As of 2026-10-12, Hawaiian Islands tops the list with 4,205 m.
- #1 Hawaiian Islands — 4,205 m
archipelago in the Pacific Ocean
The Hawaiian Islands are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some 1,500 miles from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll. Formerly called the Sandwich Islands, the present name for the archipelago is derived from the name of its largest island, Hawaiʻi. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #2 Lesser Sunda Islands — 3,726 m
group of islands in the southern Indonesian Archipelago
The Lesser Sunda Islands, now known as Nusa Tenggara Islands in Indonesia, is an archipelago in the Indonesian archipelago and Timor Leste. Most of the Lesser Sunda Islands are located within the Wallacea region, except for the Bali province which is west of the Wallace Line and is within the Sunda Shelf. Together with the Greater Sunda Islands to the west, they make up the Sunda Islands. The islands are part of a volcanic arc, the Sunda Arc, formed by subduction along the Sunda Trench in the... Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #3 Antilles — 3,087 m
archipelago bordering the north and east of the Caribbean Sea
The Antilles is an archipelago within the West Indies in the Caribbean region of the Americas. It is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the south and west, the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, and the North Atlantic Ocean to the north and east. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #4 Mascarene Islands — 3,069 m
a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar consisting of islands belonging to the Republic of Mauritius as well as the French department of Réunion
The Mascarene Islands or Mascarenes or Mascarenhas Archipelago is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar consisting of islands belonging to the Republic of Mauritius as well as the French department of Réunion. Their name derives from the Portuguese navigator Pedro Mascarenhas, who first visited them in April 1512. The islands share a common geological origin beneath the Mascarene Plateau known as the Mauritia microcontinent which was a Precambrian microcontinent situated... Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #5 Heard Island and McDonald Islands — 2,745 m
Australian external territory and volcanic group of barren Antarctic islands
The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands is an Australian external territory in the southern Indian Ocean. Discovered in the mid-19th century, the territory is a group of sub-Antarctic volcanic islands that lie on the Kerguelen Plateau. It is about 4000 kilometres (2500 mi) south-west of the Australian mainland and 1700 kilometres (1100 mi) north of Antarctica. The territory contains Australia's only active volcanoes and is home to its highest point outside the Australian Antarctic... Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #6 Solomon Islands — 2,715 m
archipelago in the South Pacific
The Solomon Islands archipelago is an island group in the western South Pacific Ocean, north-east of Australia. The archipelago is in the Melanesian subregion and bioregion of Oceania and forms the eastern boundary of the Solomon Sea. The many islands of the archipelago are distributed across the sovereign states of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. The largest island in the archipelago is Bougainville, which is a part of an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea along with Buka Island, the... Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #7 Canadian Arctic Archipelago — 2,616 m
archipelago in northern North America
The Arctic Archipelago, also known as the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, is an archipelago lying to the north of the Canadian continental mainland, excluding Greenland, and Iceland. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #8 Comoros Islands — 2,361 m
archipelago in the Indian Ocean
The Comoro Islands are a group of volcanic islands in the Mozambique Channel, an arm of the Indian Ocean lying between Madagascar and the African mainland. Three of the islands form the Union of the Comoros, a sovereign nation, while Mayotte belongs to France. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #9 Kuril Islands — 2,339 m
island chain located in Northeast Asia administered by Russia
The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands are a volcanic archipelago administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East. The islands stretch approximately 1,300 km (810 mi) northeast from Hokkaido in Japan to Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the north Pacific Ocean. There are 56 islands and many minor islets. The Kuril Islands consist of the Greater Kuril Chain and, at the southwest end, the parallel Lesser Kuril Chain. The group termed the 'South... Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #10 South Shetland Islands — 2,300 m
archipelago in the Southern Ocean
The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands located in the Drake Passage with a total area of 3,687 km2 (1,424 sq mi). They lie about 120 kilometres north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between 430 and 900 km southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories. According to British government language on the topic, "the whole of Antarctica is protected in... Read more on Wikipedia.
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