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.

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.

The American Registry for Internet Numbers ( ARIN ) is the Regional Internet Registry ( RIR ) for Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States.

The largest islands are, from North to South, Chichagof Island, Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, Kupreanof Island, Revillagigedo Island and Prince of Wales Island.

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 westernmost islands of the archipelago ( Corvo and Flores ) are located in the North American Plate, while the remaining islands are located within the boundary that divides the Eurasian and African Plates.

The North Atlantic Ocean lies to the north of the islands, and the Caribbean Sea lies to the south.

North of Columbus Circle, Broadway retains planted center islands as a vestige of the central mall of " The Boulevard " that became the spine of the Upper West Side.

Of particular note is the endemic type of humid subtropical laurel forest of macaronesian laurisilva, found on several of the Macaronesian islands of the North Atlantic and Macaronesian African mainland enclaves, namely Madeira Islands, the Azores, Cape Verde Islands and the Canary Islands, a relict of the Pliocene subtropical forests, supporting numerous endemic species.

In the past, it was practiced by humans in Europe, South America, among Iroquoian peoples in North America, Maori in New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, parts of West Africa and Central Africa, some of the islands of Polynesia, New Guinea, Sumatra, and Fiji.

Denmark's general coastline is much shorter, at, as it would, among other geographical features, not include most of the 1, 419 offshore islands ( each defined as exceeding 100 square meters in area ) and the 180 km long Limfjorden, which separates Denmark's second largest island, North Jutlandic Island, 4, 686 km < sup > 2 </ sup > in size, from the rest of Jutland.

It is possible that Saint Brendan, an Irish monk ( a Papar ) sailed past the islands during his North Atlantic voyage in the 6th century.

In 1390s, Henry Sinclair I, Earl of Orkney, took possession of the islands ( as vassal of Norway, however ) and for some time they were part of the Sinclair principality in the North Atlantic.

The Faroese at Junkarinsfløtti remained dependent upon bird resources, especially puffins, far longer, and to a greater degree than any of the other Viking Age settlers of the North Atlantic islands.

The Faroe Islands are an island group consisting of eighteen islands off the coast of Northern Europe, between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic, about half-way between Iceland and Norway.

On 12 December 1992, an earthquake measuring 7. 8 on the Richter scale occurred, killing 2, 500 people in and around Maumere, including islands off the North coast.

The main islands include Barra, Benbecula, Berneray, Harris, Lewis, North Uist, South Uist, and St Kilda.

The islands of North Maluku are the original Spice Islands, a distinct rainforest ecoregion.

There are areas, such as the islands of the South Pacific, the interior of Africa, and parts of North and South America, where peoples have passed directly from the use of stone to the use of iron without the intervention of an age of bronze.

Today the islands are split more or less equally between the modern unitary authorities of Argyll and Bute and North Ayrshire with only Ailsa Craig and Lady Isle in South Ayrshire falling outwith these two council areas.

It has been criticised on the grounds that it in fact excludes most of the islands in the North Atlantic, including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island, and the Azores, and also that the only island referred to by the term that is actually in the North Atlantic Ocean is Ireland.

The British-Irish Council is the expression of a relationship that at the origin of the Anglo-Irish process in 1981 was sometimes given the name Iona, islands of the North Atlantic, and sometimes Council of the Isles, with its evocation of the Lords of the Isles of the 14th and 15th centuries who spanned the North Channel.

Johnston and Sand islands are both enlarged natural features, while North ( Akau ) and East ( Hikina ) are two artificial islands formed by coral dredging.