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.

The island has a land area of.

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 ).

It is now used to refer to any island group or, sometimes, to a sea containing a large number of scattered islands such as the Aegean Sea.

Earlier Pliny says that a large island of three days ' sail from the Scythian coast called Balcia by Xenophon of Lampsacus is called Basilia by Pytheas.

‘ … The development of Japan's large northern island had several objectives: First, it was seen as a means to defend Japan from a rapidly developing and expansionist Russia.

For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia ; and the inhabitants of it — they add — preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon.

The baidara ( large skin boat ) was a large open walrus skin-covered boat used by Aleut families to travel from island to island, as well as, transport goods for trade and warriors to battle.

Several crashed airplanes and large equipment such as bulldozers are scattered around the island.

Nakagawa's defenses were based at Peleliu's highest point, Umurbrogol Mountain, a collection of hills and steep ridges located at the center of Peleliu overlooking a large portion of the island, including the crucial airfield.

The latter derived their name from Peuce, a large island in the Danube delta which they had colonised.

Stolpe found very large amounts of amber on the island, which is unusual since amber is not normally found in lake Mälaren.

It was now possible for plantations all over this large island to have their sugar shipped quickly and easily.

The Marine Atlantic terminal at North Sydney is the terminal for large ferries travelling to Channel-Port aux Basques and seasonally to Argentia on the island of Newfoundland.

In 1977 Maore expelled peasants from Ngazidja and Nzwani who had recently settled in large numbers on the island.

There are a large number of archaeological sites which include the Minoan sites of Knossos and Phaistos, the classical site of Gortys, and the diverse archaeology of the island of Koufonisi which includes Minoan, Roman, and World War II ruins.

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 ).

The extreme southwestern coast of the island includes a large collapsed submarine caldera.

While sugar cane dramatically increased Spain's earnings on the island, large numbers of the newly imported slaves fled into the nearly impassable mountain ranges in the island's interior, joining the growing communities of cimarrónes — literally, ' wild animals '.

In 1605, Spain was infuriated that Spanish settlements on the northern and western coasts of the island were carrying out large scale and illegal trade with the Dutch, who were at that time fighting a war if independence against Spain in Europe, and the English, a very recent enemy state, and so decided to forcibly resettle their inhabitants closer to the city of Santo Domingo.

In addition, much of the lagoon waters are protected wetlands as a designated Ramsar site, and large parts of the island are nature preserves.

The island was protected to a large degree by its favourable ocean topography.

Aerial photographs of the island clearly display large areas of grasslands and park-like savanna upon which the US military has constructed large outdoor facilities such as antenna fields and the airport.

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.