The Senate also has 18 members, elected for a four year term by and from the chiefs of the islands.

The islands also have a number of endemic reptiles, toads and frogs, such as the South Andaman Krait ( Bungarus andamanensis ).

Because unlike the Hawaiians, Cubans and Puerto Ricans, the Filipinos were willing to fight for their independence, Carnegie believed that the conquest of the islands is a denial of the fundamental democratic principle, and he also urged William McKinley to withdraw American troops and allow the Filipinos to live with their independence.

For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia ; and the inhabitants of it — they add — preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon.

Some have understood Ammianus's testimony as a claim that at the time of Atlantis's actual sinking into the sea, its inhabitants fled to western Europe ; but Ammianus in fact says that “ the Drasidae ( Druids ) recall that a part of the population is indigenous but others also migrated in from islands and lands beyond the Rhine " ( Res Gestae 15. 9 ), an indication that the immigrants came to Gaul from the north ( Britain, the Netherlands or Germany ), not from a theorized location in the Atlantic Ocean to the south-west.

There are also two minor islands, Formica and Maraone, lying between Levanzo and Sicily.

The islands situated between 60 ° S latitude parallel to the south and the Antarctic Convergence to the north, and their respective Exclusive Economic Zones fall under the national jurisdiction of the countries that possess them: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ( United Kingdom ; also an EU Overseas territory ), Bouvet Island ( Norway ), and Heard and McDonald Islands ( Australia ).

There are also ferries between the islands and the neighboring prefectures of Kagoshima Prefecture and Nagasaki Prefecture.

The airfield also has a small commercial terminal handling scheduled and chartered passenger flights from the other islands in the Azores, Europe, Africa, and North America.

The Territory is also technically divided into 5 administrative districts ( one for each of the four largest islands, and then a fifth for all other islands ), and into 6 civil registry districts ( three for Tortola, Jost Van Dyke, Virgin Gorda and Anegada ) although these have little practical relevance today.

The territory has also been recently relieving immigrants from many islands in Lesser Antilles.

However, around the Mediterranean they include also a dozen woody shrubs 1m-3m tall, e. g. in northern Africa ( Zilla spinosa and Ptilotrichum spinosum ), in the Dalmatian islands ( Dendralyssum and Cramboxylon ), and chiefly in Canarias with some woody cruciferous genera: Dendrosinapis, Descurainia, Parolinia, Stanleya, etc ..

Noteworthy here is that the biggest islands in the Baltic Sea, Öland and Gotland, were part of the diocese of Linköping in the Middle Ages, covering also Östergötland and eastern Småland.

After the defeating of the Ottoman fleet the Greek Navy was also free to liberate the islands of the Aegean.

Cruise ships are also plentiful, and pleasure craft regularly go back and forth between Florida and the islands.

The islands are also popular destinations for scuba diving and snorkeling.

The finch is also found on the main land and it is thought that they migrated to the islands and began adapting to their environment through natural selection.

It operates on a frequency varying from daily to thrice weekly on inter-island flights to each of the seven islands with operational airports and also to Dakar.

The 1523 " Turin map " of the islands was the first to refer to them as Los Lagartos, meaning alligators or large lizards, By 1530 they were known as the Caymanes after the Carib word caimán for the marine crocodile, either the American or the Cuban crocodile, Crocodylus acutus or C. rhombifer, which also lived there.

The Chilean part of Patagonia embraces the southern part of Valdivia, Los Lagos in Lake Llanquihue, Chiloé, Puerto Montt and the Archaeological site of Monte Verde, also the fiords and islands south to the regions of Aisén and Magallanes, including the west side of Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn.

The largest Croatian passenger port is Split in Dalmatia, also called gateway to the islands, followed by Zadar.

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.

The most recently formed of the four islands in the archipelago, it is also of volcanic origin.

The United States Congress, in the Ratification Act of 1929, provided that until the Congress shall provide for the Government of the islands of American Samoa all civil, judicial, and military powers shall be vested in such person or persons and exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct.

Appear mostly occupying favorable areas named geographically Umbrias, this is north hillsides or slopes of the mountainous areas that are oriented behind the sun, be cause the islands are in the northern hemisphere, between 600 and 1500 meters, thus benefiting from the humidity provided by the trade winds to form such a sea of clouds.

:* Domestic: The individual islands are connected by a combination of satellite earth stations, microwave systems, and VHF and HF radiotelephone ; within the islands, service is provided by small exchanges connected to subscribers by open wire, cable, and fiber-optic cable

Many birds in other families are also commonly called " finches ", including some species in the very similar-looking waxbills or estrildid finches ( family Passeridae, subfamily Estrildinae ) of the Old World tropics and Australia ; several groups of the bunting and American sparrow family ( Emberizidae ); and Darwin's finches of the Galapagos islands, which provided evidence of natural selection and are now recognized to be peculiar tanagers ( Thraupidae ).

It bred on rocky, isolated islands with easy access to the ocean and a plentiful food supply, a rarity in nature that provided only a few breeding sites for the auks.

For their nesting colonies the Great Auks required rocky islands with sloping shorelines that provided access to the seashore.

In the 17th and 18th century, the islands were used as a hideout for pirates, were the site of Alexander Selkirk's four-year marooning, and provided a location for a penal colony.

The Compact provided for aid and U. S. defense of the islands in exchange for continued U. S. military use of the missile testing range at Kwajalein Atoll.

Oil reserves discovered in the later 20th century in the seas both east and west of Shetland have provided a much needed alternative source of income for the islands.

None of these provided any lasting prosperity to the islands, nor did attempts to grow various crops.

The Treaty provided the Dutch with the right to resume possession of the islands, but by then the Dutch were at war with the French, and fear of a French attack prevented their immediate restoration.

All the islands of the Philippines are believed to have once provided habitat for dugongs, which were common until the 1970s.

Porterville Transit and COLT services are provided within the city limits and to designated unincorporated urban areas of the county, including " county islands " within the city limits.

These plates provided one of the best sources of target data for manufacturing plants on the home islands of Japan.

Maritime trade was facilitated by a network of wells that provided fresh water to Cham and foreign ships along the coast of Champa and the islands of Cu Lao Cham and Ly Son.

A large map of the fictional Kingdom of Alusia was released as well, which provided game masters a variety of habitats, environments and islands on which to place the action.

Several grand hotels provided luxurious accommodations while steamboats offered extensive tours among the islands.

This look, based on the theme of hearts, also provided Channel with a new logo, featuring a globe with the Channel islands on it being orbited by two comets, whose trails make a heart shape.

Other services provided by the department include a translation service, publication of the New Zealand Gazette ( the official newspaper of the Government of New Zealand ), a flag hire service, management of VIP visits to New Zealand, running the Lake Taupo harbourmaster's office ( under a special agreement with the local iwi ) and the administration of offshore islands.

For small mammals, amphibians and reptiles in particular, but for many invertebrates as well, such rafts of vegetation are often the only means by which they could reach and – if they are lucky – colonize oceanic islands before human-built vehicles provided another mode of transport.

While in Russian sources the islands are mentioned for the first time in 1646, the earliest detailed information about them was provided by the explorer Vladimir Atlasov in 1697.

As such, power and clean drinking water were provided to this island free-of-charge like on the other military-leased islands.