Continental Europe, also referred to as mainland Europe or simply the Continent ( particularly by the British, Icelanders and other European island nations ), is the continent of Europe, explicitly excluding European islands.

Continental islands are bodies of land that lie on the continental shelf of a continent.

Together with the Øresund Bridge, the link provides a direct fixed connection between western Continental Europe and northern Scandinavia, eventually connecting all parts of the European Union except for Ireland, Malta and Cyprus and outlying islands.

Nations such as Japan use their SAM equipped vessels to create an outer air defense perimeter in the defense of its Home islands, and the United States also uses its Aegis equipped ships as part of its Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System in the defense of the Continental United States.

Continental forces, partly in response to the Grape Island incident, worked to clear the harbor islands of livestock and supplies useful to the British.

Flores, along with the island of Corvo, is situated on the American Continental Plate of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and belongs to the western group of islands in the Azores archipelago.

Analysis of paleontologic, stratigraphic, and sedimentologic data acquired from the study of drill core and siesmic acquired during the Shallow Drilling on the Antarctic Continental Shelf ( SHALDRIL ) and other projects and from fossil collections from and rock outcrops within Alexander, James Ross, King George, Seymour, and South Shetland islands has yielded a record of the changes in terrestrial vegetation that occurred within the Antarctic Peninsula over the course of the past 37 million years.

The " Insular Celtic hypothesis " is a theory that the Brythonic and Goidelic languages evolved together in those islands, having a common ancestor more recent than any shared with the Continental Celtic languages such as Celtiberian, Gaulish, Galatian and Lepontic, among others, all of which are long extinct.

It argues that the treaty's provisions of equal economic access only apply to the islands and their territorial waters ( 4 nautical miles at the time ), but not to the wider Exclusive Economic Zone ; in addition, it argues that the continental shelf is a part of mainland Norway's continental shelf, and should be governed by the 1958 Continental Shelf Convention.

Their ancestors are thought to have arrived in the islands 60, 000 years ago from coastal India ( or crossed over a land bridge from Burma on what is now the Continental shelf of the northern Indian Ocean, during a glacial period when the sea levels were substantially lower than they are today.

* Continental Europe, the " mainland " of Europe excluding some or all islands surrounding it

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Croatia has two main wine regions: Continental ( Kontinetalna ) and Coastal ( Primorska ), which includes the islands.

It is closely related to the Guernésiais ( Guernsey ), Jèrriais ( Jersey ), Sercquiais ( Sark ) dialects of the neighbouring islands, as well as Continental Norman on the European mainland.

Continental crust and the rock layers that lie on and within it are thus the best archive of Earth history.

At an altitude of, Saint Mary Lake's waters are colder and lie almost higher in altitude than Lake McDonald, the largest lake in the park, which is located on the west side of the Continental Divide.

* 1867 – United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.

The Chesapeake Tide of the Continental Indoor Football League started play at the Show Place Arena, just outside of town, in 2007.

On 1 January 1979, the first FT ( Continental Europe's edition ) was printed outside the UK, in Frankfurt.

Further north, Greene sent Brigadier General George Weedon's troops to cover the road just outside the town of Dilworth to hold off the British long enough for the rest of the Continental Army to retreat.

On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress decided to proceed with the establishment of a Continental Army for purposes of common defense, adopting the forces already in place outside Boston ( 22, 000 troops ) and New York ( 5, 000 ).

The Federal League was the last serious attempt at creating a " Third Major League " outside the established structure of professional baseball in the U. S. There was one further attempt at creating a third league – the Continental League in 1959 – but its founders had hoped to find their place within the purview of organized baseball.

For the first time, the names Lincoln and Continental would be paired together outside the Mark Series ; along with replacing the Continental Mark V, the 1961 Continental replaced the Lincoln Capri and Premiere, consolidating Lincoln into a single product line.

In addition to Canada, there are IHRA tracks outside the Continental USA in Hawaii ( Hilo Dragstrip ), Alaska ( Alaska Raceway Park ), and Aruba ( International Raceway Park Aruba ).

It is one of two USAF Major Commands assigned outside of the Continental United States, the other being the United States Air Forces in Europe.

