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Ait (/eɪt/, like eight) or eyot (/aɪ(ə)t, eɪt/), a small island. It is especially used to refer to river islands found on the
River Thames and its tributaries in England. •
Cay or key, an islet formed by the accumulation of fine sand deposits atop a
reef, especially in the
Caribbean and West Atlantic.
Rum Cay in the
Bahamas and the
Florida Keys off
Florida are examples of islets. • The French suffix
-hou from the Scandinavian
-holm, is used for the names of some islets in the
Channel Islands, such as
Écréhous,
Burhou,
Lihou and
Les Houmets, and off
Normandy, such as
Tatihou. •
Inch, a term used especially in
Scotland, 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,
Inch Kenneth,
Inchkeith,
Keith Inch (no longer an island) and
Inchcailloch. such as
Motu One,
Motu Nao and
Motu Paahi. •
River island, an islet within the current of a river, such as the
Île de la Cité in
Paris. • '''''', 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
Albino Rock in the
Palm Island group off
Queensland, Australia. •
Sandbar or shoal, an exposed
sandbar. •
Sea stack, a thin, vertical landform jutting out of a body of water. •
Skerry, a small rocky island, usually defined to be too small for habitation, especially in
Ireland. • 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. •
Tidal island, small islands (not always islets) which lie closely off the coast of a
mainland or a much larger island, being connected to it (and thus becomes a
peninsula/
promontory) in low tide and isolated by a
channel in high tide. == In international law ==