He has received awards including the Gold Medal Award of the Translation Center at Columbia University in 1979, the PEN Translation Prize in 1995 for his translation with Hiroaki Sato of From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry, and again in 1995 for Selected Poems of Su Tung-p ' o.

* Aegean Islands and Other Poems ( 1946 )

Two volumes entitled Patois Poems of the Channel Islands were published ( from 1883 ) by John Linwood Pitts in Guernsey.

* Mother, 1985: a long poem published as a limited edition chapbook, later republished in Tell Me Again How the White Heron Rises and Flies Across the Nacreous River at Twilight Toward the Distant Islands ( 1989 ) and subsequently gathered in Collected Longer Poems

* Toward the Distant Islands: New and Selected Poems, ( Copper Canyon Press, 2006 )

Traditional slinging is still practiced as it always has been in the Balearic Islands.

Traditional sod roof s can be seen in many places in the Faroe Islands.

It is one of a family of Traditional Paddled Long Boats found throughout Asia, Africa, and the Pacific Islands.

Traditional Melanesian music in the Solomon Islands includes both group and solo vocals, slit-drum and panpipe ensembles.

Traditional dance is the most prominent art form of the Cook Islands.

* Elevitch, Craig ( editor ) ( 2006 ): Traditional Trees of Pacific Islands: Their Culture, Environment and Use.

* Domino 60 Traditional Children's Songs, Games, Proverbs, and Culture From the United States Virgin Islands by Karen Ellis © 1990 plus 45 minute Live Sound Field Recording © 1979 Registration Number TXu 822-111

* Zoop Zoop Zoop: Traditional Music and Folklore of St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John Includes many songs in Virgin Islands Creole.

The island's as well as the country's highest peak is the volcanic Soufrière at 1234 m. There are several tiny islets offshore of Saint Vincent including Young Island and the Cow And Calves Islands.

* George Miller ( editor ), To The Spice Islands And Beyond: Travels in Eastern Indonesia, Oxford University Press, 1996, Paperback, 310 pages, ISBN 967-65-3099-9

* Wright And Egg Islands

* Bernier And Dorre Islands

* Boodie, Double And Middle Islands

* Buller, Whittell And Green Islands

* Burnside And Simpson Islands

* Lancelin And Edward Islands

* Whitmore, Roberts, Doole Islands And Sandalwood Landing

And the same goes to lay taxes especially in the Åland Islands and to the old finnish monetary system.

The eastern services building ( Westferry Road ) has artwork commissioned from leading UK artist and sculptor Michael Kenny ( 1941 – 1999 ), a relief work in Kilkenny limestone called On Strange And Distant Islands.

And home to three campgrounds " Bay Gardens ", " Sandpoint " and " Five Islands Provincial Park ".

And extending back in time before Kure, an even older chain of islands spreads northward nearly to the Aleutian Islands ; these former islands, all north of the Darwin Point, are now completely submerged as the Emperor Seamounts.

And when this right is exercised not by the Maldive Islands, not by the state of Gabon, not by Barbados … but by the oldest and most authentic of all nationhoods, then this is said to be exclusivism, particularism, and a flight of the Jewish people from its universal mission.

Flavius Philostratus ' Life of Apollonius of Tyana ( v. 2 ) says, " And they also say that the Islands of the Blessed are to be fixed by the limits of Libya where they rise towards the uninhabited promontory.

* Buller, Whittell And Green Islands Nature Reserve, a protected area of Western Australia

* Why Do Islands Breed Giants ( And Sometimes Dwarfs )?

Pigafetta's account of the stop at approximately 146 E, 12 N, ( the Mariana Islands, named the Ladrones by Magellan's men ), describes the proa's outrigger layout, and ability to switch bow for stern, and also notes the proa's speed and maneuverability, noting, " And although the ships were under full sail, they passed between them and the small boats ( fastened astern ), very adroitly in those small boats of theirs.

