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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.
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 ).

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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 ).
At depth, the lens is globular ; near the surface it generally conforms to the shape of the island.
Another type of volcanic oceanic island occurs where an oceanic rift reaches the surface.
The reef rises to the surface of the water and forms a new island.
Located in the middle of the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra with a surface elevation of about, the lake stretches from to.
The structural mountains on the extreme eastern and western portions of the island show broad exposures of Mesozoic rock with ultrabasic rocks at the surface in many places along the east coast.
Since then, wind and wave erosion have caused the island to steadily diminish in size: as of 2002, its surface area was.
The main cause of the urban heat island is modification of the land surface by urban development which uses materials which effectively retain heat.
The island protects the ' Gulf ' from the ocean surface waves and the currents of the South Pacific Gyre.
Although Loch Suaineabhal has only 25 % of the Langavat's surface area it has a mean depth of and is the most voluminous on the island.
It is the second largest island in the archipelago and has a surface of 15. 7 km² and 45 kilometres of coastline.
The island of Surtsey in the Atlantic Ocean is a basalt volcano which breached the ocean surface in 1963.
The whole island, composed as it is of various limestone formations, presents great diversity of surface, and views from more elevated spots are magnificent.
Mystara's outer surface consists of three principal land masses: the continent of Brun, the continent of Skothar, and the continent of Davania, plus the island continent of Alphatia ( up to AC 1010 ).
Rocks exposed at the surface consist of: 1 ) Recent sands and coquinas forming flat, raised beaches surrounding the island from which the surface rises gradually to an elevation 150 to 200 feet above sea level.
The rest of the island has few surface streams ; nevertheless, rainwater saturates the soil to produce underground channels such as the famous Coles Cave.
The island is roughly rectangular in shape with a surface area of ca.
Selene was always trying to get Artemis to bring the sunken island to the surface and, hence, to life.
Arethusa, the nymph of a spring, could make her way through subterranean flows from the Peloponnesus, to surface on the island of Sicily.
The island has a total surface area of 344 km² ( about 88 % of the total country area ), 19 times that of the country's second largest island Bequia, and the coasts measure about 84 km, The island is tropical humid, with an average of between 18 and 31 ° C depending on the altitude. Relief map of Saint Vincent
The reefs surrounding islands form when islands subside into the ocean, and atolls form when an island subsides below the surface of the sea.

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