* Artemas Ward was the first overall leader of the assembled militia forces outside Boston after the war began, and ranked second in seniority to Washington in the Continental Army.

Both companies sought to get round the agreement-the LC & DR by establishing a Continental service from Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey, which was outside the scope of the agreement.

The Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, had received reports of the situation outside Boston when it began to meet in May 1775.

Congress officially adopted the forces outside Boston as the Continental Army on May 26, and named George Washington its commander-in-chief on June 15.

Thereafter, despite Ireland remaining outside the Roman Empire that engulfed the Continental and British Celtic cultures, Irish art is subject to continuous influence from outside, through trade and probably periodic influxes of refugees from Britain, both before and after the Roman invasion.

It is the largest non-casino hotel in the Continental United States outside of Las Vegas.

In April 1775, after news was received in London that colonies outside of New England had joined the Continental Association, a second restraining Act was passed to include the colonies of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland and South Carolina.

Both the i920 and the i930 were released for use with Sprint Nextel's iDEN Network, marketed as a phone that Sprint Nextel iDEN customers can take without having to resort to an alternate phone number outside the Continental US.

With only limited Continental resources ( he was short of both men and funds ), he was able to raise about 1, 400 South Carolina militia, but did not have authorization to order them outside the state.

When the Continental troops began to yield, he reconnoitered with Washington's bodyguard of about 30 men, and reported that the enemy were endeavoring to cut off the line of retreat.

Since Ford had surplus capital on hand from the success of the Ford Thunderbird, a plan was developed to move Lincoln upmarket, with the Continental broken out as a separate make at the top of Ford's product line, and to add another make to the intermediate slot vacated by Lincoln.

It was built to the wider Continental loading gauge and constructed to the same standards as a modern high speed line, with no level crossings and curves and gradients kept to an absolute minimum.

The Continental troops then launched a counter attack which came close to breaking Rawdon's line, which began to falter.

Cornwallis, rather than fight a sustained fight with a heavy loss, ordered Tarleton's cavalry to charge the rear of the Continental line.

As a result, the Loyalists therefore managed to hold the line against the best Continental troops during the battle, while the Regulars effectively broke the colonial militias.

Samsung also reorganized its overseas marketing bases in line with changes in the market, including a combined Britain / Continental Europe regional subsidiary, and a combined China / Taiwan regional subsidiary.

While other makes experimented with flamboyant chrome-laden styling, the Continental Mark II was almost European in its simplicity of line and understated grace.

He was the last in an unbroken line of Samuel Wards beginning with Rhode Island Governor and Representative to the Continental Congress Samuel Ward.

The one ship of the line built for service in the Continental Navy, the 74-gun, was instead offered as a gift to France on September 3, 1782 in compensation for the loss of Le Magnifique in service to the American Revolution.

BMW, working with Robert Bosch GmbH and Continental Automotive Systems, developed a system to reduce engine torque to prevent loss of control and applied it to the entire BMW model line for 1992.

To the west of this line were Colonel William Washington's 3rd Continental Light Dragoons and Virginian light infantry.

Following the opening of the branch line from Lewes to Newhaven, the railway sought to develop a new shorter Continental route from London to Paris, via Dieppe, in competition to the South Eastern Railway routes from Dover to Calais and Folkestone to Boulogne.

In 1981, the Town Car became a stand-alone model in the Lincoln product line, superseding the Continental as the flagship for the Lincoln brand as well as for Ford Motor Company.

Virginia soldiers of the Continental line, who served in the Revolutionary War, were eligible to procure a bounty award in the form of land, according to a formula based on rank and time of service.

The Continental Navy never launched any ships of the line, so the small vessels were primarily used for commerce raiding.

The Eastern Continental Divide ( orange line ) demarcates two watersheds of the Atlantic Ocean: the Gulf of Mexico watershed and the Atlantic Seaboard watershed.

The flagship Lincoln model during most of its run, the Continental name conveyed special cachet in the product line.

The car also was the highest selling of the entire Continental Mark line.

That same year, the Continental Tiara series of high output engines were introduced, although they were dropped from the line after 1978.

There was also a popular line dance known as The Continental Walk, which was danced to the eponymous record by Hank Ballard ; subsequent versions were also recorded by Chubby Checker and Danny & The Juniors.