List of artificial islands

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This is a list of artificial islands.

Table[edit]

Australia[edit]

Bahamas[edit]

Bahrain[edit]

  • New Bahrain International Airport

Bolivia[edit]

See #Peru/Bolivia

Brazil[edit]

Bulgaria[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Bolívar Department[edit]

China[edit]

Hong Kong[edit]

Former[edit]

Macau[edit]

Egypt[edit]

Germany[edit]


India[edit]

Ireland[edit]

Japan[edit]

Kuwait[edit]


Malaysia[edit]

Maldives[edit]

Mexico[edit]

Montenegro[edit]

Netherlands[edit]

Oman[edit]

Panama[edit]

  • Ocean Reef Islands[16]

Peru/Bolivia[edit]

Qatar[edit]

Russia[edit]

Nineteen artificial islands in the Gulf of Finland for fortresses.

Saudi Arabia[edit]

Solomon Islands[edit]

South Africa[edit]

  • Island in Kamfers Dam, constructed as a flamingo breeding island

South Korea[edit]

Sri Lanka[edit]

Taiwan[edit]

Tonga[edit]

United Arab Emirates[edit]

Abu Dhabi[edit]

Dubai[edit]

Ras al Khaimah[edit]

Sharjah[edit]

Fujairah[edit]

United Kingdom[edit]

England[edit]

Scotland[edit]

United States[edit]

Alabama[edit]

  • 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[edit]

California[edit]

Florida[edit]

Illinois[edit]

Kentucky[edit]

Michigan[edit]

New Jersey/Delaware[edit]

New York[edit]

Washington[edit]

Wisconsin[edit]

Venezuela[edit]

Zulia State[edit]

Anzoátegui State[edit]

Land disconnected by artificial canals[edit]

Former hilltops in artificial lakes[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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