** Vitu Islands

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Garove ( Vitu, or Big Witu ) and Unea ( Bali ) are the largest islands.

In German times prior to World War I this was-outside of Kokopo, at Rabaul-the stamping ground and major enterprise of the American-Samoan, Queen Emma, whose island group H / Q was Langu plantation, Vitu, and whose manager, a Dane named Peter Hansen, became quite famous for his retinue of concubines, some 26 in number, this the more surprising as the male: female birth ratio in Vitu proper was of the order of 103 males: 100 females post-weaning.

Wituland ( also Witu, Vitu, Witu Protectorate or Swahililand ) was a territory of approximately in East Africa centered on the town of Witu just inland from Indian Ocean port of Lamu north of the mouth of the Tana River in what is now Kenya.

In honour of St. Vitus, the official patronal saint as well as a native of Mazara del Vallo, the St. Vitus Feast ( Lu Fistinu di Santu Vitu ) is held every year.

* Vitu, Legitime defense et infraction d ' imprudence, Revue de Science Criminelle, 1987, 865.

In addition, it supported core Meso-Melanesian ( adding St Matthias ), excluding Southeast Solomonic and Vitu – Bali, at an 84 % confidence level.

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

The Banda Islands () are a volcanic group of ten small volcanic islands in the Banda Sea, about south of Seram Island and about east of Java, and are part of the Indonesian province of Maluku.

Camille Pissarro () ( 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903 ) was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas ( now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies ).

The armed forces of the Kingdom of Denmark, known as the Danish Defence () is charged with the defence of Denmark and its overseas territories, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

The history of the Falkland Islands () goes back at least five hundred years, with active exploration and colonisation only taking place in the 18th century.

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

Kingman Reef () is a largely submerged, uninhabited triangular shaped reef, east-west and north-south, located in the North Pacific Ocean, roughly half way between the Hawaiian Islands and American Samoa at.

English: Republic of the Marshall Islands (); Marshallese: Aolepān Aorōkin M ̧ ajeļ ()

A line from the estuary of the River Rovuma () to Ras Habu, the Northern point of Ile Grande Comore, the Northern of the Comore ( Comoro ) Islands, to Cap d ' Ambre ( Amber ) the Northern extremity of Madagascar ().

The Paracel Islands, also called Xisha Islands () in Chinese and Hoàng Sa Islands ( Quần đảo Hoàng Sa ) in Vietnamese, is a group of islands whose ownership is disputed by China, Vietnam and Taiwan, however is currently under the administration of Hainan Province within the People's Republic of China.

Pitcairn Islands as a group of islands ()

The South Georgia Group () lies about east-southeast of the Falkland Islands, at 54 °– 55 ° S, 36 °– 38 ° W.

The Islands ' highest point is Mount Belinda () on Montagu Island.

The Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of 1954 () is the current Organic Act defining the government of the United States Virgin Islands acquired by the Treaty of the Danish West Indies of 1916.

It replaced the Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of 1936 () and the earlier temporary provisions ().

It was subsequently amended by () which prohibited political or religious tests but required a loyalty oath as qualification to any office or public trust, by the Virgin Islands Elective Governor Act () which made the Governor an elected office, by (), and by (), which removed the reight to indictment for certain crimes and removed the jurisdiction of the admiralty courts.

A line running from Oedjong Raja () in Sumatra to Poeloe Bras ( Breuëh ) and on through the Western Islands of the Nicobar Group to Sandy Point in Little Andaman Island, in such a way that all the narrow waters appertain to the Burma Sea.

Formentera () is the smaller and more southerly island of the Pitiusic Islands group ( comprising Ibiza and Formentera, as well as various small islets ), which belongs to the Balearic Islands autonomous community ( Spain ).

Majuro () ( Marshallese:, ), is a large coral atoll of 64 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands.

The Sea of Okhotsk () is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaidō to the south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a long stretch of eastern Siberian coast ( including the Shantar Islands ) along the west and north.

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.

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.