List of islands named after people

Island Country or location Eponym Ackerman Island United States Joseph Ackerman Agios Efstratios Greece Saint Eustratius (Όσιος Ευστράτιος ο Θαυματουργός), who lived on the island in the 9th century as an exile, because he was opposed to the iconoclastic policies of the Byzantine Emperor Leo the Armenian Agios Georgios Greece Saint George Alejandro Selkirk Island Chile Alexander Selkirk Alexander Island Antarctica Alexander I of Russia Allen Island Australia John Allen Amherst Island Canada Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst Amherst Island Canada Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst Amund Ringnes Island Canada Amund Ringnes Annenkov Island South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Mikhail Annenkov Annette Island United States Annette Whitney Dall Axel Heiberg Island Canada Axel Heiberg Baffin Island Canada William Baffin Bainbridge Island United States Commodore William Bainbridge Baker Island United States Captain Michael Baker Ball’s Pyramid Australia Lieutenant Henry Ball Banks Island Canada Joseph Banks Baranof Island United States Alexander Andreyevich Baranov Barrow Island Australia Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet Bartolomé Island Ecuador Sir Bartholomew James Sulivan Bathurst Island Australia Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst Bathurst Island Canada Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst Beauchene Island Falkland islands Jacques Gouin de Beauchêne Bedford Island Antarctica Thomas Bedford Belcher Islands Canada Edward Belcher Bellingshausen Island South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Fabian von Bellingshausen Bentinck Island Canada Lord George Bentinck (possibly) Bering Island Russia Vitus Bering Berkner Island Antarctica Lloyd Berkner Bermuda Bermuda Juan de Bermúdez Bernard Island Antarctica Claude Bernard Bernier Island Australia Pierre-François Bernier (presumably) Bismarck Archipelago Papua New Guinea Otto von Bismarck Bjarnason Island Canada Matt Bjarnason Blakely Island United States Johnston Blakeley Block Island United States Adriaen Block Borden Island, Northwest Territories/Nunavut Canada Robert Borden Bougainville Papua New Guinea Louis Antoine de Bougainville Boularderie Island Canada Louis-Simon le Poupet de la Boularderie Bouvet Island Norway Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier Bowen Island, British Columbia Canada James Bowen (Royal Navy officer) Bowen Island (Jervis Bay) Australia Richard Bowen RN Bowyer Island, British Columbia Canada Sir George Bowyer, 5th Baronet Brenton Island South Africa Jahleel Brenton Bristol Island South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol Brock Island, Northwest Territories Canada Reginald W. Brock Brown Island, Northwest Territories United States John G. Brown Bruny Island Australia Bruni d’Entrecasteaux Burnaby Island Canada Robert Burnaby Busta Rhymes Island United States Busta Rhymes Bylot Island Canada Robert Bylot Camano Island United States Jacinto Caamaño Campobello Island Canada Lord William Campbell (with name Italianized) Cape Chidley Islands Canada John Chidley Carleton Island United States Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester Charles Alexander Island Russia Charles Alexander Charles Island United States Charles Deal Charlton Island Canada Charles I of England Charron Island Canada François Charron Cheeseman Island New Zealand Thomas Frederick Cheeseman Chichagof Island United States Vasili Chichagov Chirikof Island United States Alexei Chirikov Choiseul Island Solomon Islands Étienne François, duc de Choiseul Churchill Island Australia John Churchill Clapperton Island Canada Hugh Clapperton Clark Island Australia Lieutenant Ralph Clark Clark Island United States Midshipman John Clark Clarke Island Australia William Clarke Clerke Rocks South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Charles Clerke Coats Island Canada William Coats Cockburn Island Canada Francis Cockburn Colville Island United States Andrew Colville Cook Islands Cook Islands James Cook Cook Island South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands James Cook Cooper Island South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Robert Palliser Cooper Cornwallis Island Canada William Cornwallis Cortes Island, British Columbia Canada Hernán Cortés Crown Prince Frederik Island Canada