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This is a list of islands in freshwater lakes, sometimes known as inland islands.

By size

  1. Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron, Canada - 2,766 km² (1,068 sq miles)
  2. Vozrozhdeniya Island in the Aral Sea, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan - 2,300 km² (888 sq miles). Note that in 2002 the island became a peninsula due to the shrinking of the sea, so may not appear in some reckonings.
  3. René-Levasseur Island in the Manicouagan Reservoir, Quebec, Canada - 2,000 km² (780 sq miles)
  4. Olkhon in Lake Baikal, Russia - 730 km² (282 sq miles)
  5. Samosir in Lake Toba, Indonesia - 630 km² (243 sq miles). Further holds the record for being the largest island in a lake on an island
  6. Isle Royale in Lake Superior, United States - 541 km² (209 sq miles)
  7. Ukerewe Island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania - 530 km² (205 sq miles)
  8. St. Joseph Island in Lake Huron, Canada - 365 km² (141 sq miles)
  9. Drummond Island in Lake Huron, United States - 347 km² (134 sq miles)
  10. Idjwi in Lake Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo - 285 km² (110 sq miles)
  11. Mokoia Island in Lake Rotorua in New Zealand and has an area of 1.35 square kilometres. The island is a rhyolite lava dome, rising to 180 metres above the lake surface.

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