Editing Islet (section)

==Other terms==
[[File:Tahitian sunset.jpg|thumb|A Tahitian motu off the island of [[Raiatea]] at sunset]]
[[File:Rockall - geograph.org.uk - 1048791.jpg|thumb|[[Rockall]], located west of Ireland and Scotland]]
*  [[Ait]]  (/eɪt/, like eight) or eyot (/aɪ(ə)t, eɪt/), a small island. It is especially used to refer to river islands found on the [[River Thames]] and its tributaries in England.<ref>{{cite web | title=Eyot | website=World Wide Words | date=21 June 2003 | url=http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-eyo1.htm | access-date=30 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Definition of eyot | website=www.dictionary.com | date=20 April 2020 | url=https://www.dictionary.com/browse/eyot | access-date=30 April 2020}}</ref><ref name=atlas>{{cite web | last=Misachi | first=John | title=What is an Ait? Ait Defintion &#91;sic&#93; | website=WorldAtlas | date=5 April 2019 | url=https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-is-an-ait-ait-defintion.html | access-date=30 April 2020}}</ref>
*  [[Cay]]  or  key, an islet formed by the accumulation of fine sand deposits atop a [[reef]], especially in the [[Caribbean]] and West Atlantic. [[Rum Cay]] in the [[Bahamas]] and the [[Florida Keys]] off [[Florida]] are examples of islets.
* The French suffix ''[[-hou]]'' from the Scandinavian ''-holm'', is used for the names of some islets in the [[Channel Islands]], such as [[Écréhous]], [[Burhou]], [[Lihou]] and [[Les Houmets]], and off [[Normandy]], such as [[Tatihou]].
* '''Inch''', a term used especially in [[Scotland]], from the [[Goidelic languages|Gaelic]] ''innis'', which originally meant island, but has been supplanted to refer to smaller islands, such the islet of Inch, off [[St Mary's Isle Priory]], [[Inch Kenneth]], [[Inchkeith]], [[Keith Inch]] (no longer an island) and [[Inchcailloch]].<ref>{{cite book|title=A New and Popular Pictorial Description of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and the British Islands|first =Robert|last=Sears|edition=6th
|publisher= R. Sears|date=1847|quote=Original from [[University of Iowa]], Digitized 9 Mar 2015|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eEtHAQAAMAAJ&q=inch+island+scotland+ireland&pg=PA479|pages=479–481}}</ref>
* '''Motu''', a reef islet formed by broken [[coral]] and sand, surrounding an [[atoll]], especially in [[Polynesia]],<ref>{{cite web | title=Motus – What They Are and Why They're Key to the Tahiti Experience | website=LandLopers | date=12 April 2017 | url=https://landlopers.com/2017/04/11/motus | access-date=30 April 2020}}</ref> such as [[Motu One (Society Islands)|Motu One]], [[Motu Nao]] and [[Motu Paahi]].
*  [[River island]], an islet within the current of a river, such as the [[Île de la Cité]] in [[Paris]].
* '''{{vanchor|Rock}}''', in the sense of a type of islet, is an uninhabited landform composed of exposed [[rock (geology)|rocks]], lying offshore, and having at most minimal vegetation, such as [[Albino Rock]] in the [[Palm Island group]] off [[Queensland]], Australia. 
*  [[Sandbar]]  or shoal, an exposed [[bar (landform)|sandbar]].
*  [[Sea stack]], a thin, vertical landform jutting out of a body of water.
*  [[Skerry]], a small rocky island, usually defined to be too small for habitation, especially in [[Ireland]].
*  Subsidiary islets, a more technical application, is applied to small land features isolated by water, lying off the shore of a larger island. Similarly, any emergent land in an atoll is also called an islet.<ref>{{cite web | website= Marine National Park Headquarters | title=Floristic composition and vegetation classification of the Penghu Southern Four Islands | date=18 March 2016 | url=https://www.marine.gov.tw/ecology-and-conservation/research-report/258-2015/1951-Floristic%20composition%20and%20vegetation%20classification%20of%20the%20Penghu%20Southern%20Four%20Islands | access-date=30 April 2020}}</ref>
*  [[Tidal island]], small islands (not always islets) which lie closely off the coast of a [[mainland]] or a much larger island, being connected to it (and thus becomes a [[peninsula]]/[[promontory]]) in low tide and isolated by a [[channel (geography)|channel]] in high tide.