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An islet ( ) is generally a small . Definitions vary and are not precise, but some suggest that an islet is a very small, often unnamed, island with little or no to support . It may be made of rock, sand and/or ; may be permanent or tidal (i.e. surfaced or ); and may exist in the , , or any other sizeable bodies of water.

Definition
As suggested by its origin islette, an of "isle", , 1958 use of the term implies small size, but little attention is given to drawing an upper limit on its applicability.

The World Landforms website says, "An islet landform is generally considered to be a rock or small island that has little vegetation and cannot sustain human habitation", and further that size may vary from a few square feet to several square miles, with no specific rule pertaining to size.

Other terms
  • (/eɪt/, like eight) or eyot (/aɪ(ə)t, eɪt/), a small island. It is especially used to refer to river islands found on the and its tributaries in England.
  • or key, an islet formed by the accumulation of fine sand deposits atop a , especially in the and West Atlantic. in the and the off are examples of islets.
  • The French suffix from the Scandinavian -holm, is used for the names of some islets in the , such as Écréhous, , and , and off , such as .
  • Inch, a term used especially in , from the Gaelic innis, which originally meant island, but has been supplanted to refer to smaller islands, such the islet of Inch, off St Mary's Isle Priory, , , (no longer an island) and .
  • Motu, a reef islet formed by broken and sand, surrounding an , especially in , such as Motu One, and .
  • , an islet within the current of a river, such as the Île de la Cité in .
  • , in the sense of a type of islet, is an uninhabited landform composed of exposed rocks, lying offshore, and having at most minimal vegetation, such as in the Palm Island group off , Australia.
  • or shoal, an exposed sandbar.
  • , a thin, vertical landform jutting out of a body of water.
  • , a small rocky island, usually defined to be too small for habitation, especially in .
  • Subsidiary islets, a more technical application, is applied to small land features isolated by water, lying off the shore of a larger island. Similarly, any emergent land in an atoll is also called an islet.
  • , small islands (not always islets) which lie closely off the coast of a or a much larger island, being connected to it (and thus becomes a /) in low tide and isolated by a channel in high tide.

In international law
Whether an islet is considered a rock or not, it can have significant economic consequences under Article 121 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which stipulates that "rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own shall have no exclusive economic zone or continental shelf". One long-term dispute over the status of such an islet was that of Snake Island.Coalter G. Lathrop (July 22, 2009) "Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea (Romania v. Ukraine)". American Journal of International Law, Vol. 103. Ukraine, Romania spar over islet, 2006-7-14 Romania and Ukraine avoid rocky horror show , , 03/02/09

The International Court of Justice jurisprudence however sometimes ignores islets, regardless of inhabitation status, in deciding territorial disputes; it did so in 2009 in adjudicating the Romania–Ukraine dispute, and previously in the dispute between Libya and Malta involving the islet of .

(1991). 9780415038164, Taylor & Francis. .

List of islets
There are thousands of islets on Earth: approximately 24,000 islands and islets in the Stockholm archipelago alone. The following is a list of example islets from around the world.

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