As a commune, the Juan Fernández Islands are a third-level administrative division of Chile governed by a municipal council, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years.

Although the Norwegian council never recognized the declaration formally, and Norway kept some separate institutions and its legal system, this had the practical effect that the Norwegian possessions of Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands came under direct control of the crown.

However, in 1901 the Legislative Council was finally formally dissolved, and the islands were then officially administered through the Governor of the Leeward Islands, who appointed a commissioner and an executive council.

The island ( along with its surrounding islets ) became a separate insular council ( with the same territory as the municipality of the same name ) after 1977 ; before that, it was administered in the former insular council of Ibiza and Formentera ( covering the whole group of the Pitiusic Islands ), but in a separate comarca ( which already covered the current municipality of Formentera ).

In 2006, the island was used as the location for the tribal council in the US TV program Survivor: Cook Islands.

The Chatham Islands Council is not usually considered an unitary authority, although it acts as a regional council for the purposes of the Resource Management Act 1991.

Once found, the player that possesses an idol may keep it or transfer it to another player before or during Tribal Council ( in Cook Islands, it couldn't be transferred during tribal council ), and it cannot be stolen from that player.

Google News reprints of the Virgin Islands Daily News ( Feb 17, 1979 ) and Los Angeles Times ( Feb 15, 1979 ) indicate that with the withdrawal of Iran, the secretary-general of CENTO, a Turkish diplomat, called a meeting of the pact's council in order to formally dissolve the organization.

Regardless Lewenhaupt held council of war in 5 June in an attempt to get Naval units to sail to Beryozovye Islands (, ) but the naval commanders judged the risk for the fleet to be too great and Lewenhaupt was forced to back down from his plan.

Other names include The Cents War, in reference to the controversial ten-cent tax imposed by the Chilean-run council of Antofagasta and supported by the Bolivian Congress, and the Second War of the Pacific ( as the Chincha Islands War is sometimes known as the First War of the Pacific ).

Six territorial authorities ( Auckland Council, Nelson City Council, Gisborne, Tasman, and Marlborough District Councils and the Chatham Islands Council ) also perform the functions of a regional council and thus are known as unitary authorities.

In addition, the BSA gave the council jurisdiction over the entire Philippine Islands instead of only Manila as originally applied for.

From time to time during this period, the Islands were nominally ruled by various Counts of Malta, who were typically illegitimate sons of the reigning Aragonese monarch ; however, the day-to-day administration of the country was essentially in the hands of the local nobility, through their governing council known as the Università.

Initially, they were administratively part of the same insular council ( of Ibiza and Formentera ), but since 2007 they are now separated between the insular council of Ibiza and the insular council of Formentera ( each one is also assimilated to a single comarca ), which are two of the four main administrative subdivisions of the province ( and autonomous community ) of the Balearic Islands.

At 28 he was still homeless, although now in Scotland ; by 35 he was living in a council house on the Shetland Islands off the north coast of Scotland, writing and appearing in the local pantomime.

It is administratively part of Caithness ( now in the Highland council area ), while its neighbour Swona, to the north, is part of the Orkney Islands.

Under the careful guidance of the governor and the advisory council, a new constitution for the Turks and Caicos Islands was created and elections held in 1988, with the PNP winning by a landslide, and Washington Misick becoming the new chief minister.

In 1899 he was posted to the Samoan Islands, where he served as council chairman in the provisional government of the municipality of Apia, Samoa.

Russell was further accused of " bullying " in his dealings with Shetland Islands Council where the council was asked to postpone cost-cutting school closures.

Following the Pitcairn Islands election, 2011 general election held in December 2011, the composition of the council is as follows.

: Specific regions within a country or areas in dispute among countries, such as Kashmir, are not covered, but other areas of the world whose status is disputed, such as the Spratly Islands, have entries.

Cruisers can see traditional life in remote areas of the world ; here, a Kuna ( people ) | Kuna paddles a dugout canoe in the San Blas Islands.

Category: Protected areas of the Canary Islands

Catholicism had been reduced to the fringes of the country, particularly the Gaelic-speaking areas of the Highlands and Islands.

The Hawar Islands used to be one of the settlements of the Bahraini branch of the Dawasir who settled there in the early 19th century and on the main island of Bahrain in 1845 in the areas of Zallaq and Budaiya.

* the Harold Holt Fisheries Reserves – five protected areas in southern Port Phillip, located at Swan Bay, Point Lonsdale, Mud Islands, Point Nepean and Pope ’ s Eye ( The Annulus ).

Most of the Eskimo peoples from the Aleutian Islands eastward to Greenland relied on the kayak for hunting a variety of prey — primarily seals, though whales and caribou were important in some areas.

Outside of its native range, areas where peppermint was formerly grown for oil often have an abundance of feral plants, and it is considered invasive in Australia, the Galápagos Islands, New Zealand, and in the United States.

In the June 2001 decision, Bahrain kept the Hawar Islands and Qit ' at Jaradah but dropped claims to Janan Island and Zubarah on mainland Qatar, while Qatar retained significant maritime areas and their resources.

The Tripartite Convention of 1899 partitioned the Samoan Islands into two parts: the eastern island group became a territory of the United States ( the Tutuila Islands in 1900 and officially Manu ' a in 1904 ) and is today known as American Samoa ; the western islands, by far the greater landmass, became known as German Samoa after Britain vacated all claims to Samoa and accepted termination of German rights in Tonga and certain areas in the Solomon Islands and West Africa.

Spam was introduced into the aforementioned areas, in addition to other islands in the Pacific such as Okinawa and the Philippine Islands, during the U. S. military occupation after World War II.

The mainland areas lie between latitudes 49 ° N and 59 ° N ( the Shetland Islands reach to nearly 61 ° N ), and longitudes 8 ° W to 2 ° E.

Both male and female descent studies show evidence of Norwegian descent in areas closest to Scandinavia, such as the Shetland and Orkney Islands.

The majority of the San Juan Islands are quite hilly with some flat areas and valleys, often quite fertile, in between.

During 1907 – 8 Rivers travelled to the Solomon Islands, and other areas of Melanesia and Polynesia.

The U. S. is divided into Zone I ( roughly the northeastern quarter of the U. S. mainland, excluding the far northern areas ), Zone I-A ( California south of 40 degrees latitude, U. S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico ), and Zone II ( all other locations ).

The Chafarinas Islands are made up of three islands ( with areas in hectares ):

The Republican-controlled Java and Sumatra would be one of its states, alongside areas that were generally under stronger Dutch influence, including southern Kalimantan, and the ' Great East ', which consisted of Sulawesi, Maluku, the Lesser Sunda Islands, and Western New Guinea.

It contains ten to twenty species that are native to Africa and Eurasia from the Canary Islands, whole Africa, and southern Europe, warm and semi-desert areas across Asia, and also North America from Mexico to warm and semi-desert United States, like Texas or California.

Commonwealth and off-shore protected areas in the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, the Christmas Island Territory, the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands Territory, the Norfolk Island Territory and the Australian Antarctic Territory are managed by Parks Australia, a division of the Department of the Environment and Water Resources, with the exception of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which is managed by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, a separate body within the department.

District courts in three insular areas — the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands — exercise the same jurisdiction as Article III U. S. district courts.