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The islands are an important breeding site for seabirds including the Cape Verde Shearwater and Fea's Petrel ( Pterodroma feae ), which breeds only here and in Madeira.
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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.
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When they were first occupied, the present-day islands including Milos with its important obsidian production were probably still connected to the mainland.
The crusade was a notable success for Byzantium, as Alexios now recovered a number of important cities and islands.
Livestock raising is the most important agricultural activity ; poor soils limit the islands ' ability to meet domestic food requirements.
Until the opening of the Suez Canal, the islands used to be an important refuelling and provisioning station for ships from Europe to the Indian Ocean.
Migration among the various islands is important.
Small numbers of Indians, Malagasy, South Africans, and Europeans ( mostly French ) live on the islands and play an important role in the economy.
These events were nearly the cause of a war between Britain and Spain, both countries having sent armed fleets to contest sovereignty of the strategically important islands.
The Dominican order was extremely important in this island, as well as in the neighbouring islands of Timor and Solor.
Fair Isle is also famous for its woollen jumpers, with knitting forming an important source of income for the women of the islands.
The base was also an important intermediate distribution point for World War II merchant shipping convoys from New York City and Key West, Florida, to the Panama Canal and the islands of Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Trinidad & Tobago.
In 2010, the House of Commons Justice Committee, conducting an inquiry into the Crown dependencies, found that the Jersey government and those of the other islands were " with some important caveats, content with their relationship with the Ministry of Justice ".
Kuwait includes, within its territory, nine islands in the Persian Gulf, two of which, Bubiyan ( the largest ) and Warbah, are largely uninhabited but strategically important.
On oceanic islands ( where mammals are often scarce ), small birds – mainly passerine – may make up the bulk of its diet while elsewhere birds are only important food during a few weeks each summer when unexperienced fledglings abound.
Other important islands in Lake Tana include Dek, Mitraha, Gelila Zakarias, Halimun, and Briguida.
The city centre ( including the Old Town, the former islands of Grobla and Chwaliszewo, the main street Święty Marcin and many other important buildings and districts ) lies on the west side of the Warta.
Of the islands belonging to Qatar, Halul is the most important.
Other important islands include Ulleung and Liancourt Rocks in the Sea of Japan and Ganghwa Island at the mouth of the Han River.
Both islands, were major bases used by the Kalinago from the South to raid the Eastern Taino peoples of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, and were critically important for the Kalinago trade routes to the North.
The country is also a regional financial center, and tourism is a growing sector, although it is not proportionately as important as in many other Caribbean islands.
Carnival is an important cultural event on the Dutch Antilles islands of Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Saba, Sint Eustatius ( Statia ), and Bonaire.
There are various important prehistoric structures, many of which pre-date the first written references to the islands by Roman and Greek authors.
The islands also provide a habitat for other important species such as Corncrake, Hen Harrier, Golden Eagle and Otter.
The kingship of England of course lent the Danes an important link to the maritime zone between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, where Cnut like his father before him had a strong interest and wielded much influence among the Gall-Ghaedhil.
Ryberg was the first person who thought of making a financial profit from fishing, which later became the most important economic factor to the islands.
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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.
The Little Ice Age may have reduced the population of the Great Auk by exposing more of their breeding islands to predation by Polar Bears, but massive exploitation for their down drastically reduced the population.
In sharp contrast, the Red-legged Kittiwake has a very limited range in the Bering Sea, breeding only on the Pribilof, Bogoslof and Buldir islands in the United States, and the Commander Islands in Russia.
Other red wolves have been released on the coastal islands in Florida, Mississippi, and South Carolina as part of the captive breeding management plan.
He studied the developmental and anatomical differences between different breeds of many domestic animals, became actively involved in fancy pigeon breeding, and experimented ( with the help of his son Francis ) on ways that plant seeds and animals might disperse across oceans to colonise distant islands.
Most are unable to walk well on land, and many species visit their remote breeding islands only at night.
All Procellariiformes are colonial, predominantly breeding on offshore or oceanic islands.
See Also: Introduced mammals on seabird breeding islands
The majority of the sea's islands are uninhabited making them ideal breeding grounds for seals, sea lions, seabirds, and other sea island fauna.
In addition, a small subspecies of Canada goose, the Bering Canada goose ( Branta canadensis asiatica ) is extinct due to overhunting and introduction of rats to their breeding islands.
This critically endangered canid had evolved without predators but the large breeding population of Golden Eagles in California has spilled in numbers over to the islands and is there feeding largely on the foxes, whose already declining population cannot support sustained predation.
Breeding season is in July ; birds on different islands, most notably Mindanao and Luzon, begin breeding at different ends of this range.
Public access to the three islands in the national park is prohibited in order to protect breeding birds, especially the Torresian Imperial-pigeon.
The islands are an important breeding site for Pied Imperial Pigeons
President Herbert Hoover established the Cedar Key National Wildlife Refuge in 1929 by naming three of the islands as a breeding ground for colonial birds.
* See Also: Introduced mammals on seabird breeding islands
Seabirds, breeding predominantly on small isolated islands, have lost many predator defence behaviours.
The reserve is important for some scarce breeding birds, such as Pied Avocets on the islands, and Western Marsh Harriers, Eurasian Bitterns and Bearded Reedlings in the reeds.
The islands are a breeding ground for many important seabird species including Northern Gannets, Atlantic Puffins, and Northern Fulmars.
New Zealand Sea Lion | New Zealand ( Hooker's ) Sea Lions. By the 21st century the islands had become its primary breeding location.
The islands hold important seabird breeding colonies, among them albatrosses, penguins and several small petrels, with a million pairs of Sooty Shearwaters.
The Middle Island weta is the most endangered weta species, so a Department of Conservation breeding programme is establishing new colonies on other islands of the Mercury Island group.
* A new fourth population, derived from the Novaya Zemlya population, has become established since 1975 breeding on the Baltic Sea islands ( Estonia, Finland, Denmark, and Sweden ), and wintering in the Netherlands.
Predation can be heightened during migration: the Eleonora's Falcon, which breeds on Mediterranean islands, has a very late breeding season, coordinated with the autumn passage of southbound passerine migrants, which it feeds to its young.
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