This is a list of artificial islands.
Table
| Name | Country | Area (km2) | Population | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| René-Levasseur Island | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Canada |
2,020 | 0 | Impact crater in Quebec isolated when two pre-existing natural lakes were connected by the formation of the Manicouagan Reservoir. |
| Caofeidian |  China |
60 | ||
| Dongjiang Island | China |
33.5 | Cargo transfer and wetland reconstruction.[1] | |
| Jurong Island |  Singapore |
32 | 0 | Formed by the amalgamation of seven natural islands |
| Sanya Hongtangwan International Airport | China |
23.99 | International Airport under construction. | |
| Dalian Jinzhouwan International Airport | China |
21 | 0 | International Airport under construction. |
| Khazar Islands |  Azerbaijan |
20 | 0 | Planned city |
| Subi Reef | Disputed | 16 | 200 | Currently being converted into an island by China as part of the Great Wall of Sand.
Also claimed by Vietnam, the Philippines and Taiwan. |
| Qianhai | China |
14.92 | ||
| Hong Kong International Airport |  Hong Kong |
12.48 | Mostly on reclaimed land. Some of it is on the now merged Chek Lap Kok and Lam Chau islands. | |
| Diyar Al Muharraq |  Bahrain |
12 | 0 | |
| Cuarteron Reef | Disputed | 8 | 0 | Currently being converted into an island by China as part of the Great Wall of Sand.
Also claimed by Vietnam, the Philippines and Taiwan. |
| Macau New Urban Zones |  Macau |
7.3 | ||
| Northern City | Bahrain |
7 | 1,000 | |
| Mischief Reef | Disputed | 5.58 | 0 | Currently being converted into an island by China as part of the Great Wall of Sand.
Also claimed by Vietnam, the Philippines and Taiwan. |
| Durrat Al Bahrain | Bahrain |
5 | 1,000 | |
| Amwaj Islands | Bahrain |
4.31 | 10,000 | |
| Ocean Flower Island | China |
3.81 | ||
| Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis | China |
3.76 | ||
| Pulau Semakau | Singapore |
3.5 | 0 | |
| Fiery Cross Reef | Disputed | 2.74 | 200 | Currently being converted into an island by China as part of the Great Wall of Sand.
Also claimed by Vietnam, the Philippines and Taiwan. |
| Pulau Punggol Barat | Singapore |
1.92 | 0 | |
| Bahrain Bay | Bahrain |
1.35 | 100 | |
| Peberholm |  Denmark |
1.3 | ||
| Pulau Punggol Timor | Singapore |
1.12 | 0? | |
| King Fahd Passport Island | Bahrain
|
0.88 | 10 | Shared island between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Also known as Middle Island, Embankment 4. |
| Reef Island | Bahrain |
0.713 | 3,000 | Also known as Lulu Island. |
| Ontario Place East and West Island | Canada |
0.6273 | 0 | Theme park in Ontario. |
| Flakfortet | Denmark |
0.3 | Copenhagen harbour | |
| Freedom Island |  Philippines |
0.3 | ||
| Heirisson Island | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Australia |
0.2856 | 0 | Created from pre-existing smaller islands via reclamation. Swan River, Western Australia |
| Île Notre-Dame | Canada |
0.25 | 0 | Located in Montreal |
| Gaven Reefs | Disputed | 0.136 | 0 | Currently being converted into an island by China as part of the Great Wall of Sand.
Also claimed by Vietnam, the Philippines and Taiwan. |
| Chinese Garden | Singapore |
0.135 | 0 | |
| Johnson South Reef | Disputed | 0.109 | 0 | Currently being converted into an island by China as part of the Great Wall of Sand.
Also claimed by Vietnam, the Philippines and Taiwan. |
| Hughes Reef | Disputed | 0.076 | 0 | Currently being converted into an island by China as part of the Great Wall of Sand.
