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 ).

Moreover, he had spent six months on the Galapagos islands, among the great turtles that Captain Cook had found there, and now and then he would disappear into some small island of the West Indies.

`` It consists of two divisions, separated by an island at a small distance from the southern shore.

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 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 ).

The Territory of the Ashmore and Cartier Islands is an external territory of Australia consisting of two groups of small low-lying uninhabited tropical islands in the Indian Ocean situated on the edge of the continental shelf north-west of Australia and south of the Indonesian island of Rote.

* 1945 – Over 1, 000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.

Thucydides documents the example of Melos, a small island, neutral in the war, though originally founded by Spartans.

Arapawa Island is a small island located in the Marlborough Sounds, at the north east tip of the South Island of New Zealand.

In 1944, the American armed forces constructed a small and short-lived air base on the island of Santa Maria.

U. S. Marines of the First Marine Division and later soldiers of the U. S. Army's 81st Infantry Division, fought to capture an airstrip on the small coral island.

The shoals were also protected by a small fort situated on an island among the rocks.

Both planes were operating at the very limits of their range and the slightest error or fault in the equipment could keep them from reaching the small island.

European control of the Bandas was contested up until 1667 when, under the Treaty of Breda ( 1667 ), the British traded the small island of Run for Manhattan, giving the Dutch full control of the Banda archipelago.

* Banda Neira, or Naira, the island with the administrative capital and a small airfield ( as well as accommodation for visitors ).

* Cone Islet, a small granite island in south-eastern Australia

North Keeling Island is an atoll consisting of just one C-shaped island, a nearly closed atoll ring with a small opening into the lagoon, about wide, on the east side.

Other neighbouring territories include Syria and Lebanon to the east ( 105 km and, respectively ), Israel to the southeast, Egypt to the south, and Greece to the west-northwest: to the small Dodecanesian island of Kastellórizo ( Meyísti ), to Rhodes, and to the Greek mainland.

Iona College, a small Catholic liberal arts college in New Rochelle, NY is named after the island on which Columba established his first monastery in Scotland.

If not " true " crannogs, small occupied islets ( often at least partially artificial in nature ) may be referred to as island duns, although rather confusingly, 22 islet-based sites are classified as ' proper ' crannogs due to the different interpretations of the inspectors or excavators who drew up field reports Canmore search for crannog in the Western Isles Hebridean island dwellings or crannogs were commonly built on both natural and artificial islets, usually reached by means of a stone causeway.

A popular site among locals is the small island Marabout de Sidi Abderrahmane.

On a small island, in a tiny hut on stilts, he first read Vannevar Bush's article " As We May Think ", which greatly inspired him.

In the waters of Deception Pass, just east of the present-day Deception Pass Bridge, is a small island known as Ben Ure Island.

* 1997 – The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore.