Moreover, he had spent six months on the Galapagos islands, among the great turtles that Captain Cook had found there, and now and then he would disappear into some small island of the West Indies.

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.

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.

The Ainu were distributed in the northern and central islands of Japan, from Sakhalin island in the north to the Kuril islands and the island of Hokkaidō and Northern Honshū, although some investigators place their former range as throughout Honshū and as far north as the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula in what is now Cape Lopatka.

She was banished on Tiberius ’ orders to the island of Pandataria ( now called Ventotene ) in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Campania.

These breeds are now extinct in England, and the goats surviving in a sanctuary on the island are now also bred in other parts of New Zealand and in the northern hemisphere.

In 1811, in order to obtain more of the now commercially valuable otter pelts, a party of Aleut hunters traveled to the coastal island of San Nicolas, near the Alta California-Baja California border.

The island now forms the Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge and is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the U. S. Its defense is the responsibility of the United States ; though uninhabited, it is visited annually by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

It was now possible for plantations all over this large island to have their sugar shipped quickly and easily.

The Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 de facto partitioned the island into two political areas: 99. 5 % of Greek Cypriots now live in the Republic of Cyprus, while 98. 7 % of Turkish Cypriots live in Northern Cyprus ( of other nationalities, 99. 2 % live in the Greek Cypriot area in the south ).

Geological evidence suggests that at least part of the island was originally joined with present-day Scotland and Norway, now separated by millions of years of continental drift.

In the Aeneid, Aeneas skirts the Italian island where Circe now dwells, and hears the cries of her many victims, who now number more than the pigs of earlier accounts:

Dzaoudzi, capital of Comoros until 1962 and now Mahoré's administrative center, is situated on a rocky outcropping off the east shore of the main island.

The low periods created another island at the turn of the 14th century that now composes Zamalek and Gezira.

Camille Pissarro () ( 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903 ) was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas ( now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies ).

* 1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

The Ilois, now called Chagos Islanders or Chagossians since the late 1990s, were descended primarily from slaves brought to the island from Madagascar by the French between 1793 and 1810, and Malay slaves from the slave market on Pulo Nyas, an island off the northwest coast of Sumatra, from around 1820 until the slave trade ended following the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.

Seafloor spreading at the boundary between the Indian and African Plates subsequently pushed India north over the plume, which now lies under Réunion island in the Indian Ocean, southwest of India.

Shortly before leaving he had issued a famous instruction to F. Gaspar Barazeuz who was leaving to go to Ormuz ( a kingdom on an island in the Persian Gulf, now part of Iran ), that he should mix with sinners:

The military rule over the island which began from 1708 dissolved in 1859 and Puerto de Cabras ( now Puerto del Rosario ) became entirely the new capital.

At this time, they decided to name the large island on which Nootka was now proven to be located as Quadra and Vancouver Island.

As he sails away from the island of the Cyclopes, he shouts his name and boasts that nobody can defeat the " Great Odysseus ".

Consequently, the island boasts highly contrasting coastal environments.

" Ragged Island dubs itself the " Island of Lobsters ," and boasts of being the farthest offshore inhabited island on the East Coast.

The Nature island boasts of Cadence-lypso, a genre developed in Dominica and made popular in the French departments of Martinique and Guadeloupe.

Assam boasts of famous wildlife preserves – the Kaziranga National Park, which is home to the Great Indian One-Horned Rhinoceros and the Manas National Park and Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary ( These first two parks are UNESCO World Heritage Site ), the largest river island Majuli, historic Sivasagar, famous for the ancient monuments of Ahom Kingdom, the city of eternal romance, Tezpur and the scenic tea-estates dating back to time of British Raj.

Most of it is covered in forest that has been undisturbed for decades, and even centuries, with the result that its oak and beech woods are among the most untouched and impressive in Germany, and the island boasts a rich diversity of birds and small mammals.

The town boasts a number of pubs, including Grace Neill's ( opened in 1611 as the ' King's Arms '), which claims to be the oldest on the island of Ireland, a record officially held by Sean's Bar in the Republic of Ireland.

The modern lighthouse lies at the north of the island at Point of Sinsoss and boasts Britain's tallest land based lighthouse tower.

The island boasts a large colony of Sooty Terns, estimated at 1. 5 million pairs, together with Polynesian Rats, feral cats, Green turtles, and around fifteen other species of seabirds.

The small island boasts of a castle, a thousand year-old Benedictine monastery, and a botanical garden initially started by archduke Maximilian in the 19th century.

The island boasts beautiful beaches ripe for developing beachfront property, an old volcano with rumors of fierce creatures within, the outback is overrun with mutants, and an area with a high concentration of robotic miners guarded by heavily armed assault robots indicates interesting mining opportunities.

The Moler Museum boasts the largest collection of moler fossils in Denmark and tells the story of moler geology, the natural history of the island, and the relationship between the Danish people and moler including its manufacturing properties.

The island measures about long by wide, has of wide, flat beaches on its east shore with sand packed hard enough for easy walking or biking, and boasts of hiking trails.

The snake ’ s food source is far more limited in its native range than on the island of Guam as the prey in its natural range boasts significantly more natural defences to the snake than the prey on Guam.

The island, also known as Paradise Island for obvious reasons is regarded as the ‘ gem ’ of the islands forming the Bazaruto Archipelago which is a proclaimed marine national park that boasts sensational beaches and magnificent scenery.

The island " boasts " a mere 63 regular bird species, plus an additional 36 vagrant and unconfirmed species.

The mountain range boasts one peak, the highest island peak on the east coast of North America between the Caribbean and Hudson Strait, and several peaks with very high prominence.

This is a small island paradise that boasts of pristine crystal clear waters, white sand, mangrove, and an unruffled bed of shells as well as accommodations and native huts for transient visitors.

The island boasts the city's narrowest street named after the artist Ilya Repin.

Semporna is also unique in that it boasts of the only Zamboangueño Chavacano-speaking community in Malaysia, a Spanish-based creole whose speakers can mainly be found only in the Zamboanga area on the neighbouring Philippine island of Mindanao.

The island also boasts the largest banyan tree in the world-a fact verified by a professor from Leeds University in England who is one of the world's leading experts on the banyan.

The island boasts a formidable, fully equipped, Eurodivers centre, offering many courses for divers with a range of experiences.