* CpG islands, in genetics, genomic regions that contain a high frequency of CG dinucleotides

The Cook Islands contain 15 islands in the group spread over a vast area in the South Pacific.

The islands contain about 7, 100, 000 tonnes of nickel.

High islands are of volcanic origin, and many contain active volcanoes.

The 11 largest islands contain 94 % of the total land area.

The Maluku islands differ from other areas in Indonesia ; they contain some of the country's smallest islands, coral island reefs scattered through some of the deepest seas in the world, and no large islands such as Java or Sumatra.

The World Bank study for this project states that the islands contain, out of a total of 1, 170 flowering plants, " at least 75 species of flowering plants, 15 of birds, 3 of mammals, 30 of reptiles and amphibians, and several hundred species of snails, insects, spiders and other invertebrates " found nowhere else.

) than any other island in the Bahamas, and sites on Great Inagua contain large quantities of sand-tempered pottery imported from Cuba and / or Hispaniola, while sites on other islands in the Bahamas contain more shell-tempered pottery (" Palmetto Ware "), which developed in the Bahamas.

Many of the islands contain watchtowers largely constructed of reeds.

The coastline is convoluted, with many islands and fjords, several of which contain tidewater glaciers.

The southern and western parts of the bay contain shallow mud-layered waters that are protected from strong wave action by the barrier islands.

In genetics, CpG islands or CG islands are genomic regions that contain a high frequency of CpG sites.

There are at least 253 natural islands on Lake Winnipesaukee that are at least above lake level and contain vegetation, about 130 of which are over in size.

On bird-rich islands, a Barn Owl might contain some 15-20 % birds in its diet, while in grassland it will gorge itself on swarming termites, or on Orthoptera such as Copiphorinae katydids, Jerusalem crickets ( Stenopelmatidae ) or true crickets ( Gryllidae ).

Copperfield has stated that the islands may contain the Fountain of Youth, a claim which resulted in him receiving a Dubious Achievement Award from Esquire Magazine in 2006.

Some tepui sinkholes contain species that have evolved in these " islands within islands " that are unique to that sinkhole.

The rapids contain a number of islands used by migratory birds.

It consists of an archipelago of seven islands that contain Pokémon normally exclusive to the Johto region.

The sea contains several dozen islands, many of which contain well-preserved mammoth remains.

The higher slopes of the islands contain forests of tall Podocarpus conifers and Engelhardias with an undergrowth of lianas, epiphytes, and orchids such as Corybas, Corymborkis, and Malaxis ( Adder's Mouth ), while the coastal plains were originally savanna grasses such as the savanna with Borassus flabellifer palm trees on the coasts of Komodo, Rincah and Flores.

Amakusa ( 天草 ), which means " Heaven's Grass ," is a series of islands belonging to Japan, off the west coast of Kyushu, the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan.

Admiral Chester Nimitz favored a more direct strategy of bypassing the Philippines, but seizing Okinawa and Taiwan as staging areas to an attack on the Chinese mainland, followed by the future invasion of Japan's southernmost islands.

Diego Garcia lies in the Chagos Archipelago at the southernmost tip of the Chagos-Laccadive Ridge –&# 32 ; a vast submarine range in the Indian Ocean, topped by a long chain of coral reefs, atolls, and islands comprising Lakshadweep, Maldives, and the Chagos Archipelago.

Located as the southernmost of the Leeward Islands in the eastern Caribbean Sea, Guadeloupe comprises two main islands: Basse-Terre Island, Grande-Terre ( separated from Basse-Terre by a narrow sea channel called Salt River ) forming Guadeloupe proper.

The southernmost islands of Italy, the Pelagie islands, are geologically part of the African continent.

Captain James Cook discovered the southern eight islands of the Sandwich Islands Group in 1775, although he lumped the southernmost three together, and their status as separate islands was not established until 1820 by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.

It forms the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately and a 2001 census population of 13, 670.

The southernmost islands possess a sub antarctic climate typical of tundra that makes the growth of trees impossible.

The islands lie south of Ternate and west of Halmahera's southernmost arm.

Rather, it is the exposed edge of small submarine ridges produced by tectonic tilting of the sea bottom Basilan, Jolo, and other islands in the group are extinct volcanic cones rising from the southernmost ridge.

It forms the southernmost point in mainland Canada ( its latitudinal position is the same as the northernmost counties of California ) and is part of a bird and butterfly migration corridor over Lake Erie via Point Pelee and the Lake Erie islands.

Shandong Peninsula has a rocky coastline with cliffs, bays, and islands ; the large Laizhou Bay, the southernmost of the three bays of Bohai Sea, is found to the north, between Dongying and Penglai ; Jiaozhou Bay, which is much smaller, is found to the south, next to Qingdao.

Over one third of the total area and population of the Lesser Antilles lies within Trinidad and Tobago, a sovereign nation comprising the two southernmost islands of the Windward Island chain.

All of the islands are under the Russian jurisdiction, but Japan claims the two southernmost large islands ( Iturup and Kunashir ) as part of its territory, as well as Shikotan and the Habomai islets, which has led to the ongoing Kuril Islands dispute.

The largest southernmost and northernmost islands are inhabited by brown bear, foxes, and martens.

Japan maintains a claim to the four southernmost islands of Kunashir, Iturup, Shikotan, and the Habomai rocks, together called the Northern Islands Territories ( see Kuril Islands dispute ).

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

Kumamoto Prefecture is located in the center of Kyūshū, the southernmost of the four major Japanese islands.

It is closely related to the Common Starling S. vulgaris, but has a much more restricted range, confined to the Iberian Peninsula, northwest Africa, southernmost France, and on the islands of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica.

It is the southernmost of the main group of the Ionian islands ( not counting distant Kythira ).

Meanwhile, the fleeing Taira set up a temporary Court at Dazaifu in Kyūshū, the southernmost of Japan's main islands.