Borneo () is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java, Indonesia, at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia.

The main town and administrative centre is Bandanaira, located on the island of the same name.

The main island, Banda Neira ( centre ) viewed from the peak of Gunung Api volcano.

One of the world's larger salt water lakes, Bras d ' Or (" Arm of Gold " in French ), dominates the centre of the island.

In 563 he was granted land on the island of Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, which became the centre of his evangelising mission to the Picts.

The majority of islands are low coral atolls in the Northern Group, with Rarotonga, a volcanic island in the Southern Group, as the main administration and government centre.

* Bornholm Airport ( RNN ) 5 km from the centre of Rønne in the southwest of the island of Bornholm, with several regular flights to Copenhagen a day.

Dublin entered a period of stagnation following the Act of Union of 1800, but it remained the economic centre for most of the island.

The city played no major role in the Industrial Revolution, but remained the centre of administration and a transport hub for most of the island.

The mountainous and most recent part of the island can be found to the west, the centre of which is dominated by Mount Capanne (), also called the " roof of the Tuscan Archipelago ".

On one hand, they perform services for the Autonomous Community, and on the other, they are the local government centre for the island.

The island's largest town and administrative centre is Douglas, the population of which is 23 000, nearly a third of the entire population of the island.

After a journey along the coast, Ibn Battuta next arrived in the island town of Kilwa in present day Tanzania, which had become an important transit centre of the gold trade.

Directly in the centre of the island, between the villages of Avgonyma to the west and Karyes to the east, is the 11th century monastery of Nea Moni, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Others have identified the island as Ictis, the location described by Diodorus Siculus as a centre for the tin trade in pre-Roman Britain.

Colonial interest only increased when petroleum was discovered south of Manama in the centre of the island and first extracted in 1931.

We went towards the centre of this small island where at the foot of a round hill a crystal-clear river rushes forth, dividing up further on into several arms.

As it approaches the city centre it divides into two branches, flowing west and east of Ostrów Tumski ( the cathedral island ) and meeting again further north.

The island of Saint Helena is administratively divided into eight districts, each with a community centre.

After the Kalinago Genocide of 1626, the island was formally partitioned between the English and French, with the French gaining the ends, Capisterre in the North and Basseterre in the south, and the English gaining the centre.

The island soon became a centre of production of tobacco.

The aim was to encourage residential development in other parts of the island and give residents in these new " satellite towns " a convenient link between their homes and their workplaces ( which were mostly situated around the city centre.

The violent eruption was centred on a small island just north of the existing island of Nea Kameni in the centre of the caldera ; the caldera itself was formed several hundred thousand years ago by the collapse of the centre of a circular island, caused by the emptying of the magma chamber during an eruption.

The olfactory lobe is the centre of the sense of smell.

The cerebellum is the centre of muscular coordination.

First a raft is built first, then eggs are laid in the centre, and then a foam cap is placed.

* In the centre of Dooagh is a commemoration plaque to Don Allum, the first man to row across the Atlantic Ocean in both directions.

As South Australia's seat of government and commercial centre, Adelaide is the site of many governmental and financial institutions.

A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely due to the impact of its cultural and political achievements during the 5th and 4th centuries BC in later centuries on the rest of the then known European continent.

A common theory about the building is that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the lance of Saint George ( patron saint of Catalonia, Gaudi's home ), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.

The plain of Idavoll is the centre of Asgard ( Section 14 ).

; Assault on a secure training centre custody officer: This offence is created by section 13 ( 1 ) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 ( c. 33 ).

* God is an intelligible sphere whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

Aachen has a large number of spin-offs from the university's IT-technology department and is a major centre of IT development in Germany.

Aachen is connected to the Autobahn A4 ( West-East ), A44 ( North-South ) and A544 ( a smaller motorway from the A4 to the Europaplatz near the city centre ).

Port Blair is the chief community on the islands, and the administrative centre of the Union Territory.

A 2003 study by TD Bank Financial Group found the corridor is the only Canadian urban centre to amass a U. S. level of wealth while maintaining a Canadian-style quality of life, offering universal health care benefits.

There is, however, in the centre a circular basin occupied by Lake Tsana.

The city centre is laid out on two perpendicular axes: a water axis stretching along Lake Burley Griffin, and a ceremonial land axis stretching from Parliament House on Capital Hill north-eastward along ANZAC Parade to the Australian War Memorial at the foot of Mount Ainslie.

There are seven districts ( with an eighth currently under construction ), each of which is divided into smaller suburbs, and most of which have a town centre which is the focus of commercial and social activities.

At the centre of the Acropolis is the Parthenon or Temple of Athena Parthenos ( Athena the Virgin ).

In spatial planning, Aalen is designated a Mittelzentrum (“ medium-level centre ”).

Aerial view of the district of Unterkochen ( the town centre is partly covered and in the background ), the Aalen lowlands well perceptible in the back

The elevation in the centre of the market square is 430 meters relative to Normalhöhennull.