An islet is a very small, often unnamed island. Most definitions are not precise, but some suggest that an islet has little or no vegetation and cannot support human habitation. It may be made of rock, sand and/or hard coral; may be permanent or tidal (i.e. surfaced reef or seamount); and may exist in the sea, lakes, rivers or any other sizeable bodies of water.
As suggested by its origin islette, an Old Frenchdiminutive of "isle",[1] use of the term implies small size, but little attention is given to drawing an upper limit on its applicability.
The World Landforms website says, "An islet landform is generally considered to be a rock or small island that has little vegetation and cannot sustain human habitation", and further that size may vary from a few square feet to several square miles, with no specific rule pertaining to size.[2]
Other termsedit
A Tahitian motu off the island of Raiatea at sunsetRockall, located west of Ireland and Scotland
Ait (/eɪt/, like eight) or eyot (/aɪ(ə)t, eɪt/), a small island. It is especially used to refer to river islands found on the River Thames and its tributaries in England.[3][4][5]
Cay or key, an islet formed by the accumulation of fine sand deposits atop a reef, especially in the Caribbean and West Atlantic. Rum Cay in the Bahamas and the Florida Keys off Florida are examples of islets.
Rock, in the sense of a type of islet, is an uninhabited landform composed of exposed rocks, lying offshore, and having at most minimal vegetation, such as Albino Rock in the Palm Island group off Queensland, Australia.
Sea stack, a thin, vertical landform jutting out of a body of water.
Skerry, a small rocky island, usually defined to be too small for habitation, especially in Ireland.
Subsidiary islets, a more technical application, is applied to small land features isolated by water, lying off the shore of a larger island. Similarly, any emergent land in an atoll is also called an islet.[8]
Tidal island, small islands (not always islets) which lie closely off the coast of a mainland or a much larger island, being connected to it (and thus becomes a peninsula/promontory) in low tide and isolated by a channel in high tide.
The International Court of Justice jurisprudence however sometimes ignores islets, regardless of inhabitation status, in deciding territorial disputes; it did so in 2009 in adjudicating the Romania-Ukraine dispute, and previously in the dispute between Libya and Malta involving the islet of Filfla.[9][12]
List of isletsedit
There are thousands of islets on Earth: approximately 24,000 islands and islets in the Stockholm archipelago alone. The following is a list of example islets from around the world.
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^Hance D. Smith (1991). The Development of Integrated Sea Use Management. Taylor & Francis. p. 82. ISBN978-0-415-03816-4.
Referencesedit
Clive Schofield (2012). "Islands or Rocks, Is that the Real Question? The Treatment of Islands in the Delimitation of Maritime Boundaries". In Myron H. Nordquist; John Norton Moore; Alfred H.A. Soons; Hak-So Kim (eds.). The Law of the Sea Convention: US Accession and Globalization. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. pp. 322–340. ISBN978-90-04-20136-1.
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Not to be confused with Eyelet For the music band see Islet band For human anatomy see Pancreatic islets An islet is a very small often unnamed island Most definitions are not precise but some suggest that an islet has little or no vegetation and cannot support human habitation It may be made of rock sand and or hard coral may be permanent or tidal i e surfaced reef or seamount and may exist in the sea lakes rivers or any other sizeable bodies of water Bangchui Island in Dalian Liaoning China is a typical rock isletMōkōlea Rock in Kailua Bay O ahu Hawai i 2 2 kilometres 1 4 mi off North Beach Marine Corps Base Hawaii Contents 1 Definition 2 Other terms 3 In international law 4 List of islets 5 Notes 6 ReferencesDefinition edit nbsp Danes on the islet Danmark in Norway It is a typical Nordic skerry As suggested by its origin islette an Old French diminutive of isle 1 use of the term implies small size but little attention is given to drawing an upper limit on its applicability The World Landforms website says An islet landform is generally considered to be a rock or small island that has little vegetation and cannot sustain human habitation and further that size may vary from a few square feet to several square miles with no specific rule pertaining to size 2 Other terms edit nbsp A Tahitian motu off the island of Raiatea at sunset nbsp Rockall located west of Ireland and ScotlandAit eɪt like eight or eyot aɪ e t eɪt a small island It is especially used to refer to river islands found on the River Thames and its tributaries in England 3 4 5 Cay or key an islet formed by the accumulation of fine sand deposits atop a reef especially in the Caribbean and West Atlantic Rum Cay in the Bahamas and the Florida Keys off Florida are examples of islets The French suffix hou from the Scandinavian holm is used for the names of some islets in the Channel Islands such as Ecrehous Burhou Lihou and Les Houmets and off Normandy such as Tatihou Inch a term used especially in Scotland from the Gaelic innis which originally meant island but has been supplanted to refer to smaller islands such the islet of Inch off St Mary s Isle Priory Inch Kenneth Inchkeith Keith Inch no longer an island and Inchcailloch 6 Motu a reef islet formed by broken coral and sand surrounding an atoll especially in Polynesia 7 such as Motu One Motu Nao and Motu Paahi River island an islet within the current of a river such as the Ile de la Cite in Paris Rock in the sense of a type of islet is an uninhabited landform composed of exposed rocks lying offshore and having at most minimal vegetation such as Albino Rock in the Palm Island group off Queensland Australia Sandbar or shoal an exposed sandbar