A 1998 United States Supreme Court decision found most of the island to be part of New Jersey.

The original portion of the island is and is an exclave of New York City, while reclaimed areas are part of Jersey City.

Landfilling to build the railyards of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and the Central Railroad of New Jersey would eventually obliterate the beds, engulf one island and bring the shoreline much closer to the others.

The island, largely artificially created through landfill, is situated on the New Jersey side of Upper New York Bay.

The natural portion of the island, part of New York City, is surrounded by rest of the island in Jersey City.

New Jersey contended that the new extensions were part of New Jersey, since they were not part of the original island.

In 1956, after the 1954 closing of the U. S. immigration station, the then Mayor of Jersey City, Bernard J. Berry, commandeered a U. S. Coast Guard cutter and led a contingent of New Jersey officials on an expedition to claim the island.

The dispute eventually reached the Supreme Court of the United States, which ruled in 1998 that New Jersey had jurisdiction over all portions of the island created after the original compact was approved ( effectively, more than 80 % of the island's present land ).

New Jersey and New York soon agreed to share jurisdiction of the island.

The earliest evidence of human activity in Jersey dates to about 250, 000 years ago ( before Jersey became an island ) when bands of nomadic hunters used the caves at La Cotte de St Brelade as a base for hunting mammoth.

After Jersey became an island, there is evidence of settled communities in the Neolithic period, which is marked by the building of the ritual burial sites known as dolmens.

This article describes the geography of Jersey, an island territory in the English Channel.

The island of Jersey has an area of 119 square kilometres, with 70 kilometres of coastline.

The Queen's representative and adviser in the island is the Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.

Although Jersey is for most day-to-day purposes entirely self-governing in relation to its internal affairs, the Crown retains residual responsibility for the " good government " of the island.

It is now normal practice for the UK to consult the Jersey government and seek their consent before entering into treaty obligations affecting the island.

The outcome of debates within the island was that the contribution should take the form of maintaining a Territorial Army unit in Jersey.

Visitors to the island arrive either by sea at Saint Helier, or by air at Jersey Airport.

* September 4 – George William de Carteret, author from Jersey island ( b. 1869 )

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We gently usher them to an island of tables and chairs strategically placed on the far side of the pool where they can amuse each other until we get ready to merge sides.

However, other versions of her myth have her born near the island of Kythira ( Cythera ), for which reason she is called " Cytherea ".

He gives no precise indication of their geographical situation but states that, together with six other tribes, they worshiped a goddess named Nerthus, whose sanctuary was located on " an island in the Ocean ".

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.

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.

Ovid, on the other hand, supposes that the island was not uninhabited at the time of the birth of Aeacus, and states that, in the reign of Aeacus, Hera, jealous of Aegina, ravaged the island bearing the name of the latter by sending a plague or a fearful dragon into it, by which nearly all its inhabitants were carried off, and that Zeus restored the population by changing the ants into men.

They lay with each other, and then in some versions, Aethra waded to the island of Sphairia ( aka Calauria ) and bedded Poseidon.

The fact that the Aeginetan standard of weights and measures ( developed in the mid-7th century ) was one of the two standards in general use in the Greek world ( the other being the Euboic-Attic ) is sufficient evidence of the early commercial importance of the island.

Along with six other islands, the island was administered by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the Pacific Remote Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex.

Bornholm Regional Municipality was not merged with other municipalities on 1 January 2007 as the result of the nationwide Kommunalreformen (" The Municipal Reform " of 2007 ), which is quite understandable, since the island, as can be seen on maps, is quite far from the rest of Denmark.

The Batavi were mentioned by Julius Caesar in his commentary Commentarii de Bello Gallico, as living on an island formed by the Rhine River after it splits, one arm being the Waal the other the Lower Rhine / Old Rhine ( hence the Latin name Insula Batavorum, " Island of the Batavi ").

Five of the Banda islands were within gunshot of each other and he realised that a fort on the main island Neira would give him full control of the group.

Like all other lemurs, cheirogaleids live exclusively on the island of Madagascar.

Aside from the lagoon and water caught from rain, no other freshwater sources are known to exist on the island.

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.

Food, horses and other goods flooded into the city, and thousands of slaves from West Africa were transported to the island to work on the undermanned sugar plantations.

" That rich island ," he wrote on 1 December 1881, " the key to the Gulf of Mexico, is, though in the hands of Spain, a part of the American commercial system … If ever ceasing to be Spanish, Cuba must necessarily become American and not fall under any other European domination.

As well, the Castro government found an alternate source for vehicles in its new patron, the Soviet Union, which supplied the island with Volgas, Moskvich 1500s, Ladas and other Eastern Bloc cars, mainly for state use.

Before the dispute started in 1964 the peoples of Cyprus ( then 77 % Greek Cypriots, 18 % Turkish Cypriots, 5 % other nationalities, including Armenians and Maronites ) were dispersed over the entire island.

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 ).

However, Herman Melville happily lived with the Marquesan Typees for a time after the other two tribes on the island told him they were cannibals.

The resulting currency and credit scarcity left island residents with few options other than to create a local currency.

Continental Europe, also referred to as mainland Europe or simply the Continent ( particularly by the British, Icelanders and other European island nations ), is the continent of Europe, explicitly excluding European islands.