* Capricorn and Bunker Group, islands of the southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia

The territory covers 780, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, extending east and south from the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef, and including Heralds Beacon Island, Osprey Reef, the Willis Group, and fifteen other reef / island groups.

The islands, cays and reefs of the Great Barrier Reef are not part of the territory, belonging to Queensland instead.

The outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef is the boundary between Queensland and the Coral Sea Islands Territory.

While travelling south along the north Queensland coast, the Gothenburg encountered a cyclone-strength storm and was wrecked on a section of the Great Barrier Reef.

* 1875 – The hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high profile civil servants and dignitaries.

* 1770 – Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.

This is the only large-scale long-distance car / passenger shipping service left, with all others restricted to short ferry routes to islands like Stewart Island / Rakiura or Great Barrier Island.

One of the most dramatic is the Great Barrier Reef off northeastern Australia.

"</ tt > The expedition arrived at the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf ( then known as " the Great Ice Barrier ") at a large inlet called the Bay of Whales on 14 January 1911, where Amundsen located his base camp and named it Framheim.

Great Barrier Island ( often colloquially just The Barrier ) is the fourth-largest island of New Zealand's main chain of islands.

With an area of, Great Barrier is the sixth-largest island in New Zealand after the South Island, the North Island, Stewart Island / Rakiura, Chatham Island, and Auckland Island.

Note that despite its name, Great Barrier Island not a sandbar barrier which is often defined as the correct use of the term.

A kauri driving dam on Great Barrier Island, 1967.

If restarted, mining at White Cliffs would occur in the same area it originally proliferated on Great Barrier.

In modern days, Great Barrier Islanders are generally occupied in tourism, farming or service-related industries, when not working off-island in other jobs.

Great Barrier Island pigeon post stamp.

As a result a Great Barrier Island pigeon post service was set up, the first message being flown on 14 May 1897.

Great Barrier is free of some of the more troublesome introduced pests that plague the native ecosystems of other parts of New Zealand.

Great Barrier Island in 2006 had a permanent population of around 850, primarily in coastal settlements such as Tryphena, the largest settlement in Tryphena Harbour at the southern end of the island.

There are airfields at Claris ( Great Barrier Aerodrome ) and Okiwi.

Great Barrier Airlines and Fly My Sky ( formerly Mountain Air ) operate services from Auckland Airport, and North Shore Aerodrome.

There are two ferry services to Great Barrier Island.

For example, every transport service operated solely on Great Barrier Island, the Chatham Islands, or Stewart Island / Rakiura is exempt from section 70C of the Transport Act 1962 ( the requirements for drivers to maintain driving-hours logbooks ).

On the shores north and south, the fishers and mooncursers -- smugglers -- lived along the churning Great South Bay and the narrow barrier of sand, Fire Island.

Well, she had not come back to Great Island to be understood, praised or condemned.

Charlottetown, the capital of the new colony of St. John's Island, was ransacked in 1775 with the provincial secretary kidnapped and the Great Seal stolen.

British settlement of the Maritimes, as the colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island came to be known, accelerated throughout the late 18th century and into the 19th century with significant immigration to the region as a result of Scottish migrants displaced by the Highland Clearances and Irish escaping the Great Irish Famine ( 1845-1849 ).

File: Michael-Mena Coptic Ch jeh. JPG | Archangel Michael & Saint Mina Church, Great Kills, Staten Island, New York, United States

He made use of his Scottish experience to write his Tour thro ' the whole Island of Great Britain, published in 1726, where he admitted that the increase of trade and population in Scotland which he had predicted as a consequence of the Union, was " not the case, but rather the contrary ".

Defoe also wrote a three-volume travel book, Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain ( 1724 – 27 ) that provided a vivid first-hand account of the state of the country.

A man dives into the Great South Bay of Long Island

* 2003 – During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the club ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others.

By the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the breeding range of the Great Auk was restricted to Funk Island, Grimsey Island, Eldey Island, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and St. Kilda Island.

Based on remains associated with Great Auk bones found on Funk Island and on ecological and morphological considerations, it seems that Atlantic Menhaden and Capelin were their favored prey.

The Great Auk had disappeared from Funk Island by 1800, and an account by Aaron Thomas of HMS Boston from 1794 described how the bird had been systematically slaughtered until then:

* Penguin Island, a 1908 French satirical novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Anatole France, narrates the fictional history of a Great Auk population that is mistakenly baptized by a nearsighted missionary.

* Walton Ford, the American painter, has featured Great Auks in two paintings: " The Witch of St. Kilda " and " Funk Island ".

Writer Daniel Defoe devotes a few pages to the town in A tour thro ' the Whole Island of Great Britain.

There have been Irish settlers in New Brunswick since at least the late 18th century, but during the peak of the Great Irish Famine ( 1845 – 1847 ), thousands of Irish emigrated through Partridge Island in the port of Saint John.

Examples include Greenland, Long Island, and Sable Island off North America ; Barbados and Trinidad off South America ; Great Britain, Ireland and Sicily off Europe ; Sumatra, Borneo and Java off Asia ; and New Guinea, Tasmania and Kangaroo Island off Australia.

Kanyakumari at 8 ° 4 ′ 41 ″ N and 77 ° 32 ′ 28 ″ E is the southernmost tip of the Indian mainland, while the southernmost point in India is Indira Point on Great Nicobar Island.

For drivers, tide tables are prominently displayed at both ends of the causeway and where the Holy Island road leaves the A1 Great North Road at Beal.