* Sulawesi, an island in Indonesia, formerly known as the Celebes Islands

The Juan Fernández Islands ( Spanish: Archipiélago Juan Fernández ) are a sparsely inhabited island group reliant on tourism and fishing in the South Pacific Ocean, situated about off the coast of Chile, and is composed of three main volcanic islands ; Robinson Crusoe Island, Alejandro Selkirk Island and Santa Clara Island, the first two being formerly called Más Adentro and Más Afuera respectively.

The text of the Constitution of Ireland, as originally enacted in 1937, made reference in its controversial Articles 2 and 3 to two geopolitical entities: a thirty-two county ' national territory ' ( i. e., the island of Ireland ), and a twenty-six county ' state ' formerly known as the Irish Free State.

The island ( s ) of Miquelon-Langlade consists of three formerly separate islands Miquelon ( 110 km² ), Langlade ( 91 km² ) and Le Cap.

Sri Lanka, formerly called Ceylon, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, located in Southern Asia, southeast of India, in a strategic location near major Indian Ocean sea lanes.

Santorini is essentially what remains after an enormous volcanic explosion that destroyed the earliest settlements on a formerly single island, and created the current geological caldera.

Sulawesi ( formerly known as Celebes or ) is one of the four larger Sunda Islands of Indonesia and the world's eleventh-largest island.

Lazaretto Island, formerly known as Aghios Dimitrios, is located two nautical miles northeast of Corfu ; the island has an area of 17. 5 acres and comes under the administration of the Greek National Tourist Organization.

The western half of the island, formerly Dutch and now part of Indonesia, was never part of either territory.

Mozia ( Sicilian: Mozzia ) is a small island, formerly known as Motia and San Pantaleo in the Trapani province, in Sicily, Italy, lies in the Stagnone Lagoon, and is generally included as a part of the comune of Marsala.

Pohnpei " upon ( pohn ) a stone altar ( pei )" ( formerly known as Ponape ) is the name of an island of the Senyavin Islands which are part of the larger Caroline Islands group.

The island was formerly reachable only by boat from Ibiza, making it the quieter of the two islands, but in recent years regular passenger service from the Spanish mainland has increased tourism.

Île de Ré ( formerly also Île de Rhé, Île de Rhéa or Île de Rhea-in English Isle of Rhé ) is an island off the west coast of France near La Rochelle, on the northern side of the Pertuis d ' Antioche strait.

The nearby island of Vilingili, formerly a tourist resort and prior to that a prison, is the fifth division ( Vilimalé ).

The island was formerly served by Alaska Airlines from Anchorage, Petropavlovsk and Magadan.

, formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second largest island ; it is also the largest and northernmost of Japan's 47 prefectures.

Bacan ( formerly Bachan, Bachian or Batchian, Dutch: Batjan ) refers to a group of islands in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia and to that group's largest island.

The southern tip of the peninsula, which was formerly an island, has many species with affinities to tropical Mexico.

More than one-fifth of the island is protected as Quttinirpaaq National Park ( formerly Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve ), which includes seven fjords and a variety of glaciers, as well as Lake Hazen, North America's largest lake north of the Arctic Circle.

The largest cities or towns in the area are on Maimbung and Jolo of the Sulu Archipelago, plus the larger island of Palawan to its north, the coastal regions of the westward-extending Zamboanga Peninsula of Mindanao, and the northern part of the island of Borneo were formerly parts of the thalassocratic Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo.

In 1893, a portion of the island was donated to Preservation Virginia ( formerly known as The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities ) for that purpose.

The Taiwan Strait or Formosa Strait, formerly known as the Black Ditch, is a wide strait separating the island of Taiwan from the Asian mainland.

The island of Heligoland, formerly a district by itself, joined the district in 1932.

The island is located off the east coast of Africa, to the north of Madagascar, and boasted a high standard of living, an excellent economy, and freedom from the political and racial turmoil that characterized neighboring nations.

The island boasted at least three mating pairs of sulphur-crested cockatoos ; noisy but welcome additions to the island fauna.

