river island
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landmass or fluvial landform within a river
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River islands in the Chico River, Philippines Satellite picture of Csepel Island in Hungary which is south of Budapest city centre
A river island is any exposed landmass surrounded by river water. Properly defined, it excludes shoals between seasonally varying flows and may exclude semi-coastal islands in river deltas such as Marajó.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “river island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.