* 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The text of the Constitution of Ireland, as originally enacted in 1937, made reference in its controversial Articles 2 and 3 to two geopolitical entities: a thirty-two county ' national territory ' ( i. e., the island of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 formerly boasted a population of over one thousand in the nineteenth century, and its current winter population is around one hundred.

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

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.

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

* 1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as " Holmes's Bonfire ".

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.

In October 1704, after the ships had parted ways because of a dispute between Stradling and Dampier, the Cinque Ports was brought by Stradling to an island that is today known as Robinson Crusoe Island in the uninhabited archipelago of Juan Fernández off the coast of Chile for a mid-expedition restocking of supplies and fresh water.

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.

Arapawa Island is known for the breeds of pigs, sheep and goats found only on the island.

His western coastline is so distorted, however, that it is impossible to say where Adjacium was ; certainly, he would have known its name and location if he had had any first-hand knowledge of the island and if in fact it was there.

Her best known cults were on the island of Delos

The tribal name, probably a derivation from batawjō (" good island ", from Germanic bat-" good, excellent " and awjō " island, land near water "), refers to the region's fertility, today known as the fruitbasket of the Netherlands ( the Betuwe ).

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.

Sometimes connected to the Atlantis story is the submerged rock formation known as the Bimini Road off the island of Bimini in the Bahamas, which is in the Triangle by some definitions.

Aside from the lagoon and water caught from rain, no other freshwater sources are known to exist on the island.

The island has no known natural resources, its guano having been depleted early in the 20th century.

The known history of Cuba predates Christopher Columbus ' landing on the island during his first voyage of discovery on 28 October 1492.

Trade is vital to the Cypriot economy — the island is not self-sufficient in food and until the recent offshore gas discoveries had few known natural resources — and the trade deficit continues to grow.

Those voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola, initiated the process of Spanish colonization, which foreshadowed the general European colonization of what became known as the " New World ".

Low periods of the Nile during the 11th century continued to add to the landscape of Cairo ; a new island, known as Geziret al-Fil, first appeared in 1174, but eventually became connected to the mainland.

The island is first referred to as Kaptara in texts from the Syrian city of Mari dating from the 18th century BC, repeated later in Neo-Assyrian records and the Bible ( Caphtor ) It was also known in ancient Egyptian as Keftiu, strongly suggesting some form similar to both was the Minoan name for the island.

The original Arabic name of Crete was Iqrīṭiš ( < ( της ) Κρήτης ), but after the Emirate of Crete's establishment of its new capital at ربض الخندق Rabḍ al-ḫandaq ( modern Iraklion ), both the city and the island became known as Χάνδαξ ( Khandhax ) or Χάνδακας ( Khandhakas ), which gave Latin and Venetian Candia, from which French Candie and English Candy or Candia.

The island is known for its Mantinades-based music ( typically performed with the Cretan lyra and the laouto ) and has many indigenous dances, the most noted of which is the Pentozali.

Cretan society is well known for notorious family and clan vendettas which remain on the island to date.