The municipality of Aegina consists of the island of Aegina and a few offshore islets.

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

* Motocross There are various circuits on the island, including Los Alares in Antigua and Isla de Fuerteventura in Puerto del Rosario municipality.

Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Chios regional unit, which is part of the North Aegean region.

The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Chios ( town ).

As the island is governed as a single municipality, most publications name Saipan as the Commonwealth's capital.

A similar project has been going on since 2004 on Utsira, a small Norwegian island municipality.

The municipality as a whole consists of a peninsula between the Yangtze and Hangzhou Bay, mainland China's second-largest island Chongming, and a number of smaller islands.

The municipality of Thera includes an additional 12 local subdivisions on Santorini island: Akrotiri, Emporio, Episkopis Gonia, Exo Gonia, Imerovigli, Karterados, Megalohori, Mesaria, Pyrgos Kallistis, Thera ( the seat of the municipality ), Vothon, and Vourvoulos.

On 1 January 1964, the island municipality of Grip ( population: 104 ) and the Dale area on Nordlandet island ( population: 963 ) were merged into Kristiansund.

As Sardinia's second most populated city, and the fifth largest municipality in Italy ( 546 km² ), it has a considerable amount of cultural, touristic, commercial and political importance in the island.

The island is part of the Corfu regional unit, and is administered as a single municipality.

The municipality includes the island Corfu and the smaller islands Ereikoussa, Mathraki and Othonoi.

The principal city of the island and seat of the municipality ( pop.

The island ( along with its surrounding islets ) became a separate insular council ( with the same territory as the municipality of the same name ) after 1977 ; before that, it was administered in the former insular council of Ibiza and Formentera ( covering the whole group of the Pitiusic Islands ), but in a separate comarca ( which already covered the current municipality of Formentera ).

North of Formentera is the island of Espalmador ( Illa de s ' Empalmador in Catalan ), which is the second larger island of the municipality, and is itself surrounded by a few minor islets.

At the extreme east of the city and bay is the island of Inhaca. The total area covered by the municipality of Maputo is 346 km² and borders the city of Matola northeast and east, the districts of Marracuene to the north ; Boane in the east and Matutuíne at the south all of which are part of Maputo Province.

It is the largest city in geographical size, and the biggest municipality on the island.

List in the very north of the island constitutes Germany's northernmost municipality, it retained a certain independence due to its remote location and its long-time adherence to the kingdom of Denmark.

The whole island falls under one municipality, which carries the same name.

Frei is a village, island, and former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.

The island of Frei is connected to the city of Kristiansund by the Omsund Bridge, and it is connected to the mainland by the Freifjord Tunnel ( part of the Krifast system ).

The island of Frei has an area of.

The village of Frei ( or Nedre Frei ) is located on the southern end of the island, southwest of Kvalvåg.

The municipality was named after the island of Frei ( Old Norse: Freiðr ).

On 1 January 1964, the northern part of the island of Frei was transferred from Bremsnes to Frei, also the part of Frei on the island of Aspøya ( population: 147 ) was transferred to Tingvoll.

On 1 January 1964, the municipality of Straumsnes ( population: 1, 160 ) and the part of Frei on the island of Aspøya ( population: 147 ) were merged into Tingvoll.

The Battle of Rastarkalv ( Slaget på Rastarkalv ) took place in AD 955 on the island of Frei in the county of Møre og Romsdal, Norway.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

He was born in the small Danish town of Rudkoebing on the island of Langeland in the south-central part of Denmark on August 14, 1777.

One female, collected on an island off the coast of Nicaragua, was gravid and measured 4 feet 8 inches from snout to vent ( her tail should be between 6 and 7 inches long ).

On the second voyage, he had turned back at the frozen island of Novaya Zemlya and meekly given the crew a certificate stating that he did so of his own free will -- which was obviously not the case.

The most infamous of all was launched by the explosion of the island of Krakatoa in 1883 ; ;

She promised that she would soon take a few day's leave and visit the uncle she had never seen, on the island of Oyajima -- which was not very far from Yokosuka.

In association with his birthplace, Mount Cynthus on the island of Delos, Apollo was called Cynthius ( ; Κύνθιος, Kunthios, literally " Cynthian "), Cynthogenes ( ; Κύνθογενης, Kunthogenēs, literally " born of Cynthus "), and Delius ( ; Δήλιος, Delios, literally " Delian ").

In her wanderings, Leto found the newly created floating island of Delos, which was neither mainland nor a real island.

Mythographers agree that Artemis was born first and then assisted with the birth of Apollo, or that Artemis was born one day before Apollo, on the island of Ortygia and that she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birth to Apollo.

The sea was traditionally known as Archipelago ( in Greek, Αρχιπέλαγος, meaning " chief sea "), but in English this word's meaning has changed to refer to the Aegean Islands and, generally, to any island group.

The legend connected with its foundation is given by Peter Damiani in his Life of St Odilo: a pilgrim returning from the Holy Land was cast by a storm on a desolate island.

The first community established by him was at Tabennae, an island of the Nile in Upper Egypt.

‘ … The development of Japan's large northern island had several objectives: First, it was seen as a means to defend Japan from a rapidly developing and expansionist Russia.

In addition to this, the land the Ainu lived on was distributed to the Wajin who had decided to move to Hokkaido, who had been encouraged by the Japanese government of the Meiji era to take advantage of the island ’ s abundance of natural resources, and to create and maintain farms in the model of western industrial agriculture.

The island of Hokkaido was known to the Ainu as Ainu Moshir, and was formally annexed by the Japanese at the late date of 1868, partly as a means of preventing the intrusion of the Russians, and partly for imperialist reasons.

She was banished on Tiberius ’ orders to the island of Pandataria ( now called Ventotene ) in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Campania.

This was the island where her mother was banished.

Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

The identification of Ajax with the family of Aeacus was chiefly a matter which concerned the Athenians, after Salamis had come into their possession, on which occasion Solon is said to have inserted a line in the Iliad ( 2. 557 – 558 ), for the purpose of supporting the Athenian claim to the island.