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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.
Copenhagen is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager.
The Greeks refer to the Cassiterides, or " tin islands ", and describe them as being situated somewhere near the west coast of Europe.
The Hawar Islands (; transliterated: Juzur Ḩawār ) are a group of islands situated off the west coast of Qatar in the Gulf of Bahrain of the Persian Gulf.
As Japan is situated in a volcanic zone along the Pacific deeps, frequent low-intensity earth tremors and occasional volcanic activity are felt throughout the islands.
The Juan Fernández Islands ( Spanish: Archipiélago Juan Fernández ) are a sparsely inhabited island group reliant on tourism and fishing in the South Pacific Ocean, situated about off the coast of Chile, and is composed of three main volcanic islands ; Robinson Crusoe Island, Alejandro Selkirk Island and Santa Clara Island, the first two being formerly called Más Adentro and Más Afuera respectively.
Chios (, ; alternative transliterations Khíos and Híos ) is the fifth largest of the Greek islands, situated in the Aegean Sea, off the Anatolia coast.
Krakatoa () is a volcanic island situated in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies ( modern Indonesia ).
Most of the islands, including the famous Valaam archipelago, Kilpola and Konevets, are situated in the north-western part.
Restaurants on Greek islands are often situated right on the beach.
Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula, whereas modern Denmark is situated on the Danish islands and Jutland.
The islands are even closer to the long Burin Peninsula, which is situated just to the east.
The two main islands of Samoa are Upolu and one of the biggest islands in Polynesia, Savai ' i. The capital city, Apia, and Faleolo International Airport are situated on the island of Upolu.
Transport in Samoa includes one international airport situated on the north west coast of Upolu island, paved highways reaching most parts of the two main, one main port in the capital Apia and two ports servicing mainly inter island ferries for vehicles and passengers between the two main islands, Upolu and Savai ' i.
Volcanoes with varying degrees of activity are situated on some of the larger islands, while many of the smaller islands are simply tiny atolls covered in sand and palm trees.
The coastal cities were placed in defensible positions on islands or headlands situated so as to control inland routes up the rift valleys.
The island is irregularly shaped, and is situated north of the islands of Lolland, Falster, and Møn.
Bahrain ( from the Arabic word for " two seas " — itself an inaccurate folk etymology for the much older, Semitic term, Bahran ) comprises an archipelago of thirty-three islands in the Persian Gulf, situated close to the shore of the Arabian Peninsula.
Four of its five towns ( North Hero, South Hero, Grand Isle and Isle La Motte ) are situated entirely on islands in Lake Champlain, while Alburgh is on a peninsula ( known as the Alburgh Tongue ) extending south into the lake from Quebec.
* The Hope islands are situated approximately 37 km south-east of Cooktown and about 8 km offshore
The town is situated across the barrier islands of Estero and San Carlos.

islands and between
Falling somewhere in a category between Einstein's theory and sand fleas -- difficult to see but undeniably there, nevertheless -- is the tropical green `` city '' of Islandia, a string of offshore islands that has almost no residents, limited access and an unlimited future.
It has 325 islands which cover an area of, with the Andaman Sea to the east between the islands and the coast of Burma.
For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia ; and the inhabitants of it — they add — preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon.
There are also two minor islands, Formica and Maraone, lying between Levanzo and Sicily.
Southeast Alaska is the northern terminus of the Inside Passage, a protected waterway of convoluted passages between islands and fjords, beginning in Puget Sound in Washington state.
In order to hunt sea mammals and to travel between islands, the Aleuts became experts of sailing and navigation.
A Shimatetsu Ferry boat, transporting passengers between islands.
There are also ferries between the islands and the neighboring prefectures of Kagoshima Prefecture and Nagasaki Prefecture.
Cruise ships are also plentiful, and pleasure craft regularly go back and forth between Florida and the islands.
Appear mostly occupying favorable areas named geographically Umbrias, this is north hillsides or slopes of the mountainous areas that are oriented behind the sun, be cause the islands are in the northern hemisphere, between 600 and 1500 meters, thus benefiting from the humidity provided by the trade winds to form such a sea of clouds.
In Cape Verde, most of the transportation between islands is done by plane.
Several ferries operate between the islands with much lower fares than the airlines.
Croatia is asking that the islands be returned because of the Badinter Arbitration Committee decision from 1991 that all internal borders between Yugoslav republics have become international.
The French finally acquired the islands through a cunning mixture of strategies, including the policy of ' divide and conquer ', chequebook politics and a serendipitous affair between a sultana and a French trader that was put to good use by the French, who kept control of the islands, quelling unrest and the occasional uprising.
The Comoros archipelago consists of four main islands aligned along a northwest-southeast axis at the north end of the Mozambique Channel, between Mozambique and the island of Madagascar.
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.
Because of the absence of scheduled sea transport between the islands, nearly all interisland passenger traffic is by air.
On 11 June 1980, the United States signed a treaty with the Cook Islands specifying the maritime border between the Cook Islands and American Samoa and also relinquishing its claim to the islands of Penrhyn, Pukapuka, Manihiki, and Rakahanga.
1986 — In January 1986, following the rift between New Zealand and the USA in respect of the ANZUS security arrangements Prime Minister Tom Davis declared the Cook Islands a neutral country, because he considered that New Zealand ( which has control over the islands ' defence and foreign policy ) was no longer in a position to defend the islands.
An island located between Greenland and Canadian Arctic islands.

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