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The islands are named after Don Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo, the 53rd viceroy of New Spain.
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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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The Arawaks inhabited the islands until the 15th century when they were displaced by the more aggressive Caribs, a tribe from the Lesser Antilles islands, after whom the Caribbean Sea is named.
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.
Columbus had found the two small islands ( Cayman Brac and Little Cayman ) and it was these two islands that he named " Las Tortugas ".
On September 28, 1995 Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries took over the Comoros islands in a coup ( named operation Kaskari by the mercenaries ) against President Djohar.
The Cook Islands are named after Captain James Cook, who visited the islands in 1773 and 1777.
British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777 ; Cook named the islands the ' Hervey Islands ' to honour a British Lord of the Admiralty ; Half a century later the Baltic German Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern published the Atlas de l ' Ocean Pacifique, in which he renamed the islands the Cook Islands to honour Cook.
Denmark has 443 named islands, of which 72 are inhabited (, Statistics Denmark ).
John Byron, who was unaware of the French presence in the east, explored Saunders Island, in the west, named the harbour Port Egmont, and claimed this and other islands for Britain on the grounds of prior discovery.
These fled to three small islands which could be seen off shore and named them the Iles de Salut ( or " Islands of Salvation ").
The country is named after Captain James Cook who surveyed and landed on some of the islands between 1773 and 1777.
By the following year, one of Bermuda's main islands was named after Ireland.
* List of islands named after people
As he progressed on his voyages of discovery he surveyed and named features, and recorded islands and coastlines on European maps for the first time.
The islands were not officially named until Captain Charles J. Johnston of the Royal Naval ship sighted them on December 14, 1807.
" A more modern geographer named 37 islands, of which he believed 19 have or had monasteries or churches on them.
These islands, named by him " Los Pintados ," may have been Ujelang.
The islands were named after the first in the Russian ( Krusenstern ) and French ( Duperrey ) maps ( 1820 ), later in the English maps.
Complementing this proposal is the theory that Smith borrowed the names of the Comoros islands and applied them to the hill where he found the golden plates, which he named Cumorah.
This ferry traverses the narrow, 2-mile wide straight named ' The Narrows ' between the two islands in 15 minutes, from Major's Bay in St. Kitts, to Cades Bay in Nevis.
The nation's main islands are São Tomé Island and Príncipe Island, for which the country is named.
Finding signs of alluvial gold on Guadalcanal, Mendaña believed he had found the source of King Solomon's wealth, and consequently named the islands " The Islands of Solomon ".
The islands were tentatively named " Sandwich Land " by Cook, although he also commented that they might be a group of islands rather than a single body of land.
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Indeed, you wouldn't live long, for the females either drive the men they've seized from neighboring islands back to their boats after exploiting them for amatory purposes, or they destroy them by revolting but ingenious methods.
For nearly 150 years after, Venice did not own an inch of soil on the mainland of Greece, except the Ionian dependencies of Parga and Butrinto, but of her insular dominions Cyprus, Crete, Tenos and 6 Ionian islands still remained.
A Cape Verde type Hurricane is formed in the area south of the islands, near Sao Miguel, after a tropical wave on the African continent during the rainy season.
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.
Military occupation of the islands ended recently after an incident in which Serbian military opened fire and arrested the mayor of Vukovar Vladimir Štengel with 19 other Croatian civilians and 8 children who were going to visit Zvezdan Kisić the mayor of the Serbian town Bačka Palanka.
Cyprus is third largest island in the Mediterranean ( after the Italian islands of Sicily and Sardinia ) and the world's 81st largest.
She took one gulp of the sea and brought the mountains to view ; islands appeared after another.
Then, after her return to Japanese islands, the boy was born, three years after the death of the father.
English Captain John Strong, commander of the Welfare, sailed between the two principal islands in 1690 and called the passage " Falkland Channel " ( now Falkland Sound ), after Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland ( 1659 – 1694 ), who as Commissioner of the Admiralty had financed the expedition and later became First Lord of the Admiralty.
The islands were subsequently liberated by British forces just 74 days after the start of the war, which led to the collapse of the military dictatorship in Argentina.
By the 1980s, the economic viability of the islands was in doubt, but after the Falklands War there was a new commitment from the United Kingdom government.
The largest was called Royal Island, another St. Joseph ( after the patron saint of the expedition ), and the smallest of the islands, surrounded by strong currents, Île du Diable ( the infamous " Devil's Island ").
Among all islands containing Indonesian territory, it is the 10th most populous after Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Bali, Madura, Lombok, and Timor.
Located just 100 kilometres off the coast of north Africa, it is the second biggest of the islands, after Tenerife, and has the longest beaches in the archipelago.
There were however continuing gradual economic improvements, among the most visible of which was the replacement of the traditional thatched black house with accommodation of a more modern design and with the assistance of Highlands and Islands Enterprise many of the islands ' populations have begun to increase after decades of decline.
Transits between the two islands peaked after the construction of the Bahrain International Airport in 1932.
The hilliest Orkney island after Hoy, it offers good views of neighbouring islands from Blotchnifiold, and Keirfea or Knitchen ( both over ).
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