The Ancient Romans gave Latin names to every geographical entity in their vast empire, and many outside troughout the then known world; while many ofthese names were based on pre-existing 'autochthonous' names, sometimes translating, more often just adapting to their tongue, especially the ending, other names were the result of a more invasive decision, especially in case of (re)founding for a colony of veterans.

Users of Neo-Latin have taken the Latin language to places the Romans never went; hence a need arose to make Latin names of islands that did not exist when Latin was a living language.

Strategies for constructing Latin names

List of names

Latin	English , name , name , chain/region , state/nation
Aegina	Aegina, Greece (Aigina)
Insulis Aeolium?	Aeolian Islands
Amorgos	Amorgos, Aegean Sea, Greece
Andros	Andros
Anticosti	Ile d'Anticosti, Quebec
Antikythera	Antikythera, Kythera, Greece
Antipoda	Antipodes
Astypalaea	Astypalaia, Cyclades, Greece
Insula Australis?	South Island, New Zealand
Baleares (Roman name as a province) - ?Balearica	Balearic Islands
Insula Borealis?	North Island, New Zealand
Britannia	Britain
Caesarea	Jersey
Calymnus	Kalymnos, Dodecanese, Aegean Sea, Greece
Canaris Insula	Canary Islands
Carpathus	Carpathos, Dodecanese, Greece
Cassos	Cassos, Dodecanese, Greece
Cauda?	Cauda (Gauda/Gaf(v)da), Greece
Ceos, Keos	Ceos, Cyclades, Aegean Sea, Greece
Cephallenia	Kefallinia, Cephallonia
Corcyra	Corfu, Ionian, Greece (Kerkyra)
Corsica	Corsica
Cos	Kos, Dodecanese, Aegean Sea, Greece
Creta	Crete (Kriti/Krete)
Cuba	Cuba
Cyclades Ins.	Cyclades
Cyprus	Cyprus (Kypros)
Cynthos	Cynthos, Cyclades, Aegean Sea, Greece
Cythera	Cythera, Kythera, Greece
Delos	Delos, Cyclades, Aegean Sea, Greece
Dodecanesus	Dodecanese, Greece
Dominica	Dominica
Ebusus	Ibiza
Euboea	Euboea, Greece
Gaulos	Gozo, Maltese archipelago
Helena, former name of Macronesus	Makronisos (Macro-nesus 'big island')
Hibernia	Ireland
Icaria	Icaria
Ictis	St Michael's Mount
Imbros	Imbros Island
Ionia Ins.	Ionian Islands
Ithaca	Ithaca
Lemnos	Lemnos
Leros	Leros, Aegean Sea, Greece
Lesbos	Lesbos
Melitta	Malta
Mona	Anglesey
Myconos	Myconos
Nova Britannia Occidentalis	West New Britain, a province on part of New Britain island belonging to Papua New Guinea
Nova Caledonia	New Caledonia
Nova Hibernia	New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Nova Terra	Newfoundland
Ophiussa	Formentera
Orcadia	Orkney Island, Scotland
Paros	Paros, Cyclades, Aegean Sea, Greece
Insula Princeps Eduardus	Prince Edward Island
Reg. Elis.	Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut
Reg. Carlt.?	Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia
Rho	Ro, E of Rhodes, Greece
Rhodus	Rhodes, Dodecanese, Aegean Sea, Greece
Riduna	Alderney
Salamis	Salamis, Greece
Sapientia	Sapienza, south of Methone, Greece
Sardinia	Sardinia
Sarnia	Guernsey
Schiza	Schiza, south of Methone, Greece
Scyrus	Scyros, Aegean Sea, Greece
Seriphos	Serifos, Aegean Sea, Greece
Sicilia	Sicily
Siphnos	Siphnos, Aegean Sea, Greece
Skopelos, Sc?opelos	Skopelos, Sporades, Greece
Strophades	Strophades, S of Zante, Greece
Syros	Syros
Thasos	Thasos, Aegean Sea, Greece
Vectis	Isle of Wight
Zelandia	1) Zealand (Denmark), 2) Zeeland (Netherlands)
Zycanthus, Zacynthus	Zante (Zakynthos), Ionian, Greece

See also

*Latin names of cities

Sources, references and external links

*Graesse, Orbis Latinus
*Hofmann: Lexicon Universale
*Notitia Dignitatum on line accessible by original structure, alphabetical word (and names!) list etcetera

Islands
Category: Lists of islands
Category: Lists of place names