56″E / 69.735926°N 28.88235°E
  50. Neighborhood of boundary marker 347A, with divided island marked from Citizen's Mapsite of Finland. 69°53′N 28°18′E / 69.89°N 28.3°E
  51. Verified at Norwegian state cartographic agency website (English) (Norwegian) (Sami)
  52. 58°53′18″N 11°27′27″E / 58.88843°N 11.45739°E
  53. Hisøya: 58°54′22.8″N 11°39′7.1″E / 58.906333°N 11.651972°E
  54. Søndre Boksjø: 59°02′N 11°42′E / 59.03°N 11.7°E
  55. Salholmen: 59°14′15.96″N 11°49′32.24″E / 59.2377667°N 11.8256222°E; Trollön: 59°15′17.76406″N 11°49′13.45279″E / 59.2549344611°N 11.8204035528°E
  56. Tannsjøen Island ("Nr 54" on Norwegian map): 59°52′21.67″N 11°54′59.31″E / 59.8726861°N 11.9164750°E
  57. Linneholmene: 59°53′20.98″N 12°1′59.96″E / 59.8891611°N 12.0333222°E
  58. Jensøya: 59°53′35.77″N 12°6′47.88″E / 59.8932694°N 12.1133000°E
  59. Storøya: 60°0′55.9″N 12°23′42.5″E / 60.015528°N 12.395139°E
  60. Fallsjøholmen: 60°33′2.9″N 12°34′54.76″E / 60.550806°N 12.5818778°E
  61. Kroksjøen's island: 60°44′02″N 12°23′43″E / 60.733895°N 12.395381°E
  62. Vonsjøen's island: 62°15′38″N 12°17′46″E / 62.260625°N 12.296161°E
  63. Skurdalssjøen's island: 63°21′28″N 12°05′10″E / 63.357646°N 12.085973°E
  64. Gihcijoka island: 67°39′55″N 16°34′11″E / 67.665396°N 16.569616°E
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