This region was marked by a red circle and included the islands of Auhah, Bubiyan, Failaka, Kubbar, Mashian, and Warba.

Fossils very similar to V. komodoensis have been found in Australia dating to greater than 3. 8 million years ago, and its body size remained stable on Flores, one of the handful of Indonesian islands where it is currently found, over the last 900, 000 years, " a time marked by major faunal turnovers, extinction of the island's megafauna, and the arrival of early hominids by 880 ka.

The border marked by the Mekong is as liquid as the waters within it: at high water during the rainy season, the centre line of the current is the border, while during low water periods, all islands, mudbanks, sandbanks, and rocks that are revealed, belong to Laos.

The islands are marked by dunes and wide, sandy beaches towards the North Sea and a low, tidal coast towards the Wadden Sea.

The subsequent period lasted to the beginning of the 20th century, and was marked by the creation of an acculturated yet characteristically Hawaiian modern style, while European instruments spread across the islands.

David Hannay, the author of the biography on the Comte de Guichen in the 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica stated that throughout all this campaign Guichen had shown himself very skilful in handling a fleet, and if he had not gained any marked success, he had prevented the British admiral from doing any harm to the French islands in the Antilles.

It showed Lanzarote island, named Insula de Lanzarotus Marocelus and marked by a Genoese shield, as well as the island of Forte Vetura ( Fuerteventura ) and Vegi Mari ( Lobos ), although Dulcert also included some imaginary islands himself, notably Saint Brendan's Island, and three islands he names Primaria, Capraria and Canaria.

Close-up of 1808 map of Africa with the small Comoros islands labelled " Camora " ( near center, just below marked line of latitude )

However, in marked contrast to the historical Medieval Europe, Christianity never becomes dominant in these islands.

Fathom Five also contains numerous islands, notably Flowerpot Island, which has rough camping facilities, marked trails, and its namesake flowerpots, outlying stacks of escarpment cliff that stand a short distance from the island, most with vegetation ( including trees ) still growing on them.

The canal follows a clearly marked route around the lake's islands, following the deeper water south from Gatun Locks, and then east.

This marked the end of more than three hundred years of Spanish rule over the islands.

The lake is marked by more than a hundred small rocky islands, which are stopover points in the migrations of various kinds of wild bird life ( including flamingos, pelicans, spoonbills, ibises, storks, shelducks, avocets, stilts, and gulls ).

Although never experiencing earthquakes since its initial settlement ( in comparison to the other islands in the Azores, the community was always marked by isolation, inaccessibility and weak defensive position.

The arrival of the French sparked great enthusiasm among the islands ' inhabitants, and was marked by acts such as the burning of the Libro d ' Oro, the abolition of aristocratic privileges and the adoption of the French Constitution of 1795.

On September 27, 2007, commemorations marked the 50th anniversary of the eruption and its effects on the islands history and people ( which was broadcast in Portugal and throughout the Azorean diaspora ).

Some other so-called islands are also now just promontories, often marked by a small ditch.

The clash between two rival companies, known as the Egg War, left two men dead and marked the end of private companies on the islands, although the lighthouse keepers continued egging.

The June 15, 1944, mission – the first raid on the Japanese home islands since the Doolittle raid of April 1942 – marked the beginning of the strategic bombardment campaign against Japan.

The topography of all the Babar islands is distinctive for their marked stepped appearance, the result of a combination of periodic uplifting of the tectonic plate interacting with the erosive action of the constant ocean waves.

Important Early Helladic sites are clustered on the Aegean shores of the mainland in Boeotia and Argolid ( Lerna, Pefkakia, Thebes, Tiryns ) or coastal islands such as Aegina ( Kolonna ) and Euboea ( Lefkandi, Manika ) and are marked by pottery showing Western Anatolian influences and the introduction of the fast-spinning version of the potter's wheel.

Vis has been marked as one of the ten most environmentally preserved islands in the Mediterranean by the World Organization for Environmental Protection.

Obviously, any cells marked with ' 1 ' at the outset are complete islands unto themselves, and can be isolated with black at the beginning.

The distance across the Strait from Cape York to New Guinea is approximately 150 km at the narrowest point ; the islands lie scattered in between, extending some 200 – 300 km from furthest east to furthest west.

In his book he listed the expedition's main achievements: proof that an expedition could live on Victoria Land over winter ; a year's continuous magnetic and meteorological observations ; an estimate of the current position of the South Magnetic Pole ; discoveries of new species of insects and shallow-water fauna ; coastal mapping and the discovery of new islands ; the first landing on Ross Island and, finally, the scaling of the Great Ice Barrier and the sledging to 78 ° 50 ' S, " the furthest south ever reached by man ".

