The adjustment to the 714 date and the burning of the ships is due to Ferdinand Columbus ( 1539 ), who also reports an alleged encounter with the islanders by a Portuguese ship in the time of Henry the Navigator ( c. 1430s-40s ).

In a symbolic rejection of British rule, islanders still celebrated this act annually by burning an effigy of the Bounty, according to Paul Dacre, the Pitcairn Public defender.

While depletion of woodland could have caused a cultural shift from burning timber to peat, potentially the name arose because the sequestration of the common or allodial rights of the islanders by Einarr forced them away from coppicing towards cutting turves.

During both visits, misunderstandings led to the Spanish burning village homes and killing islanders.

The Scottish folk rock band Runrig recorded a song called Edge Of The World on the album " The Big Wheel ", which dwells on the islanders ' isolated existence and how " the man from St Kilda went over the cliff on a winter's day ".

The islanders had enjoyed some measure of exemption from the worst excesses of the Turkish officials, but suffered severely from the conscription raised to man the Turkish ships ; and though they seemed to be peculiarly open to attack by the Sultan's forces from the sea, they took an early and active part in the rising.

This mix of songs contributes to the film's atmosphere, contrasting rabble-rousing songs that depict the island's community like " The Landlord's Daughter " and the child-sung " Maypole " with the sinister " Fire Leap " and the erotic " Willow's Song " before culminating in the islanders ' rendition of the Middle English " Sumer Is Icumen In ".

Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne, was credited with writing the manuscript, Ethelwald, Bishop of the Lindisfarne islanders was credited with binding it, Billifrith, an anchorite, was credited with ornamenting the manuscript, and finally Aldred includes himself as the person who glossed it in Anglo-Saxon English.

The islanders welcomed most of these reforms, and took up afternoon tea, cricket and other English pastimes.

English is the first language of all native islanders regardless of race and Spanish is spoken second, whereas mainland Honduras is primarily Spanish speaking.

During the 17th and 18th century the people from the North Frisian Islands enjoyed a reputation of being very skilled mariners, and most Dutch and English whaling ships bound for Greenland and Svalbard would have a crew of North Frisian islanders.

Cup ' ig is a first language for many older islanders, and is enjoying a dedicated revival among younger islanders as well, although nearly all Nuniwarmiut ( Nunivak people ) speak English.

The island did not escape Atlantic piracy: the islanders were subject to attacks by English and French privateers in 1589 and 1590, raiders after 1590 ( from the Barbary coast and lands occupied by the Turks ) and during the 17th and 18th century ( mostly around Calheta ).

For example, while the coastwatcher in the musical was portrayed as an American Marine ( Lt. Cable ) assisted by an expatriate French plantation owner ( Emile de Becque ), in the original story (" The Remittance Man "), the coastwatcher was an English expatriate assisted by native islanders.

English is the first language of all native islanders regardless of race and Spanish is spoken second, whereas mainland Honduras is primarily Spanish speaking.

Educated islanders also know English or French, which are taught in schools.

There are subtle differences in the language's usage by different speakers, and islanders often use it in combination with Standard English.

The variety spoken by middle-aged and younger Virgin Islanders today is of a mesolectal form that still retains numerous creole features, yet is slightly closer to standard English than the basilect spoken by older islanders.

The cultural differences existing within the Torres Is., at least in the perception of the islanders, essentially match language boundaries: that is, two groups are recognised — the ' people of Hiw ' vs the ' people of Toga '; however, a secondary, less essential division is drawn between the two populations of Lo and Toga.

Some of the rebels stationed themselves in the U. S. and crossed the ice from Sandusky Bay to Pelee Island wearing " tattered overcoats and worn-out boots ", and carrying muskets, pitchforks, and swords, but the islanders had already fled.

" Saints ", as Saint Helenan islanders are called, have a variety of different influences on their accent.

Steel ( 1988 ) adds weight to the idea, noting that the islanders pronounced the H with a " somewhat guttural quality ", making the sound they used for Hirta " almost " Kilta.

The ruins of the lighthouse on the promontory that faces Samos, called the " Tower of Icarus ", were strictly off limits to the islanders, as tradition asserted that there was treasure to be found in them.

A few months later, the island of Montserrat ( one of the United Kingdom's few remaining overseas territories ) was devastated by a volcano eruption which rendered half the island uninhabitable ; when the 4, 500 islanders asked for more help from the DfID, Short was reported to have remarked " they will be asking for golden elephants next ", and refused to visit the island.

Similarly, the Northwest Youth League, a Korean government sponsored watch-dog group made up of refugees who had fled northern Korea, actively repressed any and all " communist sympathizers " with an ardent campaign of shooting anyone on sight entering or leaving the president's " enemy zone ", raping / violation, torturing, and killing hundreds of islanders using open armed violence and what would be labeled today as terrorist activities.