Crozier Island Greenland Francis Crozier Curtis Island Australia Roger Curtis Dall Island United States William Healey Dall Darwin Island Ecuador Charles Darwin Island Davaar Scotland Saint Barr Dawson Island Chile See Dawson (surname) Decatur Island United States Stephen Decatur Delarof Islands United States Evstratii Ivanovich Delarov D’Entrecasteaux Islands Papua New Guinea Bruni D’Entrecasteaux Diego Garcia British Indian Ocean Territory Diego García de Moguer Diego Ramírez Islands Chile Diego Ramírez Digges Islands Canada Dudley Digges Diomede Islands United States Russia Saint Diomedes Dirk Hartog Island Australia Dirk Hartog Dorre Island Australia Peter Dorre Douglas Island United States John Douglas Douglas Island Canada James Douglas (presumably) D’Oyly Carte Island England Richard D’Oyly Carte Doumer Island Antarctica Paul Doumer Drake’s Island England Francis Drake Drummond Island United States Gordon Drummond Dundas Island Canada Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville Dundas Island Canada Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville Durell’s Island Canada Captain Thomas Durell D’Urville Island New Zealand Jules Dumont d’Urville Edgell Island Canada Captain Edgell Edgeøya Norway Thomas Edge Eilean Chaluim Chille Scotland Saint Columba Eilean Donan Scotland Saint Donan Ellef Ringnes Island Canada Ellef Ringnes Ellesmere Island Canada Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere Ellis Island United States Samuel Ellis (colonial New Yorker) Ernst Thälmann Island Cuba Ernst Thälmann Faure Island Australia Pierre Faure Fergusson Island Papua New Guinea Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet Fernandina Island Ecuador Ferdinand II of Aragon Fernando de Noronha Brazil Fernão de Loronha Fisher Island United States Carl G. Fisher Flaherty Island Canada Robert J. Flaherty Flinders Island Australia Matthew Flinders Floreana Island Ecuador Juan José Flores Fort Denison Australia William Denison Fox Island United States J.L. Fox Franklin Island Antarctica Sir John Franklin Franklin Island Greenland Sir John Franklin Franz Josef Land Russia Franz Joseph I Fraser Island Australia Eliza Fraser Fraser Island Canada Robert James Fraser Freeman Island United States J.D. Freeman Frobisher’s Farthest Canada Martin Frobisher Frost Island United States Boatswain John Frost Galiano Island, British Columbia Canada Dionisio Alcalá Galiano Gambier Island, British Columbia Canada James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier Gambier Islands French Polynesia James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier Geiger Key United States Henry Huling Geiger Graham Island Canada Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet Graham Bell Island Russia Alexander Graham Bell Gravina Island United States Federico Carlos Gravina y Nápoli Gravina Islands United States Federico Carlos Gravina y Nápoli Gribbell Island Canada Rev. Francis Barrow Gribbell Grindal Island Australia Thomas Grindall Guemes Island United States Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo Guido Island Antarctica Carlos Guido Spano Guss Island United States Guss Hoffmaster Guy Fawkes Island Ecuador Guy Fawkes Hall Island Russia Charles Francis Hall Hannah Island Greenland Hannah (Tookoolito) Hans Island Canada or Greenland Hans Hendrik Hantzsch Island Canada Bernhard Hantzsch Harstine Island United States Lt. Henry J. Hartstene Havelock Island India Henry Havelock Hawkesbury Island Canada Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool (Lord Hawkesbury) Heard Island and McDonald Islands Australia William Heard and John McDonald Hearst Island Antarctica William Randolph Hearst Henderson Island Pitcairn Islands Captain Henderson EIC Hendrik Island Greenland Hendrik Olsen Henry Island United States Henry Wilkes Henry Lawrence Island India Henry Montgomery Lawrence Herron Island United States Lewis Herron Hooker Island Russia Joseph Dalton Hooker Hopkins Island Australia John Hopkins Hormuz Island Iran Hormizd I Hornby Island, British Columbia Canada Geoffrey Hornby Howe Island, Ontario Canada William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe Hutt Island, British Columbia Canada John Hutt (Royal Navy officer) Île Bizard, Quebec Canada Jacques Bizard Île d’Orléans, Quebec Canada Henri II, Duke of Orléans Île Jésus, Quebec Canada Jesus Île Perrot Canada François-Marie Perrot Île Saint-Louis France