Around 1300 A. D., the Kalinago, or Carib people arrived on the islands.

Both islands, were major bases used by the Kalinago from the South to raid the Eastern Taino peoples of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, and were critically important for the Kalinago trade routes to the North.

Around 1300, the Kalinago, or Carib people arrived on the islands.

Carib (), Island Carib, or Kalinago people, after whom the Caribbean was named, are a group of people who live in the Lesser Antilles islands.

No human casualties from mines or UXO have been reported in the Falkland Islands since 1984, and no civilian mine casualties have ever occurred on the islands.

They typically involve plans to construct artificial islands ( few of which are ever realised ), and a large percentage have embraced or purported to embrace libertarian or democratic principles.

During the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, the islands passed from Spanish, to French, to British control, but none of the three powers ever established any settlements.

Neither ever attempted to settle the northern islands.

Suckling finally left the islands without ever taking up his post ( or ever being paid ) on 2 May 1788, impoverished and embittered, due to the machinations of local interests which were fearful of the recourse of their creditors if a court was to be established.

In 1747 the islands were hit with the first of the many droughts that have plagued them ever since, with an average interval of five years.

When James permanently annexed the islands to the crown in 1470, Scotland reached its greatest ever territorial extent.

The fragments date to the middle or late Miocene, and no satisfying theory has been proposed as to how they got there due to uncertainties about whether these islands were ever connected to the mainland.

* Puerto Argentino – ( Port Argentine ), used ever since 21 April 1982 by the Argentines, although in 1994 the Argentine Government signed an undertaking to review toponymy relating to the Argentine occupation of the islands.

The United States is effectively guaranteed control of any land it is able to gain possession of in North America, besides the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon which France had retained possession of after the Seven Years War, and of the Islands of Bermuda due to King Louis XVI of France, renouncing " for ever the possession of the Islands of Bermudas as well as of any part of the continent of North america which before the treaty of Paris in 1763. or in virtue of that Treaty, were acknowledged to belong to the Crown of Great Britain, or to the United States heretofore called British Colonies, or which are at this Time or have lately been under the Power of The King and Crown of Great Britain.

" No such formal annexation of Taiwan islands by the ROC National Assembly conforming with the ROC constitution ever occurred since 1946, even though Article 9 of the Additional Articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China says, " The modifications of the functions, operations, and organization of the Taiwan Provincial Government may be specified by law.

In 1818 Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote to Thomas Love Peacock: " This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty, with the exception of the arbutus islands of Killarney.

) The tax was repealed a year later, and very few were ever actually used in the thirteen colonies, but they saw service in Canada and the British Caribbean islands.

By 1944, most of the islands were under the control of the EAM / ELAS resistance movement, and they have remained a stronghold of left-wing sentiment ever since.

This genus consists of a group that has been evolving there ever since the first islands emerged from the sea over 20 million years ago.

The business failed in 1940 and the islands have remained deserted ever since.

On July 28, 1871, they launched Annie, the first boat ever to sail on the lake and began exploring the islands and shoreline.

He afterwards wrote of it in his journal: " I had great pleasure in admiring this island, which is very attractive, and where it seems to me that nature has denied nothing to make it pleasurable beyond all islands I have ever seen, being very well provided for man's well-being, with timber, stone, and lime for building him houses, only lacking ploughmen to fill these fine plains.

P. L. Sclater described him as one of the most industrious and successful exploring naturalists that have ever lived and after his death, A. R. Wallace wrote due to Mr. Swinhoe's own exertions ... there is probably no part of the world ( if we except Europe, North America, and British India ) of whose warm-blooded vertebrates we possess fuller or more accurate knowledge than we do of the coast districts of China and its islands.

* February 23 – Aircraft from six aircraft carriers of Task Force 58 make the first Allied strike against Japanese forces in the Mariana Islands, attacking Guam, Rota, and Tinian, discovering the location of Japanese airfields in the islands for the first time, destroying 168 Japanese aircraft, sinking two cargo ships and several smaller craft, and conducting the first Allied photographic reconnaissance missions ever flown over the Marianas.

During the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, the islands passed from Spanish, to French, to English ( subsequently British ) control, but none of the three powers ever established any settlements.

Increased prosperity in the islands, and a healthy summertime tourist traffic, led to ever increasing volumes of traffic queueing for the ferries, and brought renewed calls for the construction of a road bridge.

France forced the abdication of King Pomare V of Tahiti and claimed the islands without ever having formally annexed them.