<P> St. Lawrence Island in the northern Bering Sea belongs to Alaska and may be associated with either continent but is almost always considered part of North America, as with the Rat Islands in the Aleutian chain . At their nearest points, Alaska and Russia are separated by only 4 kilometres (2.5 miles). </P> <P> The Galápagos Islands and Malpelo Island in the eastern Pacific Ocean are possessions of Ecuador and Colombia, respectively, and associated with South America . The uninhabited French possession of Clipperton Island 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) off the Mexican coast is associated with North America . </P> <P> Easter Island, a territory of Chile, is considered to be in Oceania, though politically it is associated with South America . </P> <P> The United States of America controls numerous territories in Oceania, including the state of Hawaii and the territories of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa . </P>

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