Also claimed by Vietnam, the Philippines and Taiwan. |
| Middelgrundsfortet | Denmark |
0.07 | Copenhagen harbour (also known as Middelgrunden) | |
| Pearl Island | Singapore |
0.019 | 0 | |
| Coral Island | Singapore |
0.017 | 0 | |
| Langlütjen II |  Germany |
0.017 | 0 | Sold to a private owner. |
| Langlütjen I | Germany |
0.016 | 0 | Sold. |
| Île aux Cygnes |  France |
0.013 | 0 | |
| Wilhelmstein | Germany |
0.0125 | 0 | |
| Sealand |  United Kingdom (de jure)
|
0.004 | 2 | |
| Sandy Island | Singapore |
0.0007 | 0 | |
| Queen Elizabeth II Island | Australia |
0 | ||
| Bahrain Lagoon | Bahrain |
Future artificial planned island | ||
| China Dafeng Port Economic Zone | China |
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| Dayang Port | China |
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| Donauinsel |  Austria |
20 kilometres long and 200 meters wide in the Danube (Vienna) | 0 | In the Danube (Vienna) |
| Dongjiakou Dock | China |
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| Fisherman's Island | Australia |
0 | Created by land reclaiming Bishop Island into the Port of Brisbane[2] | |
| Fort Boyard | France |
250 | Fort | |
| Jizuishi Shipyard | China |
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| Lanqiao Port | China |
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| Le Havre Port | France |
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| Longxue Island Shipyard and Port | China |
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| Lvsi Harbour | China |
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| Maojia Port | China |
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| MOSE |  Italy |
An artificial island was created in Lido inlet as part of the flood defenses for Venice | ||
| Nigehörn | Germany |
0 | ||
| Paradise Island | Singapore |
0 | ||
| Qingdao Linghai Hot Spring Golf Club | China |
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| Qingdao Port | China |
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| Rizhao Port | China |
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| Salman City | Bahrain |
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| Sangang Harbour | China |
Jiangsu | ||
| Shawan Harbour | China |
Yancheng, Jiangsu | ||
| Treasure Island | Singapore |
0 | ||
| Trekroner Fort | Denmark |
Copenhagen harbour | ||
| Xiamen Xiang'an International Airport | China |
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| Xiaogoukou | China |
Binhai, Yancheng | ||
| Ximazhou Shipyard Island | China |
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| Xinkaihe Harbour | China |
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| Yangshan Deepwater Port | China |
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| Zhanghe Airport | China |
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| Zhewangzhen Port | China |
Jiangsu | ||
| Zhuhai General Aviation Airport | China |
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| Zuhai Jinwan Airport | China |
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| Zuhai Jiuzhou Airport | China |
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| (unnamed amusement park) | China |
Amusement Park at Liuye Lake, Changde | ||
| Eko Atlantic |  Nigeria |
25 | Created from the Atlantic Ocean via reclamation | |
| Banana Island, Lagos | Nigeria |
An artificial island off the foreshore of Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria | ||
| Gracefield Island | Nigeria |
Created via land reclamation from the Lagos Lagoon | ||
| Kashagan Field |  Kazakhstan |
Australia
- Runway of Sydney Airport
- Areas around the Gold Coast region
- Port of Sydney
- Port of Melbourne
Bahamas
Bahrain
- New Bahrain International Airport
Bolivia
- See #Peru/Bolivia
Brazil
- Cidade Universitária (Rio de Janeiro)
- Jangadeiros Island
Bulgaria
- In Varna, a portion of the southern industrial and port zone on a 2-km wide isthmus between the Black Sea and Lake Varna became an artificial island in 1976 when it became separated from the shore by two navigable canals.
