The island's main access point from the mainland is the Interstate Highway 45 causeway that crosses West Bay on the northeast side of the island.

The last deaf person born into the island's sign language tradition, Katie West, died in 1952, but a few elderly residents were able to recall MVSL as recently as the 1980s when research into the language began.

* West Tisbury is the island's agricultural center, and hosts the beloved MV Agricultural Fair in late August each year.

* Hollum, the most populated village, located at the West Coast, home to the island's lighthouse

West of the town, beyond the summit of the island known as Vigla ( 270 m ), stands Paleokastro ( old castle ), the island's ancient acropolis.

The last deaf person born into the island's sign language tradition, Katie West, died in 1952.

The highest points are Flaughton Hill at the island's centre, Fersness Hill at West Side, Vinquoy Hill to the north and Ward Hill to the south, which reaches.

John Simonton spent the winter in Key West and the summer in Washington, where he lobbied hard for the development of the island and to establish a naval base on the island, both to take advantage of the island's strategic location and to bring law and order to the town.

After their purchase of the island, and taking into account the poor and dilapidated nature of the island's infrastructure, presently Skokholm may only be visited by prior arrangement with the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales.

A bronze axe head was discovered on the island in 1988, between the island's modern lone farmhouse and West Beach, at.

The island's main access point from the mainland is the Interstate Highway 45 causeway that crosses West Bay on the northeast side of the island.

He was a proponent of the island's participation in the Federation of the West Indies but bowed to pressure to hold a referendum in 1961 which resulted in Jamaica withdrawing from the union.

The main strip of the island is the coastal beach town of West End which also doubles as the island's main tourism hub and its center for diving.

Mid-Island communities thus include Graniteville, Bulls Head, Willowbrook, and New Springville, Sometimes the localities situated along the Arthur Kill between the Staten Island Expressway and the Fresh Kills — Bloomfield, Chelsea and Travis — are said to be on the island's West Shore ; otherwise they too would fall within Mid-Island as their zip code is 10314.

Some local geographers classify Travis as being on the island's West Shore, while others reckon it as a Mid-Island neighborhood.

) The West Shore Plaza was also built into this area with the island's only Burlington Coat Factory ( before this, it was a flea market, Bradlee's Store and Caldor before that ) as the anchor store.

Strange — though not necessarily unpleasant — odors often waft across the Arthur Kill, and affect air quality not only on Staten Island's West Shore where Travis is located, but parts of the island's South Shore and Mid-Island regions as well.

Wild Turkeys appeared on and near the grounds of this facility in the 1990s, and have since multiplied and spread to other Staten Island neighborhoods, having been sighted as far away as West Brighton on the island's central North Shore.

The island's position in the center of the Mediterranean made it a strategically crucial gateway between East and West, especially as the Barbary Corsairs increased their forays into the western Mediterranean throughout the 1540s and 1550s.

Following a revolt by the island's Greeks, in 963 – 965 a Byzantine expeditionary force recovered Taormina, but a heavy Byzantine defeat by the Fatimids at the Straits of Messina in 965 curbed Byzantine naval activity in the West.

The location is ideal, as it is the congregation of the island's 4 main thoroughfares ( West to Sandy Point, East to Cayon, North to Monkey Hill, and South to the South East Peninsula ).

Due to its close proximity to the capital city, Basseterre, yet away from the bustle, the parish has recently become a top-notch choice for the island's wealthy to reside, mainly in the high-price communities of Mattingley, Hummingbird and West Farm.

The Kiadilt clan arrived more recently ( 1947 ) from nearby Bentinck Island, when that island's water supply was contaminated by salt after a cyclone.

Philippe Allonneau the French representative even succeeded in being recognized as King of Espiritu Santo by the island's tribal chiefs.

The island's chiefs began to extend their power through trade with their Indian Ocean neighbours, notably East Africa, the Middle East and India.

As the traditional fiefdom of the Tui Cakau, one of Fiji's highest-ranked chiefs, Somosomo is regarded as the capital of the Tovata Confederacy, while Naqara, an Indo-Fijian settlement, is the island's commercial centre.

The final Arawak migrants, the Caribs, began moving up the Lesser Antilles in the 12th century, and were raiding Taíno villages on the island's eastern coast by the late sixteenth century.

Initially inhabited by Micronesian and Polynesian peoples, Nauru was annexed by Germany in the late 19th century, and extraction of the island's phosphate began in 1906.

By the turn of the 18th to 19th century, the highly populous Kingdom of Imerina, located in the central highlands with its capital at Antananarivo, began to exert its authority over the island's other polities and populations.

The French began their colonization with a series of skirmishes that virtually exterminated the island's native Carib population.

In 2001, the government began taking steps to amend Bermuda's constitution in order to abolish the island's system of parish-based, dual-seat constituencies which favored voters in parishes of small, predominantly white populations.

This sandy core began to erode as it was exposed to a strong current along the island's steep basement when the sea level rose 8000 years ago.

Hall of Fame baseball player Ted Williams began visiting Islamorada in 1943 and for the next 45 years was the island's most well known resident.

So began the island's 250-year aura of insularity and frontier violence.

In 1830, John Clemons and his brother began mining the island's limestone, and opened its first quarry.

Shortly afterwards, brothers Datus and Irad Kelley became aware of the island's potential worth, and slowly began purchasing its land in parcels.

The brothers quickly began improving and expanding the island's docks to export limestone, fruit, and red cedar lumber.

Rosselló began his political career in 1988 when he ran for the post of Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, ( the island's non-voting observer / representative in the United States Congress ) losing to incumbent Jaime Fuster of the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ).

In 1853, he returned to Puerto Rico and began working as a professor at the island's School of Commerce and the Seminario Concilar.

He began writing several documents containing strong criticism towards the colonial government and wrote a report listing the elements that he felt were being used by the administration that were affecting the island's social and economic aspects.

Cofresí felt that the Spaniards were oppressing the Puerto Ricans in their " own home " and he began assaulting Spanish ships along with the American and English vessels that were being used to export the island's resources, gold in particular.

In 1952, BEA began replacing Dragon Rapides with Pionairs across its Scottish network ; however, the pre-war de Havilland biplanes continued serving Barra as no other contemporary type in BEA's fleet could take off from and land on the island's beach airstrip.

In late 2006 planning began for the installment of a roundabout, along the main boulevard and next to the Free Zone, at one of the island's most troublesome intersections. The plans were completed in 2008.

With the announcement of the Coast Guard base closure and departure, city and state officials along with private developers and civic planners began to offer opinions and ideas on the island's future that included housing, parks, education and private development.

The island's association with Mormonism began with the death of Joseph Smith, founder of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

" As the Spanish Empire had lost much of its power, a no-transfer policy began with Jefferson whereby the U. S. respected Spanish sovereignty, considering the island's eventual absorption inevitable, so long as control did not pass to a stronger power such as Britain or France.

With this knowledge of the plans General Freyberg began to prepare the island's defences, hampered by a lack of modern and heavy equipment as the troops from Greece had in most cases had to leave only with their personal weapons.

The island's security cordon was enhanced when the Governor of Georgia declared a state of emergency in six counties, which began on May 25, 2004 to deal with the potential danger of violence or damage by demonstrators during the Group of 8 economic summit.