But in the middle of the last century an island woman named `` Karipo '' seized a spear in the heat of an inter-tribal battle and rallied the women after their men had fled.

The topography of the island consists of dramatic rock formations in the north ( unlike the rest of Denmark which is very flat with few hills and no mountains ), sloping down towards “ pine and deciduous forests ” ( greatly damaged by storms in the 1950s ) and farmland in the middle and sandy beaches in the south.

What is normally seen is the flag with green on both ends with a golden circle that reads " Cape Breton Island, Canada " with the island in the middle and a green ' X ' behind in the background.

* 1991: Niijima Floats, six-foot spheres of intricate color inspired by Japanese glass fishing floats from the island of NiijimaNiijima Chihuly. com from Chihuly's website * 1992: Chandeliers, starting modestly but by the middle of the decade involving a ton of glass orbs and shapes that in some works look like flowers, others like breasts, and still others like snakes Chihuly has also produced a sizable volume of " Irish cylinders ", photo from lakeview-museum. orgwhich are more modest in conception than his blown glass works.

:" The master ... came to the region of Pogesania, to that island which is in the middle of the Elbing river, in that place where the Elbing enters the Vistula Lagoon, and built there a fort, which he called by the name of the Elbing River, in the year of the incarnation of the Lord, 1237.

There is a boat landing area in the middle of the western shoreline near a crumbling day beacon, and another near the southwest corner of the island.

Located in the middle of the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra with a surface elevation of about, the lake stretches from to.

* 1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island.

The principal islands are those of the Archipiélago de las Perlas in the middle of the Gulf of Panama, the penal colony on the Isla de Coiba in the Golfo de Chiriquí, and the decorative island of Taboga, a tourist attraction that can be seen from Panama City.

The British and French briefly united to massacre the local Kalinago ( preempting a Kalinago plan to massacre the Europeans ), and then partitioned the island, with the English in the middle and the French on either end.

Sumbawa is an Indonesian island, located in the middle of the Lesser Sunda Islands chain, with Lombok to the west, Flores to the east, and Sumba further to the southeast.

During the middle ages Sri Lanka was well known for its agricultural prosperity under the Parakramabahu in Polonnaruwa during which period the island was famous around the world as the rice mill of the east.

Around the island Djurö, in the middle of the lake, lies the Djurö archipelago, which has been given national park status as Djurö National Park.

Beneath the grille in the traffic island in the middle of the road, the old road signs for the now-vanished Little Compton Street can be seen.

Two islands are also to be found at a middle point of Gouvia and Corfu Bay, which extends across much of the eastern shore of the island ; are known as Lazareto and Ptychia ( or Vido ).

In order to connect Halsskov on Zealand with Knudshoved on Funen, 18 kilometres to its west, a two-track railway and a four-lane motorway had to be built, aligned via the small island of Sprogø in the middle of the Great Belt.

A trolley used to connect passengers from Queens and Manhattan to a stop in the middle of the bridge, where passengers took an elevator down to the island.

At midnight on November 2, the people light candles and ride winged boats called mariposas ( butterflies ) to Janitzio, an island in the middle of the lake where there is a cemetery, to honor and celebrate the lives of the dead there.

; Cair Andros: An island in the middle of the river Anduin, around north of Osgiliath.

Mixed marriages between deaf and hearing spouses comprised 65 % of all deaf marriages on the island in the late 19th century, ( higher than the mainland average of 20 %) and Martha's Vineyard Sign Language ( MVSL ) was commonly used by hearing residents as well as deaf ones until the middle of the 20th century.

A small island in the middle of the lake is home to the Assumption of Mary Pilgrimage Church ; visitors frequently ring its bell for good luck.

The Barnes Ice Cap, in the middle of the island, has been retreating since at least the early 1960s, when the Geographical Branch of the then-Department of Mines and Technical Surveys sent a three-man survey team to the area to measure isostatic rebound and cross-valley features of the Isortoq River.

