For example, Scotland has more than 700 islands surrounding its mainland which constitute an archipelago.

The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands archipelago, the remaining islands constitute the U. S. Virgin Islands and the Spanish Virgin Islands.

Cape Verde is a group of arid Atlantic islands which are home to a number of birds and reptiles and constitute a unique ecoregion in the World Wildlife Fund classification.

The islands of Palau constitute part of the Caroline Islands chain.

Part of the problem was that the islands were so thinly populated, it was almost impossible to constitute the organs of government.

Two of the largest islands, Orust and Tjörn, constitute their own municipalities.

Malta Island is the largest of the three major islands that constitute the Maltese archipelago.

The islands also constitute the Adalar ( literally Islands or Isles ) district of Istanbul Province.

Comprising the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola ( containing the Dominican Republic and Haiti ), Puerto Rico, and Jamaica, the Greater Antilles constitute almost 90 % of the land mass of the entire West Indies, as well as almost 90 % of its population.

Also the mixed-blood aboriginal community on the Furneaux group of islands continues to constitute a native community until the present day.

The Barat Daya and Banda islands constitute an inner arc ; the outer arc, which includes Timor, the Tanimbar Islands, and the Kai Islands, is mostly made up of oceanic crust lifted up by the collision, and wraps around south and east of the inner arc.

* Cabo Verde – Viagem pela história das ilhas ( 2003 ) Almeida's historical presentation of all the nine inhabited islands that constitute Cape Verde.

The remaining 15 are chosen by the legislatures of the three islands which constitute the Union: Ndzuwanie ( also known as Anjouan ), Mwali ( also known als Mohéli ) and Ngazidja ( also known as Grande Comore ), with five being chosen from each island.

These formerly linked islands each constitute a separate ecoregion, as does Mindoro, which remained separate from the rest, along with a few smaller islands, notably Camiguin, Sibuyan, and Siquijor.

The Delarof Islands, a subgroup of the Andreanof Islands, constitute the westernmost islands of the latter group.

The island is the western-most part of Nova Scotia and the southern end of the North Mountain ridge with Long Island lying immediately northeast ; both islands constitute part of the Digby Neck.

In some islands and countries, these Indo-Caribbean migrants now constitute a significant proportion of the population.

Together, these constitute the British Isles-which is a geographical term for a group of islands lying off the north-west coast of mainland Europe.

The peaks of these mountains, because of their height, constitute sky islands for many species of plants and animals.

Covering 2. 5 km², it is the smallest of the three islands that constitute Tokelau, and is composed of an atoll surrounding a central lagoon, which itself covers some 15 km².

Covering 5. 5 km², it is the largest of the three islands that constitute Tokelau, and is composed of an atoll surrounding a central lagoon, which itself covers some 90 km².

The 34 major thermal and hydroelectric power plants and the 3 wind farms of the interconnected power grid of the mainland, as well as the 60 autonomous power plants located on Crete, Rhodes and other Greek islands ( 33 thermal, 2 hydroelectric, 18 wind energy and 5 photovoltaic parks ) form PPC's industrial assets and constitute the energy basis of all financial activities of the country.

It consists of approximately 1, 190 coral islands grouped in a double chain of 26 atolls, spread over roughly 90, 000 square kilometers, making this one of the most disparate countries in the world.

* Even shortly before on 8 December 1918 the Allied occupation of the Bosporus, the Dardanelles, the eastern coast of the Sea of Marmara, the islands of Imros, Lemnos, Samothrace and Tenedos and 15 km deep into eastern and the eastern shores ; entire area demilitarized ( Zone of the Straits ; complemented 16 March – 10 August 1920 as the allies occupy the Ottoman capital Istanbul ) was a military fact, in November 1918 a double post was created: until the termination of allied occupation on 22 October 1923, there were at all times one British Senior Allied High Commissioner and one ( junior ) Allied High Commissioner ( incumbents from France, thrice, Italy and the US, each twice ).

