It is now used to refer to any island group or, sometimes, to a sea containing a large number of scattered islands such as the Aegean Sea.

The revolt was used as an opportunity by Darius to extend the empire's border to the islands of the eastern Aegean and the Propontis, which had not been part of the Persian dominions before.

Until the opening of the Suez Canal, the islands used to be an important refuelling and provisioning station for ships from Europe to the Indian Ocean.

The constellation was also used on the dark blue, shield-like patch worn by personnel of the U. S. Army's Americal Division, which was organized in the Southern Hemisphere, on the island of New Caledonia, and also the blue diamond of the U. S. 1st Marine Division, which fought on the Southern Hemisphere islands of Guadalcanal and New Britain.

Following the departure of the Spanish settlers, the Falkland Islands became the domain of whalers and sealers who used the islands to shelter from the worst of the South Atlantic weather.

The largest company in the islands used to be the Falkland Islands Company ( FIC ), a publicly quoted company on the London Stock Exchange.

islands interconnected by shortwave radiotelephone ( used mostly for government purposes )

Early European explorers noted the Chamorros ' fast sailing vessels used for trading with other islands of Micronesia.

The Portuguese used slave labour to colonize and develop the previously uninhabited Cape Verde islands where they founded settlements and grew cotton and indigo.

The Boeing 929 is widely used in Asia for passenger services between the many islands of Japan, between Hong Kong and Macau and on the Korean peninsula.

* Former Russian hydrofoils are used in southern Italy for connection with islands of Lazio and Campania.

SNAV has 5 RHS200, RHS160 and RHS150 used in the connections between Naples and the islands of Capri and Ischia.

This group of islands was used as a refuelling stop for Pan-Am Airways, and the food was used to feed the staff and crew.

The term " Outer Islands " is used inconsistently by various writers but it is usually taken to mean those islands other than Java and Madura.

Traditional wooden Pinisi ship still used in inter-Indonesian islands freight service.

In the 17th and 18th century, the islands were used as a hideout for pirates, were the site of Alexander Selkirk's four-year marooning, and provided a location for a penal colony.

The Kattegat ( Danish, from Dutch, commonly used in English ), or Kattegatt ( Swedish ) is a sea area bounded by the Jutland peninsula and the Straits islands of Denmark on the west and south, and the provinces of Västergötland, Scania, Halland and Bohuslän in Sweden on the east.

Majuro Atoll and Ebeye and Kwajalein islands have regular, seven-digit, direct-dial telephones ; other islands interconnected by shortwave radio, telephone ( used mostly for government purposes )

Though the country has dissolved, the islands are all still under the Kingdom with different legal status and the term is still used to refer to these Dutch Caribbean islands.

In the 17th century, the islands were conquered by the Dutch West India Company and were used as military outposts and trade bases.

The Kriegsmarine later used some of the motorized Sea Lion barges for landings on the Russian-held Baltic islands in 1941 and, though most of them were eventually returned to the inland rivers they originally plied, a reserve was kept for military transport duties and for filling out amphibious flotillas.

The term is sometimes used more specifically to denote a continent comprising Australia and proximate islands,

* 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.

By its geological origin, islands forming archipelagos can be referred to as oceanic islands, continental fragments and continental islands.

The United States Congress, in the Ratification Act of 1929, provided that until the Congress shall provide for the Government of the islands of American Samoa all civil, judicial, and military powers shall be vested in such person or persons and exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct.

Ambergris can be found in the Atlantic Ocean and on the coasts of Brazil, Madagascar, the East Indies, The Maldives, China, Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand, and the Molucca islands.

In exchange inmates would be granted return passage to the Indian mainland, or the right to settle on the islands.

Ludwig Ross, the German archaeologist appointed Curator of the Antiquities of Athens at the time of the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece, by his explorations in the Greek islands from 1835 onwards, called attention to certain early intaglios, since known as Inselsteine ; but it was not until 1878 that C. T. Newton demonstrated these to be no strayed Phoenician products.

Certain central Aegean islands, Antiparos, Ios, Amorgos, Syros and Siphnos, were all found to be singularly rich in evidence of the Middle-Aegean period.

:" 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.

Large beaks were found on the islands where the primary source of food for the finches are nuts and therefore the large beaks allowed the birds to be better equipped for opening the nuts and staying well nourished.

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.

Air strips on the other islands of Brava and Santo Antão are closed ( 2007 ) and can only be reached by ferry services from other islands.

Because the islands cannot produce enough goods to support the population, about 90 % of their food and consumer goods must be imported.

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.

Excavated sites include Saliagos and Kephala ( on Keos ) with signs of copper-working, Each of the small Cycladic islands could support no more than a few thousand people, though Late Cycladic boat models show that fifty oarsmen could be assembled from the scattered communities ( Rutter ), and when the highly organized palace-culture of Crete arose, the islands faded into insignificance, with the exception of Delos, which retained its archaic reputation as a sanctuary throughout antiquity and until the emergence of Christianity.

Today, the cane toad can be found on all major islands in Fiji, although they tend to be smaller than their counterparts in other regions.

While lake-side settlements are evident in Ireland from 4500BC these settlements are not crannogs in that they were not intended to be islands.

It can also be found in higher elevation sky islands in the interior of the deserts, such as in the upper New York Mountains within the Mojave National Preserve in the Mojave Desert.

Some plants and animals thought to be extinct on surrounding islands can still be found in Dominica's forests.

About 15 of the islands are inhabited.

The Arawaks inhabited the islands until the 15th century when they were displaced by the more aggressive Caribs, a tribe from the Lesser Antilles islands, after whom the Caribbean Sea is named.

The area totals 151 km² ( about 0. 9 times the size of Washington, DC ) and comprises 16 inhabited and more than 20 uninhabited islands ; includes the islands of Tortola, Anegada, Virgin Gorda and Jost van Dyke.

There are seven inhabited islands and several that are uninhabited.

The inhabited islands are:

The territory consists of two atolls and 27 coral islands, of which two, West Island and Home Island, are inhabited with a total population of approximately 600.

There are 66 inhabited islands along the Croatian coast which means there is a large number of local ferry connections.

As the population of the Maldives is separated across around 200 inhabited islands, there is a cable TV operator for nearly every island.

Denmark has 443 named islands, of which 72 are inhabited (, Statistics Denmark ).

:* Note: Guadeloupe department is composed of six inhabited islands: the main islands which formed Guadeloupe island: Basse-Terre Island on the west and Grande-Terre on the east, and the nearby smaller islands: Marie-Galante, La Desirade, Iles des Saintes ( Terre-de-Haut island and Terre-de-Bas island ).

There are 36 inhabited islands in this group.

There are 15 inhabited islands in this archipelago.

The derivations of all of the inhabited islands of the Hebrides and some of the larger uninhabited ones are listed below.

Indonesia is an archipelagic country of 17, 508 islands ( 6, 000 inhabited ) stretching along the equator in South East Asia.

It encompasses an estimated 17, 508 islands, only 6, 000 of which are inhabited.

There are about forty islands and skerries, of which only six are inhabited and only nine larger than.

The larger islands have been continuously inhabited since Neolithic times, were influenced by the emergence of the kingdom of Dál Riata from 500 AD and then absorbed into the emerging Kingdom of Alba under Kenneth MacAlpin.

There are also 2, 456 islands, including Okinawa, and islets, some inhabited and others uninhabited.

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.

The islands which now form the Republic of Kiribati have been inhabited for at least seven hundred years, and possibly much longer.

" When James Bruce visited the area in the later 18th century, he noted that the locals counted 45 inhabited islands, but stated he believed that " the number may be about eleven.