Mythological islands

Avalon () is an island featured in the Arthurian legend. It first appeared in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 Historia Regum Britanniae as a place of magic where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was made and later where Arthur was taken to recover from being gravely wounded at the Battle of Camlann. Since then, the island has become a symbol of Arthurian mythology, similar to Arthur's castle, Camelot.

thumb|upright=1.4|Thule as Tile on the Carta marina of 1539 by [[Olaus Magnus, where it is shown located to the northwest of the Orkney islands, with a "monster, seen in 1537", a whale ("balena"), and an orca nearby]]

Land of Eternal Youth in Irish mythology

thumb|300px|The golden abode of King Ravana

phantom island

mythical island

thumb|Map of Italy with Aeaea marked south of Rome (Abraham Ortelius, 1624)

legendary islands in the Atlantic Ocean

Antillia or Antilia is a phantom island that was reputed, during the 15th-century age of exploration, to lie in the Atlantic Ocean, far to the west of Portugal and Spain. The island also went by the name of Isle of Seven Cities (; ).

Hawaiki (also rendered as in the Cook Islands, in Māori, in Samoan, in Tahitian, in Hawaiian) is, in Polynesian folklore, the original home of the Polynesians, before dispersal across Polynesia. It also features as the underworld in many Māori stories.

thumb|Illustration by Howard Davie for The Heroes by [[Charles Kingsley.]] The Symplegades (; , Symplēgádes), also known as Clashing Rocks or Cyanean Rocks (Κυανέαι), were, according to Greek mythology, a pair of rocks at the Bosphorus that clashed together whenever a vessel went through. They were defeated by Jason and the Argonauts, who would have been lost and killed by the rocks except for Phineus's advice. Jason let a dove fly between the rocks to see exactly how fast they would have to row to beat the rocks; the dove lost only its tail feathers. The Argonauts rowed mightily to get throug

mystical land in Chinese mythology

thumb|Buyan Island, by Ivan Bilibin (1905) In Russian folklore, Buyan (), sometimes transliterated as Bujan, is a mysterious island in the ocean with the ability to appear and disappear with the tide. The island is found in byliny and skazki. It gained wider recognition after appearing in Alexander Pushkin's The Tale of Tsar Saltan.

thumb|upright=1.2|Pieter Lastman: Odysseus and Nausicaa ([[oil on panel, 1619; Alte Pinakothek, Munich)]] Scheria or Scherie (; or ), also known as Phaeacia () or Faiakia, was a region in Greek mythology, first mentioned in Homer's Odyssey as the home of the Phaeacians and the last destination of Odysseus in his 10-year journey before returning home to Ithaca. It is one of the earliest descriptions of a utopia.

phantom island in North Atlantic Ocean

Dvipa (, ) is a term in Hindu cosmography. The Puranas describe a dvipa to be one of the seven islands or continents that are present on Earth, each of them surrounded by an ocean. The same terminology is also used to refer to the seven regions of the cosmos.

Baltia, Basilia or Abalus is a mythic island in northern Europe mentioned in Greco-Roman geography in the connection of amber.

thumb|Blockula in the thumb|Witches' Sabbath at the Blocksberg, Johannes Praetorius, Leipzig, 1668 thumb|Detail of the stone labyrinth on the Swedish islet of Blå Jungfrun Blockula (, ) was a legendary island where the Devil held his Earthly court during a witches' Sabbath. It was described as containing a massive meadow with no visible end, and a large house where the Devil would stay.

mythical realm in Irish mythology

novel by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo

former island in the Aegean mentioned in Greek mythology

Manidvipa (; ) is the celestial abode of Mahadevi, the supreme goddess, according to the Shaktism tradition in Hinduism. It is an island situated in the middle of an ocean called the Sudha Samudra (the ocean of nectar). In the Devi Bhagavata Purana, Manidvipa is portrayed as the Sarvaloka, the highest world that is superior to Goloka, the realm of Krishna and Radha, Saketa the realm of Rama and Sita, Vaikuntha, the realm of Vishnu and Lakshmi, Kailasa, the realm of Shiva and Parvati, and Brahmaloka, the realm of Brahma and Saraswati. This is consistent with the scripture's portrayal of goddess

island in Japanese mythology

In Greek mythology, the Planctae (, Planktai, "Wanderers"), also known as Wandering Rocks, were a group of rocks, between which the sea was mercilessly violent. The Argo (led by Jason) was the only ship to navigate them successfully (with divine help from Hera, Thetis, and the Nereids). Jason chose to brave the Planctae instead of braving Scylla and Charybdis.

island in the Odyssey

thumb|right|Nhumuy, East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory Baralku, also written Burralku or Bralgu, is a place connected with creation ancestors in the mythology of the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is referred to as island of the dead, and the place where the ancestors known as Djanggawul (Djan'kawu) originated, before travelling by canoe to Yalangbara, where they gave birth to the Rirratjingu clan.

traditional name for (North) America among some indigenous groups

thumb|120px|1424 map of Zuane Pizzigano, the first depiction of the island of Satanazes as a large blue rectangular isle north of [[Antillia.]]

Former kingodm in Southeast Asia

mythical island in Irish mythology

Fanghu (), also known as Fanghu Mountain or Fangzhang zhou (), is one of the five Bohai Sea Shenshan mountain-islands in Taoist mythology. It is said this is where the Emperor Qin Shihuang visited to seek immortality.

Rocabarra or Rocabarraigh is a phantom island or rock in Scottish Gaelic myth, which is supposed to appear three times, the last being at the end of the world.

mythological island in Greece

fictional island

islands of gold and silver in ancient Greek geography and mythology

Aegilips ( ) is an Ancient Greek name of an island in the Ionian Sea, near Ithaca. In Homer's Iliad, book II, Aegilips is part of Odysseus's kingdom. According to an attempt by the ancient geographer Strabo to localize it, Aigilips was on the Ionian island of Leucas, together with the places Neritos and Krokyleia also mentioned in the ship catalogue, while the grammarian Stephanos of Byzantium localized all three places on the Ionian island of Ithaca. Some researchers, including Wilhelm Dörpfeld estimate that Aegilips is present day island of Meganisi.