Former islands

city in the South Governorate of Lebanon, also an ancient Phoenician city and the legendary birthplace of Europa and Elissa (Dido)

sea port on the Caribbean Sea (Atlantic) coast of Panama

Spanish peninsula claimed by Morocco

Sakurajima (, ) is an active stratovolcano, formerly an island and now a peninsula, in Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu, Japan. It is the most active volcano in Japan.

former island in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

island

former island in Pakistan

peninsula

thumb|Kokaral Island on the map of Aral sea Kokaral (, Kökaral meaning Green Island) was until 1973 an island in Kazakhstan, in the northern part of the Aral Sea. It had an area of 273 km2 (1960), and its highest point was the 163 meter high hill called Daut. On its northern shore were situated the fishing villages of Kokaral, Avan and Akbasty.

thumb|Dyrhólaey thumb|Dyrhólaey Lighthouse thumb|Reynisfjara and Reynisdrangar as seen from Dyrhólaey

prehistoric island

island in Iran

former island in Bolivian salt flat

400px|right|The Flemish Coast in the middle ages with Testerep island

A district in Tainan City, Taiwan

Hjörleifshöfði () is a -high inselberg in southern Iceland. It consists of palagonite. The mountain is located on the Mýrdalssandur outwash plain about east of Vík í Mýrdal, and was an island in the Atlantic Ocean.

former island in Hong Kong

Noktundo (; ) was an island in the delta of the Tumen River on the border between Primorsky Krai, Russia and North Korea. The area of the island was .

island in Macau

Antirhodos (sometimes Antirrhodos or Anti Rhodes) was an island in the eastern harbor of Alexandria, Egypt, on which a Ptolemaic Egyptian palace was sited. The island was occupied until the reigns of Septimius Severus and Caracalla and it probably sank in the 4th century, when it succumbed to earthquakes and a tsunami following an earthquake in the eastern Mediterranean near Crete in the year 365. The site now lies underwater, near the seafront of modern Alexandria, at a depth of approximately .

small peninsula (formerly island) adjacent to Lüderitz in Namibia

former island in the Aegean mentioned in Greek mythology

island in Lagos, Nigeria

thumb|Enewetak Atoll, before Mike shot. Note island of Elugelab on left. thumb|Enewetak Atoll, after Mike shot. Note crater on left. Elugelab, or Elugelap (, ), was an island, part of the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It was destroyed in the world's first full-scale thermonuclear explosion, the Mike shot of Operation Ivy, on November 1, 1952. Prior to being destroyed, the island was described as "just another small naked island of the atoll".

islet in Saint Lucia

peninsula

seaside resort in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales

thumb|330px|18th-century sketch of Geirfuglasker thumb|330px|Former location of Geirfuglasker among the Fuglasker islands Geirfuglasker (, "Great Auk Rock") was a small islet near Reykjanes, Iceland. It was volcanic rock with steep sides except for two landing places. The rough surf around the island usually made it inaccessible to humans, and one of the last refuges for the flightless bird the great auk (which was also called "garefowl" — "geirfugl" in Icelandic). In a volcanic eruption in 1830 this rock submerged. The surviving great auks moved to a nearby island called Eldey and were wiped

island in Kuwait

island in Romania

reef

island

peninsula in Latvia

artificial island

chain of active volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean during the Cretaceous period on the Insular Plate; 115 million years ago, collided with the North American continent to form the Insular Mountains

Island in Portugal

Tuanaki or Tuanahe is the name of an anecdotal vanished group of islets, once part of the Cook Islands. It was located south of Rarotonga and within two days sail of Mangaia.

former island in Uzbekistan

Desert island in Hokkaido, Japan

Spartel Bank or Majuán Bank is a submerged former island located in the Strait of Gibraltar near Cape Spartel and the Spartel Sill. Its highest point is currently below the surface. Spartel Bank is one of several seamounts in the bed of Gibraltar Strait; similar but deeper seamounts are found at Camarinal Sill and further east. These represent landslide blocks which slid south from the north bank of the Strait of Gibraltar when the strait was formed, possibly through erosion by inflowing waters of the Zanclean flood.

former island in Barbados

locality and former island in New Zealand