Earlier Andronikos III had effected the recovery of the islands of Lesbos and Chios from Martino Zaccaria in 1329 ( although the island remained under Benedetto III Zaccaria until 1330 ) and of Phocaea in 1334 from the last Genoese governor Domenico Cattaneo.

For nearly 150 years after, Venice did not own an inch of soil on the mainland of Greece, except the Ionian dependencies of Parga and Butrinto, but of her insular dominions Cyprus, Crete, Tenos and 6 Ionian islands still remained.

As with the new United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges entry, the old entries for these five islands remained as redirects on the website.

From the very beginning Mayotte refused to join the new republic and aligned itself even more firmly to the French Republic, but the other islands remained committed to independence.

The Faroese at Junkarinsfløtti remained dependent upon bird resources, especially puffins, far longer, and to a greater degree than any of the other Viking Age settlers of the North Atlantic islands.

Islands close to the shores of modern Ayrshire would have remained part of the Kingdom of Strathclyde during this period, whilst the main islands became part of the emerging Kingdom of Alba founded by Kenneth MacAlpin ( Cináed mac Ailpín ).

Latterly, the Outer Hebrides remained under the control of Godred V of the Isle of Man while the Inner Hebrides south of Ardnamurchan and the islands of the Clyde became part of the Kingdom of the Hebrides controlled by Somerled.

From the mid thirteenth century to the present day all of the islands of the Clyde have remained part of Scotland.

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.

While the Belgian interest soon concentrated on the Congo River, the British and Germans focused on Eastern Africa and in 1886 partitioned continental East Africa between themselves ; the Sultanate of Zanzibar, now reduced to the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, remained independent, for the moment.

The islands remained a dependency of Jamaica until 1959.

On 4 July 1959, the islands were again a separate colony, the last commissioner being restyled administrator, but the governor of Jamaica remained the governor of the islands.

The islands remained abandoned and depopulated for 130 years afterwards.

This remained until it was eventually surpassed by geographically larger islands like Jamaica in 1713.

Due to the islands ' isolation, for many years Bermuda remained an outpost of 17th-century British civilization, with an economy based on the use of the islands ' Bermuda cedar ( Juniperus bermudiana ) trees for shipbuilding, and Bermudians ' control of the Turks Islands, and their salt trade.

While the trade in mahogany from the Spanish and French territories in America remained moribund for most of the 18th century, this was not true for those islands under British control.

The events on Lamay changed the course of Dutch rule to work closer with allied aborigines, though there remained plans to depopulate the outlying islands.

De Poincy then quickly made Basseterre capital of the entire French West Indies colony, which included the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, and remained so until his death in 1660.

However, by 1909 there were no resident palagi traders representing the trading companies, although both Fred Whibley and Alfred Restieaux remained in the islands until their deaths.

In January 1942 Pago Pago Harbor was shelled by a Japanese submarine, but this remained the only battle action on the islands during World War II.

Iceland remained for a long time one of the world's last larger islands uninhabited by humans ( the others being New Zealand and Madagascar ).

When a great flood occurred, the survivors, who were living on mountains that had now become islands, split into two groups: one group remained and took Deimas as king while the other sailed away, eventually settling in the island of Samothrace.

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 ABC islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao are in the Leeward Antilles just off the Venezuelan coast, and the SSS islands of Sint Maarten, Saba, and Sint Eustatius are in the Leeward Islands southeast of the Virgin Islands.

The islands are geographically part of the Virgin Islands archipelago and are located in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles.

However, in 1901 the Legislative Council was finally formally dissolved, and the islands were then officially administered through the Governor of the Leeward Islands, who appointed a commissioner and an executive council.

At the time of the European discovery of most of the islands of the Caribbean, three major Amerindian indigenous peoples lived on the islands: the Taíno in the Greater Antilles, The Bahamas and the Leeward Islands ; the Island Caribs and Galibi in the Windward Islands ; and the Ciboney in western Cuba.

