The United Kingdom has responsibility for all the island's external affairs, including citizenship, the isle's defence, good governance, and foreign relations.

The island's first luxury hotel was built in 1959, giving the fledgling industry a good start.

Visibility is exceptionally good due to the island's geography.

The frigate is located in a sandy area with generally good visibility, approximately 200 m ( 650 feet ) offshore ( a fairly long swim ) from ' Buccaneer ', on the island's north side, near the western tip of the island.

Medina gives the island's dimensions as 87 leagues in length and 28 in width, with " many good ports and rivers ", and says it is situated on the latitude of the Straits of Gibraltar, that sailors have seen it from a distance, but disappears when they approach it.

The island's one desirable feature was a good harbor.

The Dabney family steered the island's economy for 83 years, with good effect on the dynamic growth of the port, the export of oranges, the Verdelho wine from Pico, and the commerce of the whaling industry.

The dispute eventually reached the Supreme Court of the United States, which ruled in 1998 that New Jersey had jurisdiction over all portions of the island created after the original compact was approved ( effectively, more than 80 % of the island's present land ).

The overwhelming Turkish land, naval and air superiority against island's weak defenses led to the bringing of 37 % of the land under Turkish control.

66 % of the island's land is used as such, and the remaining 34 % is used for other purposes.

In 2003 Ravalomanana announced the Durban Vision, an initiative to more than triple the island's protected natural areas to over or 10 percent of Madagascar's land surface.

The island's natural resources are fish and arable land.

This intense land exploitation by the sugar and cotton industry lasted almost 300 years, and greatly changed the island's ecosystem.

" John's Island " in reference to the island's former name of St. John's Island: the English translation of Île Saint Jean ); in Míkmaq as Abegweit or Epekwitk roughly translated " land cradled in the waves ".

The dominance by estate owners of the island's only and extremely limited natural resource, the land, and the single-minded application of that resource to one industry precluded the development of a stable peasant class.

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.

Much of the island's land mass has been lost to erosion, down to about from its original.

The measures have so far cost more than € 134 million in total, but according to scientific calculations they are sufficient to prevent greater loss of land for at least three decades, so the benefits for the island's economic power and for the economically underdeveloped region in general would outweigh the costs.

) who are not land owners but enjoy additional non-recorded income such as room and board in one of the island's mansions.

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

The entire island's land area is 11. 781 km² ( 4. 5487 sq mi ).

The island's seahorse shape is the product of the merging of six large volcanoes into a single land mass.

Heligoland was formerly called Heyligeland, or " holy land ", possibly due to the island's long association with the god Forseti.

Whereas only 25 % of the island's residents originate from Christian tribes in the Visayas and Luzon, this group owns 70 % of the island's arable agricultural land ( private ownership or cooperatives as farmer beneficiaries ).

The island's name derives from pole, the Slavic word for " flat land " or " field ".

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.

The island's relief is spectacular, a 19th-century commentator remarking that " the interior is one heap of rude mountains, scarcely possessing an acre of level land ".

( Most of the population of Rum were tenant farmers, paying rent to the island's owner ; in law they neither owned the land they worked or the houses in which they lived.

In fact there is no evidence of a highly advanced civilisation on what is left of the island's land mass.

The height of Arab rule came during the reign of Sultan Seyyid Said, who moved his capital from Muscat to Zanzibar, established a ruling Arab elite, and encouraged the development of clove plantations, using the island's slave labor.

A heavy French raid in 1706 further complicated the situation, and damaged the island's agriculture extensively.

The island's politicians tried to diversify the economy from just agriculture.

After falling into heavy debt, the Waughs fled to Spain and the island was acquired by creditors and sold in 1873 to George Cavendish-Bentinck who added Jersey cows to Brownsea and expanded the island's agriculture.

The island's main sources of income are tourism, agriculture, and concrete production from locally mined limestone.

Throughout the decade the MPI campaigned against the presence of big US corporations denouncing they hindered the island's development, destroyed native industries and agriculture, and exploited the workers.

However, early settlers quickly converted the forests to rice paddies and grassland through slash-and-burn agriculture ( known locally as tavy ), restricting lemurs to approximately 10 % of the island's area, ~ 60, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 23, 000 sq mi ).

The construction of the port in Praia, and the northern aerodrome, were important in breaking the island's isolation and concentration on agriculture.

The island's economy is based on tourism, fishing, farming and less on agriculture in the plains.

The island's economy is also helped by agriculture and animal husbandry, and fisheries.

Being raised in the country, he developed an intense love for the island's agriculture.

The island's agriculture products include sugar cane, yams, cassava, bananas, mangoes, and grain.

The exportation of many of the island's agriculture products to other islands has been prohibited for nearly two decades because of the millipede ( Spinotarsus caboverdus ) blight, but the government has announced it is going to lift the quarantine.

Plans to build a banana plantation on the island fizzled, but this is likely the origin of the island's name, as in Portuguese, queimada is a name for a slash-and-burn fire ( i. e., to clear land for agriculture ); so, the island's name would mean " the island of the big land-clearing fire.

Fishing was the responsibility of the island's men and agriculture was managed by the women.