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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.
Keem BayAchill Archaeological Field School is based at the Achill Archaeology Centre in Dooagh, which has served as a catalyst for a wide array of archaeological investigations on the island.
An account by Callimachus has it that Hera forbade Leto to give birth on either terra firma ( the mainland ) or on an island.
It has historically been linked with the Muslim Moro people of Mindanao, particularly in the island of Jolo.
He has said that if stranded on an island with only one programming language it would have to be C.
China has had historical trading links with the inhabitants of the island.
The more familiar triangular boundary in most written works has as its points somewhere on the Atlantic coast of Miami ; San Juan, Puerto Rico ; and the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda, with most of the accidents concentrated along the southern boundary around the Bahamas and the Florida Straits.
It also has flights four times weekly from Lisbon to Francisco Mendes the recently opened airport at Praia on Santiago island and four times weekly from Lisbon to Amílcar Cabral International Airport on Sal island.
TACV cabo Verde Airines, the national airline has been a monopoly carrier within the island archipelago ( 2007 ).
The island has no known natural resources, its guano having been depleted early in the 20th century.
A recent report ( 2006 ) by the NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California, indicates that the increased rat presence on Clipperton Island has led to a decline in both crab and bird populations, causing a corresponding increase in both vegetation and coconut palms on the island.
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 ".
The Government of the Republic of Cyprus has continued as the sole internationally-recognized authority on the island ( as well as the UK being internationally recognized with respect to the SBAs ), though in practice its power extends only to the government controlled area.
Cyprus has been divided, de facto, into the Greek Cypriot controlled southern two-thirds of the island and the Turkish-occupied northern third.
The name of the island Crete has the same origin.
The island has two major coal deposits:
Coupled with the Fortress of Louisbourg, it has driven the growth of the tourism industry on the island in recent decades.
The Condé Nast travel guide has rated Cape Breton Island as one of the best island destinations in the world.
* Mayo has Ireland's highest cliffs ( second highest in Europe ) at Croaghaun, Achill island while the Benwee Head cliffs in Kilcommon Erris drop almost perpendicularly into the Atlantic Ocean.
Each island has a president, who shares the presidency of the Union on a rotating basis.
A comprehensive Chinese-assisted treatment campaign has apparently eliminated malaria from the Comorian island of Moheli ( population 36, 000 ).
The lake has one small island near Union Springs, Frontenac Island.
The island has an elongated shape: it spans from east to west, is at its widest point, and narrows to as little as ( close to Ierapetra ).

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The land on the Arctic Circle is divided among eight countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States ( Alaska ), Canada, Denmark ( Greenland ), and Iceland ( where it passes through the small offshore island of Grímsey ).
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 addition to this, the land the Ainu lived on was distributed to the Wajin who had decided to move to Hokkaido, who had been encouraged by the Japanese government of the Meiji era to take advantage of the island ’ s abundance of natural resources, and to create and maintain farms in the model of western industrial agriculture.
After some thought, they rescinded this order, and only put to death the leading 1000 ringleaders of the revolt, and redistributed the land of the entire island to Athenian shareholders, who were sent out to reside on Lesbos.
According to Critias, the Hellenic gods of old divided the land so that each god might own a lot ; Poseidon was appropriately, and to his liking, bequeathed the island of Atlantis.
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.
The first Antarctic land discovered was the island of South Georgia, visited by the English merchant Anthony de la Roché in 1675.
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.
When Snodgrass and Heller visited Clipperton in 1898, they reported that " no land plant is native to the island ".
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 island measures in land area and is uninhabited.
In 563 he was granted land on the island of Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, which became the centre of his evangelising mission to the Picts.
In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.
The Taíno people called the island Quisqueya ( mother of all lands ) and Ayiti ( land of high mountains ).
The land border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, which occupies the western one-third of the island, is 388 km long.
In 1967, Stoddart described the land area of Diego Garcia as having a littoral hedge of Scaevola taccada, while inland, Cocos nucifera ( Coconut ) was the most dominant tree, covering most of the island.
On the large island, there exists a " wall of deserts " that separates the island into a large main area and separate smaller strips of land.
The two largest islands are Saaremaa ( literally, island land ), at, and Hiiumaa, at.
The island was greatly expanded with land reclamation between 1892 and 1934.
The island has a land area of, most of which was created through land reclamation.

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