Top 10 Most Elevated Islands in the World

New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the world's second largest island, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded around 5000 BC ***

The State of Hawaii became the 50th state of the United States of America on August 21, 1959. ***

Borneo is the third largest island in the world ***

Taiwan is an island in East Asia ***

Sumatra is the sixth largest island in the world and is the largest island entirely in Indonesia ***

Ross is a region of Scotland and a former mormaerdom, earldom, sheriffdom and county ***

Honsh? is the largest island of Japan, called the Mainland; it is south of Hokkaid? across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Ky?sh? across the Kanmon Strait. ***

The South Island is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand, the other being the more populous North Island ***

Lombok is an island in West Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia ***

Tenerife, a Spanish island, is the largest of the seven Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa ***