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An island or isle is any piece of sub - continental land that is surrounded by water . Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets , skerries , cays or keys . An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait , and a small island off the coast may be called a holm . A grouping of geographically or geologically related islands is called an archipelago , e . g . the ___MASK5___ . A nature reserve ( natural reserve , bioreserve , ( natural / nature ) preserve or ( national / nature ) conserve ) is a ___MASK51___ of importance for wildlife , flora , fauna or features of geological or other special interest , which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research . Nature reserves may be designated by government institutions in some countries , or by private landowners , such as charities and research institutions , regardless of nationality . Nature reserves fall into different IUCN categories depending on the level of protection afforded by local laws . A cay ( or ), also spelled caye or key , is a small , low - elevation , sandy island on the surface of a coral reef . Cays occur in tropical environments throughout the Pacific , Atlantic and Indian Oceans ( including in the Caribbean and on the Great Barrier Reef and ___MASK55___ Barrier Reef ). Bass Strait is a sea strait separating Tasmania from the Australian mainland , specifically the state of Victoria . Tasmania ( abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as " Tassie ") is an island state of the Commonwealth of ___MASK23___ . It is located to the south of the Australian mainland , separated by Bass Strait . The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania , the 26th - largest island in the world , and the surrounding 334 islands . The state has a population of around 518 , 500 , just over forty percent of which resides in the Greater Hobart precinct , which forms the metropolitan area of the state capital and largest city , Hobart . The ___MASK5___ , officially the Republic of the ___MASK5___ , is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean . It consists of about 7 , 641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south : Luzon , Visayas , and Mindanao . The capital city of the ___MASK5___ is Manila and the most populous city is Quezon City , both part of Metro Manila . Bounded by the South ___MASK96___ Sea on the west , the Philippine Sea on the east and the Celebes Sea on the southwest , the ___MASK5___ shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north , Vietnam to the west , Palau to the east and Malaysia and Indonesia to the south . Hobart is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania . It is the least populated state capital in ___MASK23___ . Founded in 1803 as a penal colony , Hobart is ___MASK23___ ' s second oldest capital city after Sydney , New South Wales . The city is located in the state ' s south - east on the estuary of the Derwent River , making it the most southern of ___MASK23___ ' s capital cities . Its harbour forms the second - deepest natural port in the world . A sea is a large body of salt water that is surrounded in whole or in part by land . More broadly , " the sea " is the interconnected system of Earth ' s salty , oceanic waters  considered as one global ocean or as several principal oceanic divisions . The sea moderates Earth ' s climate and has important roles in the water cycle , ___MASK3___ cycle , and nitrogen cycle . Although the sea has been traveled and explored since prehistory , the modern scientific study of the sea  oceanography  dates broadly to the British " Challenger " expedition of the 1870s . The sea is conventionally divided into up to five large oceanic sections  including the International Hydrographic Organization ' s four named oceans ( the Atlantic , Pacific , Indian , and Arctic ) and the Southern Ocean ; smaller , second - order sections , such as the Mediterranean , are known as " seas ". A continent is one of several very large landmasses on Earth . Generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria , up to seven regions are commonly regarded as continents . Ordered from largest in size to smallest , they are : Asia , Africa , North America , South America , ___MASK83___ , Europe , and ___MASK23___ . In geology , areas of continental crust include regions covered with water . ___MASK23___ , officially the Commonwealth of ___MASK23___ , is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent , the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands . It is the world ' s sixth - largest country by total area . The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea , Indonesia and East Timor to the north ; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north - east ; and New Zealand to the south - east . ___MASK23___ ' s capital is Canberra , and its largest urban area is Sydney . Albatross Island is an 18 ha island nature reserve in Bass Strait , part of Tasmania ' s Hunter Island Group and lies between north - west Tasmania and King Island . It is part of the Albatross Island and Black Pyramid Rock Important Bird Area . It is notable for its breeding colony of 5 , 000 pairs of shy albatross , some 40 % of the ___MASK88___ population of the species . Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural , ecological and / or cultural values . There are several kinds of protected areas , which vary by level of protection depending on the enabling laws of each country or the regulations of the international organisations involved . The term " ___MASK51___ " also includes Marine Protected Areas , the boundaries of which will include some area of ocean , and Transboundary Protected Areas that overlap multiple countries which remove the borders inside the area for conservation and economic purposes . There are over 161 , 000 protected areas in the world ( as of October 2010 ) with more added daily , representing between 10 and 15 percent of the world ' s land surface area . By contrast , only 1 . 17 % of the world ' s oceans is included in the world ' s ~ 6 , 800 Marine Protected Areas .