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For each State ( except Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and, prior to 1962, Alaska and Hawaii ) determine average per capita income based on the last three years.
The Aegean Islands are within the sea and some bound it on its southern periphery, including Crete and Rhodes.
The Aegean Islands are found within its waters, with the following islands delimiting the sea on the south ( generally from west to east ): Kythera, Antikythera, Crete, Kasos, Karpathos and Rhodes.
Many of the Aegean Islands, or chains of islands, are actually extensions of the mountains on the mainland.
The Territory of the Ashmore and Cartier Islands is an external territory of Australia consisting of two groups of small low-lying uninhabited tropical islands in the Indian Ocean situated on the edge of the continental shelf north-west of Australia and south of the Indonesian island of Rote.
* 1942 World War II: the Battle of Guadalcanal begins United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
The resulting article in SURFER Magazine, " Quest for Fire " by journalist Sam George, put the Andaman Islands on the surfing map for the first time.
Callahan went on to make several more surfing projects in the Andamans, including a trip to the Nicobar Islands in 1999.
Kalapani ( Malayalam ) and Sirai Chaalai ( Tamil ), a 1996 Indian film by Priyadarshan, depicts on freedom struggle and briefs on the lives of prisoners in Andaman Islands.
The Andaman Islands: with notes on Barren Island.
During his stay on the Juan Fernández Islands, Slocum runs across a marker commemorating Selkirk's stay.
Four of the Darwin's finches | 14 finch species found on the Galápagos Islands | Galápagos Archipelago, are thought to have evolved by an adaptive radiation that diversified their beak shapes to adapt them to different food sources.
This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
One is on Medny Island ( Commander Islands, Russia ), which was reduced by some 85 90 %, to around 90 animals, as a result of mange caused by an ear tick introduced by dogs in the 1970s.
The Virgin Islands were first settled by the Arawak from South America around 100 BC ( though there is some evidence of Amerindian presence on the islands as far back as 1500 BC ).
The first European sighting of the Virgin Islands was by Christopher Columbus in 1493 on his second voyage to the Americas.
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The British Virgin Islands is heavily dependent on migrant workers, and over 50 % of all workers on the islands are of a foreign descent.

Islands and lake
Islands tend to be located in the western side of the lake and total thirty-one in number ( 13 in Canada, 18 in the U. S .).
The lake holds Ometepe and Zapatera which are both volcanic islands, as well as the archipelago of the Solentiname Islands.
* Malagasy cultural traditions shared with Austronesians of Taiwan, the Pacific Islands, Indonesia, New Zealand, and the Philippines including ancient customs, such as burying the dead within a canoe in the sea or in a lake, the cultivation of traditional Austronesian crops such as taro orsaonjo, banana, coconut, and sugar cane, traditional architecture with a square house plan, music and musical instruments such as the Antsiva conch, the hazolahy drum, the atranatrana xylophone, sodina flute, or the valiha tube zither, and dance, including the " bird dance " found both in central and southern regions.
Islands in the lake include l ' Île-Dorval, les Îles de la Paix National Wildlife Area, and Dowker Island.
He named the lake Lac aux Îles which means " Lake of the Islands " in English.
However, several maps, including those published by the USGS depict the northern boundary as including part of the lake, including Speaker Heck Island and Happy Family Islands.
In the summer, it is a popular vacation area because of its lake frontage, ferry service to the Lake Erie Islands, quality sport fishery, the nearby Chautauqua at Lakeside, and the Cedar Point amusement park.
The other end of the inlet is located on Barkley Sound, which includes the Broken Group Islands, considered to be one of the best areas for kayaking in the world. Sproat lake is located 10 km west of the city, and the valley is guarded by the snow-covered peaks of Mount Arrowsmith and Mount Klitsa, and surrounded by mountains on all sides.
Islands in the lower lake include Boa Island, Cleenishmeen Island, Crevinishaughy Island, Cruninish Island, Devenish Island, Ely Island, Goat Island, Horse Island, Inish Doney, Inish Fovar, Inish Lougher, Inish More, Inishmacsaint, Inishmakill, Lustybeg Island, Lustymore Island and White Island.
At the tip of the peninsula on the western side of the lake are the " Bird Islands " ( Cormorant Island and Egg Island ), which have been bird sanctuaries of the Qinghai Lake Natural Protection Zone since 1997.
The original name of the lake is believed to have been Roto-ua which translates to Rainy Lake and later Moturau which means Many Islands.
Islands poked up out of this icy lake, some of which remain today as the sandstone bluffs of central Wisconsin-Mill Bluff and Roche-a-Cri, for example.
* Green Lake ( Raoul Island ), crater lake in the Kermadec Islands
The lake contains five islands, including Star Island, Cedar Island, the two Potato Islands, and a small unnamed island.
The lake was essentially an enlargement of the present Lake Ontario that formed because the St. Lawrence River downstream from the lake was blocked by the ice sheet near the present Thousand Islands.
A small population of Irrawaddy Dolphins is found in Thale Luang, near the Si-Ha Islands of Phatthalung, however threatened to extinction by the overfishing and pollution of the lake.
There are several islands on the lake, notably Mann and du Collège Islands.
More sizable among the adjacent smaller islands are Rugged Island off Byers Peninsula ( which also contain a small freshwater lake named Basalt Lake ), Half Moon Island in Moon Bay, Desolation Island in Hero Bay and Zed Islands to the north.
The Toftavatn lake area was the first area to become a Nature reserve in the Faroe Islands back in the 1980s, and in 2006 Nes Municipalcy in cooperation with neighbouring Runavík Municipalcy joined a network of local authorities in the Nordic countries, who would carry out specific projects that aimed to halt the loss of biodiversity in their local areas.
Kingston, Ontario, with a population of approximately 146, 838 people, is located at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, where the lake runs into the St. Lawrence River and the Thousand Islands begin.
The battle itself took place in the Lake Erie Islands, at the western end of the lake, off the coast of Ohio.
However, on the western edge at the Queen Charlotte Islands, the lower thickness of the ice sheet meant that sea levels were as much as 170 metres lower than they are today, forming a large lake in the deepest parts of the strait.
The waters surrounding the Slate Islands have been protected from commercial fishing to preserve one of the last native stocks of lake trout in Lake Superior.

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