During a 1935 – 1942 colonization attempt, the island was most likely on Hawaii time, which was then 10. 5 hours behind UTC .< ref > Since it is uninhabited the island's time zone is unspecified, but it lies within a nautical time zone 12 hours behind UTC.

The seat of the municipal council is the island's main town, Rønne.

Land elevations average, though Clipperton Rock, a barren volcanic outcrop located in the atoll's southeast, is considerably higher and forms the island's tallest point.

Approximately 75 % of the island's population is located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality ( CBRM ) which includes all of Cape Breton County and is often referred to as Industrial Cape Breton, given the history of coal mining and steel manufacturing in this area.

As many as 200 settlers lived in the nameless village in what is now present day Ingonish ( location according to some historians ) on the island's northeastern peninsula.

Today this National Historic Site of Canada is one of the island's dominant economic engines, employing many residents and attracting thousands of tourists every year.

Glace Bay is the second largest urban community in population and was the island's main coal mining centre until its last mine ceased operation in the 1980s.

Two volcanoes form the island's most prominent topographic features: La Grille in the north, with an elevation of 1, 000 meters, is extinct and largely eroded ; Kartala in the south, rising to a height of 2, 361 meters, last erupted in 1977.

A coral reef lies close to shore ; the island's capital of Mutsamudu is also its main port.

The island's climate is tropical, moderated by northeast trade winds and heavy rainfall.

Most of the island's ample supply of water is brought by the trade winds.

Dominica is the only island in the eastern Caribbean to retain some of its pre-Columbian population — the Carib Indians — about 3, 000 of whom live on the island's east coast.

* The Cordillera Central ( also called Sierra del Cibao ) is the island's most rugged and imposing feature and is known in Haiti as the Massif du Nord (" Northern Massif ").

The fare is generally inexpensive, and there are bus terminals and stops in most of the island's major cities.

The island's pork is used to make fine hams, sausage and other unique items including coppa ( dried rib cut ), lonzu ( dried pork fillet ), figatella, salumu ( a dried sausage ) salcietta, Panzetta, bacon, figarettu ( smoked and dried liverwurst ) and prisuttu ( farmer's ham ).

Since the success of the 1993 Buksefjord dam, whose distribution path to Nuuk includes the Ameralik Span the long-term policy of the Greenland government is to produce the island's electricity from renewable domestic sources.

There is a conflict with Magistrates, the island's former law enforcement.

The island's terrain is varied.

The island's largest town and administrative centre is Douglas, the population of which is 23 000, nearly a third of the entire population of the island.

Most tourist activity is centered on the island's northern coast, including the communities of Montego Bay, Ocho Rios, and Port Antonio, as well as in Negril on the island's western tip.

The fact that sticks out in this voluminous record is that the bulk of Du Pont's production has always supplied the largest part of the requirements of the one customer in the automobile industry connected to Du Pont by a stock interest.

however, the anode is still the part receiving the largest heat flux.

It is often stated that the largest snakes require five years to attain maturity, but this apparently is an overestimation.

Bernard Heuvelmans also treats of the largest snakes, but on the third level, and is chiefly concerned with the anaconda.

In addition, the iodoamino acid formed in largest quantity in the intact thyroid is di-iodotyrosine.

This development is reflected in the action taken in February, 1961, by the general board of the National Council of Churches, the largest Protestant organization in the Aj.

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I speak of `` the largest possible measure '' because any person who supposes that these conditions can be universally and perfectly achieved -- ever -- reckons without the inherent imperfectability of himself and his fellow human beings, and is therefore a dangerous man to have around.

The dome of the church is, outside of St. Peter's, one of the largest in Rome.

It is the second largest city in Japan, with about four million people.

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Behind this reply, and its many variations, is the ever-present budget problem all libraries must face, from the largest to the smallest.

Also, the state with the largest number of Negroes is New York -- not in the South at all.

The largest city by population is Birmingham.

The largest city by total land area is Huntsville.

The single largest organization of Anthropologists is the American Anthropological Association ( AAA ), which was founded in 1903.

The largest amphibian is the Chinese Giant Salamander, Andrias davidianus.

The suborder Neobatrachia is by far the largest group and includes the remaining families of modern frogs, including most common species.

The largest family in this group is Plethodontidae, the lungless salamanders, which includes sixty percent of all salamander species.

Alaska () is the largest state in the United States by area.

One of the largest problems that affect patients with disabilities is discomfort with prosthesis.

The largest segmental script is probably an abugida, Devanagari.

The largest known abjad is Sindhi, with 51 letters.