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.

He was born into the aristocratic, warrior class that dominated Mytilene, the strongest city-state on the island of Lesbos and, by the end of the seventh century BC, the most influential of all the North Aegean Greek cities, with a strong navy and colonies securing its trade-routes in the Hellespont.

Few of his other paintings resemble this apocalyptic scene of two huge armies dominated by an extravagant landscape seen from a very high viewpoint, which looks south over the whole Mediterranean from modern Turkey to include the island of Cyprus and the mouths of the Nile and the Red Sea ( behind the isthmus to the left ) on the other side.

The Batavi were still mentioned in 355 during the reign of Constantius II ( 317-361 ), when their island was already dominated by the Salii, a Frankish tribe that had sought Roman protection there in 297 after having been expelled from their own country by the Saxons.

The island was perfect for growing sugar, being dominated by rolling plains, with rich soil and adequate rainfall.

The mountainous and most recent part of the island can be found to the west, the centre of which is dominated by Mount Capanne (), also called the " roof of the Tuscan Archipelago ".

The north of Bahrain ’ s main island, which is dominated by Manama today, has seen human activity for roughly 5, 000 years, as is indicated from the remains around Bahrain Fort.

Singapore became numerically dominated by immigrant ethnic groups soon after Sir Stamford Raffles established a trading post on the island in 1819.

The interior of the island is dominated by two geographical regions: the Barisan Mountains in the west and swampy plains in the east.

The eastern part of the island is dominated by five mountain ranges, each running from north-northeast to south-southwest, roughly parallel to the east coast of the island.

Today much of the island is covered with regenerating bush dominated by kanuka and kauri.

With the rise of Islam, the trade became dominated by Muslim traders, one ancient Arabic source appears to know the location of the islands, describing them as fifteen days ' sail East from the ' island of Jaba ' - presumably Java — but direct evidence of Islam in the archipelago occurs only in the late 14th century, as China's interest in regional maritime dominance waned.

This island in the South Pacific Ocean at 69 ° S, 90 ° W is dominated by glaciers and a volcano.

The island has dominated Indonesian social, political and economic life, which has been the source of resentment of those resides in other islands.

In Greek mythology, the lotus-eaters ( Greek, lōtophagoi ), also referred to as the lotophagi or lotophaguses ( singular lotophagus ) or lotophages ( singular lotophage ), were a race of people living on an island near North Africa ( possibly Djerba ) dominated by lotus plants.

Historically on the western side and on the eastern side of the island Frisian dialects dominated.

The history of the island has been dominated by Fort Moultrie, which, until its closure in the late 1940s, served as the base of command for the defense of the City of Charleston.

Unionists also feared economic problems, namely that the predominantly agricultural Ireland would impose tariffs on British goods, leading to restrictions on the importation of industrial produce ; the main location of Ireland's industrial development was Ulster, the north-east of the island, the only part of Ireland dominated by unionists.

Most of the island, which is hillier and more fertile than Zanzibar, is dominated by small scale farming.

The Portuguese developed the island for sugarcane crops, and while considered poor quality, the refineries ' output was such that Fernando Po sugar briefly dominated the trade centres in Europe.

The single island covers an area of and is dominated by the tall Beerenberg volcano.

The interior of the island is dominated by eroded volcanic peaks cloaked in dense vegetation.

Like much of Africa, Congo was dominated during the World War 2 era by rumba, a fusion of Latin and African musical styles that came from the island of Cuba.

Jeju Island is a volcanic island, dominated by Halla-san ( Halla Mountain ): a volcano high and the highest mountain in South Korea.