Colombia
Bolívar Department
China
- Dongjiang, an island at Bohai Bay, near Beijing, 33.5 km2, for cargo transfer and wetlands reconstruction.[5]
- Runways of Shanghai Pudong Airport
- Port and Urban Areas around Xiamen, Shantou & Ningbo-Zhoushan
- Amusement Park at Liuye Lake Changde
- Zhanghe Airport, Jingmen
- Zhuhai General Aviation Airport
- Several Islands off the coast of Fengchengzhen, Shandong
- Coastal Extensions around Bindao Island, Weihai
- Rizhao Port
- Xinjiancun Coast Islands
- Qingdao Linghai Hot Spring Golf Club
- Qingdao Port
- Maojia Port, Qidong City
- Rudong Coast Extensions
- Extensions on coasts around Yangjia Bay
- Islands off the coast of Lingezhuang
- Dongzhuang Coast Extensions
- Longkou Harbor Port and Islands
- Banweiba Ditch Port & Coastal extensions
- Land bordering Bailang Estuary
- Jiangdao Coast Extensions
- Lianyungang Port
- Ganyu Coast
- Rudong Yangkou Harbour
- Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport Runway
- Ports of Pingtan Island
- Ports of Jiangyin Island, Fuqing, Fuzhou
- Lands surrounding Luoyuan Bay, Luoyuan, Fuzhou
- Ports in Xinghua Bay
Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre - new wing on a man-made island off the coast of the old wing at Wan Chai.[6][7][8]
- An artificial island in the artificial Inspiration Lake in the former Penny's Bay
- Macau Ferry Terminal - an artificial island connected by a skyway to another artificial island, and further connected by two other skyways to Shun Tak Centre.[9]
- Nam Wan[10]
- A former knoll in the Shek Pik Reservoir
- A former knoll in the Shing Mun (Jubilee) Reservoir
- Shui Keng Teng - a former knoll isolated from the mainland after construction of High Island Reservoir
- Former knolls and hills in the Tai Lam Chung Reservoir
- The central tower of Ting Kau Bridge stands on an artificial island in the Rambler Channel.[11]
- The west tower of Tsing Ma Bridge stands on an artificial island in the Ma Wan Channel[12]
- Duplicate Tsing Yi South Bridge - two artificial islets to the south of two bridge columns, to prevent ships from colliding with the bridge.[13]
- Southern half of Lamma Power Station
- Hong Kong–Macau–Zhuhai Bridge Hong Kong Control Point
- Breakwaters of many typhoon shelters
- An island at the confluence of River Sutlej and River Beas into River Indus, where Sheung Shui Abattoir and Shek Wu Hui Sewage Treatment Works are located.[14]
- Shatin Floating Restaurant (aka Treasure Floating Restaurant, Star Seafood Floating Restaurant)
- Tsing Tsuen Bridge - two artificial islands to the north of the two bridge columns
Former
- West Kowloon Reclamation during its construction stage[15]
Macau
- Aterro da "Zona A" dos Novos Aterros Urbanos
- Aterro da "Zona C" dos Novos Aterros Urbanos
- Centro Ecuménico Kun Iam
- Macau International Airport
- Portas do Entendimento
- Islets in the Lagos Nam Van
- Zhuhai-Macau Port Artificial Island (southern half part of Macau)
Egypt
- Coasts of Hurghada
- Coasts of Alexandria
- Ain Sokhna
Germany
India
- Willingdon Island
- Murud-Janjira
- Jag Mandir
- Nehru Garden
- Taj Lake Palace
- Padmadurg
- Kesar Kyari
- Jal Mahal
Ireland
Japan
- Chubu Centrair International Airport (2000-2005)
- Shinkawa, Chūō, Tokyo
- Dejima in Nagasaki (Historic) (1634)
- Dream Island (Yume No Shima) (1939)
- Islands for Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu
- Islands for Haneda International Airport runway expansion.
- Hakkeijima
- Heiwa Island, in Tokyo Bay
- Higashi Ogijima
- Island City, Fukuoka (Hakata) harbour
- Kansai International Airport (1994)
- Katsushima
- Kaze no Tō
- Kisarazu Island for Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line
- Kobe Airport
- Malimpia Okinosu
- Midori No Shima, off Hakodate
- New Kitakyushu Airport
- Nagasaki Airport
- Odaiba, Tokyo Bay
- Oogishima
- Painuhama-cho (南ぬ浜町), Ishigaki-shi, Okinawa-ken
- Port Island, Kobe harbour
- Rokkō Island, Kobe harbour
- Showa Island
- The Second Sea Fortress, Tokyo Bay (The first and second fortresses were sunk)
- Umihotaru
- Wakaejima (artificial)
- Wakasu
- Ukishima
Kuwait
- Boubyan Sea Port
- Khiran Sea City
- Green Island (Kuwait)
Malaysia
- Andaman Island, George Town, Penang
- Gazumbo Island, George Town, Penang
- Malacca Island, Malacca City, Malacca.
