The island of Inchcolm, or Island ( Gaelic innis ) of Columba, a quarter of a mile from the shore, forms part of the parish of Aberdour.

The island now forms the Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge and is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the U. S. Its defense is the responsibility of the United States ; though uninhabited, it is visited annually by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The two most widely spoken forms of the Corsican language are Supranacciu, spoken in the Bastia and Corte area ( generally throughout the northern half of the island ), and Suttanacciu, spoken around Sartene and Porto-Vecchio ( generally throughout the southern half of the island ).

The reef rises to the surface of the water and forms a new island.

Despite the continuity of forms in Gaelic between the pre-Norse and post-Norse eras, Haswell-Smith ( 2004 ) speculates that the name may have a Norse connection, Hiōe meaning " island of the den of the brown bear ", " island of the den of the fox ", or just " island of the cave ".

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

The Barn, which forms the northeast point of the island

The island forms the main barrier between the Gulf of Riga and the Baltic Sea.

The Bukit Barisan mountains, which contain several active volcanoes, forms the backbone of the island, while the northeast sides are outlying lowlands with swamps, mangrove and complex river systems.

It was intensively studied by volcanologists during its eruption, and afterwards by botanists and biologists as life forms gradually colonised the originally barren island.

Fossils found in Japan indicate that the local tigers were, like the surviving island subspecies, smaller than the mainland forms.

Shortly thereafter, Jack decides to lead a party to the other side of the island, where a heap of stones forms a place where he claims the beast resides.

The island forms the northern boundary of Puget Sound.

The promontory adjoining the city is evidently that noticed by Ptolemy (), but the Caralitanum Promontorium of Pliny can be no other than the headland, now called Capo Carbonara, which forms the eastern boundary of the Gulf of Cagliari, and the southeast point of the whole island.

West Timor is a political region that comprises the western half of Timor island with the exception of Oecussi-Ambeno district ( which is politically part of East Timor ) and forms a part of the Indonesian province of Nusa Tenggara Timur, ( NTT or East Nusa Tenggara ).

Of these the most lofty and striking were Mimas and Corycus, in the peninsula which stands out to the west, facing the island of Chios ; Sipylus, to the north of Smyrna, Corax, extending to the south-west from the Gulf of Smyrna, and descending to the sea between Lebedus and Teos ; and the strongly marked range of Mycale, a continuation of Messogisin the interior, which forms the bold headland of Trogilium or Mycale, opposite Samos.

Although it is assumed that most life forms on the island had an African ( or South American ) origin, isolation has allowed old species — elsewhere extinct — to survive and new species unique to the island to evolve.

Barbuda is an island in the Eastern Caribbean, and forms part of the state of Antigua and Barbuda.

The arrival of people, along with a suite of other introduced species such as rats, pigs and cats, quickly spelt the end for this species and all the other island forms that have become extinct.

Bahrain Island () is the largest island within the archipelago of Bahrain, and forms the bulk of the country's land mass while hosting the majority of its population.

A chain of volcanic mountains forms an east-west spine along the island.

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.

The Bakufu government granted the Matsumae clan exclusive rights to trade with the Ainu in the Northern part of the island.

Around 2000, an expedition led by the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, searching for Selkirk's camp on the island ( juan fernandez ), found part of an early eighteenth ( or late seventeenth ) century nautical instrument that almost certainly belonged to Selkirk.

From the 17th century onward, the island of Abadan was part of the lands of the Arab Ka ' ab ( Bani Kaab ) tribe.

The island was larger than Ancient Libya and Asia Minor combined, but it afterwards was sunk by an earthquake and became an impassable mud shoal, inhibiting travel to any part of the ocean.

The southern volcanic part of the island is rugged and mountainous, and largely barren.

Along with six other islands, the island was administered by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the Pacific Remote Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex.

In 1662, English admiral and pirate Christopher Myngs captured and briefly occupied Santiago de Cuba on the eastern part of the island, in an effort to open up Cuba's protected trade with neighbouring Jamaica.

When Havana surrendered, the admiral of the British fleet, George Keppel, the 3rd Earl of Albemarle, entered the city as a conquering new governor and took control of the whole western part of the island.

" 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 ".

Turkish forces captured the northern part of the island.

Turkey, which does not recognise the Republic of Cyprus, and the Turkish Cypriot administration of the northern part of the island, do not accept the Republic's rule over the whole island and refer to it not by its international name, but as the " Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus ".

In May 2004, Cyprus entered divided the EU, although in practice membership only applies to the southern part of the island which is in the control of the Republic of Cyprus.

The economic achievements of Cyprus during the preceding decades have been significant, bearing in mind the severe economic and social dislocation created by the Turkish invasion of 1974 and the continuing occupation of the northern part of the island by Turkey.

From 1763 to 1784 the island was administratively part of the colony of Nova Scotia and governed from Halifax.

Geological evidence suggests that at least part of the island was originally joined with present-day Scotland and Norway, now separated by millions of years of continental drift.

Later migrations of Black Loyalists, Italians, and Eastern Europeans mostly settled in the eastern part of the island around the Industrial Cape Breton region.

* the Sydney Coal Field in the southeastern part of the island along the Atlantic Ocean drove the Industrial Cape Breton economy throughout the 19th and 20th centuries — until after World War II its industries were the largest private employers in Canada

* the Inverness Coal Field in the western part of the island along the Gulf of St. Lawrence is significantly smaller but hosted several mines

As part of the 1763 Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years ' War, the island became a British possession.

The author based part of his narrative on the story of the Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk, who spent four years stranded on the island of Juan Fernandez.

Pitman's short book about his desperate escape from a Caribbean penal colony for his part in the Monmouth Rebellion, his shipwrecking and subsequent desert island misadventures was published by J. Taylor of Paternoster Street, London, whose son William Taylor later published Defoe's novel.