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* Carthage evacuates Sicily and small islands west of it ( Aegadian Islands ).

The autonomous region also includes several neighboring islands: the Aegadian Islands, the Aeolian Islands, Pantelleria and Lampedusa.

Twenty quinqueremes, loaded with 1, 000 soldiers, raided the Aegadian Islands west of Sicily and eight ships intended to attack the Vulcan islands, but were blown off-course in a storm towards the Straits of Messina.

Erice is located on top of Mount Erice, at around 750m above sea level, overlooking the city of Trapani, the low western coast towards Marsala, the dramatic Punta del Saraceno and Capo San Vito to the north-east, and the Aegadian Islands on Sicily's north-western coast, providing spectacular views.

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Extreme western point of Sicily, the town was founded on Lilibeo cape, from where Aegadian Islands e sulle Stagnone Lagoon can be seen ( these belong to Marsala local area ).

The Battle of the Aegates Islands or Aegusa ( Aegadian Islands, off the western coast of the island of Sicily, 10 March 241 BC ) was the final naval battle fought between the fleets of Carthage and the Roman Republic during the First Punic War.

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The nearby island of Pantelleria, and the Aegadian Islands are also administratively a part of Trapani province.

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* March 10 – The Carthaginian fleet sent to relieve the Roman blockade of the Sicilian cities of Lilybaeum and Drepanum is totally defeated near the Aegates Islands off western Sicily by the Roman fleet led by Roman consul and commander, Gaius Lutatius Catulus.

The term `` State '' means the several States, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico ; ;

The term `` State '' means the several States, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico ; ;

Bœotus ( accompanied by Arne ) went to southern Thessaly, and founded Boeotia ; but Aeolus went to a group of islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea, which received from him the name of the Aeolian Islands ; according to some accounts this Aeolus founded the town of Lipara.

The islands were the scene of the Battle of the Aegates Islands of 241 BC, in which the Carthaginian fleet was defeated by C. Lutatius Catulus ; the engagement ended the First Punic War.

The islands situated between 60 ° S latitude parallel to the south and the Antarctic Convergence to the north, and their respective Exclusive Economic Zones fall under the national jurisdiction of the countries that possess them: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ( United Kingdom ; also an EU Overseas territory ), Bouvet Island ( Norway ), and Heard and McDonald Islands ( Australia ).

Kerguelen Islands ( France ; also an EU Overseas territory ) are situated in the Antarctic Convergence area, while the Falkland Islands, Isla de los Estados, Hornos Island with Cape Horn, Diego Ramírez Islands, Campbell Island, Macquarie Island, Amsterdam and Saint Paul Islands, Crozet Islands, Prince Edward Islands, and Gough Island and Tristan da Cunha group remain north of the Convergence and thus outside the Antarctic region.

Locations include the Cyclopean Islands east off Sicily and near Trentino in northern Italy ; Victoria in Australia ; Kerguelen Island in the Indian Ocean ; in the Lake Superior copper district of Michigan, Bergen Hill, New Jersey, Golden, Colorado, and at Searles Lake, California in the United States ; and at Cape Blomidon, Nova Scotia and Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec in Canada ; and in Iceland.

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In addition to the production of nutmeg and mace, Banda maintained significant entrepot trade ; goods that moved through Banda included cloves from Ternate and Tidore in the north, bird of paradise feathers from the Aru Islands and western New Guinea, massoi bark for traditional medicines, and slaves.

Therefore, native Caymanians do not have any Amerindian heritage from their own islands ; however, a significant number of Jamaicans have settled in the Cayman Islands over the years, so they and their descendants may have some Amerindian blood via Jamaica.

some foreign ships register in the Cayman Islands as a flag of convenience ; includes ships from 11 countries among which are: Greece 15, US 5, UK 5, Cyprus 2, Denmark 2, Norway 3 ( 2002 est.

The sea was traditionally known as Archipelago ( in Greek, Αρχιπέλαγος, meaning " chief sea "), but in English this word's meaning has changed to refer to the Aegean Islands and, generally, to any island group.

Of the approximately 48, 000 inhabitants of the Faroe Islands ( 16, 921 private households ( 2004 )), 98 % are Danish realm citizens, meaning Faroese, Danish, or Greenlandic.

In the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts it is revealed the ancient Egyptians believed Nun ( the Ocean ) was a circular body surrounding nbwt ( a term meaning " dry lands " or " Islands ") and therefore believed in a similar Ancient Near Eastern circular earth cosmography surrounded by water.

In April 2012, the UK Government made law changes to prevent the Channel Islands continued exploitation of LVCR, meaning that UK residents would have to pay the full VAT amount on items imported from the Channel Islands.

The Turks and Caicos Islands are named after the Turk's-cap cactus ( Melocactus communis ), and the Lucayan term " caya hico ", meaning string of islands.

He said whilst he wanted a peaceful solution, the resolution's meaning " seems to be of a negotiated settlement or compromise between two incompatible positions -— between the position which exists in international law, that the Falkland Islands and their dependencies are British sovereign territory and some other position altogether ...

Juba II had given the Canary Islands that name because he found particularly ferocious dogs ( canarius – from canis – meaning of the dogs in Latin ) on the island.

The islands ' name, meaning " Islands of Turning ", refers to this event.

However, the word ' auraka ' in Cook Islands Māori is a prohibitive adverb, with the approximate meaning ' do not '; it does not mean'all-devouring '.

In Cook Islands mythology, specifically of the Hervey Islands, Avatea also known as Vatea ( meaning ' bright ') was a lunar deity and the father of gods and men in Mangaian myth of origin.

Islands in the archipelago are arid, meaning they have no rivers or streams.

Some have given the etymology of Uist from Old Norse meaning " west ", much like Westray in the Orkney Islands.

The Marquesas Islands ( or Archipel des Marquises or Marquises ; Marquesan: Te Henua ( K ) enana ( North Marquesan ) and Te Fenua ` Enata ( South Marquesan ), both meaning " The Land of Men ") are a group of volcanic islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southern Pacific Ocean.

The Pentland Firth (, meaning the Orcadian Strait ), which is actually more of a strait than a firth, separates the Orkney Islands from Caithness in the north of Scotland.

Burhou, like many other Channel Islands ( e. g. Lihou, Jethou ), has the Norman suffix-hou, meaning a small island, from the Old Norse holmr.

.. nor the small islands in the neighborhood of that settlement which may be known as its dependencies "; that the treaty's engagements did apply to all the Central American states, " with their just limits and proper dependencies " ( meaning, apparently, the Mosquito Coast and the Bay Islands ); and that these declarations, not being submitted to the United States Senate, could of course not affect the legal import of the treaty.

Papa ' a has a similar meaning in Cook Islands Māori.

Māori in the Bay of Islands and surrounding districts had no doubts about the meaning of the word in the 19th century.

Büyükada ( meaning " Big Island ";, Prínkēpos ) is the largest of the nine islands comprising the Princes ' Islands in the Marmara Sea, close to Istanbul.

Heybeliada ( meaning " Saddlebag Island "; Chalki ) is the second largest of the Princes ' Islands in the Sea of Marmara.

Burgazada ( meaning " Fortress Island "; Greek: Αντιγόνη, Antigoni ) is the third largest of the Islands, a single hill 2 km across.