The desirable undulations of paths and islands and bands of shrub plantings would ideally undulate in elevation too: " break up the level by throwing up elevations ,' Philips suggested, " so as to answer the double purpose of obscuring private walks and screening other parts from the wind.

The average direction is N 21 ° E. In the islands and southern Greece a fault-block mountain orogeny prevails due to a double set of crustal movements.

Quast was very eager to find the islands, as can be seen from the fact that not only he raised the bonus for the first person to sight land, but also installed severe punishments for falling asleep on watch: one month's pay and fifty lashings for the first offence, double that amount for the second, and death penalty for the third.

Further on there is a double bend with two large islands The Lynch, and Hallsmead Ait followed by Buck Ait.

The three double ended, diesel engined and screw driven ferries that form the backbone of today's service to the islands were all built for the TTC, these being the William Inglis in 1935, the Sam McBride in 1939, and the Thomas Rennie in 1951.

The is a series of double deck bridges connecting Okayama and Kagawa prefectures in Japan across a series of five small islands in the Seto Inland Sea.

Due to this the population of many islands can double or more during the summer.

The atoll, which is located on the coral reef platform, comprises four islands.

The first Western record of the atoll was on September 2, 1796 when the American brig Sally accidentally grounded on a shoal near the islands.

Along with six other islands, the atoll was administered as part of the Pacific Remote Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex.

An atoll ( or ) is a coral island ( or islands ) that encircles a lagoon partially or completely.

The largest atoll in terms of island numbers is Huvadhu Atoll in the south of the Maldives with 255 islands.

Reginald Aldworth Daly offered a somewhat different explanation for atoll formation: islands worn away by erosion, by ocean waves and streams, during the last glacial stand of the sea of some below present sea level developed as coral islands ( atolls ), or barrier reefs on a platform surrounding a volcanic island not completely worn away, as sea level gradually rose from melting of the glaciers.

All islands, including the main island and its peninsula Ootu, are listed starting clockwise from the northernmost point of the atoll:

On average, each atoll has approximately 5 to 10 inhabited islands ; the uninhabited islands of each atoll number approximately 20 to 60.

On January 31, 1944 American forces landed on Kwajalein atoll and U. S. Marines and Army troops later took control of the islands from the Japanese on February 3, following intense fighting on Kwajalein and Enewetak atolls.

Majuro () ( Marshallese:, ), is a large coral atoll of 64 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands.

Amongst the 15 or so islands of the atoll, Palmerston Island is the only one which is inhabited.

Electricity is now available on some islands, and the advent of video players and cell phones have brought a touch of the outside world to this very isolated atoll.

Kwajalein Island is the southernmost, and the largest, of the islands in the Kwajalein atoll.

Other islands in the atoll:

It is a site of cultural significance to the indigenous people of Kwajalein atoll, as are most of the small islands throughout the atoll.

By the 1950s, the Marshallese population coming to work at the base at Kwajalein had grown, and the conditions in the makeshift labor camp on Kwajalein islet were such that the U. S. Navy administering the atoll at the time decided to relocate these Islanders to nearby Ebeye, an islet only three islands to the north of Kwajalein and accessible by a short boat ride or walk over the reef at low tide.

Enewetak Atoll ( or Eniwetok Atoll, sometimes also spelled Eniewetok ; Marshallese:,, or, ) is a large coral atoll of 40 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands.

Aldabra, the world's second largest coral atoll, is in the Aldabra Group of islands in the Indian Ocean that form part of the Seychelles.

The atoll consists of a ring of four larger islands: counterclockwise, they are South Island ( Grand Terre, 116. 1 km² ), Malabar or Middle Island ( 26. 8 km² ), Polymnieli or Polymnie Island ( 4. 75 km² ) and Picard or West Island ( 9. 4 km² ).

The fallout plume spread high levels of radiation for over a hundred miles, contaminating a number of populated islands in nearby atoll formations ( though they were soon evacuated, many of the islands ' inhabitants suffered from radiation burns and later from other effects such as increased cancer rate and birth defects ), as well as a Japanese fishing boat ( Daigo Fukuryū Maru ).