10 tiniest inhabited islands in the world

From time immemorial, people have tended to protect their homes from the outside world - with fences, walls, ditches. Some simply chose hard-to-reach places to build, such as cliffs, forests and islands surrounded by a lake, river and even the ocean. Below is a list of the tiniest but most picturesque inhabited islands in the world.

1. Island of Lake Bled, Slovenia (James Southorn/CC BY 2.0)

The Mariinsky Church is located on the island.

2. Wilhelmstein Island, Hannover, Germany (ChristianSchd)

There is a fortress-museum on the island.

3. Visovac Island, Croatia (Marz88/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

There is a 17th-century Franciscan monastery on the island.

4. Pontikonisi Island, Kerkyra, Greece (Ava Babili/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

The Vlaherna monastery is located on the island.

5. Island on Lake Galve, Lithuania (Vaidotas Mišeikis/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Trakai Castle is located on the island.

6. Island of St. George, Montenegro (Diego Delso)

There is a Benedictine abbey on the island.

7. Island “Gospa od Skrpela”, Montenegro (Diego Delso)

The Church of Our Lady is located on the island.

8. Dunbar Island, Honduras (PilotGirl/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

There is a private villa on the island.

9. Mont Saint Michel Island, France (Nicolas Raymond/CC BY 2.0)

There is a town and an abbey on the island.

10. Bjarnaray Island, Iceland (Diego Delso)

There is a hunting lodge on the island.