- Marina island Pangkor, Lumut, Perak.
- Forest City, Johor Bahru, Johor
Maldives
- Gaadhoo (Laamu atoll)
- Gulhi Falhu
- Hulhumalé (2004)
- Thilafushi (1992)
- Velana International Airport
Mexico
- Spiral Island, a small floating island
Montenegro
- The Lady Of the Rocks / Gospa od Skrpjela, a small island contribute to Our Lady of the Rocks, situated in the Bay of Kotor.
Netherlands
Oman
- Al Mouj Muscat
- Sohar Port
- Duqm Port
Panama
- Ocean Reef Islands[16]
Peru/Bolivia
- Uros, inhabited artificial floating islands made of reed on Lake Titicaca
Qatar
- Lusail, new development north of Doha with several artificial islands.
- The Pearl
- Hamad International Airport
- Ras Laffan
- Hamad Port
- Banana Island Resort
Russia
Nineteen artificial islands in the Gulf of Finland for fortresses.
Saudi Arabia
- King Abdullah Port
- Manifah Field
- King Abdul Aziz Sea Port
- Yanbu Island
- Jazan Economic City
- King Fahd Industrial Ports
- Areas around Alkhobar & Dhahran
- King Salman International Complex for Maritime Industries
- Coast line of Jeddah
Solomon Islands
South Africa
- Island in Kamfers Dam, constructed as a flamingo breeding island
- Durban Port
South Korea
- Banpo Seorae Island (Seoraeseom)[17]
- Sebitseom (Sebit islets)
- Songdo International Business District
- Yeouido
Sri Lanka
- Colombo Port City (2014–)
- Hambantota Port
Taiwan
Tonga
- Former Republic of Minerva
Tunisia
United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi
Dubai
- Burj al-Arab, a hotel on a small artificial island.
- The Palm Islands (The Palm, Jumeirah, The Palm, Jebel Ali, and The Palm, Deira). The Palm Jebel Ali has had most of its land filled, but both the Palm Jebel Ali and the Palm Deira projects are on hold as of 2013.
- The World Islands, currently uninhabited.
- Bluewaters Island
- Jumeirah Bay Island
- Jumeirah Island 2
- Pearl Jumeirah
- Dubai Harbour
- Dubai Waterfront
- The Universe
Ras al Khaimah
- Bal al Bahr
- Mina al Arab
- Al Hamra Village
Sharjah
Fujairah
United Kingdom
England
- Challis Island, Cambridgeshire
- Crossrail Place, Canary Wharf, Greater London
- Spike Island, Widnes, in Cheshire
- Whale Island, Hampshire, in Portsmouth harbour
Scotland
- Several hundred crannógs in Scotland
United States
Alabama
- Gaillard Island, is an artificially created island located in Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama. It was built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, using sand and mud dredged from the Mobile Bay ship channel and elsewhere. The island is an important site for colonial nesting seabirds and shore birds in coastal Alabama and has been the only nesting site for brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) in Alabama - first discovered in 1983.
Alaska
- Northstar Island, an island built for oil drilling and extraction from the Northstar Oil Pool in the Beaufort Sea.
California
- Tom Sawyer Island, Frontierland, Disneyland theme park
- Balboa Island (Newport Beach)
- Treasure Island (San Francisco Bay)
- Rincon Island (off Ventura County Coast)[18]
- THUMS Islands (also called Astronaut Islands) - four artificial island oil platforms (off Long Beach Harbor)
- Coast Guard Island (Oakland Estuary, San Francisco Bay area)
- Long Beach Port
Florida
- Isola di Lolando (Miami) - Failed artificial island construction project.
