# Artificial Islands

> A catalogue of the world's artificial islands: an interactive map, lists of islands and island groups, statistics, articles and search, from ancient crannogs and temple islands to modern land reclamation megaprojects.

Every island and group page carries a description, coordinates, status, construction method, uses, era, area, dates, images and cited sources. All figures on the statistics page are computed live from the catalogue.

## Main sections

- [Map of all the artificial islands in the world](https://artificialislands.org/map-of-artificial-islands): the interactive map of the whole catalogue
- [List of artificial islands](https://artificialislands.org/list-of-artificial-islands): every island, with group and country
- [List of artificial island groups](https://artificialislands.org/list-of-artificial-island-groups): archipelagos and other groups of artificial islands
- [Statistics](https://artificialislands.org/statistics): counts and distributions by status, method, use, size, country, continent, hemisphere, waters, era and construction cost, in tabs under /statistics
- [Articles](https://artificialislands.org/articles): essays on how, where, when and why artificial islands are built
- [Search](https://artificialislands.org/search): full-text search across islands, groups and articles
- [About](https://artificialislands.org/about): the project, what it includes and leaves out, contact and privacy

## Index

- [Sitemap](https://artificialislands.org/sitemap.xml): every island, group and article URL, with last-modified dates

## Use

You are welcome to read and index this site so you can describe it, answer questions about what it covers, and link people to its pages: that is what this file is for. Beyond that, the site's contents are for personal, research and educational use only: text-and-data-mining rights are reserved (Directive (EU) 2019/790 Art. 4(3), declared machine-readably at /.well-known/tdmrep.json), and scraping, bulk extraction, republication of the catalogue or use of its contents for other purposes, including the training of machine-learning models, require prior written permission. Images are third-party works, each governed by the licence or terms named in its caption. Full terms: https://artificialislands.org/about/terms; permission requests via the contact address at https://artificialislands.org/about/contact.