We have been grand to Formosa itself -- lots of aid, and, most of the time, a policy of support for the offshore islands.

The potters of the Aegean islands thus stood apart from those of the mainland, and in Greece itself Argive, Corinthian, Attic, Boeotian, and other Geometric sequences have each their own hallmarks.

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.

Many of the islands in the Aegean have safe harbours and bays.

The larger islands have some fertile valleys and plains.

Several volcanoes on offshore islands have records of historic activity.

These beliefs have persisted despite ( and have been influenced by ) the introduction of Islam and Catholicism to the islands in the 13th and 16th centuries, respectively.

The islands also have a number of endemic reptiles, toads and frogs, such as the South Andaman Krait ( Bungarus andamanensis ).

Due to the length of these routes and the small number of airlines flying to the islands, fares have traditionally been relatively expensive, although cheaper for locals than visitors.

The coast contains sufficient estuaries, inlets, rivers, islands, swamps and marshes to have been then inaccessible to those not familiar with the terrain, such as the Romans, who considered it unknown, inaccessible, with a small population and of little economic interest.

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.

The islands have a population of about 27, 800, of whom approximately 23, 000 live on Tortola.

Since the 1960s, the islands have diversified away from their traditionally agriculture-based economy towards tourism and financial services, becoming one of the wealthiest areas in the Caribbean.

Most of the islands are volcanic in origin and have a hilly, rugged terrain.

The Territory is also technically divided into 5 administrative districts ( one for each of the four largest islands, and then a fifth for all other islands ), and into 6 civil registry districts ( three for Tortola, Jost Van Dyke, Virgin Gorda and Anegada ) although these have little practical relevance today.

The latter etymology was first suggested by John Mitchell Kemble who alluded that " of six manuscripts in which this passage occurs, one only reads Bretwalda: of the remaining five, four have Bryten-walda or-wealda, and one Breten-anweald, which is precisely synonymous with Brytenwealda "; that Æthelstan was called brytenwealda ealles ðyses ealondes, which Kemble translates as " ruler of all these islands "; and that bryten-is a common prefix to words meaning ' wide or general dispersion ' and that the similarity to the word bretwealh (' Briton ') is " merely accidental ".

:" Furthermore we have been told that there are many more islands in that sea, one of which is called the Great Estland ( Aestland ) -- And this island is told to be quite close to the Woman Land ( terrae feminarum ), which is not far ( non longe ) away from Birka of the Swedes.

On the higher islands and somewhat wetter islands, exclusively in mountainous areas, like Santo Antao island, the climate is suitable for the development of dry monsoon forest, and laurel forest as this vegetation is believed to have been present in the past.

Archaeological studies of Grand Cayman have found no evidence that humans occupied the islands prior to the sixteenth century.

Therefore, native Caymanians do not have any Amerindian heritage from their own islands ; however, a significant number of Jamaicans have settled in the Cayman Islands over the years, so they and their descendants may have some Amerindian blood via Jamaica.

Indeed, you wouldn't live long, for the females either drive the men they've seized from neighboring islands back to their boats after exploiting them for amatory purposes, or they destroy them by revolting but ingenious methods.

Because, honey, I thought silently, there are plenty of desert islands in every marriage -- long periods when you're hopelessly stranded, together.

In the Delaware River, three long islands were overgrown with greening trees and underbrush.

The British Virgin Islands comprise around sixty tropical Caribbean islands, ranging in size from the largest, Tortola long and wide, to tiny uninhabited islets.

Mahoré, geologically the oldest of the four islands, is thirty-nine kilometers long and twenty-two kilometers wide, totaling 375 square kilometers, and its highest points are between 500 and 600 meters above sea level.

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.

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.

Estonia has a long, shallow coastline () along the Baltic Sea, with 1, 520 islands dotting the shore.

This means is it likely that the Warrah arrived in the islands long before humans.

The name has been explained as derived from a Celtic term for " far islands ", but in popular etymology it has long been understood as based on Old Norse fár " livestock ", thus fær-øer " sheep islands ".

On 9 May 2008, the Falkland Islands Government asserted that the minefields which represent 0. 1 % of the available farmland on the islands " present no long term social or economic difficulties for the Falklands " and that the impact of clearing the mines would cause more problems than containing them.

Roatán, the largest of the three islands, is fifty kilometers long by five kilometers wide.

These islands have a long history of occupation dating back to the Mesolithic and the culture of the residents has been affected by the successive influences of Celtic, Norse and English-speaking peoples.

Indonesia has long since been using traditional forms of slayed communications between various islands and villages.

These ships generally provide the least expensive way to cover long distances between islands.

Italy is located in southern Europe and comprises the long, boot-shaped Italian Peninsula, the land between the peninsula and the Alps, and some islands including Sicily and Sardinia.

At long, it is mostly consisted of rocks towards north, and sand south, adding some headlands, bays, and offshore islands

When its islands are included, the lake has a shoreline that is long.

It consists of hundreds of the Ryukyu Islands in a chain over long, which extends southwest from Kyūshū ( the southwesternmost of Japan's main four islands ) to Taiwan.

( not the Canary Islands, as long accepted ) as suggested by the location of the six dots labelled the " FORTUNATA " islands near the left extreme of the blue sea of Ptolemy's map here reproduced.

The islands are even closer to the long Burin Peninsula, which is situated just to the east.

São Tomé is long and wide and the more mountainous of the two islands.

In contrast, the distinguishing natural features of peninsular Thailand are long coastlines, offshore islands, and diminishing mangrove swamps.