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The island town hosts a range of attractions including the Castle Coole Estate and Enniskillen Castle, which is home to the museum of The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards.
* Chrysi island ( Ierapetra, Lasithi ), which hosts the largest natural Lebanon cedar forest in Europe.
The island hosts introduced bird species from many different regions, including Cattle Egrets ( Bubulcus ibis ), Indian Barred Ground Dove, also called the Zebra Dove ( Geopelia striata ), Turtle Dove ( Streptopleia picturata ), Indian Mynah ( Acridotheres tristis ), Madagascar Fody ( Foudia madagascariensis ), and chickens ( Gallus gallus ).
The city hosts Ca ' Foscari University of Venice founded in 1868, Iuav University of Venice founded in 1926 and Venice International University an international research center founded in 1995 located on the island of San Servolo.
It usually hosts local athletics events as well as being the start of the annual dew pond race from sea level to the highest point on the island on Green Mountain.
The island itself hosts very few industries, a relatively well-known one being AGA AB, which started production on the island in 1912.
Each Summer since 1974 ( typically in August ), the island hosts a weekend-long homecoming festival, and includes a theme parade featuring both locals and vacationers, a picnic, and a number of food and craft booths.
Each year on the August long weekend, the island hosts the Haweater Festival.
Islay is a centre of " whisky tourism ", and hosts a " Festival of Malt and Music " known as Fèis Ìle each year at the end of May, with events and tastings celebrating the cultural heritage of the island.
E-commerce has become increasingly important, and the island hosts the domain name registry for both Bailiwicks and over a dozen gambling website operators.
The largest country park of Hong Kong, Lantau South Country Park is located on the island, which hosts two other parks, namely Lantau North Country Park and its extension.
Only one bonfire is lit on the island as one of the two biggest towns hosts the celebration alternately every other year.
Green Cay ( pronounced green key ) is a small island located southwest of Buck Island and also hosts a nearby reef popular among scuba divers and snorkelists -- Tamarind Reef.
The island was constructed between 1957 and 1967 hosts numerous recreational facilities.
The island also hosts the only Italian population of wild goats.
Seal Rocks, at the western end of the island, hosts the largest colony of fur seals in Australia ( up to 16, 000 ).
On New Year's Eve the island hosts the Pyramid Rock Festival.
Ramsey hosts the northern terminus for the Manx Electric Railway and is the start of the mountain section of the Snaefell Mountain Course used for the Isle of Man TT and Manx Grand Prix motorcycle races held annually on the island.
The island also hosts scientists that study pinnipeds and manage the Island Fox captive breeding program that is conducted on the island.
The island also hosts canneries, shipyards, Coast Guard facilities, and a Federal Correctional Institution.
Every summer the island hosts Block Island Race Week, a competitive, week-long sailboat race.
The island hosts a variety of birds, but other vertebrate wildlife is limited to Red deer and mice.

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The average annual rainfall is, with extremes of or more in the mountainous northeast ( the windward side of the island ) and in the southwestern valleys.
Chinon offers an easy crossing point by means of a central island in the Vienne, and the rocks dominating the shore provided not only a natural fort, but also protection against the annual flooding of the river
The population of the island in 2008 was 118, 000 and the annual growth rate is 0. 5 %.
Permanent settlement on the island was impossible due to annual flooding.
An annual fireworks display was canceled in 2004 after a young girl lost part of her leg due to a rogue firework shot from the island in the center of the lake into the gathered crowd.
Also, before Labor Day, there is the annual Deal Island ( including towns north of Deal island but still on Rt.
Between May and September the island receives 2 / 3 of its annual rainfall, varying from 450 mm in Kingscote to around 900 mm near Roo Lagoon on the top of the central plateau.
Her aide, Melody Williams, has been allocated a major proportion of the annual housing funding to revamp government housing projects all over the island.
Also in 1996, she participated in the annual music video special, produced by Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, dedicated to Bobby Capó, which usually includes only the most important and international singers the island has to offer.
About an hour later, a shooting spree, which killed 69 people, was reported at Utøya, an island forty-five minutes away where the ruling Labour Party was holding its annual youth camp.
In 2008, Hnefatafl was revived by Peter Kelly in the island of Fetlar in Shetland, where the annual World Quickplay Hnefatafl Championships are now held each summer under the auspices of the Fetlar Hnefatafl Panel.
The main attractions during the summer are small-scale open-air concerts sponsored by the local council, a swimming and fitness club next to the sea, and an annual Independence Day march, which is commemorated by a resident naval band touring the island.
The hills of the western part of the island receive a good deal more rain than the east end ; annual rainfall is on the whole extremely variable, averaging perhaps forty inches ( 1, 000 mm ) a year.
They founded and established the Miss Puerto Rico Organization, which produced the annual competition that promptly became one of the most commented television events in the island.
Kenneth George wrote about annual headhunting rituals that he observed among the Mappurondo religious minority, an upland tribe in the southwest part of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
But since then, it had developed into a full scale annual event with performances around the whole island before the marching event began.
The island of Montecristo, like all the islands of the archipelago, has a mild climate, with a constant sea breeze, lots of sun, and very little rainfall ( average annual values much lower than ); the climate is characterised by mild and moderately rainy winters and summers that are hot and dry, but sometimes very muggy.
In October 2008, the island was featured on BBC One's annual Autumn Watch programme.
There is an annual round the island swim of run by RLSS Poole Lifeguards.
From a peak of over 200, 000 annual flights in the 1960s, the island airport went into decline even as several regional airlines operated at the airport from the 1970s onwards.
Several board members of the THC, including its chairman, former Toronto councillor Karl Jaffary, were opposed to the continuation of the island airport, which forced the THC to sell land to pay for the annual deficit.
Only biologists are allowed one annual visit to the areas of the island outside of the railroad and highway to which the island owes its creation.

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