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 ).

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 sea and climate conditions make the island the perfect place for a huge variety of watersports.

In the Western Isles Ketill Flatnose may have been the dominant figure of the mid 9th century, by which time he had amassed a substantial island realm and made a variety of alliances with other Norse leaders.

* Java coffee, a variety of coffee grown on the island of Java

Today Java's old colonial era plantations provide just a fraction of the coffee grown on the island, although it is primarily the higher valued Arabica variety .< noinclude ></ noinclude >

On the island of Malta, a variety of limestone called Globigerina limestone was, for a long time, the only building material available, and is still very frequently used on all types of buildings and sculptures.

Artisan missionary envoys from the London Missionary Society began arriving in 1818 and included such key figures as James Cameron, David Jones and David Griffiths, who established schools, transcribed the Malagasy language using the Roman alphabet, translated the Bible, and introduced a variety of new technologies to the island.

The original Cuban recipe uses spearmint or yerba buena, a mint variety very popular on the island.

They enjoy a variety of leisure activities, including beaches, various golf courses, eco-tourism adventures, touring the countryside, and enjoying cultural events in local communities around the island.

In addition to banana production for export, a variety of crops are produced on the island for domestic consumption.

The island remains the home of a small, but flourishing, wine industry, based on the indigenous grape variety, Assyrtiko, with auxiliary cultivations of two other Aegean varietals, Athiri and Aidani.

The costumes, dances and pageantry grew with each passing year, with the participants donning costumes from the cultural and ethnic variety on the island.

The island's way of life absorbed Venetian influence in a variety of ways ; its local cuisine, for example, took in such elements and today's Corfiot cooking maintains some of these Venetian delicacies and recipes: " Pastitsada ", deriving from the Venetian " Pastissada " ( Italian: " Spezzatino ") and is the most popular dish in the island of Corfu, " Sofrito ", " Strapatsada ", " Savoro ", " Bianco " and " Mandolato ".

When fewer than 100 humans first arrived, the island was covered with trees with a large variety of food types.

In addition, the island has been spared the great variety of venomous snakes indigenous to the African continent.

The Dapenkeng culture was succeeded by a variety of cultures throughout the island, including the Tahu and Yingpu cultures.

They reported that the mainlanders used a variety of names to refer to the island, but Saghalien anga bata, i. e. " the Island the mouth of the Black River " was the most common one, meanwhile the name " Huye " ( presumably, " Kuye ", 庫頁 ) they had heard in Beijing was completely unknown to the locals.

Natives to the island speak the variety of Catalan called Menorquí, and they typically speak Spanish fluently as a second language ; many immigrants are monolingual in Spanish.

More than one-fifth of the island is protected as Quttinirpaaq National Park ( formerly Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve ), which includes seven fjords and a variety of glaciers, as well as Lake Hazen, North America's largest lake north of the Arctic Circle.

Malvasia Candida ( different from the variety known as Malvasia di Candia ) has been historically grown on the island of Madeira being used to produce the sweetest style of Madeira wine known Malmsey.

On the path of the sun, in or by the water, often on an island or rock in middle of the seas, is the Austras koks ( tree of dawn ) thought to represent world tree or axis mundi, it is usually described as a tree, but can also be variety of other plants or even objects.

Tourism, of the more legitimate variety, has gradually redeveloped in the county, both on the island and on the mainland, and today has become a major industry in the county.

The island is one of only two places in Victoria where the invasive red fox is not present, which has enabled the island to maintain a variety of indigenous species which have been devastated by the predator elsewhere including Phillip Island.