We gently usher them to an island of tables and chairs strategically placed on the far side of the pool where they can amuse each other until we get ready to merge sides.

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

Bornholm Regional Municipality was not merged with other municipalities on 1 January 2007 as the result of the nationwide Kommunalreformen (" The Municipal Reform " of 2007 ), which is quite understandable, since the island, as can be seen on maps, is quite far from the rest of Denmark.

The island of Sal receives an average of 0. 0mm in May, When the rain come, if it comes, can be very strong.

Many of the Scots who immigrated there were either Roman Catholics or Presbyterians, which can be seen in a number of island landmarks and place names.

The Irish words " Cluan Innish ", which mean " meadow and island ", have been contracted to " Cleenish ", where the remains of the monastery can be seen at Bellanaleck, County Fermanagh.

A large variety of birds includes eagles ( can be seen in Lasithi ), swallows ( throughout Crete but throughout the year in the south of the island ), pelicans ( along the coast ), and cranes ( including Gavdos and Gavdopoula ).

Reptiles and tortoises can be seen throughout the island.

The modern sense of the term first appears sometime around the 12th century ; its popularity spread in the medieval period along with the terms isle, ylle, inis, eilean, oileán There is some confusion on what the term crannog originally referred to, the structure atop the island or the island itself The additional meanings of crannog can be variously related as " structure / piece of wood ; wooden pin ; crow's nest ; pulpit ; driver's box on a coach and vessel / box / chest " for crannóg.

In Indonesia, especially on the island of Java, the sultan's divite right is more commonly known as the wahyu, or ' revelation ', but it is not hereditary, and can be passed on to distant relatives.

The mountainous and most recent part of the island can be found to the west, the centre of which is dominated by Mount Capanne (), also called the " roof of the Tuscan Archipelago ".

1, 200 ) over which island can claim to be Craggy Island, and thereby host a three-day Friends of Ted Festival.

The wind brings in fine white sand, visibility can drop to between or even lower and can even bring African locusts to the island.

The island of Guam can be seen further down the pass into the Philippine Sea, and the pass ends just to the east of New Zealand.

The island is also well known by sea angling enthusiasts and at various times of the years plaice, black bream, mackerel, bass, cod and whiting can be taken.

One potential reason for this is that locals are permitted to start driving at the age of sixteen, when they are limited to 50mph for two years ( indeed all drivers are limited to 50mph in the first two years after passing their driving test ) and some are not used to having to make progress in the same way that drivers using a larger road network like in the UK are ( even an awful driver can get from anywhere in the island to anywhere else in ninety minutes ).

Nonetheless few, if any, can have accumulated so many different names over the centuries as the island now known in English as " Iona ".

A further environment that also served as a living space can still be seen on the island of Hjertoya near Molde, Norway.

It has been hypothesized that this reproductive adaptation allows a single female to enter an isolated ecological niche ( such as an island ) and by parthenogenesis produce male offspring, thereby establishing a sexually reproducing population ( via reproduction with her offspring that can result in both male and female young ).

By staying on the island while it is cut off by the tide tourists can experience the island in a much quieter state, as most day trippers leave before the tide rises.

Finally, she finds an island that isn't attached to the ocean floor so it isn't considered land and she can give birth.

Although the island was ruled as a virtual fiefdom, its owner never claimed to be independent of the United Kingdom, so Lundy can at best be described as a precursor to later territorial micronations.

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 ).

The earliest examples of life-sized statues of Apollo, may be two figures from the Ionic sanctuary on the island of Delos.

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.

In 2001, Yannos Lolos began excavating a Mycenaean palace on the island of Salamis which he supposed to be the home of the mythological Aiacid dynasty.

The story that he himself in his childhood was sent to Ireland to be healed by Saint Modwenna, though mythical, may show Alfred's interest in that island.

The most detailed illustrations are to be found on the ' ship fresco ' at Akrotiri on the island of Thera ( Santorini ) preserved by the ash fall from the volcanic eruption which destroyed the town there.

Unsuccessful attempts at Cnossus were made by both W. J. Stillman and H. Schliemann, and A. J. Evans, coming on the scene in 1893, travelled in succeeding years about the island picking up trifles of unconsidered evidence, which gradually convinced him that greater things would eventually be found.

This island would later be called Aegina.

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

He has said that if stranded on an island with only one programming language it would have to be C.

Major General William Rupertus, USMC — commander of 1st Marine Division — predicted the island would be secured within four days.

:" Furthermore we have been told that there are many more islands in that sea, one of which is called the Great Estland ( Aestland ) -- And this island is told to be quite close to the Woman Land ( terrae feminarum ), which is not far ( non longe ) away from Birka of the Swedes.

Slender beaks were found on the finches which found insects to be the best source of food on the island they inhabited ; their slender beaks allowed the birds to be better equipped for pulling out the insects from their tiny hiding places.

Despite such diversity, it is possible to classify the indigenous people into three major cultural groups: the northern people, who developed rich handicrafts and were influenced by pre-Incan cultures ; the Araucanian culture, who inhabited the area between the river Choapa and the island of Chiloé, and lived primarily off agriculture ; and the Patagonian culture Patagonia composed of various nomadic tribes, who supported themselves through fishing and hunting ( and who in Pacific / Pacific Coast immigration scenario would be descended partly from the most ancient settlers ).

This report urgently recommended eradication of all the rats on the island, so that vegetation might be reduced and the island might return to its " pre-human " state.

Columbus, who was searching for a route to India, believed the island to be a peninsula of the Asian mainland.

" That rich island ," he wrote on 1 December 1881, " the key to the Gulf of Mexico, is, though in the hands of Spain, a part of the American commercial system … If ever ceasing to be Spanish, Cuba must necessarily become American and not fall under any other European domination.

On 6 May 2005, President Fidel Castro reiterated that the island nation would not " be part of a disgraceful institution that has only humiliated the honor of Latin American nations ".

By 2005 the CIRA was believed to be an established presence on the island of Great Britain with the capability of launching attacks.