It is the island's largest commercial centre and home to the Cape Breton Post daily newspaper, as well as one television station, CJCB-TV ( CTV ), and several radio stations.

Most tourist activity is centered on the island's northern coast, including the communities of Montego Bay, Ocho Rios, and Port Antonio, as well as in Negril on the island's western tip.

Because of the intensive exploitation throughout Taiwan's pre-modern and modern history, the island's mineral resources ( e. g. coal, gold, marble ), as well as wild animal reserves ( e. g. deer ), have been virtually exhausted.

Concerns were that mining for the suspected $ 4. 3 billion in mineral worth in the area would damage both the conservation land as well as the island's tourism economy.

It is well known for its summer club parties which attract large numbers of tourists, but the island's government and the Spanish Tourist Office have been working to promote more family-oriented tourism.

This is largely because, with close to 300, 000 visitors a year, allowing car rental on one of the world's most densely populated islands would quickly bring traffic to a standstill, as well as bankrupt the island's taxi industry.

After this fails, he promises to take Jane home if she will help him find the island's treasure ( which leads to his taste for loopholes being made a comical trait as well ).

The University of Puerto Rico at Humacao, formerly the CUH, educates over 4, 000 students and is well known for its sciences, producing many of the island's most skilled microbiologists, marine biologists, wildlife biologists and chemists at the undergraduate level.

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.

There are ten major fishing grounds around Matinicus Isle that the island's fishermen and Vinalhaven fishermen have used for centuries to capture such groundfish as cod, haddock, pollock, and cusk as well as lobsters.

Despite limited facilities, the island's athletics club ( North Uist Amateur Athletics Club ) has performed well at local, regional and national athletics competitions.

Kyrenia castle played a pivotal role in the island's history during the many disputes among the Frankish kings, as well as the conflicts with the Genoese.

The island's coastline is characterized by a number of small bays, as well as Lundarviga.

Cousteau did not visit the island for the first time until the late 1960s, years after the island's dive industry was well established.

The history of the foundation of this party goes back to the 1980 election in Puerto Rico, when the pro-statehood party ( in favor of making Puerto Rico the 51st state of the United States ), barely retained the governorship and the Resident Commissioner position, while losing control of the Puerto Rico Senate and the Puerto Rico House of representatives, as well as a majority of the island's 78 municipalities.

The growing population of British and other expatriates has led to demographic as well as political changes, since EU citizens are allowed to vote in local elections and have attempted to exert influence on the island's politics.

The British military performed drills to both provide security for the island's population, as well as intimidate slaves.

The island's only commercial airport, Ronaldsway Airport is just over one mile northeast of the town and is served by both Bus Vannin and Castletown Railway Station as well as local taxi services.

It is situated on a peninsula in the south of New Caledonia's main island, Grande Terre, and is home to the majority of the island's European, Polynesian ( Wallisians, Futunians, Tahitians ), Indonesian, and Vietnamese populations, as well as many Melanesians, Ni-Vanuatu and Kanaks that work in one of the South Pacific's most industrialised cities.

Additionally, there are sacred concerts in all four of the island's historic churches, as well as many smaller concerts and Master Classes.

She was one of the last, most powerful and significant Sardinian judges, as well as the island's most renowned heroine.

It is linked to the mainland by the Maurice O ' Neill Memorial bridge at Portmagee, as well as by a car ferry which sails from Reenard Point to Knightstown, the island's main settlement.

When word gets around that David suspects Manfred of killing Mrs. Capon as well, Manfred tries to pummel him, but is stopped by Mr. Hulligan, the island's caretaker.

Its founding members were Kieren Keke ( a medical doctor ), David Adeang ( a legal counsel and former finance minister ), Marlene Moses ( former health minister ), Roland Kun ( director of the island's fisheries ), Sean Oppenheimer ( manager of Capelle's, the country's largest private enterprise ), who has since resigned from the party due to death threats, and Sprent Dabwido ( an insurance worker ).

In the United States, it was a controversial battle because of the island's questionable strategic value and the high casualty rate, which was the highest for U. S. military personnel of any battle in the Pacific War.

Some of the island's mountainous terrain as viewed from Snaefell, the island's highest peak.

Madagascar's highest peaks rise from three prominent highland massifs: Maromokotro on the Tsaratanana Massif is the island's highest point, followed by Boby Peak on the Andringitra Massif and Tsiafajavona on the Ankaratra Massif.

A July 2012 assessment found that exploitation of natural resources since the 2009 coup have had dire consequences for the island's wildlife: 90 percent of lemur species were found to be threatened with extinction, the highest proportion of any mammalian group.

The highest of the island's many mountains, at, is the famous volcano Mount Pelée.

The Western Sakhalin Mountains peak in Mount Ichara,, while the Eastern Sakhalin Mountains's highest peak, Mount Lopatin, is also the island's highest mountain.

The so called Uwe-Düne ( Uwe Dune ) is the island's highest elevation with 52. 5 m above sea level.

OS Triangulation Pillar at the island's highest point The island is long by wide, rising to a height of above sea level at " The Glaidstone "-a large, naturally occurring rock perched on the highest summit on the island.

These occurs perhaps most notably in the area surrounding Bell Bay-where the island's highest waterfall, Horse Falls, plunges over the old sea cliffs.

Among her TV jobs as a show host, Malaret worked on the Noche de Gala, ( Gala Night Ball ) show with Eddie Miró, one of the island's highest rated TV shows during the 1970s, and 1980s, broadcasted by Telemundo.

Mount Maria is the island's highest peak at 711 metres and is approximately a six-hour return walk.

The island's highest point reaches or ( the unclimbed Brown Peak ).

The island is of volcanic origin and roughly circular ; it is about in diameter and rises to 1487 m ( nearly 5000 feet ) at the island's highest peak, Garajonay.

* Fortress of Monte Cristo on the island's highest peak ( 645 m )

The island's highest point, at the highest point on the eastern seaboard of the United States, bears the name Cadillac Mountain, and is notable for the fact that its summit is among the first points in the United States touched by the rays of the rising sun.

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.

At the northern tip of the island lies North Hill, the island's highest point and an RSPB nature reserve.

With a height of 756 m, Mount Strzelecki in the south west is the island's highest peak.

Mouth of Idian Cave, CreteCrete's Mount Ida is the island's highest summit, sacred to the Goddess Rhea, and wherein lies the legendary cave in which baby Zeus was concealed from his father Cronus.