** Islands: Mugdrum Island

The firth has one major island, the marshy Mugdrum Island.

* Mugdrum Island

Mugdrum Island lies in the Firth of Tay, offshore from the town of Newburgh, Fife, in the east of Scotland.

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Mugdrum seen from Carpow Hill, Fife

Mugdrum is low-lying and reedy, with the " North Deep " and " South Deep " channels on either side of the island.

The Laing Museum in Newburgh preserves the stuffed body of a two-headed kitten born in the 19th century on Mugdrum.

This town should not be confused with Pawtucket, just north of Providence, or Pawcatuck, Connecticut, on the Pawcatuck River, opposite Westerly, Rhode Island.

The northernmost antipodal island in the Ryukyu Island chain, Nakanoshima, is opposite the Brazilian coast near Capão da Canoa.

The other islands south to the Straights of Okinawa correspond to southern Brazil, with Gaja Island being opposite the outskirts of Santo Antônio da Patrulha, Takarajima with Jua, Amami Ōshima covering the villages of Carasinho and Fazenda Pae João, Ginoza, Okinawa with Palmas, Paraná, the Kerama Islands with Pato Branco, Tonaki Island with São Lourenço do Oeste, and Kume Island corresponding to Palma Sola.

* The Coral Island, a novel with a similar plot but with an opposite perspective

Pfeiffer's early acting appearances included television roles in Fantasy Island, Delta House and BAD Cats, and small film roles in Falling in Love Again ( 1980 ) with Susannah York, The Hollywood Knights ( 1980 ) opposite Tony Danza, and Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen ( 1981 ), none of which met with much critical or box office success.

By the fourth century BC, Knidos was located at the site of modern Tekir, opposite Triopion Island.

Ellis Island and Liberty Island, opposite Liberty State Park, lie entirely within Hudson County's waters, which extend to the New York state line.

Off shore to the west, opposite the stonier Hannafore beach, lies the picturesque St George's Island, commonly known as Looe Island.

Chokoloskee is located on Chokoloskee Island, which is opposite the mouth of the Turner River near the southeastern end of Chokoloskee Bay.

Beginning on August 9, 1717, Massachusetts Governor Samuel Shute conducted a two day conference on Arrowsic with delegates of various tribes, who arrived in a flotilla of canoes and encamped on Lee Island opposite the town.

Middle Island, which is part of the Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge, is located in the Ohio opposite St. Marys ; a bridge connects the city to the island.

He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill opposite Marie Dressler, as Long John Silver in Treasure Island, as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa !, and his titular role in The Champ, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Fort Paull is further downstream, a Napoleonic-era emplacement replaced in the early 20th century by Stallinborough Battery opposite Sunk Island.

The eastern or town end of Holt Island is nature reserve and the western end, opposite the parish church, is a facility for the Scouts.

Eventually a white settlement taking the name Old Town was planted on the river bank opposite the Penobscot village, which began to be called “ Indian Island ”, and remains the site of the Penobscot Nation.

Fort Malden was built near Amherstburg, opposite Bois Blanc Island, separating the British military presence from the larger-populated area of Sandwich upstream, and positioned strategically to control the entrance of the river from Lake Erie.

In July 1759, Mi ' kmaq and Acadians kill five British in Dartmouth, opposite McNabb's Island.

The islands opposite Gorilla Island house a family of Squirrel monkeys, a pair of Agile Gibbon, Saki Monkey and also Golden-headed lion tamarins.

Clinton proposed that these troops instead be landed in New Jersey, either opposite Staten Island or on the Delaware River, trapping Washington or even capturing the seat of the Continental Congress, Philadelphia.

The Canadian militia took up positions in the town while the Patriots moved 300 men onto the Canadian Bois Blanc Island opposite the town.

There was active conflict in Taranaki ( on the opposite side of the Island ) which had to be resolved before anything could be started in the Opotiki region.

The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.

The Bimini Road, a submerged rock formation of large rectangular stones just off North Bimini Island in the Bahamas, was claimed by Robert Ferro and Michael Grumley to be evidence of the lost civilization.

It includes the Tongass National Forest, Glacier Bay National Park, Admiralty Island National Monument, Misty Fjords National Monument, Alaska's Inside Passage, and myriad large and small islands.

Landfill extends into portions of the lake providing space for Navy Pier, Northerly Island, the Museum Campus, and large portions of the McCormick Place Convention Center.

Since the 1990s the region has experienced an exceptionally tumultuous period in its regional economy with the collapse of large portions of the ground fishery throughout Atlantic Canada, the closing of coal mines and a steel mill on Cape Breton Island, and the closure of military bases in all three provinces.

While Bannister was well known in the artistic community of his adopted home of Providence, Rhode Island and admired within the wider East Coast art world ( he won a bronze medal for his large oil " Under the Oaks " at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial ), he was largely forgotten for almost a century for a complexity of reasons, principally connected with racial prejudice.

Beginning three days after the vessel grounded, a storm pushed large quantities of fresh oil on to the rocky shores of many of the beaches in the Knight Island chain.

At this time, they decided to name the large island on which Nootka was now proven to be located as Quadra and Vancouver Island.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Morgan's Raid – At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.

The guano diggers constructed a unique railroad on Malden Island, with cars powered by large sails.

* 1850 – The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California, in which a large number of Pomo Indians in Lake County are slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Cavalry, led by Nathaniel Lyon.

Cape Breton Island, a large island to the northeast of the Nova Scotia mainland, is also part of the province, as is Sable Island, a small island notorious for its shipwrecks, approximately from the province's southern coast.

Shortly thereafter, on 3 March 1951, the Island Regulation of the Netherlands Antilles () was issued by royal decree, giving fairly large autonomy to the various island territories in the Netherlands Antilles.

A “ Letter from an Officer of Marines at New South Wales, 16 November 1788 ”, published in the London newspaper, The World, 15 May 1789, reported the glowing description of the island and its prospects by Philip Gidley King, but also drew attention to the fatal defect of the lack of a safe port: “ The said Island lies near Port Jackson, and is nearly as large as the Isle of Wight.

Rhode Island's official nickname is " The Ocean State ," a reference to the State's geography, since Rhode Island has several large bays and inlets that amount to about 14 % of its total area.

In the 1920s and 1930s, rural Rhode Island saw a surge in Ku Klux Klan membership, largely in reaction to large waves of immigrants moving to the state.

Rhode Island has comprehensive health insurance for low-income children, and a large social safety net.

One of their first visits was in 1598 when an expedition of two vessels piloted by John Davis ( English explorer ) attacked a large Spanish Caravel, only to be beaten off and forced to retreat to Ascension Island for repairs.

Unlike large limestone areas such as Florida, Cuba, and the Yucatan Peninsula, or the Bahamas, which is a small island group composed of coral and sand, St. Lucia is a typical Windward Island formation of volcanic rock that came into existence long after much of the region had already been formed.

Saint Vincent protests Venezuela's claim to give full effect to Aves ( Bird ) Island, which creates a Venezuelan EEZ / continental shelf extending over a large portion of the Caribbean Sea.

Long Island, New York in the United States became the first large – scale suburban area in the world to develop, thanks to William Levitt's Levittown, New York, which is widely considered to be the archetype of Post-World War II suburbia.

It has a large ' megachurch ' in Seoul, Korea and the Peace Island in Liberia with the New Hope Academy situated there.

* March 24 – Titokowaru's War ends with surrender of the last Māori troops at large in the South Taranaki District of New Zealand's North Island.

The union was active in organizing large swaths of the lumber and mining industry along the coast, in the Interior of BC, and Vancouver Island.