Archipelagos are often volcanic, forming along island arcs generated by subduction zones or hotspots, but may also be the result of erosion, deposition and land elevation.

* Singer James Kilbane, also known for his research on traditional Achill watercraft, lives on the island.

The Amazons are also said to have undertaken an expedition against the island of Leuke, at the mouth of the Danube, where the ashes of Achilles had been deposited by Thetis.

For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia ; and the inhabitants of it — they add — preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon.

It is also the first known European record ( in chapter 38 ) that mentions Vinland ( Winland ) island ( insula ), a land centuries later possibly identified as Newfoundland, Canada, North America, as well as dog-headed people in Scandinavia.

These breeds are now extinct in England, and the goats surviving in a sanctuary on the island are now also bred in other parts of New Zealand and in the northern hemisphere.

Aeacus ( also spelled Eacus, ) was a mythological king of the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf.

Aeacus was also believed by the Aeginetans to have surrounded their island with high cliffs to protect it against pirates.

The island first attracted the notice of archaeologists by the remarkable archaic Greek bronzes found in a cave on Mount Ida in 1885, as well as by epigraphic monuments such as the famous law of Gortyna ( also called Gortyn ).

They had also threatened to leave the island en masse with the commissioner, unless the captain avenged their wrongs.

According to what Aleut people told Japanese castaways, otters were decreasing year by year and their share in return of furs they made also were decreasing as Russian ships stopped coming to the island.

He might also have been influenced by the name of a legendary island mentioned in The Natural History by Pliny the Elder.

The island is also believed to be a rest stop for arctic-breeding shorebirds.

It also refers to Bornholm Regional Municipality, the municipality () which covers the entire island.

Tacitus reports that before their arrival the area had been " an uninhabited district on the extremity of the coast of Gaul, and also of a neighbouring island, surrounded by the ocean in front, and by the river Rhine in the rear and on either side " ( Tacitus, Historiae iv. 12 ).

The shoals were also protected by a small fort situated on an island among the rocks.

The Baltic island of Gotland was also in a better strategic position for Russian-Byzantine trade, and was gaining eminence as a mercantile stronghold.

They also have a dispute over an island at the mouth of the Ntem River.

It also has flights four times weekly from Lisbon to Francisco Mendes the recently opened airport at Praia on Santiago island and four times weekly from Lisbon to Amílcar Cabral International Airport on Sal island.

A river island between the two towns is under Croatian control, but is also claimed by Bosnia.

The local Indian population left their mark also on the language with some 400 Taíno terms and place-names of the island.

The island is located east-northeast of the mainland with its northern and western coasts fronting on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence ; its western coast also forming the eastern limits of the Northumberland Strait.

Known as " Île Royale " to the French, the island also saw active settlement by France.

The primary east-west road on the island is Highway 105, the Trans-Canada Highway, although Trunk 4 is also heavily used.

While having fully developed tourist facilities, the island has not experienced the overdevelopment found on some other islands and consequently caters for visitors attracted by its rugged natural beauty.

In the 1640s many people were attracted to Jamaica, which had a reputation for stunning beauty, not only in reference to the island but also to the natives.

From his experiments, he concluded that the Earth was itself magnetic and that this was the reason compasses pointed north ( previously, some believed that it was the pole star ( Polaris ) or a large magnetic island on the north pole that attracted the compass ).

According to most accounts, the sailors were attracted to the idyllic life on the Pacific island of Tahiti and were further motivated by harsh treatment from their captain.

Early French settlers, immigrating mostly from the Normandy and Poitou regions in France, were attracted to the island because of its fertile soil.

The island was colonized at an early date by Phoenicians, attracted probably by its gold mines ; they founded a temple to the god Melqart, whom the Greeks identified as " Tyrian Heracles ", and whose cult was merged with Heracles in the course of the island's Hellenization.

The island first attracted the notice of archaeologists by the remarkable archaic Greek bronzes found in a cave on Mount Ida in 1885, as well as by epigraphic monuments such as the famous law of Gortyna.

The remainder of the island was developed beginning in the late 1930s ; a pavilion attracted people from nearby Southport and people hunted foxes in the northern area near the Intracoastal Waterway.

The tiny island community has attracted the attention of linguists because its people speak a unique English Restoration-era dialect of American English.

The tiny island community has attracted the attention of linguists because its people speak a unique English Restoration-era dialect of American English.

A Norwegian, Alf Ellingsen, was also attracted by the island, defeating a defending fleet of 30 vessels to raid Møn and other islands during the reign of Erik Glipping ( 1259 – 1286 ).

From these experiments, he concluded that the Earth was itself magnetic and that this was the reason compasses point north ( previously, some believed that it was the pole star ( Polaris ) or a large magnetic island on the north pole that attracted the compass ).

Recently there has been substantial immigration to the island from neighboring Latin American and Caribbean nations, attracted by the lure of well-paying jobs.

Among the participants in the experiment is Mrs. Joyce Lanyon ( Myrna Loy ), a New Yorker stranded on the island who is attracted to Arrowsmith.

The origins of the Tiger Snake colony has attracted significant debate and research into how that species has adapted to a harsh island habitat.

The coves around the island are visited by snorkelers attracted by the abundant sea life, including sea lions, spiny lobsters, hydrocoral and kelp forests.

With Batam island receiving most of the industrial investments and dramatically developing into a regional industrial center, it attracted hundreds of thousands of non-Malay Indonesian migrants, changing forever the demographic balance in the archipelago.

They are attracted by the unique flora and fauna in the waters surrounding this island and its underwater landscape.

In 2010, the island attracted a capacity crowd of over 2000 campers to view NYE fireworks.

Since Victorian times, the picturesque character of Cemaes and the natural beauty of the island has attracted many artists.

Though the island attracted attention for development and planning only in recent years, Singaporean visitors have been visiting Pulau Ubin for summer camps and outdoor activities for many years.

He may have been attracted there for historical reasons-in 1794 Napoleon had been imprisoned in Fort Carré, and in 1815, returning from exile on Elba in 1815 he had come ashore at Golfe-Jouan ,- and the island of Sainte-Marguerite where the Man in the Iron Mask was imprisoned 1686-1698, was a little out to sea.

A large proportion of the housing stock are holiday homes, with both native islanders and their descendants, as well as non locals, being attracted to the beauty of the island.