* Great Britain, the largest island in the British Isles and the largest island in Europe

The word British is an adjective referring in various ways to the United Kingdom, or the island of Great Britain, and its people.

* Britons ( historical ), ancient Celtic inhabitants of the island of Great Britain south of the Firth of Forth.

:" 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 territory covers 780, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, extending east and south from the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef, and including Heralds Beacon Island, Osprey Reef, the Willis Group, and fifteen other reef / island groups.

By 2005 the CIRA was believed to be an established presence on the island of Great Britain with the capability of launching attacks.

Perhaps his greatest achievement with the novels is the magisterial A tour thro ' the whole island of Great Britain ( 1724 – 27 ), which provided a panoramic survey of British trade on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.

* A tour thro ' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies ( 1724 – 1727 )

Since the beginning of Norman rule in the 12th century, the city has functioned as the capital in varying geopolitical entities: Lordship of Ireland ( 1171 – 1541 ), Kingdom of Ireland ( 1541 – 1800 ), island as part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( 1801 – 1922 ), and the Irish Republic ( 1919 – 1922 ).

Control of the island was disputed by Great Britain and France in the 18th century, with the British ultimately prevailing.

Greenwich Mean Time was adopted across the island of Great Britain by the Railway Clearing House in 1847, and by almost all railway companies by the following year, from which the term " railway time " is derived.

This changed in 1880, when GMT was legally adopted throughout the island of Great Britain.

Ground for a rudimentary aircraft landing area was cleared during the mid-1930s, in anticipation that the island might eventually be used as a stopover for a commercial trans-Pacific air route and also to further U. S. territorial claims in the region against rival claims from Great Britain.

King James I & VI as he was styled became the first monarch to rule the entire island of Great Britain, although it was merely a union of the English and Scottish crowns, and both countries remained separate political entities until 1707.

Roman Britain, referred to by the Romans as Britannia, was the part of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire from 43 until c. 410.

This Roman imperial province eventually comprised all of the island of Great Britain south of the fluid frontier with Caledonia ( Scotland ).

Lewis and Harris is the largest island in Scotland and the third largest in the British Isles, after Great Britain and Ireland.

The Great Famine of Ireland during the 1840s saw a significant number of people flee from the island to all over the world.

The Isle of Man is an island in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland in Western Europe, with a population of over 75, 000.

The area of Karachi was known to the ancient Greeks by many names: Krokola, the place where Alexander the Great camped to prepare a fleet for Babylonia after his campaign in the Indus Valley ; ' Morontobara ' ( probably Manora island near Karachi harbour ), from whence Alexander's admiral Nearchus set sail ; and Barbarikon, a port of the Bactrian kingdom.

Buddhism probably spread to the Maldives in the third century BC, at the time of the Mauryan emperor Aśoka the Great, when it extended to the regions of Afghanistan and Central Asia, beyond the Mauryas ' northwest border, as well as South to the island of Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands.

It only lacks a good port and suitable landing places, without which the island is of no use, but with them it would be of the greatest importance for Great Britain.

The island portion of the province spans 5 degrees of latitude, which is comparable to that of the Great Lakes.

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

Great Bernera (, ), often known just as Bernera () is an island and community in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.

Since 1962, the island has been owned by Robin de la Lanne-Mirrlees, a former Queen's Herald, who is recognised as Laird of Bernera.

The island was the location of the Bernera Riot, where crofters resisted the Highland clearances.

To the north, the island of Bearnaraigh Beag ( Little Bernera ), and a number of islets.

* Bernera, Lismore, a tidal island off the south-west coast of Lismore

This bridge is humorously referred to by islanders as the only bridge over the Atlantic ( the natives of the Scottish island of Seil make the same claim, as do the people of Great Bernera located in Na h-Eileanan Siar http :// en. wikipedia. org / wiki / Great_Bernera ).

The most easterly contains the ruins of the old castle, whilst the remains of the ancient Anatho extend from this island for about 2 miles down the left bank.

The island contains five reserves of the Mi ' kmaq Nation, these being: Eskasoni, Membertou, Wagmatcook, Waycobah, and Potlotek / Chapel Island.

The " Wall of Honor " outside of the main building contains a partial list of immigrants processed on the island.

The diaspora, maximally interpreted, contains more than 80 million people, which is more than thirteen times the population of the island of Ireland itself, which had approximately 6. 4 million in 2011 ( comprising the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland ).

The north of the island contains two villages: Volissos on the west coast, and Kardamyla on the east.

The island contains tropical forests, and diverse landscapes with high biodiversity.

* Weider, Ben & Hapgood, David The Murder of Napoleon ( 1999 ) ISBN 1-58348-150-8 contains descriptions of the island and its inhabitants at the time of Napoleon's incarceration.

The island contains relatively limited strata of sedimentation surrounding its ancient uplands.

The coastal belt surrounding the island contains a different settlement pattern that has evolved from older fishing villages.

The Darwin Range in the south western part of the main island contains many glaciers that reach the ocean.

Protection Island contains one of the last two nesting colonies of puffins in Puget Sound, and about 70 % of the tufted puffin population nests on this island.

Whidbey Island contains Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve, the first national historic reserve in the US created by the National Park Service to preserve the rural history and culture of the island and to protect the area's rare and sensitive plants.

Being one of the oldest cities on the island, it contains a considerable collection of art.

This same section also contains a monument to the French sailors who died at the Battle of Navarino ; the monument to the Russian dead of the same battle is on the island of Sphacteria, while the monument to the English dead is on another very small island near the centre of the port.

The island also contains a wealth of biodiversity.

The Tsaratanana Massif region at the north end of the island contains, at, the highest point on the island.

The VPI pathogenicity island contains genes involved in the creation of toxin coregulated pilus ( TCP ).

The Archbishop's Palace contains a Byzantine museum containing the largest collection of religious icons on the island.

The island is nominally divided into five regions and contains 34 prefectures, including metropolitan Tokyo.

Some noted rock formations involve giant boulders exposed by erosion, such as the Devil's Marbles in Australia's Northern Territory, the Horeke basalts in New Zealand, where an entire valley contains only boulders, and The Baths on the island of Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands.

The interior contains an escarpment that rises to 134 meters, the highest point on the island, to form Jabal ad Dukhan ( Mountain of Smoke ), named for the mists that often wreathe the summit.

The interior contains an escarpment that rises to, the highest point on the island, to form the Mountain of Smoke, named as such due to the mists that often wreathe the summit.

Remnants of Old Norse are scanty, but examples would be the second element of Pointe Sauzebourge on the south west tip of the island, while the rock of " Le Plat Houmet " contains the Houmet ( holmr ) with a Norman diminutive.