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

It was on the islet of Stac an Armin, St Kilda, Scotland, in July 1840, that the last Great Auk seen in the British Isles was caught and killed.

* Leon ( Souda Bay ), an islet in Souda Bay, Chania, on the island of Crete

Rockall has also been a point of interest for adventurers and amateur radio operators who variously in the past have landed on or occupied the islet for up to several months, although fewer than 20 individuals have ever been confirmed to have landed on Rockall.

In total there have been just over 20 species of seabird and 6 other animal species observed ( including the aforementioned molluscs ) on or near the islet.

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.

The protracted period of war between the Lithuanians and the Teutonic Knights was ended on 12 October 1398 by the Treaty of Salynas, named after the islet in the Neman River where it was signed.

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.

During Venetian rule in the early 16th century, a monastery was built on the islet and a leprosarium established later in the century, after which the island was named.

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

The remnants of Cheonghae Garrison can still be seen on Jang islet just off Wando's southern coast.

The Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) built Fort Zeelandia on the coastal islet of Tayowan ( off modern Tainan ).

According to later tradition, Sun Quan was born on Sunzhou (" Sun Island ", later Wangzhou-" King's Island "), an islet at the intersection of the Fuchun River and one of its tributaries.

Local folklore relates a story about how Sun Quan's grandfather, Sun Zhong, was originally a melon farmer on the islet.

In 1865 a trading captain acting on behalf of the German firm of J. C. Godeffroy und Sohn obtained a 25-year lease to the eastern islet of Niuoku of Nukulaelae Atoll.

Local Moroccan shepherds used it for grazing of livestock but the vast majority of Spaniards and Moroccans had not heard of the islet until July 11, 2002, when a group of Moroccan soldiers set up base on the islet.

Snorri Sturluson claims in Olaf Tryggvson's saga that Olaf was born on an islet in Fjærlandsvatnet, where his mother Astrid daughter of Eirik Bjodaskalle, was hiding from her husband's killers, led by Harald Greyhide, the son of Eirik Bloodaxe.

A study of food-sharing practices on the West Caroline islets of Ifaluk determined that food-sharing was more common among people from the same islet, possibly because the degree of relatedness between inhabitants of the same islet would be higher than relatedness between inhabitants of different islets.

This factor led to construction of a grad, a Slavic fortified settlement, on an islet in the middle of the river.

Interesting locations in the municipality includes a monument honouring the Treaty of Brömsebro between Denmark and Sweden 1645, and the Garpen lighthouse, located on a small islet outside the coast, where one can spend the night on a hostel.

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.

In January 1996, Greece and Turkey came close to an armed confrontation over the question of which country had sovereignty over an islet in the Aegean.

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.

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.

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.

The green islet centre left is Vulcanello, which is connected to Vulcano by an isthmus.

North Uist has many prehistoric structures, including the Barpa Langass chambered cairn, the Pobull Fhinn stone circle, the Fir Bhreige standing stones, the islet of Eilean Dòmhnuill ( which may be the earliest crannog site in Scotland ), and the Baile Sear roundhouses, which were exposed by storms in January, 2005.

At the mouth of Saleh Bay there is an 30, 000 hectares islet called Moyo ( Indonesian: Pulau Moyo ) which has a guest shelter or luxurious resort where celebrities such as Princess Diana once stayed.

The Mojo islet was formed as part of this geological process in which Saleh Bay, collapsing into the caldera of the drained magma chamber, first appeared as a sea basin, about 25, 000 years ago.

This is in contrast to diabetes mellitus type 1 in which there is an absolute insulin deficiency due to destruction of islet cells in the pancreas.

The rocky islet where the woman had pointed her canoe towards doom thus was named Spirit Island which was once a nesting ground for eagles that fed on fish below the falls.

The islet, which sits within the rough crescent formed by the main island, is 6 square kilometres ( 1, 500 acres ) and extremely flat, rising no more than two meters above the sea.

Gugeegue is just south of the Bigej Pass which separates it from Bigej islet.

* Holm or Holmen is a common suffix too in Nordic and northern European countries (" holme " means " islet " in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, although the meaning is more precise: a holme in Swedish is usually big enough to have wood and some fresh water but too small for a village ; smaller islets have other names – there is an intricate name system to make it possible to remember and recognize different islets, hundreds of which have been important in some archipelagos ).

It was built during the 17th century to replace a smaller battery ( called El Boquerón ) that stood at the easternmost end of the San Juan islet.

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.

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.

* 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 ).

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.

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.