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 ).

Another notable area of Christ Church is Saint Lawrence Gap, which is the most lively tourist area on the island.

The man was commemorated by a lively statue in a pedestrian street in the island ( see photo ).

The Riddle sees Maerad and Cadvan continue the search for Maerad's destiny, which takes them to the lively island School of Busk, which is a Hellenistic community ; north to the realms of the Pilanel, who are Maerad's kin through her father Dorn ; and finally to the very heart of the realm of the Ice King, Arkan, who is a glacial spirit allied with the Nameless One.

Trouble is, not only is there no evidence that he purchased such an island, no one has ever been able to find any island whose name even resembles Pedloe in that area .< nowiki ></ nowiki > Nevertheless, Baum stated to the press that he had discovered a Pedloe Island off the coast of California and that he had purchased it to be " the Marvelous Land of Oz ," intending it to be " a fairy paradise for children.

In 1997, the acute employment problem at St Helena was brought to the attention of the British public following reports in the tabloid press of a " riot " following an article in the Financial Times describing how the Governor, David Smallman ( 1995 – 1999 ), was jostled by a small crowd who believed he and the Foreign Office had rejected plans to build an airport on the island.

At the very beginning the dues and outgoings did not press so very hard on the rajah, because the Porte knew how the country had been impoverished by the war: and the Pashas sent to govern it were to some extent controlled by the Porte, lest their harshness should drive the rajah to leave the island, or at least to revolt, for which his degraded condition would be an excuse.

The frenzied press attention paid to the Lindberghs, particularly after the kidnapping of their son and later the trial, conviction and execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, prompted Charles and Anne to move first to England, to a house called Long Barn owned by Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, and later to the small island of Illiec, off the coast of Brittany in France.

On 23 April 2010 during a visit at the island of Kastelorizo, Papandreou issued a statement to the press that he instructed the Finance Minister to officially ask the EU partners to activate the support mechanism, ' an unprecedented mechanism in the history and practice of the European Union '.

The island was the second largest prison in the world for journalists in 2008, second only to the People's Republic of China, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists ( CPJ ), an international press organization.

During the press conference, when Jenny sees Jason lying about everything that happened on the island, she just wants to get it over with.

The bear's journey and resettlement on the island became a highly publicized media sensation in both the Estonian and Latvian press, as Ruhnu has been devoid of any large carnivores for many centuries.

According to the press release, it is " a large island off a newly discovered continent surrounded by deep creature infested waters.

* 23 February 2010: Dubai-based Kleindienst Group starts work on the Germany island of The World, according to a press release on 24 February 2010.

* 2007, May 31: Universal Studios and Warner Bros officially announce Islands of Adventure's seventh island, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, at a joint press conference, with an expected opening of late 2009 or early 2010.

The oil press of Agia Paraskevi is a complex of stone-built buildings that serves as a characteristic sample of exceptional industrial architecture of the early 20th century ( 1910 ) on the island.

* " Border Ireland "-an information portal on cross-border co-operation on the island of Ireland since 1990 including a searchable database of cross-border activities, publications, organisations and funding, a series of critical briefing papers and an up-to-date media centre of cross-border issues in the national and regional press.

At that time, the Singapore Government was criticised by Malaysian politicians and the press for allowing his visit ( Interestingly, one of Singapore's Founding fathers, David Saul Marshall, was Jewish and the island has strong links with Israel ).

The band's debut release was the " Big Time " single, the first release for Terri Hooley's Good Vibrations label in May 1978, bringing positive reviews in the music press ( it was later described by Henry McDonals of The Observer as " one of the most perfect pop songs to come out of this island ") and prompting the band to relocate to London.