Maarten Gerritsz Vries | De Vries ( 1643 ) maps Sakhalin's eastern promontories, but is not aware that he is visiting an island ( map from 1682 ).

Sakhalin's economy is growing rapidly thanks to its oil and gas industry.

Okha, along with the oblast's administrative center Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, is the center of Sakhalin's petroleum industry.

From Japan's official position, Sakhalin's attribution is not determined yet, and it is marked as No Man's Land on Japanese maps.

Sakhalin's railway has a connection with the rest of Russia via a ferry operating between Vanino and Kholmsk.

In 2000, the oil and gas industry accounted for 57. 5 % of Sakhalin's industrial output.

On the other hand, Japan currently has a Consulate-General in Sakhalin's capital city.

While under Russian administration fort Korsakovsky was an important administrative center in Sakhalin's penal servitude system and a final destination for hundreds of prisoners from European Russia, sentenced to forced labor for particularly serious crimes.

Thus, the three main categories of antisubmarine warfare operations are defense of shipping, defense of naval forces, and area defense.

In 1984, Titan the main shipping company of the Papanicolaou ’ s was in trouble, so Livanos's father George bought out the Papanicolaou's shares in ALL, while Gauntlett again became a shareholder with a 25 % holding in AML.

His main role was rapid demobilization of millions of soldiers, a slow job that was delayed by lack of shipping.

The role of the UK Ministry of Defence, which at one time was Gibraltar's main source of income, has declined, with today's economy mainly based on shipping, tourism, financial services, and the Internet.

Both Maori and the New Zealand European settlers arrived from overseas, and during the early European settler years, coastal shipping was one of the main methods of transportation, while it was hard to move goods to or from the hinterlands, thus limiting the locations of early settlement.

Greek-owned tankers have an important role in shipping Nigerian oil and natural gas, its main exports.

The main shipping company owes 72 ships, 37 of which are tankers ( including 1 water-carrier ).

Coal can simply be dug up and burned for little financial cost, one of the main costs being shipping.

A large reservoir on the Eder river, the main tributary of the Fulda, is used to regulate water levels on the Weser so as to ensure adequate depth for shipping throughout the year.

But the German capital ships had been bottled up in the North Sea, and the main threat to shipping came from U-boats.

The main purposes of an artificial levee are to prevent flooding of the adjoining countryside and to slow natural course changes in a waterway to provide reliable shipping lanes for maritime commerce over time ; they also confine the flow of the river, resulting in higher and faster water flow.

The city's role as main Austrian trading port and shipbuilding centre was later emphasized with the foundation of the merchant shipping line Austrian Lloyd in 1836, whose headquarters stood at the corner of the Piazza Grande and Sanità.

* Gold Coast Seaway, main shipping channel for the Gold Coast Broadwater in Australia

The strait is the main shipping channel between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, linking major Asian economies such as India, China, Japan and South Korea.

However, as shipping became increasingly important economically, the city of Amsterdam became the main Dutch city of North Holland during the Dutch Golden Age.

The two pairs of free-standing cable supporting towers are high allowing shipping of head room under the main span.

When containerization replaced older forms of shipping and Tilbury was expanded, a smaller barrier became feasible with each of the four main navigation spans being the same width as the opening of Tower Bridge.

Originally it was an area characterised by villages clustered around the City walls or along the main roads, surrounded by farmland, with marshes and small communities by the River, serving the needs of shipping and the Royal Navy.

Amity became a main shipping and trade center for the area, and in 1905 the Bank of Amity opened, which now is on the National Register of Historic Places.

This was cost effective in consideration of the economics, time, and risk of shipping gold to the main mint in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Elsah prospered as the main shipping point for the agricultural goods produced by the farmers of Jersey County.

By 1879, a railroad was built to serve Osawatomie, aiding its growth into a supply town and a main shipping point.

During the 1860s southern Minnesota was the greatest wheat producing region in the country and Winona was the main port for shipping Minnesota wheat.

Lutesville, which had been founded in 1869 and later became the main business and shipping center for the area, merged with Marble Hill and maintained the name of Marble Hill because it was the current county seat.

Industry's main criticism of the Navy's antisubmarine effort is that it cannot determine where any one company or industry can apply its skills and know-how.