Various islands in the Caribbean that were colonies of the United Kingdom, including Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, and those on the Leeward and Windward Islands, came together to form the Federation, with its capital in Trinidad.

The Antilles are divided into two major groups: the " Greater Antilles " to the north and west, including the larger islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola ( Haiti and the Dominican Republic ), and Puerto Rico ; and the smaller " Lesser Antilles " on the southeast — comprising the northerly Leeward Islands, the southeasterly Windward Islands, and the Leeward Antilles just north of Venezuela.

The Leeward Islands are a group of islands in the West Indies.

The trans-Atlantic currents and winds that provided the fastest route across the ocean brought these ships to the rough dividing line between the Windward and Leeward islands.

In 1871 the British government passed the Leeward Islands Act through which all the islands were under one Governor and one set of laws.

They are the three western-most islands of the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean, north of Falcón State, Venezuela.

The ABC islands are part of the Leeward Antilles, which is the westernmost area of the Lesser Antilles.

Hurricane Iris, and especially Hurricanes Luis and Marilyn, caused catastrophic damages in the Leeward Islands and were the worst hurricanes to affect the islands since Hurricane Hugo.

The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands or the Leeward Islands are the small islands and atolls in the Hawaiian island chain located northwest ( in some cases, far to the northwest ) of the islands of Kauai and Niihau.

A five shilling stamp of the Leeward islands.

The Dutch part of the SSS islands initially formed until 1983 the single " island area " (, the main administrative division of the country, governed by an Island council ) the Leeward islands ().

A tropical storm watch was issued for Frances for the Leeward Islands during the afternoon of August 29, which was upgraded to a warning that night and expanded to include the islands of Anguilla, Antigua, Barbuda, Nevis, Saba, St. Kitts, St. Eustatius, and St. Maarten.

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.

* Aran Islands: These islands off the west coast of Ireland, ( not to be confused with the Isle of Arran in Scotland's Firth of Clyde ), were unsuitable for arable farming because they were too rocky.

In Italian, possibly following a tradition of antiquity, the Arcipelago ( from medieval Greek * ἀρχιπέλαγος ) was the proper name for the Aegean Sea and, later, usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands ( since the sea is remarkable for its large number of islands ).

The Territory of the Ashmore and Cartier Islands is an external territory of Australia consisting of two groups of small low-lying uninhabited tropical islands in the Indian Ocean situated on the edge of the continental shelf north-west of Australia and south of the Indonesian island of Rote.

* Ildefonso Islands, group of islands in Chile.

North Andaman Island is south of Burma, although a few smaller Burmese islands are closer, including the three Coco Islands.

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.

Bœotus ( accompanied by Arne ) went to southern Thessaly, and founded Boeotia ; but Aeolus went to a group of islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea, which received from him the name of the Aeolian Islands ; according to some accounts this Aeolus founded the town of Lipara.

The Aegadian Islands ( Sicilian: Ìsuli Ègadi, ;,, meaning the islands of goats ), are a group of small mountainous islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the northwest coast of Sicily, Italy, near the city of Trapani, with a total area of.

The islands were the scene of the Battle of the Aegates Islands of 241 BC, in which the Carthaginian fleet was defeated by C. Lutatius Catulus ; the engagement ended the First Punic War.

The Treaty area covers the continent itself and its immediately adjacent islands, as well as the archipelagos of the South Orkney Islands, South Shetland Islands, Peter I Island, Scott Island and Balleny Islands.

The islands situated between 60 ° S latitude parallel to the south and the Antarctic Convergence to the north, and their respective Exclusive Economic Zones fall under the national jurisdiction of the countries that possess them: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ( United Kingdom ; also an EU Overseas territory ), Bouvet Island ( Norway ), and Heard and McDonald Islands ( Australia ).

Along with six other islands, the island was administered by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the Pacific Remote Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex.

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

The British Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, and Jost Van Dyke, along with over fifty other smaller islands and cays.