Louis IX of France Îles Laval Canada François de Laval Inchcolm Scotland Saint Columba Inch Kenneth Scotland Saint Kenneth Inchmarnock Scotland Saint Mearnag Inchmurrin Scotland Saint Meadhran/Mirren Innis Chonan Scotland Saint Conan Isabela Island Ecuador Isabella I of Spain Island of Mozambique Mozambique Mussa Bin Bique Isle La Motte United States Pierre La Motte Isle Martin Scotland Saint Martin Jackson Island Russia Frederick George Jackson Jahleel Island South Africa Jahleel Brenton James Island United States Reuben James James Ross Island Antarctica James Clark Ross Jan Mayen Island Norway Jan Jacobs May van Schellinkhout Jens Munk Island Greenland Jens Munk Joe Island Greenland Joe (Ipiirvik or Ebierbing) John Lawrence Island India John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence Johnston Atoll United States Captain Charles J. Johnston Jones Island United States Jacob Jones Jorge Montt Island Chile Jorge Montt Juan de Nova Island French Southern and Antarctic Lands João da Nova Juan Fernández Islands Chile Juan Fernández (explorer) Keats Island (British Columbia) Canada Richard Goodwin Keats Kennedy Island Solomon Islands John F. Kennedy Keppel Island Falkland Islands Admiral Augustus Keppel Kerguelen French Southern and Antarctic Lands Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec Kermadec Islands New Zealand Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec Ketron Island United States William Kittson (name badly misspelt by cartographers) Kilian Island Canada Bernhard Kilian King George Island Antarctica George III of the United Kingdom King George Islands Canada George III of the United Kingdom King George Islands French Polynesia George III of the United Kingdom King Island Australia Philip Gidley King King William Island Canada William IV of the United Kingdom Kirkland Island Canada John Kirkland Korovin Island United States Ivan Korovin (presumably) Kupreanof Island United States Ivan Antonovich Kupreianov Kupriyanov Islands South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Ivan Kupriyanov Lady Franklin Island Canada Lady Jane Franklin Lady Julia Percy Island Australia Lady Julia Helen Percy Lanzarote Spain Lancelotto Malocello Lemesurier Island United States Midshipman William Le Mesurier Lennox Island Canada Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond Lewis Island Australia George Lewis Little Island Australia John Little Little Wellington Island Chile Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Loks Land Canada Michael Lok Lockwood Island Greenland James Booth Lockwood Lopez Island United States Gonzalo López de Haro Lord Howe Island Australia Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe Louise Island Canada Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll Lulu Island Canada Lulu Sweet Macauley Island New Zealand George Mackenzie Macaulay MacDonald Island Canada James F. MacDonald Mackenzie King Island Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King MacKlintok Island Russia Francis Leopold McClintock Macquarie Island Australia Lachlan Macquarie Magdalen Islands Canada Madeleine Fontaine, seigneur François Doublet’s wife Malcolm Island Canada Pulteney Malcolm Manoel Island Malta António Manoel de Vilhena Mansel Island Canada Robert Mansell Manuel Rodriguez Island Chile Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza Marchena Island Ecuador Frey Antonio de Marchena Margaret Island Hungary Saint Margaret of Hungary Mauritius Indian Ocean Maurice of Nassau Mayne Island Canada Richard Mayne McIntyre Island Antarctica Robert McIntyre, USN McNeil Island United States William Henry McNeill McNish Island South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Harry McNish Melville Island Australia Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville Melville Island Canada Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville Milne Land Greenland David Milne Mitkof Island United States Admiral Prokofy Mitkov Money Island China (claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam) William Taylor Money Montagu Island South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich Moresby Island Canada Fairfax Moresby Moresby Island Canada Fairfax Moresby Moreton Island Australia James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton Mornington Island Australia Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (also Earl of Mornington) Moore