4,510 islands

The Florida Island Group (Florida Islands) includes from northwest to southeast: Buena Vista Island, Olevuga Island, Sandfly Passage, Florida Island (Nggela Sule, Big Gela), Tulagi Island, Nggela Pile (Small Gela) and Mandoliana Island.

• Key Biscayne. Off the coast of Miami, and just south of Miami Beach, is the barrier island known as Key Biscayne.
• Gasparilla Island. flickr/Karen Blaha.
• Siesta Key. Just off the coast of Sarasota is Siesta Key, a barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Key Largo.
• Anna Maria Island.
• Marco Island.
• Islamorada.
• Sanibel Island.

North Captiva Island, Florida A four-mile-long crescent off southwestern Florida, North Captiva Island has an exclusive feel and a simple soul. Visitors arrive hauling a week’s worth of groceries and then disappear into rented beach houses in the scrubby, coquina-shell-covered landscape.

Greenland, part of the Kingdom of Denmark, is the world’s largest island. Greenland offers more than 840,000 square miles of arctic wilderness.

The Danish–Icelandic Act of Union, an agreement with Denmark signed on 1 December 1918 and valid for 25 years, recognised Iceland as a fully sovereign and independent state in a personal union with Denmark.

January

The highest monthly average temperature is 28.9 degrees Celsius (84.02 degrees Fahrenheit). The hottest summer weather is to be found around Tokyo and in some other parts of Honshu, Japan’s main island, where the temperature can reach almost 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit).

And in more recent years Tokyo had 10.6 inches (27 cm) in 2014 and 8.2 inches (21 cm) in January 2018.