The 2 islands of Guadeloupe proper are: Basse-Terre Island ( left ) and Grande-Terre ( right ).

The Treaty of Bucharest, which concluded the war, left Greece with southern Epirus, the southern half of Macedonia, Crete and the Aegean islands, except for the Dodecanese, which had been occupied by Italy in 1911.

ICJ awarded Ligitan and Sipadan islands, also claimed by Indonesia and Philippines, to Malaysia but left the maritime boundary in the hydrocarbon-rich Celebes Sea in dispute, culminating in hostile confrontations in March 2005 over concessions to the Ambalat oil block.

On March 27, 1933, Japan left the League of Nations, but continued to manage the islands, and in the late 1930s began building air bases on several atolls.

Five years later, the islands were visited by Dom Pedro de Mascarenhas who left the name Mascarene for the whole region.

This is the only large-scale long-distance car / passenger shipping service left, with all others restricted to short ferry routes to islands like Stewart Island / Rakiura or Great Barrier Island.

In January 2004, Niue was struck by a devastating cyclone ( Cyclone Heta ) which left 200 of the islands ' 1600 inhabitants homeless.

Turtles live on the islands, and seabirds have left nests and guano deposits, but there are no permanent human residents except military personnel and fishermen.

( not the Canary Islands, as long accepted ) as suggested by the location of the six dots labelled the " FORTUNATA " islands near the left extreme of the blue sea of Ptolemy's map here reproduced.

Indeed, two of the nearest countries to the islands — South Africa and Namibia — also drive on the left.

The onset of World War I brought the reforms to a close and again left the islands isolated and exposed.

Suckling finally left the islands without ever taking up his post ( or ever being paid ) on 2 May 1788, impoverished and embittered, due to the machinations of local interests which were fearful of the recourse of their creditors if a court was to be established.

In 1856, the trade monopoly was abolished and the islands were left open to free trade.

According to the earliest source to the Faroe Islands, Færeyinga Saga, emigrants who left Norway to escape the tyranny of Harald I of Norway settled in the islands about the end of the 9th century.

The stars represent the nine islands which comprise Tuvalu ; the arrangement is geographically correct, with the east towards the top ( i. e. north to the left ).

King Artaxerxes thinks it just that the cities in Asia should belong to him, as well as Clazomenae and Cyprus among the islands, and that the other Greek cities, both small and great, should be left independent, except Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros ; and these should belong, as of old, to the Athenians.

In 1402, the French adventurer Jean de Béthencourt left La Rochelle and sailed along the coast of Morocco to conquer the Canary islands.

Xiamen comprises Xiamen Island ( longitude 118 ° 04 ' 04 " E, latitude 24 ° 26 ' 46 " N ), Gulangyu Island, and part of the rugged mainland coastal region from the left bank of the Jiulong River in the west to the islands of Xiang ' an in the northeast.

Parties of volunteers work on the islands in the summer to restore the many ruined buildings that the native St Kildans left behind.

As the Royal Squadron cleared out of the Sound of Mull, and round the northern extremity of the island, a noble prospect lay before it, the steep and barren headlands of Ardnamurchan stretching away into the Atlantic on the right, on the left the precipitous cliffs of the Mull coast, and far away and embosomed in the ocean, the fantastic and varied forms of the adjacent islands.

The Spaniards and their native allies left the island for the nearby islands of Mazaua and Leyte, guided by Datu Bankaw.

The Wusun left multiple diaspora islands along their centuries-old trek.

Through a combination of erosion of the weaker surrounding rock, and sea level rise following the last ice age, the Farnes were left as islands.

Henry Allen ( virtuoso on all three instruments ) had left Hawaii in the early 1950s to go L. A. and work with Richard Kauhi and Alec Keack, who left the islands to pursue a career on the mainland as they were far ahead of their time back here in Honolulu.

Brannon was hunkered down with his broad back to the left rear wheel, with the other two facing him.

He decided that the marines must be deploying around the meadow, with the one left to distract him.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

As John T. Westbrook says in his article, `` Twilight Of Southern Regionalism '' ( Southwest Review, Winter 1957 ): `` The miasmal mausoleum where an Old South, already too minutely autopsied in prose and poetry, should be left to rest in peace, forever dead and ( let us fervently hope ) forever done with ''.

When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

As for the author of the Englishman, Mrs. Manley sarcastically deplores that the sole defense of the Protestant cause should be left to `` Ridpath, Dick Steele, and their Associates, with the Apostles of Young Man's Coffee-House ''.

For if Serenissimus made the sign of the Cross with his right hand, and meant it, with his left he beckoned lewdly to any lady who happened to catch his eye.

On the morning of November 17th, Cornwallis and 2,000 men had left Philadelphia with the object of capturing Fort Mercer at Red Bank, New Jersey.

Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.

He was unable to send any more help to his allies on the Continent, and during the next few years many of them, left to resist French pressure unaided, surrendered to the inevitable and made their peace with Philip.

This left the Soviets plenty of leeway to start low-grade brushfire aggressions with considerable impunity.

There was considerable evidence of a tacit rapprochement with Castro in Cuba, previously a bete noire to Trujillo -- thus illustrating the way in which totalitarianism of the right and left coalesces.

`` I leave this church with a feeling that a great weight has been lifted off my heart, I have left my grudge at the altar and forgiven my neighbor ''.

So the Commission's announcements of the new Soviet shots have been confined to one or two bleak sentences, with the fission yield usually left vague.

and where it is not, it is left with no residue, and the social meaning of this is enormous.

but the government is left with no reserve granary, under the agricultural system it has ordained.

The previous night's horror -- the absolute failure, overcast with the intrusions of the press, had left them all with a wan sense of uselessness, of play-acting.

The things left unsaid they both felt deeply, and with a sigh they fell back on the well-stuffed pillows.

Before he left town Pat saw to it that I was fixed up with a job.

He left with all the joyous spirit of a child going on a holiday, nodding attentively as Rector gave him his final instructions.

He worked standing, with his left hand in his pocket as though he were merely stopping for a moment, sketching with the surprised stare of one who was watching another person's hand.