Caymanian folklore explains that the island's first inhabitants were a Welshman named Walters ( or Watler ) and his companion named Bawden ( or Bodden ), who first arrived in Cayman in 1658 after serving in Oliver Cromwell's army in Jamaica.

Marconi's contributions to Cape Breton Island were also quite significant as he used the island's geography to his advantage in transmitting the first North American trans-Atlantic radio message from a station constructed at Table Head in Glace Bay to a receiving station at Poldhu in Cornwall, England.

It was first produced in 1772 by an English merchant, John Woodhouse, as an inexpensive substitute for sherry and port, and gets its name from the island's port, Marsala.

His five seasons in Newfoundland produced the first large-scale and accurate maps of the island's coasts ; they also gave Cook his mastery of practical surveying, achieved under often adverse conditions, and brought him to the attention of the Admiralty and Royal Society at a crucial moment both in his career and in the direction of British overseas discovery.

In an attempt to attract settlers from Ireland, in one of his first acts ( 1770 ) Patterson led the island's colonial assembly to rename the island " New Ireland ", but the British Government promptly vetoed this as exceeding the authority vested in the colonial government ; only the Privy Council in London could change the name of a colony.

In 1522 he participated in the Siege of Rhodes against the Knights of St. John, which ended with the island's surrender to the Ottomans on 25 December 1522 and the permanent departure of the Knights from Rhodes on 1 January 1523 ( the Knights relocated first ( briefly ) to Sicily and later ( permanently ) to Malta ).

The first non-Spanish settlement attempt in the Caribbean occurred on Saint Kitts, when French Huguenot refugees from the fishing town of Dieppe established a town on a harbour on the island's north coast, which they also named Dieppe, in 1538.

The first such establishment in the Western Hemisphere, the Bath Hotel was constructed over the site of one of the island's famous hot springs.

There is evidence to suggest that these first inhibitors called the island Iouanalao, which meant ' Land of the Iguanas ', due to the island's high number of iguanas.

Money was introduced the following year, as was the island's first newspaper, The Tristan Times.

Possibly the only Shrovetide Carnival in the United Kingdom is celebrated in Cowes and East Cowes on the Isle of Wight ; it is the first Carnival on the island's long and busy calendar.

Two years later, in 1612, the Virginia Company's Royal Charter was officially extended to include the island, and a party of 60 settlers was sent, under the command of Sir Richard Moore, the island's first governor.

Drygalski also paid a brief call to Heard Island and provided the first comprehensive scientific information on the island's geology, flora and fauna.

The island's West clan chiefs began to extend their power through trade with their Indian Ocean neighbors, first with Arab, Persian and Somali traders who connected Madagascar with East Africa, the Middle East and India, and later with European slave traders.

The rise of centralized kingdoms among the Sakalava, Merina and other ethnic groups produced the island's first standing armies, first equipped with spears, but later with muskets, cannons and other firearms.

The building was also used as the island's first hotel.

The first European known to visit Sakhalin was Martin Gerritz de Vries, who mapped Cape Patience and Cape Aniva on the island's east coast in 1643.

Naxos was the first Greek City-State to attempt to leave from the Delian League circa 476 BC ; Athens quickly squashed the notion and forcibly removed all military naval vessels from the island's control.

As a magazine editor, Malaret founded Imagen in 1986, the island's first and most important women's magazines.

The island's first ranger was Rex Gatenby.

The town is above the treeline, and there is a small herd of 120 bison ( first introduced in the 1930s ) which provides some meat for the island's inhabitants.

The island's first and primary ferry line is the Steamship Authority, which runs to and from Woods Hole, New Bedford, and Nantucket Island ( in the summer months from the Oak Bluffs terminal ), all in Massachusetts.

* The Cordillera Central ( also called Sierra del Cibao ) is the island's most rugged and imposing feature and is known in Haiti as the Massif du Nord (" Northern Massif ").

In the 1760s, after some pirates were hanged from one of the island's scrubby trees, it became known as Gibbet Island.

On 20 January 2009, an umbrella group of approximately fifty labour union and other associations known in the local Antillean Creole as the Liyannaj Kont Pwofitasyon ( LKP ) led by Élie Domota called for a € 200 ($ 260 USD ) monthly pay increase for the island's low income workers.

The Duchess was dead at the time of the island's sighting by Cook, but Cook had set out from England in 1772 and could not have known of her May 1773 death.

The best known and most spectacular of the island's archaeological sites is the complex of Midhowe broch and Midhowe Chambered Cairn.

Sumatra was known in ancient times by the Sanskrit names of Swarnadwīpa (" Island of Gold ") and Swarnabhūmi (" Land of Gold "), because of the gold deposits of the island's highland.

Although much of Zanzibar's African population came from the mainland, one group known as Shirazis traces its origins to the island's early Persian settlers.

A natural column of rock on the island's coast resembles a human figure and is known as " the Stone Sentry " or " Pope's Rock.

The island's mastic production is controlled by a co-operative of medieval villages, collectively known as the ' Mastichochoria ' ( Μαστιχοχώρια ), which are also located in the southern part of Chios.

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.

The island's east coast includes a territory known as the Carib Territory that was granted to the people by the British Crown in 1903.

The island's most famous site is the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Greek Hieron ton Megalon Theon ; the most famous artifact of which is the 2. 5-metre marble statue of Nike, now known as the Winged Victory of Samothrace, dating from about 190 BC.

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.

They are known for hosting the island's annual Blessing of the Shrimp Fleet.

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.

Originally known as Island Number 6 and later Cunningham Island, it was renamed in 1840 for brothers Datus and Irad Kelley, who were largely responsible for cultivatating the island's quarrying, logging and winemaking industries.

Møn is known for its natural beauty, sandy beaches, fresco-decorated churches, Stone Age and Bronze Age passage graves and monuments, and Møns Klint (" The White Cliffs of Møn "), the island's most popular attraction.

Currently, Vigoreaux is one of the hosts of El Bayú, one of Puerto Rico's longest running morning radio programs ( aired on the island's Cadena Salsoul radio network ), along with merengue singer Giselle, and disc jockey Jorge Pabón, also known as " El Molusco ".

Puerto Galera's beaches are the island's most known tourist attraction and are widely visited.

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 presence of the Allies later contributed to the island's diving tourism, as the United States dumped most of their equipment and refuse at what is now known as ' Million Dollar Point '.

It was originally named Islets à Goyaves (" Islet of Guavas ") until the beginning of the 18th century, when the name was changed to Fontaines Bouillantes after the island's hot springs that were known for their therapeutic virtues.

Until Europeans first settled the islands in the sixteenth century the Mascarenes are not known to have harboured any human populations, so much of the island's wildlife, which would have gone extinct much earlier had any native people lived there, was still flourishing during the early days of settlement.