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.

Some smaller islands are included within these prefectures, most prominently Ogasawara Islands, Sado Island, Izu Oshima, and Awaji Island.

The Skellig islands are featured prominently in a sequence at the end of the 1976 German film Herz aus Glas ( Heart of Glass ) by Werner Herzog.

During this time period Sugar Island, which is one of the twelve islands commonly considered to comprise Grosse Ile, featured an amusement park, dance pavilion and bathing beach.

Many wildlife and adventure tourism TV series ( in the US and Canada ) have also featured the islands since the 1990s, reflecting the islands as a globe trekking location.

It featured six themed ' islands ' including Seuss Landing, The Lost Continent, Jurassic Park, Toon Lagoon, and Marvel Super Hero Island.

Some new features being introduced include a search function for the user list, a mass permission copy page, unlimited custom islands, and two new portal islands ( one that displays today's birthdays, and a " featured member " portal island that selects and displays a random user who is not banned ).

The Lego line grew again in 1989 with the release of the Lego Pirates series, which featured a variety of pirate ships, desert islands and treasure ; the series was also the first to depart from the standard minifigure smiling face to create an array of piratical characters.

The defence system featured a network of tunnels dug in the several islands, including Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney.

Ukulhas ( Dhivehi: އ ު ކ ު ޅ ަ ސ ް) is one of the inhabited islands of Alif Alif Atoll .“ Ukulhas ” is known to be one of the unique featured Islands in the Maldives with many significant characteristics.

The scene from the 1953 movie Fair Wind to Java would have featured, among other things, a smoke-belching volcano constructed on one of the lake ’ s islands.

* 1951 Atlantic hurricane season featured a major Category 3 Hurricane Dog that passed through the Central Windward islands

Firstly, the trenchant opposition of the Quakers to slavery had a contributing effect to the improvements in the treatment of slaves within the Territory ( the exceptional case of Arthur William Hodge notwithstanding ) compared to other Caribbean islands, and to the large number of free blacks within the islands.

Following regular illegal shooting of the birds there during the early and mid 20th Century, the population using the islands was subject to a long protection campaign and monitoring program by conservation activists Margaret and Arthur Thorsborne.

Herodotus ( 1. 171 ) says that the Leleges were a people who in old times dwelt in the islands of the Aegean and were subject to Minos of Crete ( one of the historic references that led Sir Arthur Evans to name the pre-Hellenic Cretan culture " Minoan "); and that they were driven from their homes by the Dorians and Ionians, after which they took refuge in Caria and were named Carians.

Cnoyen's account ( originally in his own language ; translations here based on Eva Taylor's version ) mixes probable fact with what may have been his own attempts to research the background, stating that Greenland was first settled at the orders of King Arthur, whose army supposedly conquered the North Atlantic islands.

He was descended in the fifth generation from those whom Arthur had sent to inhabit these lands, and he related that in the year 1360 a certain Minorite, an Englishman from Oxford, a mathematician, went to those islands ; and leaving them, advanced still farther by magic arts and mapped out all and measured them by an astrolabe in practically the subjoined figure, as we have learned from Jacobus.

* 1788 – New South Wales, according to Arthur Phillip's amended Commission dated 25 April 1787, includes " all the islands adjacent in the Pacific Ocean " and running westward to the 135th meridian east.

Janus Island is the southernmost of the islands on the west side of the entrance to Arthur Harbor.

The name arose from the island's position on the eastern fringe of the islands in the vicinity of Arthur Harbor.

In addition, Litchfield Island possesses rich growths of vegetation and has the most varied topography and the greatest diversity of terrestrial habitats of the islands in Arthur Harbor.

The name arose because of their isolated position some distance from the other islands in the vicinity of Arthur Harbor.

Already the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812, included a provision for the appointment of " commissioners to divide the islands of Passamaquoddy Bay between the United States and Great Britain " ( see John Holmes ).

In 1816, Holmes was one of the commissioners under the Treaty of Ghent to divide the islands of Passamaquoddy Bay between the United States and Great Britain.

The school buildings " rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea ", which Holmes points out to Watson from a train near Clapham Junction still exist today, and can still be seen by passengers on that railway line.

They were worshiped in a mystery cult closely associated with that of Hephaestus, centered in the north Aegean islands of Lemnos and possibly Samothrace — at the Samothrace temple complex — and at Thebes.

It turns out that Manulani was the granddaughter of the last hereditary prince of the islands, and on Christmas Amelia finally puts all of the pieces together to solve the mystery.

The early history of the Tuamotu islands is generally shrouded in mystery.

Aboard his boat, the Bold Venture, Slate and Sailor experience " adventure, intrigue, mystery and romance in the sultry settings of tropical Havana and the mysterious islands of the Caribbean.

The islands had become a mystery since the Japanese closed them to the outside world.

The story proper begins in the present-day Aleutian islands, where a team of CDC researchers, including beautiful field epidemiologist Sarah Matson, are unexpectedly infected by a deadly mystery illness ; they are rescued by Dirk Pitt Jr. ( hereinafter Pitt Jr .), who is nearby on a NUMA research vessel.

As with most inhabited islands in Malaysian waters, Pemanggil has its fair share of history, mystery and spooky tales.