Discussions of Block Island's old buildings, native islanders, history, and ongoing efforts to conserve the land, together with a collection of 800 period photographs of the island spanning the 1870s to the 1980s, are found in four books: " Block Island --- The Sea ", " Block Island --- The Land ", and Volumes 1 & 2 of " The Block Island History of Photography ", all by historian Robert M. Downie.

Borchgrevink visited the island in June, when the main volcanic activity had subsided, and found the mountain " perfectly quiet ", and the islanders recovered from their panic.

Hotly contested by Balon's brother Victarion Greyjoy and daughter Asha Greyjoy, eventually his brother, Euron Greyjoy, the exiled " Crow's Eye ", is chosen as king due to his promise that he can control dragons with a recently acquired horn, which will help the islanders conquer all of Westeros.

* " Pitcain islanders due to begin prison terms tomorrow ", Ian Stuart, New Zealand Press Association, 3 November 2006

Although Ishmael always tells the islanders " I won't force you ", it soon becomes apparent that his decisions go largely unquestioned and his suggestions are obeyed like orders.

Uncompromising in their enforcement of Nollop's " divine will ", they offer only one hope to the frustrated islanders: to disprove Nollop's omniscience by finding a pangram of 32 letters ( in contrast to Nollop's 35, or just 33 in the version " A quick brown ...").

Although Ishmael always tells the islanders " I won't force you ", it soon becomes apparent that his decisions go largely unquestioned and his suggestions are obeyed as if they were orders.

Howie encounters difficulty in extracting information from the islanders, who claim never to have heard of Rowan, and whose own mother insists does not exist.

Lord Summerisle explains to Howie that he was lured to Summerisle by the islanders, who have been successful in a conspiracy to lead him to believe that a missing girl was being held captive, and confirms to him that last year's harvest failed disastrously.

This population was mixed, of Portuguese and local islanders descent and Larantuqueiros, Topasses ( people that wear heats ) or, as Dutch knew them, the ' Black Portuguese ' ( Swarte Portugueezen ).

Although there is little surviving evidence of Irish culture, some elderly islanders can remember when the term " cilig " ( or killick ) was used to describe a common method of fishing for sea turtles by tricking them into swimming into prearranged nets ( this was dome by splashing a stone on a line-the cilig-into the water on the turtle's opposite side ).

During the period known as Blackbirding, in the 1870s and 1880s, hundreds of thousands of Pacific islanders ( many of them from the New Hebrides ( now Vanuatu ) archipelago ) were enslaved and forced to work on plantations, mainly in Queensland, Australia and Fiji.

The islanders carved headphones from wood and wore them while sitting in fabricated control towers.

Because the island is small and flat, only 200 islanders have taken out the special licence allowing them to keep their own car, with the result that the few streets are virtually car-free.

In 1840, a barrel of cranberries, apparently packed by sailors as an antiscorbutic, washed ashore on the island's coast, and the islanders cultivated them for their own sailors.

The GameCube version, however has one additional ending with the islanders not building a monument this time, but a large rocket that blasts them up into space.

The islanders of Tubuai did not want to allow their women to stay at the mutineer camp, nor to allow them to become wives.

Erik's crew, joined by Aud, prepare to escape in their ship with the Horn safely aboard, but Arnulf refuses to join them, denying that the island is sinking up to the very moment he and the other islanders are swallowed by the waves.

There are metal chairs and wooden benches throughout the airport in which people wait for the bus or other islanders to pick them up.

However, he declined to bring them along, commenting that " if he was being sent to fight the islanders he would need a larger force, but if he was visiting them as allies, one ship was enough.

The kingdom prohibited migration of islanders, isolating them to prevent group resistance.

John Percival, arrived to rescue them two years later, all but two of the crew members had been murdered by the islanders.

Crystal healing has been used in many different cultures throughout history, including the Hopi Native Americans of Arizona and the Hawaiian islanders, some of whom still use them to this day.

The islanders of Guernsey are proud of their local cows and celebrating them with the 2012 Guernsey Cow Parade inspired by the international CowParade.

The defence maintained that Britain never made a formal claim to Pitcairn, and never officially informed the islanders that British legislation, such as the Sexual Offences Act, 1956, was applicable to them.

Betty Christian, the Island Secretary, broke ranks with many of her fellow Pitcairners, testifying at the Pitcairn Supreme Court hearing in Papakura that the islanders were indeed aware that they were British subjects and that British law was applicable to them.

In daily life, the islanders frequently call them Tiapani ( Japan ), Malike or Amelika ( USA ) and Olani ( Holland ) respectively.

Taquile has a radio station and is equipped with generators, although islanders have elected not to use them in favour of solar panels.

Many of them were members of the Indian Independence League, whose leader in Port Blair, Dr. Diwan Singh, had already been tortured to death in the Cellular Jail after doing his best to protect the islanders from Japanese atrocities during the first two years of the occupation.

That night, two of the islanders Erewhon and Finn sneak out to feed the children onion soup for dinner and ask them a favor.

The islanders abandon them a few days later, and see the distraught and pregnant Kit Snicket.