The main purpose of this system is to allow phone company technicians to identify which telephone line they are connected to.

Because the original designer had left the company another employee completely redesigned most of the system, ( adding a display snow remover circuit, true 80 / 64 column text mode support, ( with different size letters for TRS-80 and CP / M mode, so that in TRS-80 mode the full screen was also used, not just a 64x16 portion of the 80x25 screen ) with an improved font set ( adding " gray scale " version of the TRS-80 mozaik graphics and many special PETSCII like characters ), and a more flexible and reliable floppy disk controller and keyboard interface plus many other small improvements ), also an enclosure was developed for the main computer system, ( in the form of a 19-inch rack for the Eurocards ) and for two floppy disk drives and the power supply.

The main brand of rum in Cuba is called Havana Club, a formerly private company nationalized by the government.

Beginning with a Nintendo Entertainment System port of 1942 published in December 1985, the company started to venture into the market of home console video games, which became its main business segment a few years later.

A locally owned company, Azizi Hotak General Trading Group, is currently the main supplier of diesel fuel, gasoline, jet fuel and LPG in Afghanistan.

* VR Group ( The main site of the Finnish railway company )

These included An Elopement à la Mode and The Pickpocket: A Chase Through London, made by Alf Collins for the British branch of the French Gaumont company, Daring Daylight Burglary, made by Frank Mottershaw at the Sheffield Photographic Company, and Desperate Poaching Affray, made by the Haggar family, whose main business was exhibiting films made by others in their traveling tent theatre.

Only a few scenes were actually filmed in Åmål, but these were not included in the final version: the main shooting took place in the nearby town of Trollhättan, location of Film i Väst's ( the company that produced the film ) film studios.

Describing his new bishopric, Gregory lamented how it was nothing more than an " utterly dreadful, pokey little hole ; a paltry horse-stop on the main road ... devoid of water, vegetation, or the company of gentlemen ... this was my Church of Sasima!

With its bonds functioning as bank notes, the company gradually moved into the business of lending and discounting to other linen manufacturers, and in the early 1770s banking became its main activity.

The main reason for the distinction between the two types of company is that life, annuity, and pension business is very long-term in nature — coverage for life assurance or a pension can cover risks over many decades.

In particular, the country's main energy company, Latvenergo remains state-owned and there are no plans to privatize it.

The government also holds minority shares in Ventspils Nafta oil transit company and the country's main telecom company Lattelecom but it plans to sell those.

The majority of the main characters — Daniel ( the narrator ), Susan, Todd, Bug, Michael, and Abe — are living together in a " geek house ", and their lives are dedicated to their projects and the company.

Mongolia is the world's second largest producer of cashmere, with the main company, Gobi Cashmere, accounting for 21 % of world cashmere production as of 2006.

In March 2008, the New York Times reported that in the past 12 months, the main supplier of munitions to Afghanistan's army and police forces was an AEY, Inc., a company headed by a 22-year old Efraim E. Diveroli, an Israeli-American from Florida whose vice president was a licensed masseur.

The entrance process is voluntary for each country and is being monitored by multi-stakeholders involving government, private companies and civil society representatives, responsible for disclosure and dissemination of the reconciliation report ; however, the competitive disadvantage of company-by company public report is for some of the businesses in Ghana, the main constraint.

In this case, the acquiring company simply hires the staff of the target private company, thereby acquiring its talent ( if that is its main asset and appeal ).

When Runciter, Chip, and the others reach Mick ’ s moon base, they discover that the assignment is a trap, presumably set by the company ’ s main adversary Ray Hollis, who leads an organization of psychics.

The army's main bases include Port Moresby, Wewak and Lae, while company strength outstations are located at Kiunga and Vanimo.

The 19 buildings include the offices of Daimler-Benz themselves ( actually their subsidiary debis, whose 21-storey main tower rises to 106 metres and is the tallest building in the new Potsdamer Platz development ), also offices of the major British professional services company PricewaterhouseCoopers, Berliner Volksbank ( Germany's largest cooperative bank ), and the remarkable 25-storey, 103-metre-high Potsdamer Platz No. 1, known as the Kollhoff Tower by architect Hans Kollhoff, home to a number of prestigious law firms.