Sea stack a thin vertical landform jutting out of a body of water Skerry a small rocky island usually defined to be too small for habitation especially in Ireland Subsidiary islets a more technical application is applied to small land features isolated by water lying off the shore of a larger island Similarly any emergent land in an atoll is also called an islet 8 Tidal island small islands not always islets which lie closely off the coast of a mainland or a much larger island being connected to it and thus becomes a peninsula promontory in low tide and isolated by a channel in high tide In international law editIslets involved in ICJ cases nbsp Filfla 1985 nbsp Snake Island 2009 Whether an islet is considered a rock or not it can have significant economic consequences under Article 121 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea which stipulates that Rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own shall have no exclusive economic zone or continental shelf One long term dispute over the status of such an islet was that of Snake Island Black Sea 9 10 11 The International Court of Justice jurisprudence however sometimes ignores islets regardless of inhabitation status in deciding territorial disputes it did so in 2009 in adjudicating the Romania Ukraine dispute and previously in the dispute between Libya and Malta involving the islet of Filfla 9 12 List of islets editThere are thousands of islets on Earth approximately 24 000 islands and islets in the Stockholm archipelago alone The following is a list of example islets from around the world Aguila Islet the southernmost point of The Americas Aplin Islet Queensland Apia Auster Lake Islet Ball s Pyramid South Pacific Bay Islet or See Chau Hong Kong Bikirrin in Majuro Marshall Islands Black Rock South Atlantic Boundary Islet Australia Bogskar Finland Briggs Islet southeastern Australia Bushy Islet Queensland Capitancillo Islet in Bogo City Cebu Philippines Chao in the Madeira Islands Portugal Cholmondeley Islet Queensland Clubes Island Brasilia Brazil Columbretes Islands Spain Cone Islet southeastern Australia Douglas Islet Queensland Dry Tortugas Florida Keys USA Dugay Islet southeastern Australia Edwards Islet southeastern Australia Enekalamur in Majuro Marshall Islands Enemanit in Majuro Marshall Islands Fairway Rock Bering Strait Fastnet Rock Ireland Filfla southern Malta Formigas in the Azores islands Gasholmur Faroe Islands Granite Island South Australia Victor Harbor South Australia Galatasaray Islet Istanbul Turkey Halfway Islet Queensland Australia Herald Island Arctic Ocean Ile Vierge France Isles of Scilly United Kingdom Kid Island Lake of the Ozarks Missouri United States Islets of Caroline Island in Kiribati Islets of Mauritius Isla de Alboran Spain Western Mediterranean Jardine Islet Queensland Jethou Bailiwick of Guernsey Keelung Islet off the northern shore of Taiwan Klein Bonaire Netherlands Kolbeinsey Iceland Liancourt Rocks South Korea Lihou Bailiwick of Guernsey Magra Islet Queensland Managaha Saipan Martin Islet New South Wales Mid Woody Islet southeastern Australia Milman Islet Queensland Monchique Islet Europe s westernmost point in the Azores Portugal Na Mokulua Oahu Hawaii United States Noorderhaaks off the coast of the Netherlands Oodaaq Greenland Pula Ulor Beserah Kuantan District Pahang Malaysia Parece Vela West Pacific Perejil Island Strait of Gibraltar Penguin Islet Tasmania Pigeon Island Sri Lanka Pokonji Dol Croatia Velika Sestrica Croatia Rockall North Atlantic Saint Peter and Saint Paul rocks equatorial Atlantic Salas y Gomez Northeast from Easter Island Saunders Islet Queensland Seacrow Islet southeastern Australia Shag Rocks South Atlantic Silver Islet Ontario Sinclair Islet Queensland Skull Islet in British Columbia Canada Star Keys Motuhope New Zealand Saltholm small Islet in Oresund west of Copenhagen Sue Islet Queensland Sumbiarholmur Faroe Islands Sunday Islet Queensland Taprobane Island Sri Lanka Thomson Islet Queensland Tindholmur Faroe Islands Vilkitsky Island Arctic Ocean Wallace Islet Queensland Wachusett Reef Ernest Legouve Reef and Maria Theresa Reef South Pacific Ocean Westward Islet in the Pitcairn Islands Ynys Lawd WalesNotes edit nbsp Islands portal Webster s New International Dictionary of the English Language Second Edition 1958 Islet Landforms World Landforms of the Earth Retrieved 29 April 2020 Eyot World Wide Words 21 June 2003 Retrieved 30 April 2020 Definition of eyot www dictionary com 20 April 2020 Retrieved 30 April 2020 Misachi John 5 April 2019 What is an Ait Ait Defintion sic WorldAtlas Retrieved 30 April 2020 Sears Robert 1847 A New and Popular Pictorial Description of England Scotland Ireland Wales and the British Islands 6th ed R Sears pp 479 481 Original from University of Iowa Digitized 9 Mar 2015 Motus What They Are and Why They re Key to the Tahiti Experience LandLopers 12 April 2017 Retrieved 30 April 2020 Floristic composition and vegetation classification of the Penghu Southern Four Islands Marine National Park Headquarters 18 March 2016 Retrieved 30 April 2020 a b Coalter G Lathrop July 22 2009 Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea Romania v Ukraine American Journal of International Law Vol 103 SSRN 1470697 Ukraine Romania spar over islet UPI 2006 7 14 Romania and Ukraine avoid rocky horror show Archived 2018 03 15 at the Wayback Machine Euronews 03 02 09 Hance D Smith 1991 The Development of Integrated Sea Use Management Taylor amp Francis p 82 ISBN 978 0 415 03816 4 References editClive Schofield 2012 Islands or Rocks Is that the Real Question The Treatment of Islands in the Delimitation of Maritime Boundaries In Myron H Nordquist John Norton Moore Alfred H A Soons Hak So Kim eds The Law of the Sea Convention US Accession and Globalization Martinus Nijhoff Publishers pp 322 340 ISBN 978 90 04 20136 1 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Islet amp oldid 1168256437, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
