Therefore, it is clear there is no real consensus of what the term crannog actually implies, although the modern adoption in the English language broadly refers to a partially or completely artificial islet which saw use from the prehistoric to the Post-Medieval period in Ireland and Scotland.

The Milton Loch interpretation is of a small islet surrounded or defined at its edges by timber piles and a gangway, topped by a typical Iron Age roundhouse.

The earliest construction of a crannog is the completely artificial Neolithic islet of Eilean Domhnuill, Loch Olabhat on North Uist in Scotland.

A nearby islet, Islote de Lobos, is part of the municipality of La Oliva.

Rockall (, ) is an extremely small, uninhabited, remote rocky islet in the North Atlantic Ocean.

The islet is claimed by Denmark ( for the Faroe Islands ), Iceland, Ireland and the United Kingdom.

The neighbouring Hasselwood Rock is visible by ocean surface wave | breakers directly to the right of the islet.

The islet of Rockall makes up the eroded core of an extinct volcano ( a volcanic plug ), and is one of the few pinnacles of the surrounding Helen's Reef.

F. cirrhata is the namesake of one of its main breeding sites, Kamen Toporkov (" Tufted Puffin Rock ") or Ostrov Toporkov (" Tufted Puffin Island "), an islet offshore Bering Island.

The traditional founding is identified with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo at the islet of Rialto ( Rivoalto, " High Shore "), which is said to have been at the stroke of noon on 25 March 421.

* March 25 – Venice is founded at twelve o ' clock noon ( according to legend ) with the dedication of the first church, San Giacomo, at the islet of Rialto ( Italy ).

The old citadel ( in Greek Palaio Frourio ( Παλαιό Φρούριο )) is an old Venetian fortress built on an artificial islet with fortifications surrounding its entire perimeter, although some sections, particularly on the east side, are slowly being eroded and falling into the sea.

A Goliath Heronry is located on a rocky islet in the lake known as Gibraltar.

Damage of the pancreas can lead to loss of the islet cells, leading to a type of diabetes that is unique to those with the disease.

Tapuaetai ( One Foot Island ), a small islet in the south-east of the lagoon, is often said to be the most important attraction.

Transplanting islet cells may one day help many people with diabetes, and the procedure is currently in the experimental stage.

There are currently five known types of cells in an islet: beta cells, which make insulin and C-peptide ; alpha cells, which make glucagon ; delta cells, which make somatostatin ; F cells which make pancreatic polypeptide, and D1 cells, about which little is known.

On his way across the Aegean Sea, he is kidnapped by Cilician pirates and held prisoner in the Dodecanese islet of Pharmacusa.

The Perejil Island ( Berber: Tura,, ) is a small, uninhabited rocky islet located in the southern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar, 200 meters from the Moroccan coast.

The islet is now deserted.

Isla de Mar is a flat, 4 m ( 12 ft ) high islet, with its western end 93 meters north of Isla de Tierra, 245 meters long east-west, up to 70 meters wide, yielding an area of 1. 4 ha or 0. 014 km².

Cabrera (, ) is an uninhabited islet in the Balearic Islands, Spain, located in the Mediterranean Sea off the southern coast of Majorca.

Between the Isle of Man and the Calf is the islet of Kitterland, while the islets of and The Stack lie close to the Calf's shore.

This islet was a volcanic rock surrounded by cliffs which made it inaccessible to humans, but in 1830 the islet submerged after a volcanic eruption, and the birds moved to the nearby island of Eldey, which was accessible from a single side.

The two found an islet near the western shore of Lake Texcoco surrounded by green water.

Kisimul sits on a rocky islet in the bay just off the coast of Barra, and as it is completely surrounded by the sea ; it can only be reached by boat making the fortification impregnable.

Originally built on a rocky islet, so that the fort was completely surrounded by water and accessible only by boat, nearby Isla de Cabras ( Goat Island ) was artificially expanded to incorporate it.

It is built upon a rocky islet, and features a tower keep which is surrounded by granite walls and ramparts.

Nine competitors must swim out to a close-by islet surrounded by pounding surf, climb the cliffs to get an egg from the nest of a sooty tern and bring it back.

In patients with suspected ketosis-prone type 2 diabetes, determination of antibodies against glutamic acid decarboxylase and islet cells may aid in the decision whether to continue insulin administration long-term ( if antibodies are detected ), or whether to withdraw insulin and attempt treatment with oral medication as in type 2 diabetes.

In 1415, Portugal, along with the conquest of Ceuta, took possession of the nearby islet from Morocco.

The islet on which it stood is now connected with the mainland by a narrow tongue of land.

The European rock is usually identified with an islet, about 20m wide and 200m long, which stands about 100m off the shore of a village called Rumeli Feneri (' Lighthouse of Rumeli ), and is connected to it by a modern concrete jetty.

* Ingrid Bergman ( 1915-1982 ), actress ( most of her ashes were scattered around the islet of Dannholmen off the fishing village of Fjällbacka on the west coast of Sweden where she spent most summers from 1958 to her death in 1982, with the remainder of her ashes buried at Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm, Sweden next to her parents )

A referendum in June 2011 dismissed a proposal to reconnect the main island to the Düne islet with a landfill.

Because the beta cells in the islets of Langerhans are selectively destroyed by an autoimmune process in type 1 diabetes, clinicians and researchers are actively pursuing islet transplantation as a means of restoring physiological beta cell function in patients with type 1 diabetes.

U. S. Marine Corps intelligence records and photographs at the U. S. National Archives, together with the testimony of U. S. veterans, indicate that there was a mass-burial site consolidated into one place on Kwajalein islet, at or near the current cemetery.

Kastelorizo is ( with the exception of the nearby islet of Strongýli ) the easternmost Greek island and is situated in the Eastern Mediterranean.

reported a case series of 8 patients with a syndrome of pituitary, parathyroid, and pancreatic islet adenomas.

Apart from those, Isla Perejil, a small uninhabited islet close to Ceuta that was the subject of a confrontation with Morocco in 2002, has been lately defined as an extra plaza de soberanía.

Marathonissi ( also known as " Turtle Island " because of its turtle-like shape ), an islet near Limni Keriou ( the beach of village Keri ; also known as Keri Lake ) is a small paradise, with tropical vegetation, turquoise water beaches and sea caves.

In the middle of the islet was a nopal and perched upon it was an eagle with its wings spread and its face looking toward the sun.

Around 1700, about 2000 families lived on the islet, including a larisses Convent, the Abbey of Basilians from Greece, the Bishop and the Seminar, the Prince with a military garrison.

The northeastern islet is the highest with 106 m.

The two islands, together with smaller islet, form Chuanshan Archipelago.

Rafting is available in the Geum River, and there are sandy beaches and Naedori ( in Muju-eup ), an inland islet blessed with fantastic rocks and stones.

But, this roadway was improved with the reconstruction of a road that skirted the islet from the quay to the southern end of the castle, by theServiços de Engenharia do Estado Maior do Exército ( Service of the Army Corp of Engineers ).