`` Even when the islands were under German mandate before World War 1,, Europeans gave Eromonga a wide berth.

To Serenissimus such tribes as the Cossacks of the Don or those ex-bandits the Zaporogian Cossacks ( in whose islands along the lower Dnieper the Polish novelist Sienkiewicz would one day place With Fire And Sword ) were just elements for enforced resettlement in, say, Bessarabia, where, as `` the faithful of the Black Sea borders '', he could use their presence as bargaining points in the Czarina's territorial claims against Turkey.

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

When they were first occupied, the present-day islands including Milos with its important obsidian production were probably still connected to 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 1868 there were about 15, 000 Ainu in Hokkaido, 2000 in Sakhalin, and around 100 in the Kurile islands.

The Ainu were distributed in the northern and central islands of Japan, from Sakhalin island in the north to the Kuril islands and the island of Hokkaidō and Northern Honshū, although some investigators place their former range as throughout Honshū and as far north as the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula in what is now Cape Lopatka.

The Andaman and Nicobar islands were later occupied by Japan during World War II.

The islands were nominally put under the authority of the Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind ( Provisional Government of Free India ) headed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

The Spotted Deer Axis axis, the Barking Deer and the sambar were all introduced to the Andaman islands, though the sambar did not survive.

Because unlike the Hawaiians, Cubans and Puerto Ricans, the Filipinos were willing to fight for their independence, Carnegie believed that the conquest of the islands is a denial of the fundamental democratic principle, and he also urged William McKinley to withdraw American troops and allow the Filipinos to live with their independence.

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.

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.

With the end of western Roman power, the islands, to the extent that they were governed at all, were part of territories of Goths, Vandals, Saracens, before the Normans fortified Favignana in 1081.

The islands belonged to the Pallavicini-Rusconi family of Genoa until 1874, when they were bought by the Florio family of Palermo.

* Structures ; Ruins of palaces, palatial villas, houses, built dome-or cist-graves and fortifications ( Aegean islands, Greek mainland and northwestern Anatolia ), but not distinct temples ; small shrines, however, and temene ( religious enclosures, remains of one of which were probably found at Petsofa near Palaikastro by J. L. Myres in 1904 ) are represented on intaglios and frescoes.

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

This is corroborated by Benedict of Peterborough's graphic account of Greece, as it was in 1191, where he states that many of the islands were uninhabited from fear of pirates and that Aegina, along with Salamis and Makronesos, were their strongholds.

The Virgin Islands were first settled by the Arawak from South America around 100 BC ( though there is some evidence of Amerindian presence on the islands as far back as 1500 BC ).

" The magistrate in Lady Gregory's play Spreading the News had formerly served in 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.

* Thousand Islands ( Kepulauan Seribu ), formerly a subdistrict of North Jakarta, is a collection of 105 small islands located on Java Sea.

According to Manoel de Almeida ( a Portuguese missionary in the early 17th century ), there were 21 islands, seven to eight of which had monasteries on them " formerly large, but now much diminished.

The course of the Warta in central Poznań was formerly quite different than today: the main stream ran between Grobla and Chwaliszewo, which were originally both islands.

The island ( s ) of Miquelon-Langlade consists of three formerly separate islands Miquelon ( 110 km² ), Langlade ( 91 km² ) and Le Cap.

We can thus understand the localisation of sub-genera, genera, and families ; and how it is that under different latitudes, for instance in South America, the inhabitants of the plains and mountains, of the forests, marshes, and deserts, are in so mysterious a manner linked together by affinity, and are likewise linked to the extinct beings which formerly inhabited the same continent ... On these same principles, we can understand, as I have endeavoured to show, why oceanic islands should have few inhabitants, but of these a great number should be endemic or peculiar ; ...

Vanuatu ( formerly called New Hebrides ) is a nation and group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean.

* Bourbon vanilla or Bourbon-Madagascar vanilla, produced from V. planifolia plants introduced from the Americas, is the term used for vanilla from Indian Ocean islands such as Madagascar, the Comoros, and Réunion, formerly the Île Bourbon.

The Pribilof Islands ( formerly the Northern Fur Seal Islands ) are a group of four volcanic islands off the coast of mainland Alaska, in the Bering Sea, about north of Unalaska and 200 miles southwest of Cape Newenham.

The government of the islands were under a governor-general, whose jurisdiction extends to the other Danish colonies of the group, however, because the islands formerly belonged to Great Britain consequently the inhabitants were English in customs and in language.

The island was formerly reachable only by boat from Ibiza, making it the quieter of the two islands, but in recent years regular passenger service from the Spanish mainland has increased tourism.

The islands were formerly part of the British colony of the British Windward Islands from 1871 to 1958.

Tuvalu became fully independent in 1978 and in 1979 signed a treaty of friendship with the United States, which recognized Tuvalu's possession of four small islands formerly claimed by the United States.

Bacan ( formerly Bachan, Bachian or Batchian, Dutch: Batjan ) refers to a group of islands in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia and to that group's largest island.

A small population exists around the Nansei Shoto islands, and a population formerly existed off Taiwan.

The municipality consists of two peninsulas, formerly islands, the larger one on the south also called Tholen, the smaller one on the north called Sint Philipsland.

Introduced species affected the native vegetation and bird life, and caused the extinction of the Auckland Merganser, a duck formerly widespread in southern New Zealand, and ultimately confined to the islands.

In Guam and Northern Mariana Islands, the term " Mestizo " was borrowed from the American colonies and was formerly used to identify people of mixed Pacific Islander and Spanish ancestry ; however, as the United States gained control of these islands after the Spanish-American War in 1898, the term " Multiracial " replaced " Mestizo ".

A peace treaty was signed between Venice and the Ottoman Empire in October 1540, under which the Turks took control of the Venetian possessions in the Morea and in Dalmatia and of the formerly Venetian islands in the Aegean, Ionian and eastern Adriatic Seas.

It is situated mainly on the islands of Usedom and Wolin, but also occupies smaller islands, of which the largest is Karsibór island, once part of Usedom, now separated by a Piast canal ( formerly the Kaiserfahrt ) dug in the late 19th century to facilitate ship access to Szczecin ( Stettin ).

Eleven of the 97 islands are leased by the United States and are part of the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site ( RTS ), formerly known as Kwajalein Missile Range.