List of islands of New Zealand

New Zealand consists of more than six hundred islands, mainly remnants of a larger land mass now beneath the sea.

[1] New Zealand is the sixth-largest island country, and the third-largest located entirely in the Southern Hemisphere.

The two largest islands – where most of the population lives – have names in both English and in the Māori language.

[2] Various Māori iwi sometimes use other names, with some preferring to call the South Island Te Waka o Aoraki.

The following table lists the largest islands of New Zealand proper by area.