Spain is a country located in southwestern Europe, occupying most ( about 85 percent ) of the Iberian Peninsula and includes a small exclave inside France called Llívia as well as the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Western Atlantic Ocean off northwest Africa, and five places of sovereignty ( plazas de soberanía ) on and off the coast of north Africa: Ceuta, Melilla, Islas Chafarinas, Peñón de Alhucemas, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera.

Spain maintains sovereignty over Ceuta, Melilla, Penon de Velez de la Gomera, Alhucemas and the Chafarinas Islands ( captured following the Christian reconquest of Spain ) based upon historical grounds, security reasons and on the basis of the UN principle of territorial integrity.

The Chafarinas Islands (, Berber: Igumamen Iceffaren or Takfarinas, Arabic: جزر الشفارين or الجزر الجعفرية ), also spelled Zafarin, Djaferin or Zafarani, are a group of three small islets located in the Alboran Sea off the coast of Morocco with an aggregate area of 0. 525 km², 45 km to the east of Nador and 3. 3 km off the Moroccan town of Ras Elma.

The Chafarinas Islands are made up of three islands ( with areas in hectares ):

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The Islas Chafarinas are on the right.

File: Plaza de soberania. gif | 19th-century Spanish map showing the " Chafarinas ".

In 1848, Spanish troops conquered the Islas Chafarinas.

Spain has a territorial dispute with Morocco concerning the five places of sovereignty ( plazas de soberanía ) on and off the coast of Morocco-the coastal enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, which Morocco contests, as well as the islands of Peñon de Alhucemas, Peñon de Vélez de la Gomera, and Islas Chafarinas.

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File: 3 ile marocaine. JPG | Islas Chafarinas.

The Hawaiian Islands are struck severely an average of once every 25 years.

Paintings and drawings by Marie Moore of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, are shown thru Nov. 5 at the Meadows Gallery, 3211 Ellis Av., week days, 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., Sundays 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., closed Mondays.

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.

Ormers ( Haliotis tuberculata ) are considered a delicacy in the British Channel Islands and are pursued with great alacrity by the locals.

The only places outside of Japan in which Y-haplogroup D is common are Tibet and the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean.

North Andaman Island is south of Burma, although a few smaller Burmese islands are closer, including the three Coco Islands.

Of the people who live in the Andaman Islands, a small minority of about 1, 000 are the so-called Adamanese, the aboriginal inhabitants ( adivasi ) of the islands.

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.

The Aegadian Islands ( Sicilian: Ìsuli Ègadi, ;,, meaning the islands of goats ), are a group of small mountainous islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the northwest coast of Sicily, Italy, near the city of Trapani, with a total area of.

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.

Aleut people () are the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, United States and Kamchatka Krai, Russia.

In the 1820s, the Russian-American Company, which administered a large portion of the North Pacific during a Russian led expansion of the fur trade, resettled many families to the Commander Islands ( currently, within the Aleutsky District of the Kamchatka Krai in Russia ) and to the Pribilof Islands ( currently in Alaska ), where there are currently established majority Aleut communities.

They are located in the Virgin Islands archipelago, a few miles east of the U. S. Virgin Islands.

The British Virgin Islands are a major target for drug traffickers, who use the area as a gateway to the United States.

In August 2011 a joint raid between the American DEA and local British Virgin Islands police arrested a number of residents who are accused of being involved in major drugs transshipments.

An unruly youth, Selkirk joined several buccaneering expeditions to the South Seas, including one commanded by William Dampier, which called in for provisions at the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.

Although his home has been traditionally identified as one of the Aeolian Islands ( there is little consensus as to which ), near Sicily, an alternative location has been suggested at Gramvousa off the northwest coast of Crete.

Aegina (;-Aígina ) is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, from Athens.

As an offshore financial centre, the British Virgin Islands enjoys one of the more prosperous economies of the Caribbean region, with a per capita average income of around $ 38, 500 ( 2004 est.

The economy of the British Virgin Islands is one of the most prosperous in the Caribbean.

* British people, Britons, or Brits, subjects of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants

The area is one of the most heavily traveled shipping lanes in the world, with ships crossing through it daily for ports in the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean Islands.

In eight years of active service as an officer, he served two and a half years in a surveying ship in the Mediterranean ( 1818 – 21 ), one and a half years in a surveying sloop in the English Channel and off the coast of Ireland ( 1823 – 24 ), and one and a half years as Surveyor of the frigate during a voyage ( 1824 – 26 ) to and from the Hawaiian Islands ( then known as the " Sandwich islands ").

The Cook Islands are one of four New Zealand dependencies, along with Tokelau, Niue and the Ross Dependency.

Britain was one of the places proposed for the Cassiterides, that is Tin Islands.

Parton continued to make inroads on the pop charts as well with a re-recorded version of " I Will Always Love You " from the feature film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ) scraping the Top 50 that year and her duet with Kenny Rogers, " Islands in the Stream " ( written by the Bee Gees and produced by Barry Gibb ), spent two weeks at number one in 1983.

Ecuador is divided into three continental regions — the Costa ( coast ), Sierra ( mountains ), and Oriente ( east )— and one insular region, the Galápagos Islands ( officially Archipiélago de Colón ).

The Ecuadorian Naval-Zone became one and measures, of the Pacific Coast and 6, 720 km < sup > 2 </ sup > of the Pacific Ocean, ( including the Galápagos Islands ).

The independence movement dissolved on the one hand while Denmark found itself left with the Faroe Islands ' unpaid bills on the other.

As of October 25, 2007, the Faroe Islands became one electoral district.

After the severe economic troubles of the early 1990s, brought on by a drop in the vital fish catch and poor management of the economy, the Faroe Islands have come back in the last few years, with unemployment down to 5 % in mid-1998, and holding below 3 % since 2006, one of the lowest rates in Europe.

Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, an island arc with an estimated area of 14, 300 km² extending east from the Java island of Indonesia.

Fuerteventura () is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa, politically part of Spain.

The history of the modern Federated States of Micronesia is one of settlement by Micronesians ; colonization by Spain, Germany, and Japan ; United Nations trusteeship under United States-administered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ; and gradual independence beginning with the ratification of a sovereign constitution in 1979.

Micronesia was one of ten Pacific countries to send a government member to the first Cuba-Pacific Islands ministerial meeting, held in Havana in September 2008.

Most are native to the Northern Hemisphere, but one subfamily is endemic to the Neotropics, one to the Hawaiian Islands, and one subfamily – monotypic at genus level – is found only in the Palaearctic.