Bear Island may refer to: Canada Bear Island (New Brunswick), New Brunswick Bear Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, or Deer Island, an abandoned community in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Bear Island, Smith's Cove, Nova Scotia Bear Island (Lake Temagami), Ontario Nunavut Bear Island (Nunavut), Labrador Sea, Nunavut Bear Islands, Hudson Bay, Nunavut Denmark Bjorne Island Bjorne Islands Nanortalik Island (Kalaallisut: "Polar Bear Place"), sometimes translated as Bear Island, a town on Nanortalik Island, southern Norway Bear Island (Norway) or Bjørnøya, an arctic island of Norway Bjørnøya, Ålesund, an island in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway United States Bear Island (Connecticut), one of the Thimble Islands, Connecticut Bear Island (Maine), in Northeast Harbor, Maine Bear Island (Maryland), between the Potomac River and C&O Canal near Great Falls, Montgomery County, Maryland Bear Island (Minnesota), an island in Bear Island Lake, south of Ely, Minnesota Bear Island (Lake Winnipesaukee), New Hampshire Bear Island (New York), an island in the Hudson River, also known as Beeren Island, New York Bear Island (North Carolina), an island that makes up most of Hammocks Beach State Park, North Carolina Bear Island (South Carolina), one of the Sea Islands in Charleston County, South Carolina, South Carolina Bear Island (Wisconsin), one of the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior, Wisconsin Massachusetts Bear Island (Norfolk County, Massachusetts) Bear Island (Plymouth County, Massachusetts) Russia Medvezhy Island or Bear Island, in the Sea of Okhotsk Medvezhyi Islands or Bear Islands, in the East Siberian Sea Other places Bear Island (Antarctica) Bear Island (Amur River), China and Russia Bears Island (Tasmania), Australia Bere Island (or Bear Island), an island in Cork County, Ireland Other Bear Island (novel), a novel by Alistair MacLean Bear Island (film), adapted from the novel by Alistair MacLean See also Bair Island Bear (disambiguation)