Island Canada Elwood S. Moore Mudge Island Canada William Fitzwilliam Mudge Nansen Island Antarctica Fridtjof Nansen Nansen Island Russia Fridtjof Nansen Necker Island British Virgin Islands Johannes de Neckere Necker Island United States Jacques Necker Neil Island India James George Smith Neill Nicholson Island India R.T. Nicholson Normanby Island Papua New Guinea George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby North Rona Scotland Saint Ronan North Seymour Island Ecuador Lord Hugh Seymour North Tweedsmuir Island Canada John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir Ogasawara Islands Japan Ogasawara Sadayori Orcas Island United States Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo, whose full name included the name Horcasitas Ostrovul Sfintu Gheorghe Romania Saint George Palmerston Island Cook Islands Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston Parker Island Canada Lieutenant George Ferdinand Hastings Parker Pavlof Islands United States Pitka Pavlof Pearse Island Canada William Alfred Rombulow Pearse, RN Pender Island Canada Daniel Pender Peter Island British Virgin Islands Pieter Adriensen Peter I Island Antarctica (claimed by Norway) Peter I of Russia Phillip Island Australia Arthur Phillip Pickersgill Islands South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Richard Pickersgill Picton Chile Thomas Picton Pitt Island New Zealand William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Porcher Island Canada Edwin Augustus Porcher^[1] Pribilof Islands United States Gavriil Pribilof Prince Leopold Island Canada Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld Prince of Wales Island (Alaska) United States George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales Prince of Wales Island (Nunavut), Canada Albert Edward, Prince of Wales Prince of Wales Island (Queensland) Australia George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales Prince Charles Island Canada Charles, Prince of Wales Prince Edward Island Canada Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, father of Queen Victoria Prince Patrick Island Canada Prince Arthur William Patrick, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn Prinsesse Dagmar Island Greenland Princess Dagmar of Denmark Príncipe Island São Tomé and Príncipe Afonso, Prince of Portugal Quadra Island, British Columbia Canada Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra Queen Adelaide Archipelago Chile Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen Queen Elizabeth Islands Canada Queen Elizabeth II René-Levasseur Island Canada René Levasseur Revillagigedo Island United States Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo Revillagigedo Islands Mexico Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo Rikers Island United States Abraham Rycken (Dutch settler) Robinson Island Hong Kong Sir Hercules Robinson, former Governor of Hong Kong Robinson Crusoe Island Chile Robinson Crusoe (fictional character) Rob Roy Island Solomon Islands Rob Roy MacGregor Roderick Island Canada Roderick Finlayson Roosevelt Island Antarctica Franklin D. Roosevelt Roosevelt Island United States Franklin D. Roosevelt Ross Island Antarctica James Clark Ross Rothschild Island Antarctica Édouard Alphonse de Rothschild Rudolf Island Russia Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria Sabine Island Greenland Edward Sabine Saint Barthélemy France Bartholomew Columbus St Catherine’s Island Wales Catherine of Alexandria Saint Helena Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Helena of Constantinople St Ignace Island Canada Ignatius of Loyola Saint John United States Virgin Islands John the Apostle Saint Kitts Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Christopher St. Lawrence Island, Alaska United States Lawrence of Rome Saint Lucia Caribbean Sea Saint Lucy Saint Martin France
