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The island is close to the northern tip of Hinchinbrook Island off the coast from Cardwell in Rockingham Bay and is part of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.
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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.
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When Zeus abducted Aegina, he took her to Oenone, an island close to Attica.
:" Furthermore we have been told that there are many more islands in that sea, one of which is called the Great Estland ( Aestland ) -- And this island is told to be quite close to the Woman Land ( terrae feminarum ), which is not far ( non longe ) away from Birka of the Swedes.
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 ).
Since the island is close to Africa, many illegal immigrants try to enter the European Union through it, by a dangerous boat trip from Morocco.
The island is also home the Monarch butterfly ( Danaus plexippus ) and its close African relative Danaus chrysippus.
At the close of the 20th Century, all of the Earth's kaiju have been collected and confined in an area known as Monster Island, by the United Nations Science Committee, in the Ogasawara island chain.
The Spanish sent a fleet from Cartagena which destroyed the English colony at Providence island in 1641, and for a time the presence of an English base so close to the shore was eliminated.
In the west were the Gaelic ( Goidelic )- speaking people of Dál Riata with their royal fortress at Dunadd in Argyll, with close links with the island of Ireland, from which they brought with them the name Scots.
He came back from one of his voyages and reported he had been close to a black island, which was on fire, and there was a terrible noise in the area.
The status of Mayotte was changed in 2001 towards one very close to the status of the départements of mainland France, with the particular designation of collectivité départementale, although the island is still claimed by the Comoros.
Her island, Aeaea, is located at the edges of the world, and seems to have close associations with the sun.
The main airport is the international Roland Garros Airport located close to Saint Denis and the second one is the Aéroport de Pierrefond, located near Saint-Pierre in the south of the island.
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.
Too, intermarriage of Tongan and Fijian royalty to noble Samoan women has helped build close relationships between these island nations that exists even to the present day ; these royal blood ties are acknowledged at special events and cultural gatherings.
Its development level is high, with close accessibility to the infrastructure from nearly all inhabited parts of the island and for all of the population, with exceptions.
He flies to Saipan — the site of his parents ' suicide during the American invasion of the island at the close of World War II — to buy a large tract of land.
On their wedding night, Aethra waded through the sea to the island of Sphairia that rests close to the coast and lay there with Poseidon ( god of the sea and earthquakes ).
The indigenous fauna had come close to extinction because of intensive hunting, which has led to a conservation program on Bani Yas island initiated by Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan in the 1970s, resulting in the survival of, for example, Arabian oryx and leopards.
* September 23 – First Burmese War: Burmese attack the British on Shapura, an island close to Chittagong.
Eighty sheep were taken to the island and bombs filled with anthrax spores were exploded close to where selected groups were tethered.
It is the economic centre of this part of the island ( commercial centres, food industry ) and is very close to the famous Costa Smeralda tourist area.
It extended across the marsh between what was then an island at Westhay, and a ridge of high ground at Shapwick, a distance close to.
; Tolfalas: An island in the Great Sea close to the Mouths of Anduin, locked between two capes in Belfalas and South Gondor.
While many of these summer residents come from all over the United States and abroad, the island tends to be a destination for those within close proximity.
Those men who fought on the side of the Valar are allowed to live on the island of Númenor close to Aman where the Valar live, while Middle-earth itself is largely abandoned to Sauron and his minions at the beginning of the Second Age.
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