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An islet is a small Island .

A rock, sometimes a synonym for a type of "islet", is a landform comprised of Rock , lying offshore, having no or minimal vegetation, and uninhabited (see Mōkōlea Rock at left).

An exposed Sandbar would be another type of islet. A more technical application is to small land features, isolated by water, lying off the shore of a larger island. And in related fashion, any emergent land on an Atoll (a type of island) would also be called an islet.

As with many of these terms, the actual size limits of islets are subjective, and vary from area to area, and person to person.


  • In Scotland and Ireland , they are often called inches, from the Gaelic ''innis'', which originally meant island, but has been supplanted to refer to smaller islands. In Ireland they are often termed '''skerries'''.


  • In the Channel Islands , they are often identified by the suffix ''-hou'' from the Norse ''-holmr''. ''Holm'' is a common suffix too in Nordic and northern European lands.