Moreover, he had spent six months on the Galapagos islands, among the great turtles that Captain Cook had found there, and now and then he would disappear into some small island of the West Indies.

`` It consists of two divisions, separated by an island at a small distance from the southern shore.

He was born in the small Danish town of Rudkoebing on the island of Langeland in the south-central part of Denmark on August 14, 1777.

The land on the Arctic Circle is divided among eight countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States ( Alaska ), Canada, Denmark ( Greenland ), and Iceland ( where it passes through the small offshore island of Grímsey ).

The Territory of the Ashmore and Cartier Islands is an external territory of Australia consisting of two groups of small low-lying uninhabited tropical islands in the Indian Ocean situated on the edge of the continental shelf north-west of Australia and south of the Indonesian island of Rote.

* 1945 – Over 1, 000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.

Thucydides documents the example of Melos, a small island, neutral in the war, though originally founded by Spartans.

Arapawa Island is a small island located in the Marlborough Sounds, at the north east tip of the South Island of New Zealand.

In 1944, the American armed forces constructed a small and short-lived air base on the island of Santa Maria.

U. S. Marines of the First Marine Division and later soldiers of the U. S. Army's 81st Infantry Division, fought to capture an airstrip on the small coral island.

The shoals were also protected by a small fort situated on an island among the rocks.

Both planes were operating at the very limits of their range and the slightest error or fault in the equipment could keep them from reaching the small island.

European control of the Bandas was contested up until 1667 when, under the Treaty of Breda ( 1667 ), the British traded the small island of Run for Manhattan, giving the Dutch full control of the Banda archipelago.

* Banda Neira, or Naira, the island with the administrative capital and a small airfield ( as well as accommodation for visitors ).

* Cone Islet, a small granite island in south-eastern Australia

North Keeling Island is an atoll consisting of just one C-shaped island, a nearly closed atoll ring with a small opening into the lagoon, about wide, on the east side.

Other neighbouring territories include Syria and Lebanon to the east ( 105 km and, respectively ), Israel to the southeast, Egypt to the south, and Greece to the west-northwest: to the small Dodecanesian island of Kastellórizo ( Meyísti ), to Rhodes, and to the Greek mainland.

The lake has one small island near Union Springs, Frontenac Island.

Iona College, a small Catholic liberal arts college in New Rochelle, NY is named after the island on which Columba established his first monastery in Scotland.

If not " true " crannogs, small occupied islets ( often at least partially artificial in nature ) may be referred to as island duns, although rather confusingly, 22 islet-based sites are classified as ' proper ' crannogs due to the different interpretations of the inspectors or excavators who drew up field reports Canmore search for crannog in the Western Isles Hebridean island dwellings or crannogs were commonly built on both natural and artificial islets, usually reached by means of a stone causeway.

A popular site among locals is the small island Marabout de Sidi Abderrahmane.

On a small island, in a tiny hut on stilts, he first read Vannevar Bush's article " As We May Think ", which greatly inspired him.

In the waters of Deception Pass, just east of the present-day Deception Pass Bridge, is a small island known as Ben Ure Island.

* 1997 – The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore.

He first built a small villa and named it Abbotsford, creating the name from a ford nearby where previously abbots of Melrose Abbey used to cross the river.

* Latoreia, who had a small village near Ephesus named after her.

In 1918, the British Mk V tank was capable of carrying a small number of troops and in 1944, the Canadian general Guy Simonds ordered the conversion of redundant armoured vehicles to carry troops ( generically named " Kangaroos ").

Columbus had found the two small islands ( Cayman Brac and Little Cayman ) and it was these two islands that he named " Las Tortugas ".

The biggest green area in Chojnów is small forest Park Piastowski ( Piast's Park ), named after the Polish Piast dynasty.

The 13th Earl developed a variation on croquet named Captain Moreton's Eglinton Castle croquet, which had small bells on the eight hoops " to ring the changes ", two pegs, a double hoop with a bell and two tunnels for the ball to pass through.

The p arm is named for " petit " meaning ' small '; the q arm is named q simply because it follows p in the alphabet.

The Inquirer noted that the continued low return on investment and small margins of HP's personal computer manufacturing business, now named the Personal Systems Group, " continues to be what it was in the individual companies, not much more than a job creation scheme for its employees ".

Nissan may have had no problems with using the name Nissan in America, but the small cars the firm exported to America were still named Datsun.

A place near this spot, on a small rocky island named ' Tech nDuinn ' (' the House of Donn '), became Donn's dwelling place as god of the dead.

A war with Peru ( named the Cenepa War, after a river located in the area ) erupted in January – February 1995 in a small, remote region, where the boundary prescribed by the 1942 Rio Protocol was in dispute.

Paul, who is in prison ( probably in either Rome or Ephesus ), writes to a fellow Christian named Philemon and two of his associates: a woman named Apphia, sometimes assumed to be his wife, and a fellow worker named Archippus, who is assumed by some to have been Philemon's son and who also appears to have had special standing in the small church that met in Philemon's house ( see Colossians 4: 17 ).

Within the successive editions of Edmé Boursault's Letters of Respect, Gratitude and Love ( Lettres de respect, d ' obligation et d ' amour ) ( 1669 ), a group of letters written to a girl named Babet was expanded and became more and more distinct from the other letters, until it formed a small epistolary novel entitled Letters to Babet ( Lettres à Babet ).

These fled to three small islands which could be seen off shore and named them the Iles de Salut ( or " Islands of Salvation ").

A small park near Lee's Creek on Main Street in Cardston, Alberta, her birthplace, was named " Fay Wray Park " in her honor.

In 2006, the CBC's Fifth Estate named Singer as one of a small group of scientists who have created what the documentary called a stand-off that is undermining the political response to global warming.

He received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1921, and named after him is small crater on the far side of the Moon and the radioactive Uranium mineral, Soddyite.

The Milky Way galaxy is a member of an association named the Local Group, a relatively small group of galaxies that has a diameter of approximately one megaparsec.

A grand jury is so named because it has a greater number of jurors than a trial jury ( also known as a petit jury, from the French for small ).

In 2003, on the island of Flores, fossils of a new small hominid dated between 74, 000 and 13, 000 years old and named " Flores Man " ( Homo floresiensis ) were discovered much to the surprise of the scientific community.

Jordan is one of a small number of Arab countries to have named ambassadors to Iraq.