|
Country/group of islands
|
Number of islands
|
Total area of islands (km2)
|
Average island area (km2)
|
Average island maximum elevation (m)
|
|---|
|
American Samoa
|
7
|
222
|
32
|
396
|
|
Chilean islands (eastern Pacific)
|
2
|
215
|
108
|
269
|
|
Cook Islands
|
15
|
297
|
20
|
73
|
|
East Pacific outliersa
|
24
|
8236
|
343
|
509
|
|
Federated States of Micronesia
|
127
|
799
|
6
|
45
|
|
Fiji
|
211
|
20,857
|
99
|
134
|
|
French Polynesia
|
125
|
3939
|
31
|
154
|
|
Guam
|
1
|
588
|
588
|
400
|
|
Hawaii
|
16
|
19,121
|
1195
|
869
|
|
Kiribati
|
33
|
995
|
30b
|
6
|
|
Marshall Islands
|
34
|
286
|
8b
|
3
|
|
Nauru
|
1
|
23
|
23
|
71
|
|
New Caledonia
|
29
|
21,613
|
745
|
121
|
|
Niue
|
1
|
298
|
298
|
60
|
|
Northern Mariana islands
|
16
|
537
|
34
|
444
|
|
Palau
|
33
|
495
|
15
|
58
|
|
Papua New Guineac
|
437
|
67,754
|
155
|
135
|
|
Pitcairn islands
|
4
|
54
|
13
|
97
|
|
Samoa
|
7
|
3046
|
435
|
504
|
|
Solomon Islands
|
415
|
29,675
|
72
|
88
|
|
Tokelau
|
3
|
16
|
5b
|
5
|
|
Tonga
|
124
|
847
|
7
|
56
|
|
Tuvalu
|
10
|
44
|
4b
|
4
|
|
US-administered islands (central Pacific)
|
8
|
37
|
5
|
5
|
|
Vanuatu
|
81
|
13,526
|
167
|
330
|
|
Wallis and Futuna
|
14
|
190
|
14
|
94
|
|
Total
|
1778
|
1,93,712
|
171
|
190
|
- Note that the island of New Guinea is excluded from the data analysis in this table because of its great size which skews the analysis
-
aThis group is comprised mostly of the Galapagos islands, politically part of Ecuador
-
bAverage island areas for these atoll countries are overestimates as they are based on polygons that subsume multiple islands (see text)
-
cNote that the large island of New Guinea is excluded from this analysis because it is shared between Papua New Guinea and Indonesia
