The small island of Memmert south of Juist is a nature reserve housing rare birds.

The largest island by surface area is Borkum, located at the western end of the chain ; the other six inhabited islands are from west to east: Juist, Norderney with the largest town in the islands, Baltrum, Langeoog, Spiekeroog and Wangerooge.

There are also four other small, uninhabited islands: Lütje Hörn east of Borkum, Memmert and Kachelotplate southwest of Juist, Minsener Oog, a dredged island southeast of Wangerooge, and Mellum at the eastern end of the island chain which, following the boundary revision by the Federal Office for Nature Conservation, no longer belongs to the East Frisian Islands, but to the mudflats of the Elbe-Weser Triangle ( Watten im Elbe-Weser-Dreieck ).

Mentioned as Burchana fabaria ( island of beans ) by both Strabo and Pliny the elder, Borkum by the time of Charlemagne the island was part of a larger island called Bant, which consisted of the present day islands of Borkum, Juist and the western part of Norderney.

It lies near the German coast, west of the island of Juist.

To the west is the island of Juist, about 3 km away.

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.

There were two separate economies, dollar-economy and the peso-economy, creating a social split in the island because those in the dollar-economy made much more money ( as in the tourist-industry ).

The island along with smaller minor islands are split into eight regencies ( local government districts ); from west to east these are: Manggarai Barat ( West Manggarai ), Manggarai Tengah ( Central Manggarai ), Manggarai Timur ( East Manggarai ), Ngada, Nagekeo, Ende, Sikka and Flores Timur ( East Flores ).

Following the prehistoric breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana, Madagascar split from India around 88 million years ago, allowing plants and animals on the island to evolve in relative isolation.

Madagascar later split from India about 88 million years ago, allowing plants and animals on the island to evolve in relative isolation.

The island and the very small islands administered along with it are split into four regencies ( local government districts ); these are: Sumba Barat ( West Sumba ), Sumba Barat Daya ( Southwest Sumba ), Sumba Tengah ( Central Sumba ) and Sumba Timur ( East Sumba ).

The main island is split between two countries: ( 38. 57 % of the total area ) belongs to Argentina, while ( 61. 43 % of the total area ) belongs to Chile.

The island was split between three Arab emirs, and the majority Christian population rose up against the ruling Muslims.

In 1913, the Portuguese and Dutch formally agreed to split the island between them.

A 1962 border treaty between North Korea and China split the islands according to which ethnic group were living on each island.

* Tetun-Belu, or the Belunese dialect, is spoken in a central strip of the island of Timor from the Ombai Strait to the Timor Sea, and is split between East Timor and West Timor, where it is considered a bahasa daerah or " regional language ", with no official status in Indonesia, although it is used by the Diocese of Atambua in Roman Catholic rites.

When Hokkaidō was incorporated, transportation on the island was still very underdeveloped, so the prefecture was split into several " sub-prefectures " ( 支庁 shichō ) that could fulfill administrative duties of the prefectural government and keep tight control over the developing island.

The film is split into two chapters, the first called " Paradise " depicts the lives of two lovers on a South Seas island until they are forced to escape the island when the girl is chosen as a holy maid to the gods.

When a great flood occurred, the survivors, who were living on mountains that had now become islands, split into two groups: one group remained and took Deimas as king while the other sailed away, eventually settling in the island of Samothrace.

Captain America tried to get the Cube, and in the fight the island split apart due to the Cube's power, and the Skull fell off a cliff while trying to get the Cosmic Cube.

The barrier island was part of Fire Island until a Nor ' easter in 1931 split the island creating Moriches Inlet.

The island has been split in two parts for bee management, one for each species.

* Strand ( island ), a German island that was split into two by the Burchardi Flood of 1634

The name is probably derived from a word with the meaning " split " or " cleft " ( referring to the many inlets of the island ).

He later wrote that at that stage it was not practicable to plan further ahead but that his intentions were clear in his own mind what the next step would be: he would drive north ultimately to San Stefano on the northern coast to split the island in two and cut his enemy's east-west communications.

Alexander's plan, once the beachheads were secure, was to split the island in half by thrusting north through the Caltanissetta and Enna region, to deny the central Sicily east-west lateral road.