It is indeed true, as stated in the famous novel of our day, `` For Whom The Bell Tolls '', that `` no man is an island, entirely of itself ; ;

Active warfare is raging between the forces pressing for a monument to the first Roosevelt on Theodore Roosevelt Island in the Potomac, and TR.'s own living children, who wish to preserve the island as a wildlife sanctuary.

The episode in which Sancho Panza concludes the joke that is played on him when he is facetiously put in command of an `` island '' is one of the best in the film.

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 ).

** Eunectes murinus, the green anaconda, the largest species, is found east of the Andes in Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and on the island of Trinidad.

An archipelago ( ), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain or cluster of islands.

It is now used to refer to any island group or, sometimes, to a sea containing a large number of scattered islands such as the Aegean Sea.

* 1993 – The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.

Achill Island () in County Mayo is the largest island off the coast of Ireland, and is situated off the west coast.

The island is 87 % peat bog.

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 legend connected with its foundation is given by Peter Damiani in his Life of St Odilo: a pilgrim returning from the Holy Land was cast by a storm on a desolate island.

Aphrodite is usually said to have been born near Paphos, on the island of Cyprus, for which reason she is called " Cyprian ", especially in the poetic works of Sappho.

However, other versions of her myth have her born near the island of Kythira ( Cythera ), for which reason she is called " Cytherea ".

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.

Earlier Pliny says that a large island of three days ' sail from the Scythian coast called Balcia by Xenophon of Lampsacus is called Basilia by Pytheas.

* 1483 – Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.

In the 1516 novel Utopia by Thomas More, the island called Utopia once had the name " Abraxa ", which scholars have suggested is a related use.

During the Tokugawa period ( 1600 – 1868 ) the Ainu became increasingly involved in trade with Japanese who controlled the southern portion of the island that is now called Hokkaido.

His western coastline is so distorted, however, that it is impossible to say where Adjacium was ; certainly, he would have known its name and location if he had had any first-hand knowledge of the island and if in fact it was there.

The castle ruin Hammershus, on the northwestern tip of the island, is the largest medieval fortress in northern Europe, testament to the importance of its location.

Examples from elsewhere in Orkney are the Vinquoy cairn, found at an elevated location on the north end of the island of Eday and Quoyness on Sanday constructed about 2900 BC and which is surrounded by an arc of Bronze Age mounds.

The US requested an unpopulated island belonging to the UK to avoid political difficulties with newly-independent countries, and ultimately the UK and US agreed that Diego Garcia was a suitable location.

The island has also been used as a film location.

: Largest and southernmost island in the Mariana Islands archipelago ; strategic location in western North Pacific Ocean.

Regarding the location of Gothiscandza, Jordanes states that one shipload " dwelled in the province of Spesis on an island surrounded by the shallow waters of the Vistula.

The island was the location of a mock invasion during the military exercise Fabius in May 1944, rehearsing the preparations for D-Day.

The area ’ s notoriously harsh weather, dramatic underwater topography, the island ’ s central location on historic shipping routes, and the cold, fresh water have culminated in largely intact, well preserved wrecks throughout the park.

The isthmus is the location of the two largest lakes of the island, Sørlaguna ( South Lagoon ), and Nordlaguna ( North Lagoon ).

The volcanic origin and remote location of the islands meant that the islands ' flora and fauna had to reach the archipelago from far across the sea ; as a result, the island is home to relatively few plant species and very few animal species.

Eruptions at the volcano since 1927 have built a new island at the same location, named Anakrakatau ( which is Indonesian for " Child of Krakatoa ").

Others have identified the island as Ictis, the location described by Diodorus Siculus as a centre for the tin trade in pre-Roman Britain.

These central highlands, traditionally the homeland of the Merina people and the location of their historic capital at Antananarivo, are the most densely populated part of the island and are characterized by terraced, rice-growing valleys lying between grassy, deforested hills.

Stretching about seventy kilometers, the island occupies a strategic location near the entry point to the Gulf of Oman from the Arabian Sea.

The wanderings of Odysseus as told to the Phaeacians, and the location of the Phaeacians ' own island of Scheria, pose more fundamental problems, if geography is to be applied: scholars, both ancient and modern, are divided as to whether or not any of the places visited by Odysseus ( after Ismaros and before his return to Ithaca ) are real.

See also map showing location of the Pitcairn Islands with respect to other island groups and to continents

A second experimental trans location was tried in 1978 with a different mated pair, and they were allowed to remain on the island for close to nine months.

It is a popular belief that the Portuguese managed to keep the location of this remote island a secret until almost the end of the 16th century.

However, both the location of the island and its name were quoted in a Dutch book in 1508, which described a 1505 Portuguese expedition led by Francisco de Almeida from the East Indies: " n the twenty-first day of July we saw land, and it was an island lyng six hundred and fifty miles from the Cape, and called Saint Helena, howbeit we could not land there.

It is suspected this explains how the location of the island was certainly known to the English only a few years later, for example, William Barrett ( who died in 1584 as English consul at Aleppo, Syria ) stated the island was “ sixteene degrees to the South ”, which is precisely the correct latitude.

Again, it is also clear that the Elizabethan adventurer Edward Fenton at the very least knew the approximate location of the island in 1582.

However, with the outbreak of war with other European countries, the Company continued to subsidise the island because of its strategic location.