Because, honey, I thought silently, there are plenty of desert islands in every marriage -- long periods when you're hopelessly stranded, together.

Coconuts, the fruit of the coconut palm, have the largest of all known seeds and are grown in South Pacific islands as a crop for domestic and export markets.

The Aegean Islands are found within its waters, with the following islands delimiting the sea on the south ( generally from west to east ): Kythera, Antikythera, Crete, Kasos, Karpathos and Rhodes.

Many of the Aegean Islands, or chains of islands, are actually extensions of the mountains on the mainland.

Many of the islands are volcanic, and marble and iron are mined on other islands.

Oceanic islands are mainly of volcanic origin.

Finally, sets of islands formed close to the coast of a continent are considered continental archipelagos when they form part of the same continental shelf so islands are just exposed continental shelf.

The five volcanic islands islands are: Tutuila, Aunu ' u, Ofu, Olosega, Tau.

* 1953 – The islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia in Greece are severely damaged by an earthquake measuring 7. 3 on the Richter scale.

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

North Andaman Island is south of Burma, although a few smaller Burmese islands are closer, including the three Coco Islands.

There are at least 11 mud volcanoes on the islands.

The Andaman islands are home to a number animals, many of them endemic.

The islands ' many caves, such as those at Chalis Ek are nesting grounds for the Edible-nest Swiftlet, whose nests are prized in China for bird's nest soup.

Of the people who live in the Andaman Islands, a small minority of about 1, 000 are the so-called Adamanese, the aboriginal inhabitants ( adivasi ) of the islands.

The islands are prominently featured in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mystery, The Sign of the Four, as well as in M. M.

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.

Along with the minor islands to its immediate south, it is the only part of British Columbia that is south of the 49th Parallel.

Under the terms of the treaty, Samoa can request that New Zealand act as a channel of communication to governments and international organizations outside the immediate area of the Pacific islands.

They are the only German islands not in the immediate vicinity of the mainland and are approximately three hours ' sailing time from Cuxhaven at the mouth of the River Elbe.

A Security Council Resolution 502 was passed the next day demanding an immediate Argentine withdraw, which was ignored, so Britain sent out a task force to recapture the islands using militarily means if need be.

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An overwhelming majority of people of Amami, including those in mainland Japan, urged the immediate return of the islands to Japan.

The relief of the islands is an extension of the continent, whether granite, surrounded by the sea and native Brazilian restinga-mangue ( dunes and sandbanks ' bush and mangroves i. e. immediate coastline flora ) vegetation.

There are many smaller islands in its immediate vicinity, like Eppet Island off its eastern side, but none comes closer to its size.

Dwarf elephants are prehistoric members of the order Proboscidea, that through the process of allopatric speciation on islands evolved much smaller body sizes in comparison with their immediate ancestors.

Although the prison complex itself was constructed between 1896 and 1906, the British had been using the Andaman islands as a prison since the days in the immediate aftermath of the 1857 War of Independence.

The capital city of Tolmassar is also not shown on the map, but Tolmassar possesses extensive northern coastline onto the Icepack Sea, claims dominion over the Iskish Bay, and undoubtedly the many varied islands in the immediate vicinity within this section of Icepack Sea.

On these ecological islands the flora significantly differs from the greater surrounding zones of vegetation, where a smaller immediate area under the influence of a micro-environmental condition is defined.

Within the " arid islands " or micro-environments, the difference between vegetative type, acidity and immediate acidity of the surrounding biotopes of Pachypodium seem to be a significant factor in defining habitat type.

These treaties, together with a number of other minor agreements, created the Aden Protectorate that extended well east of Aden to Hadhramaut and included all of the territory that would become South Yemen except for the immediate environs and port of the British colonial capital, Aden city, which together with several offshore islands was known as the Aden Colony, the only part where no Arab ruler retained jurisdiction.

After the end of the war the islands briefly returned to British control, before becoming part of the newly independent state of India.

The 4th century historian Ammianus Marcellinus, relying on a lost work by Timagenes, a historian writing in the 1st century BC, writes that the Druids of Gaul said that part of the inhabitants of Gaul had migrated there from distant islands.

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.

With the end of western Roman power, the islands, to the extent that they were governed at all, were part of territories of Goths, Vandals, Saracens, before the Normans fortified Favignana in 1081.

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.

The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands archipelago, the remaining islands constitute the U. S. Virgin Islands and the Spanish Virgin Islands.

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.

The revolt was used as an opportunity by Darius to extend the empire's border to the islands of the eastern Aegean and the Propontis, which had not been part of the Persian dominions before.

The Banda Islands () are a volcanic group of ten small volcanic islands in the Banda Sea, about south of Seram Island and about east of Java, and are part of the Indonesian province of Maluku.

The islands are part of the Banda Sea Islands moist deciduous forests ecoregion.

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 islands, cays and reefs of the Great Barrier Reef are not part of the territory, belonging to Queensland instead.

Further south, near Vukovar and near Šarengrad, there are two river islands ( Vukovarska ada and Šarengradska ada ) which have been part of SR Croatia ( during Yugoslavia ) but during the war they came under Serbian control.

), the continental part of Spain ( as opposed to the Balearic islands, the Canary Islands, Alboran, etc.

On the map of Ptolemy, the " Kimbroi " are placed on the northernmost part of the peninsula of Jutland., i. e. in the modern landscape of Himmerland south of Limfjorden ( since Vendsyssel-Thy north of the fjord was at that time a group of islands ).

There are several smaller islands and cays that are part of the Dominican territory.

Also, similar hunting-out happened with the megafauna of New Zealand, Madagascar and many smaller islands around the world ( such as New Caledonia, Cyprus, Crete and Wrangel Island ), and at least in part, in the Americas — probably within a thousand years or so.

Much of the lower portion of the river ( List of islands in the Detroit River # Mud Island | Mud Island pictured ) is now part of the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge.

However, the supply of number tokens is smaller than the number of hexes in the scenario: when the number tokens run out and players expand into a new part of the outlying islands, number tokens are moved from the main island to the outlying islands.

Then-governor Edmund Andros directed that all islands in the bay that could be circumnavigated within 24 hours were part of New York.