Teeth again flashing back at me, the driver released a deluge of Spanish in which `` amigo '' appeared every so often like an island in the stormy waves of surrounding sound.

Cartier Island Marine Reserve includes the entire sand cay of Cartier Island, the reef surrounding it, the ocean for a radius around the island, and below the seafloor.

The eldest of these, Atlas, was made rightful king of the entire island and the ocean ( called the Atlantic Ocean in his honor ), and was given the mountain of his birth and the surrounding area as his fiefdom.

The narrow fringing reef surrounding the island can be a maritime hazard, so there is a day beacon near the old village site.

" The inhabitants today do not rely on the island and the surrounding waters for sustenance.

The shallow reef shelf surrounding the island on the ocean side offers no ocean-side anchorage.

However, most of its surrounding island nations have no militaries at all.

For 20 years, the two powers struggled for supremacy in the western Mediterranean Sea, primarily on the Mediterranean island of Sicily and its surrounding waters but also to a lesser extent in the Apennine peninsula and North Africa.

Howland Island National Wildlife Refuge consists of the island and the surrounding of submerged land.

Between these two shelves lie Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara ( also known as the Lesser Sunda Islands ), and the Maluku Islands ( or the Moluccas ), which form a second island group where the surrounding seas in some places reach in depth.

The name is also used for the surrounding island group and the volcano as a whole.

It is also the name of one of the three island groups in the country ( the other two being Luzon and the Visayas ), which consists of the island of Mindanao and smaller surrounding islands.

As the land rebounded from the weight of the ice, the island rose up to elevate it further from the surrounding water.

These island bars became popular as they also allowed staff to serve customers in several different rooms surrounding the bar.

The island contains relatively limited strata of sedimentation surrounding its ancient uplands.

The coastal belt surrounding the island contains a different settlement pattern that has evolved from older fishing villages.

Sicily ( Italian Sicilia ; Sicilian: Sicilia ) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea ; along with surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana ( Sicilian Autonomous Region ).

The contour of the island presents a sharp contrast, from deep seas surrounding the island to a mountainous interior forming a backbone along the narrow peninsulas.

The state includes the island of Tasmania, the 26th largest island in the world, and the surrounding 334 islands.

* the main island Tristan da Cunha and its surrounding islands

With a total area of approximately, the UK occupies the major part of the British Isles archipelago and includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern one-sixth of the island of Ireland and many smaller surrounding islands.

The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica and the ice shelves, waters, and island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence.

Debris from past human occupation is scattered throughout the island and in offshore waters.

Deeper waters separating Borneo from neighboring Sulawesi prevented a land connection to that island, creating the divide between Asian and Australia-New Guinea biological regions known as Wallace's Line.

A crannog (; ; ) is typically a partially or entirely artificial island, usually built in lakes, rivers and estuarine waters of Scotland and Ireland.

In the waters of Deception Pass, just east of the present-day Deception Pass Bridge, is a small island known as Ben Ure Island.

In addition, much of the lagoon waters are protected wetlands as a designated Ramsar site, and large parts of the island are nature preserves.

Fair Isle has been occupied since the Bronze Age which is remarkable because of the lack of raw materials on the island, although it is surrounded by rich fishing waters.

The island was called " Karukera " ( The island of beautiful waters ) by the Arawak people who settled on there in 300 AD / CE.

Regarding the location of Gothiscandza, Jordanes states that one shipload " dwelled in the province of Spesis on an island surrounded by the shallow waters of the Vistula.

The waters around the island are a marine nature reserve owned by Cornwall Wildlife Trust and form part of the Looe Voluntary Marine Conservation Area ( VMCA ).

* Stansbury Peninsula, becomes an island when waters are high, on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake

They named Saint Kitts Liamuiga meaning " fertile island ", and Nevis Oualie meaning " land of beautiful waters ".

In 218 BC, the Carthaginian navy was busy scouting the Sicilian waters and preparing for a surprise attack on their former key stronghold Lilybaeum on the western tip of the island.

Most of their remains were buried at sea near the island of Vido, a small island at the mouth of Corfu port, and a monument of thanks to the Greek nation has been erected at Vido by the grateful Serbs ; consequently, the waters around Vido Island are known by the Serbian people as the Blue Graveyard ( in Serbian, Плава Гробница, Plava Grobnica ), after a poem written by Milutin Bojić following World War I.

If any portion of the waters of the Amazon runs round the southern side of the large island of Marajó into the river Para, it is only through tortuous, natural canals, which are in no sense outflow channels of the Amazon.

Landsat satellite photo of Oder Lagoon-Wolin is the eastern of the two large islands separating the waters of the Lagoon from the Baltic Sea, the western island is Usedom

* North America: Long Island becomes an island when waters break through on the western end to the interior lake.

Monarchs and members of their family have also owned in a private capacity homes and land in Canada: King Edward VIII owned Bedingfield Ranch, near Pekisko, Alberta ; The Marquess of Lorne and Princess Louise owned a cottage on the Cascapédia River in Quebec ; and Princess Margaret owned Portland Island between its gifting to her by the Crown in Right of British Columbia in 1958 and her death in 2002, though she offered it back to the Crown on permanent loan in 1966 and the island and surrounding waters eventually became Princess Margaret Marine Park.

Iony Island is the only island located in open waters and belongs to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Russian Federation.

A small rocky island, appropriately named Kamen Opasnosti ( Russian for " Rock of Danger ") is located in the Russian waters in the northeastern part of the strait.