Sint Maarten Martin of Tours St Martin’s England Martin of Tours St Mary’s England Saint Mary 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 Paul’s Island Malta Saint Paul of Tarsus Saint Pierre Island France Saint Peter St Serf’s Inch Scotland Saint Serf Saint Tudwal’s Islands Wales Tudwal Saint Vincent Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Vincent of Saragossa Salisbury Island Russia Rollin D. Salisbury San Andrés Island Colombia Saint Andrew San Clemente Island, California United States Saint Clement San Cristóbal Island Ecuador Saint Christopher San Domino Italy Saint Domnius San Juan Island, Washington United States Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo San Juan Islands, Washington United States Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo San Niccolò Italy Saint Nicholas San Nicolas Island, California United States Saint Nicholas San Pietro Island Italy Saint Peter Santa Catalina Island, California United States Catherine of Alexandria Santa Isabel Island Solomon Islands Saint Elizabeth Santa Luzia Cape Verde Saint Lucy Santa Maria Island Portugal Saint Mary Sant’Antioco Italy Saint Antiochus Santiago Island Cape Verde Saint James Santo Antão Island Cape Verde Saint Anthony Santorini Greece Saint Irene São Jorge Island Portugal Saint George São Miguel Island Portugal Saint Michael São Nicolau Island Cape Verde Saint Nicholas São Tomé Island São Tomé and Príncipe Saint Thomas São Vicente Island Cape Verde Vincent of Saragossa Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Charles Saunders (Royal Navy officer) Saunders Island, Greenland Greenland James Saunders, RN Schouten Island Australia Joost Schouten Seychelles Indian Ocean Jean Moreau de Séchelles Shaw Island United States John Shaw Shaw Islands Antarctica John E. Shaw Shumagin Islands United States Nikita Shumagin Sinclair Island (Washington) United States Arthur Sinclair Sint Eustatius Caribbean Netherlands Saint Eustace Sir Hugh Rose Island India Hugh Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn Sir William Peel Island India Sir William Peel Smith Island Australia William Smith Smith Island Antarctica William Smith (not same as above) Smith Island United States John Smith Solander Islands New Zealand Daniel Solander Somerville Island Antarctica Crichton Somerville Spieden Island United States Purser William Speiden Søren Norby’s Island Greenland Søren Norby South Georgia South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands George III of the United Kingdom South Tweedsmuir Island Canada John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir Starbuck Island Kiribati Valentine Starbuck Stefansson Island Canada Vilhjalmur Stefansson Stewart Island New Zealand William W. Stewart Stretch Island United States Samuel Stretch Stuart Island United States Frederick D. Stuart Sverdrup Islands Canada Otto Sverdrup Sveti Đorđe Montenegro Saint George Sveti Nikola Montenegro Saint Nicholas Sveti Stefan Montenegro Saint Stephen Sweyn Holm Scotland Sweyn Asleifsson Tagg’s Island England Tom Tagg Tasmania Australia Abel Tasman Tanner Island South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands William G. Tanner Taylor Island Australia William Taylor Tennent Islands Canada James Emerson Tennent Theodore Roosevelt Island United States Theodore Roosevelt Thistle Island Australia John Thistle Tobias Island (Tuppiap Qeqertaa) Greenland Tobias Gabrielsen Townshend Island Australia Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney Traill Island Greenland Thomas Stewart Traill Traversay Islands South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Jean-Baptiste Prevost de Sansac, Marquis de Traversay Tristan da Cunha Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Tristão da Cunha Truss’s Island England Charles Truss U Thant Island United States U Thant Valdes Island Canada Cayetano Valdés y Flores Vancouver Island Canada George Vancouver Vashon Island United States James Vashon Vendovi Island United States Ro Veidovi Victoria Island Canada Queen Victoria Waldron Island United States Richard Russell Waldron or Thomas Westbrook Waldron Wales Island Canada William Wales Ward Hunt Island Canada George Ward Hunt Weddell Island Falkland Islands James Weddell Wellesley Islands Australia Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley Wellington Island Chile Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Whidbey Island United States Joseph Whidbey Wilson Island Antarctica W. Stanley Wilson Wilson Island India Archdale Wilson Wolf Island Ecuador Theodor Wolf Wolfe Island Canada James Wolfe Wollaston Islands Chile William Hyde Wollaston Woronkofski Island United States Lieutenant Woronkovski Wrangel Island Russia Ferdinand von Wrangel Yakobi Island United States Ivan Iakobi Yos Sudarso Island Indonesia Yos Sudarso Zarembo Island United States Dionizy Zaremba Zavodovski Island South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Lieutenant Ivan Zavodovski