And in February 2010 the Daily Mail reported that the Islands have started sinking back into the sea.

And further, that the isolated populations may follow different evolutionary routes, as shown by Darwin's observation of finches in the Galapagos Islands.

And it is Orace who complicates Templar's mission when he accidentally kills one of Vogel's men, which leads to Vogel forcing Templar ( on pain of Loretta's possible death ) to take the dead man's place on a salvage operation in the Channel Islands.

And also found in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, West Bengal and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Australia, the Philippine Islands, Japan, and northern China were inhabited by those members of the Haijac Union that spoke American.

* 1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.

As a result of the Treaty of Saint Petersburg ( 1875 ), the Kuril Islands were handed over to Japan, along with its Ainu subjects.

In 2004, the small Ainu community living in Kamchatka Krai wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin, urging him to reconsider any move to award the Southern Kuril Islands to Japan.

The only places outside of Japan in which Y-haplogroup D is common are Tibet and the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean.

This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.

Category: Islands of Japan

By the summer of 1944, victories in the Southwest and Central Pacific had brought the war closer to Japan, with American bombers able to strike at the Japanese main islands from air bases secured during the Mariana Islands campaign ( June — August 1944 ).

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There are introduced populations in Australia, Florida, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Ogasawara, Ishigaki Island and the Daitō Islands of Japan, most Caribbean islands, Fiji and many other Pacific islands, including Hawaii.

During the Middle Ages, there were various systems involving elections or assemblies, although often only involving a small amount of the population, the election of Gopala in Bengal region of Indian Subcontinent, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 10 % of population ), the Althing in Iceland, the Løgting in the Faeroe Islands, certain medieval Italian city-states such as Venice, the tuatha system in early medieval Ireland, the Veche in Novgorod and Pskov Republics of medieval Russia, Scandinavian Things, The States in Tirol and Switzerland and the autonomous merchant city of Sakai in the 16th century in Japan.

The history of the modern Federated States of Micronesia is one of settlement by Micronesians ; colonization by Spain, Germany, and Japan ; United Nations trusteeship under United States-administered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ; and gradual independence beginning with the ratification of a sovereign constitution in 1979.

While all of the Japanese soldiers on the nearby Islands fought and died to the last man, the Japanese soldiers on Lagos survived the war and eventually returned to Japan.

By the 1890s, German colonial expansion in Asia and the Pacific ( Kiauchau in China, the Marianas, the Caroline Islands, Samoa ) led to frictions with Britain, Russia, Japan and the United States.

In fact, Japan maintained limited-scale trade and diplomatic relations with China, Korea, the Ryukyu Islands and the Netherlands.

However, the ROC does not actively pursue these claims in practice ; the remaining claims that the ROC are actively seeking are the Diaoyu Islands, whose sovereignty is also asserted by Japan and the PRC ; and the Spratly Islands in South China Sea, with multiple claimants.

Japan claims the Russian-administered Kuril Islands, the four southernmost isles of the island chain north of Hokkaido, annexed by the Soviet Union following World War II.

Japan has always been linked with the continent through trade routes, stretching in the north toward Siberia, in the west through the Tsushima Islands to the Korean Peninsula, and in the south to the ports on the south China coast.

Regional climatic variations range from humid continental in the northern island of Hokkaido extending down through Northern Japan to the Central Highland, then blending with and eventually changing to a humid subtropical climate on the Pacific Coast and ultimately bordering very closely with a tropical climate on the Ryukyu Islands.

The only part of Japan with antipodes over land are the Ryukyu Islands, though the islands off the western coast of Kyūshū are close.

Japan has territorial disputes with Russia over the Kuril Islands ( Northern Territories ), with South Korea over Liancourt Rocks ( known as " Dokdo " in Korea, " Takeshima " in Japan ), with China and Taiwan over the Senkaku Islands and with China over the status of Okinotorishima.