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.

Rioting soon followed on the islands, which was finally resolved in a special set of elections held in 1995, in which the labour party overwhelmingly defeated the PAM party, winning 7 seats compared to PAM's 1.

Procellariids overwhelmingly breed on islands away from land predators such as mammals, and for the most part have lost the defensive adaptations needed to deal with them ( with the exception of the oil-spitting fulmarine petrels ).

The islands were overwhelmingly Greek-speaking, with Turkish-speaking minority and even smaller Ladino-speaking Jewish minority.

Both islands were overwhelmingly Greek, and in the case of Imbros the population was entirely Greek.

" Unsurprisingly, Sigurd agreed and the islands became Christian at a stroke.

His reports on the people of Polynesia are well regarded even to today, as they show Forster's description of the inhabitants of the southern islands with empathy, sympathy and largely without Western or Christian prejudices.

In July 2010, 168 bottles were found on board a shipwreck near the Åland islands in the Baltic Sea by Finnish diver Christian Ekström.

They consist of the Sirani ( Christian descendants of the Portuguese ), of Malays, Papuans, and immigrants from other islands.

On the Spanish-born Pope Alexander VI decreed in the bull Inter caetera that all lands west and south of a pole-to-pole line 100 leagues west and south of any of the islands of the Azores or the Cape Verde Islands should belong to Spain, although territory under Christian rule as of Christmas 1492 would remain untouched.

Often they have been placed in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the coast of south-western Italy near Paestum or between Sorrento and Capri: " three small islands on the southwest coast of Campania, now Licosa, St. Pietro and La Galetta " reported George Richard Crooks, Christian Frederik Ingersley, on the basis of Alexander Jacob Schem, A new Latin-English school-lexicon, ( Philadelphia ), 1861 s. v.

* 1675-An uprising on the islands of Micronesia leads to the death of three Christian missionaries

* 1797-Netherlands Missionary Society formed ; The Duff, carrying 36 lay and pastoral missionaries, sails to three islands of the South Pacific ; The first Christian missionary ( from the London Missionary Society ) visits Hiva on the Pacific island of Tahuata ; he is not well received.

Ertholmene consists of three main islands, Christiansø ( named after King Christian V ), Frederiksø ( named after King Frederick IV ) and Græsholm, plus a number of minor rocks and skerries.

Aside from baptizing the natives by force and giving them Christian names, the islands had also been renamed to " Filipinas " in honor of King Philip II ( Felipe in Spanish ).

With the Augustinian and Franciscan friars, who had helped him established a government on the islands, López de Legazpi worked to convert the natives to the Christian religion.

* The United States of the Ionian Islands were a federal Septinsular Republic of seven formerly Venetian ( see Provveditore ) Ionian islands ( Corfu, Cephalonia, Zante, Santa Maura, Ithaca, Cerigo and Paxos ), officially under joint protectorate of the Allied Christian Powers, de facto a UK amical protectorate from 1815 to 1864.

Initially a pagan culture, detailed information about the return of the Christian religion to the islands during the Norse-era is elusive, although the modern-day Diocese of Sodor and Man retains the centuries-old name.

Hawaiian music in general, which was promoted under the reign of King David Kalakaua as a matter of national pride and cultural revival, drew rhythms from traditional Hawaiian beats and European military marches, and drew its melodies from Christian hymns and the cosmopolitan peoples of the islands ( although principally American ).

In the mid-20th century Christian Missionaries introduced Christianity to the islands.

In the 1st century, Saint Paul visited the islands twice, and Saint John visited numerous times ; they succeeded in converting the islands to Christianity, placing them among the first dominantly Christian regions.

During the Second Schleswig War, Danish Lieutenant Commander Otto Christian Hammer, commanding a flotilla in the North Frisian Isles, resided in Wyk auf Föhr and was able to defend the islands against superior Austrian and Prussian naval forces.

The yellow Y-shape represents the light of the Gospel going through the pattern of the islands in the Pacific Ocean ( Vanuatu is approximately 90 % Christian ).

" It begins by asking for the continued blessing of God " who has always watched over these islands ", and goes on to acknowledge the strong Christian tradition of the Fijian people, dating from " their conversion from heathenism through the power of the name of Jesus Christ " and speaks of the " enduring influence " of the Christian faith in Fiji today.

" Unsurprisingly, Sigurd agreed and the islands became Christian at a stroke, receiving their own bishop in the early 11th century.

Ambon was a center of Christian missionary activity, and Ambon and the surrounding islands have many Christians as well as the Muslims that predominate in most of Indonesia.