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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.
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.

island and forms
The island of Inchcolm, or Island ( Gaelic innis ) of Columba, a quarter of a mile from the shore, forms part of the parish of Aberdour.
The two most widely spoken forms of the Corsican language are Supranacciu, spoken in the Bastia and Corte area ( generally throughout the northern half of the island ), and Suttanacciu, spoken around Sartene and Porto-Vecchio ( generally throughout the southern half of the island ).
The reef rises to the surface of the water and forms a new island.
Despite the continuity of forms in Gaelic between the pre-Norse and post-Norse eras, Haswell-Smith ( 2004 ) speculates that the name may have a Norse connection, Hiōe meaning " island of the den of the brown bear ", " island of the den of the fox ", or just " island of the cave ".
Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Chios regional unit, which is part of the North Aegean region.
The Barn, which forms the northeast point of the island
The island forms the main barrier between the Gulf of Riga and the Baltic Sea.
The Bukit Barisan mountains, which contain several active volcanoes, forms the backbone of the island, while the northeast sides are outlying lowlands with swamps, mangrove and complex river systems.
It was intensively studied by volcanologists during its eruption, and afterwards by botanists and biologists as life forms gradually colonised the originally barren island.
Fossils found in Japan indicate that the local tigers were, like the surviving island subspecies, smaller than the mainland forms.
Shortly thereafter, Jack decides to lead a party to the other side of the island, where a heap of stones forms a place where he claims the beast resides.
The island forms the northern boundary of Puget Sound.
The promontory adjoining the city is evidently that noticed by Ptolemy (), but the Caralitanum Promontorium of Pliny can be no other than the headland, now called Capo Carbonara, which forms the eastern boundary of the Gulf of Cagliari, and the southeast point of the whole island.
West Timor is a political region that comprises the western half of Timor island with the exception of Oecussi-Ambeno district ( which is politically part of East Timor ) and forms a part of the Indonesian province of Nusa Tenggara Timur, ( NTT or East Nusa Tenggara ).
Of these the most lofty and striking were Mimas and Corycus, in the peninsula which stands out to the west, facing the island of Chios ; Sipylus, to the north of Smyrna, Corax, extending to the south-west from the Gulf of Smyrna, and descending to the sea between Lebedus and Teos ; and the strongly marked range of Mycale, a continuation of Messogisin the interior, which forms the bold headland of Trogilium or Mycale, opposite Samos.
Although it is assumed that most life forms on the island had an African ( or South American ) origin, isolation has allowed old species — elsewhere extinct — to survive and new species unique to the island to evolve.
Barbuda is an island in the Eastern Caribbean, and forms part of the state of Antigua and Barbuda.
The arrival of people, along with a suite of other introduced species such as rats, pigs and cats, quickly spelt the end for this species and all the other island forms that have become extinct.
Bahrain Island () is the largest island within the archipelago of Bahrain, and forms the bulk of the country's land mass while hosting the majority of its population.
A chain of volcanic mountains forms an east-west spine along the island.

island and Baker
Baker was discovered in 1818 by Captain Elisha Folger of the Nantucket whaling ship Equator, who called the island " New Nantucket ".
The name goes back to Michael Baker, who visited the island in 1834.
On June 27, 1974, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton created Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge which was expanded in 2009 to add submerged lands within of the island.
In July 2001, the Return to the Top of the World Expedition, led by Theresa Baker, John Jancik, and Ken Zerbst, confirmed that the previously-discovered island and permanent land feature ATOW1996, is indeed the northernmost point of land on earth.
After affecting the island, Baker transitioned into an extratropical storm, which lasted another day before dissipating south of Greenland.
Baker travelled widely as a teenager spending three years visiting France, Corsica, Italy, Greece and Switzerland, before ending up on Cape Clear, an island off the southern tip of Ireland, " because there was a ferry leaving to go there ".
From the jetty close by Baker Bungalow the distance to the island is about 5 km and from Kumarakom 4 km towards northwest.
* Baker Island, uninhabited coral island in the Pacific Ocean

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