The bridge runs nearly 8 km ( 5 miles ) from the Swedish coast to the artificial island of Peberholm, which lies in the middle of the strait.

It this time, according to the archeological excavations, the first Slavic settlement was founded on the Ostrówek-the northern part of the Pasieka island in the middle of the Odra river.

The island remained practically uninhabited until the middle of the 19th century.

Mistakingly believing him to be on the Greek island of Patmos, it finally emerges that Harvey is in Patmos, Arkansas and is trying to prevent the coming Apocalypse.

In 1931 he started the National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress Kansas State Tournament which played on an island of the Arkansas River.

On the east side of the island of Manhattan the indifferent hawk knew the East River that connected New York Bay with Long Island Sound.

It lies on Abadan Island ( long, 3 – 19 km or 2 – 12 miles wide, the island is bounded in the west by the Arvand waterway and to the east by the Bahmanshir outlet of the Karun River ), from the Persian Gulf, near the Iraqi-Iran border.

The Batavi were mentioned by Julius Caesar in his commentary Commentarii de Bello Gallico, as living on an island formed by the Rhine River after it splits, one arm being the Waal the other the Lower Rhine / Old Rhine ( hence the Latin name Insula Batavorum, " Island of the Batavi ").

Because Broadway is a true north – south route that parallels the Hudson River and preceded the grid that the Commissioners ' Plan of 1811 imposed on the island, Broadway diagonally crosses Manhattan, its intersections with avenues marked by " squares " ( some merely triangular slivers of open space ) have induced some interesting architecture, such as the Flatiron Building.

They also have a dispute over an island at the mouth of the Ntem River.

Cape Breton Island's hydrological features include the Bras d ' Or Lake system, a salt-water fjord at the heart of the island, and freshwater features including Lake Ainslie, the Margaree River system, and the Mira River.

The Artibonite River is the longest river of the island but only 68 km are in the Dominican Republic.

* Riverdale is an island surrounded by the Charles River and Long Ditch.

It was an important seaport serving the Vistula River bay on the early medieval Baltic Sea trade routes which led from Birka in the north to the island of Gotland and to Visby in the Baltic Sea.

Examples include the Burren in Co. Clare, Ireland ; the Verdon Gorge in France ; Malham Cove in North Yorkshire and the Isle of Wight, England ; on Fårö near the Swedish island of Gotland, the Niagara Escarpment in Canada / United States, Notch Peak in Utah, the Ha Long Bay National Park in Vietnam and the hills around the Lijiang River and Guilin city in China.

* Mullet Key, a historic island near Crystal River, Florida

Niger has an ongoing conflict with Benin over Lété Island, an island in the River Niger approx.

Mud houses on the center island at Lake Debo, a wide section of the Niger River

Situated on the strategic, fortifiable southern tip of the island of Manhattan, the fort was meant to defend the Dutch West India Company's fur trade operations in the North River ( Hudson River ).

* Aegaeides ( Aegaeus River on the island of Scheria )

* Amnisiades ( Amnisos River on the island of Crete ), who entered the retinue of Artemis

Thus Wheeling Island, the largest inhabited island in the Ohio River, belongs to West Virginia, although it is closer to the Ohio shore than to the West Virginia shore.

Uffi's combat took place at Rendsburg on an island in the Eider River at Fifeldore / Monster-Gate, and Uffi succeeded in killing both his opponents.

Great Britain returned the island of Gorée to France, but now the premere colonial power, it acquired, among many other territories, " the river of Senegal, with forts & trading posts St. Louis, Podor, and Galam and all rights & dependencies of the said River of Senegal.

Batang Hari River is the longest river in the island with its source in Minangkabau highlands stretching around 800 kilometers eastward to its estuarine in Jambi lowlands.

Montreal is neighbored both by municipalities that lie on the same island in the St. Lawrence River, as well as " off-island suburbs " including the two largest, Laval ( located on a neighboring island ) and Longueuil ( on the mainland ), as well as a " ring " of smaller municipalities on the South and North shores of the river.