- Hibiscus Island (Miami Beach) (1922)
- San Pablo Island (name not official) (Jacksonville Beaches) (1912)
- Palm Island (Miami Beach)
- Peanut Island (Riviera Beach) (1918)
- Star Island (Miami Beach)
- Venetian Islands (Miami Beach) - Includes Belle Isle, Biscayne Island, Di Lido Island and Flagler Monument Island.
- Fisher Island (Miami)
- Watson Island (Miami)
- Dodge Island (Miami)
- Sunset Islands (Miami Beach) - 4 separate, numbered islands
- Brickell Key (Miami)
Illinois
- Goose Island (Chicago)
- Northerly Island (Chicago)
Kentucky
- Shippingport, a former town now within the boundaries of Louisville that became an island in 1825 when the Louisville and Portland Canal was built as a bypass of the Falls of the Ohio.
Michigan
- Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan
New Jersey/Delaware
- Artificial Island, New Jersey (Alloway Township, New Jersey)/a tiny portion of Delaware
New York
Washington
- Harbor Island (Seattle)
- Duck Island, in Green Lake Park, Seattle.
Wisconsin
- Door County (north of the canal)
Venezuela
Zulia State
Anzoátegui State
- Isla Paraíso[22]
Land disconnected by artificial canals
- Africa has been separated from Eurasia by the Suez Canal
- Barnegat Peninsula, New Jersey, United States (Point Pleasant Canal)
- Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States (Cape Cod Canal)
- Cape Henlopen, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and environs (Lewes and Rehoboth Canal)
- Cape Island, New Jersey, United States (Cape May Canal)
- Cijin/Kaohsiung Port, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Delmarva Peninsula, United States (Chesapeake & Delaware Canal; lockless)
- Western Europe (Rhône–Rhine Canal and rivers)
- Fenwick Island, Delaware and Maryland, United States (Assawoman Canal)
- Southern Florida (Okeechobee Waterway)
- Southeastern New Jersey (Delaware and Raritan Canal)
- Part of North Carolina (Alligator-Pungo Canal)
- Peloponnese, Greece (Corinth Canal; lockless)
- Southern Sweden (Göta Canal and Trollhätte Canal and rivers)
- Sviyazhsk, Russia
- Eastern United States and southeastern Canada (Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal and Chicago River, Mississippi River, Great Lakes, St. Lawrence Seaway)
- Virginia Beach and Norfolk, Virginia, United States (Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal)
- Eastern Virginia and North Carolina, United States (Dismal Swamp Canal)
- Potonggang-guyok, North Korea, between Pothong River and Pothonggang Canal
- Sääminginsalo, Saimaa, Finland
Former hilltops in artificial lakes
- Barro Colorado Island, a former hilltop in the Panama Canal Zone, Panama
- René-Levasseur Island, Québec, Canada
See also
- Lists of islands
- List of unusual drainage systems (where land is isolated by natural two-way drainage)
References
- ↑ N. China port city to create artificial island in 4 years
- ↑ "Moreton Bay | Queensland Places". www.queenslandplaces.com.au. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
- ↑ Gardner, Elliot (2017-05-21). "Ocean Cay: the world's biggest private cruise resort emerges". Ship Technology. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
- ↑ "Cómo es vivir en Santa Cruz del Islote, la isla artificial más densamente poblada del mundo". BBC News Mundo (in Spanish). 2018-04-13. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
- ↑ N. China port city to create artificial island in 4 years
- ↑ Google Satellite
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- ↑ "Ocean Reef Island el lugar mas exclusivo de todo Panama 🛳️" (in European Spanish). 2022-01-05. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
- ↑ Banpo Seorae Island 반포 서래섬
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-11-08. Retrieved 2015-01-01.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "Piratas en Venezuela acechan el lago más grande de América Latina". Voz de América (in Spanish). 2019-09-12. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
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