Islet

An islet is a very small island.

Types

As suggested by its origin as islette, an Old French diminutive of "isle", use of the term implies small size, but little attention is given to drawing an upper limit on its applicability.

Rock – A "rock", in the sense of a type of islet, is an uninhabited landform composed of rock, lying offshore, and having at most minimal vegetation.

Sandbar – An exposed sandbar is another type of islet.

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.

Subsidiary islets – A more technical application is to small land features, isolated by water, lying off the shore of a larger island. Likewise, any emergent land in an atoll is also called an islet.

Tidal island – Often small islands (not necessarily always islets) which lie off the mainland of an area, being connected to it in low tide and isolated in high tide.

River island – A small islet within the current of a river.

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Five ‘green islets’ for Ernakulam

The Hindu 09 May 2019

Ernakulam will have five ‘green islets’ under select local bodies soon. The Haritha Keralam Mission has plans to integrate the green project in the panchayats and municipalities with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) ... .......

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Beijing military vows to stay ‘on high alert’ after U.S. warships sail near man-made islets ...

Japan Times 07 May 2019

A Chinese military spokesman has said the People’s Liberation Army will remain “on high alert and take all necessary measures” to protect what it claims ... ....

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Fresh water shortage threatens An Bình Islet

Vietnam News 03 May 2019

A shortage of clean water is threatening 500 residents living on An Bình Islet, three miles from Lý Sơn Island off the coast of Quảng Ngãi Province, due to a faltering desalination plant and lack of rainfall ... ....

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Sansha Islet Key in Beijing's Plan to Control S. China Sea

Voa News 29 Mar 2019

The city of Sansha, anchored by a tiny tropical islet south of the Chinese mainland, will "obtain new breakthroughs" in infrastructure, environmental protection, people's livelihoods and integration of the military, municipal Communist Party Secretary Zhang Jun said March 22 on the city's website ... Taiwan and Vietnam also claim the Paracels ... ....

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S. Korea condemns Japanese school textbooks claiming sovereignty over disputed islets

Xinhua 26 Mar 2019

SEOUL, March 26 (Xinhua) -- South Korea on Tuesday condemned Japan's primary school textbooks unjustly claiming sovereignty over the disputed islets, called Dokdo here and Takeshima in Japan....

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China pursuing buildup of islets in SCS, says report

Manila Standard Today 19 Mar 2019

China will push through with its plan to build an island city on Woody Island and two smaller neighboring islets in the contested South China Sea waters, South China Morning Post said in a report....

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Beijing plans ‘strategic service and logistics base’ on Woody Island, two islets in South China Sea

South China Morning Post 18 Mar 2019

The southernmost Chinese territory in the South China Sea, Sansha, will press ahead with a plan to build an “island city” on Woody Island and two smaller neighbouring islets in the contested waters.Zhang Jun, the Communist Party secretary of Sansha, which is located ......

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In search of life, researchers find islet made of dead corals

The Times of India 11 Mar 2019

When the team of oceanographers from the National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR), which went to the sea nearly a decade after its previous trip, came ashore, it scoured through satellite images of the region for the past decade and realized that it has discovered an islet that had formed two years ago....

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Business as usual on a reclaimed islet off Jakarta despite closure order

Jakarta News 09 Mar 2019

Business as usual on a reclaimed islet off Jakarta despite closure order Mongabay.com JAKARTA Construction and commercial activities have quietly resumed on a land reclamation project that was orde ... ....

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China scraps plan to blow up Mekong River islets, says Thai minister

South China Morning Post 09 Mar 2019

China has agreed to drop a plan to clear rocky outcrops and islets in the upper reaches of the Mekong River over deep concerns from downstream countries, Thai Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai said on Friday.Don said the issue was discussed and agreed during last month’s ......

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Business as usual on a reclaimed islet off Jakarta — despite closure order

Mongabay 05 Mar 2019

A food court began operating last December on one of the artificial islets built in Jakarta Bay, and construction of homes deemed illegal has resumed on the same islet, activists and local media report. Islet D, as it’s known, is one of four reclaimed islands completed just off the coast of the Indonesian capital....

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England’s Sam Billings steps in from the fringe with eye on World Cup stage

The Guardian 05 Mar 2019

Related. Sam Billings up for a scrap to keep his England spot from Alex Hales .......

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Dawid Malan aims to grab T20 chance and show he is England class

The Guardian 04 Mar 2019

• Malan dropped after first Test against India in August 2018 • ‘I still believe I’m good enough to play international cricket’ For Dawid Malan the three T20 internationals that conclude England’s tour of the Caribbean are anything but an afterthought given they offer him a chance to prove a point following a difficult year ... Related....