Great Keppel Island once boasted a resort owned by Contiki, dedicated to making it a " backpackers ' island ", though has recently been taken over by Mercure Resort, making it more of a family resort.

Therefore, in December 1948, the high commissioner Pierre de Chevigné boasted in the radio that not a single square centimetre of the island escaped from French military control, leading to the assertion that the 80, 000 missing people were all dead.

He built extensive defenses on Betio to defend its strategically important airfield, and famously boasted to his troops that " it would take one million men one hundred years " to conquer the island.

The bulk of the population originates from immigrants who came to the island since the colonial times, mainly of Bengali, Hindustani and Tamil backgrounds.

Ovid, on the other hand, supposes that the island was not uninhabited at the time of the birth of Aeacus, and states that, in the reign of Aeacus, Hera, jealous of Aegina, ravaged the island bearing the name of the latter by sending a plague or a fearful dragon into it, by which nearly all its inhabitants were carried off, and that Zeus restored the population by changing the ants into men.

There are over 30 Dayak sub-ethnic groups living in Borneo, making the population of this island one of the most varied of human social groups.

The island then was not the popular tourist destination it later became ; the author George Woodbury described it as " no city of homes ; it was a place of temporary sojourn and refreshment for a literally floating population ," continuing, " The only permanent residents were the piratical camp followers, the traders, and the hangers-on ; all others were transient.

Saumarez's convoy of prizes stopped first at Malta, where Saumarez provided assistance to a rebellion on the island among the Maltese population.

Introduction of pigs by guano miners at the beginning of the 20th century reduced the crab population on the island, which in turn allowed grassland to gradually cover about 80 percent of the land surface ( Sachet, 1962 ).

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

Cyprus: population growth 1961-2003 ( numbers for the entire island, excluding in recent years some 150, 000 Turkish immigrants residing in Northern Cyprus ).

Population density figures conceal a great disparity between the republic's most crowded island, Nzwani, which had a density of 470 persons per square kilometer in 1991 ; Ngazidja, which had a density of 250 persons per square kilometer in 1991 ; and Mwali, where the 1991 population density figure was 120 persons per square kilometer.

By comparison, estimates of the population density per square kilometer of the Indian Ocean's other island microstates ranged from 241 ( Seychelles ) to 690 ( Maldives ) in 1993.

A comprehensive Chinese-assisted treatment campaign has apparently eliminated malaria from the Comorian island of Moheli ( population 36, 000 ).

Crete is the most populous island in Greece with a population of more than 500, 000 people.

The Cook Islands was not the only island group visited by the traders, but Penrhyn Atoll was their first port of call and it has been estimated that three-quarters of the population was taken to Callao, Peru.

The January 2007 estimated population of the island was 281, 000, while the figure for the March 1999 census, when most of the studies – though not the linguistic survey work referenced in this article – were performed, was about 261, 000 ( see under Corsica ).

The 2001 population of 341, 000 speakers on the island given by Ethnologue exceeds either census.

As the population of the Maldives is separated across around 200 inhabited islands, there is a cable TV operator for nearly every island.

It is the fourth largest island in the Caribbean with a population of people mainly from African descent.

Dominica is the only island in the eastern Caribbean to retain some of its pre-Columbian population — the Carib Indians — about 3, 000 of whom live on the island's east coast.

Home to a diverse population hailing from across the Japanese archipelago the island witnessed the birth of a unique culture with the drum at the center of it all.

The Greek island of Syros, whose population is divided almost equally between Catholics and Orthodox, is one of the few places where the two Churches share a common date for Easter, with the Catholics accepting the Orthodox date-a practice helping considerably in maintaining good relations between the two communities.

The island has been identified as an Important Bird Area ( IBA ) by BirdLife International because it supports a large and diverse population of breeding seabirds and other waterbirds.

An example of an introductory population model describes a closed population, such as on an island, where immigration and emigration does not take place.

In these island models, the rate of population change is described by: