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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 ).

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.

* River island-A small islet within the current of a river.

High walls surrounding tombs are located on Peinkitel, Karian, and Lemenkou, but the crowning achievement is the royal mortuary islet of Nandauwas, where walls high surround a central tomb enclosure within the main courtyard.

* Ilhéu Chão, a small islet within the Desertas Islands in the Madeira archipelago.

The islet is now a tourist site within the castle walls.

These variations in GC ratio within the genomes of more complex organisms result in a mosaic-like formation with islet regions called isochores.

Mañagaha is a small islet which lies off the west coast of Saipan within its lagoon.

File: Souda_Island. jpg | The islet of Souda, to the right of a smaller islet called Leon, within Souda Bay.

File: Souda Bay from the of the Venetian fortress at Souda Island. jpg | View of the islet of Leon, from the Venetian fortifications on the islet of Souda, within Souda Bay.

Garbh Sgeir ( Gaelic: ' rough skerry ') is a rock about 100 metres west of the islet Òigh-sgeir, in the Small Isles, Lochaber, Scotland.

Klein Bonaire is the roundish islet in the center of the picture, nestled in the crescent of Bonaire.

By July 17, a fully grown islet had formed.

* Motu ( geography ), a reef islet formed by broken coral and sand surrounding an atoll

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.

It contains the northernmost point of land, the islet of Y ' Ami in the Batanes Islands, separated from Taiwan by the Bashi Channel ( c. 50 mi / 80 km wide ).

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 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.

In 1798, during the French occupation, the islet was occupied by the Russo-Turkish fleet, who ran it as a military hospital.

On one voyage across the Aegean Sea in 75 BC, Julius Caesar was kidnapped by Cilician pirates and held prisoner in the Dodecanese islet of Pharmacusa.

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

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.

An unnamed islet off the north-eastern coast has been classified by BirdLife International as an important bird area because of its global importance as a Roseate Tern breeding site.

The bay is sheltered from the open sea by a long, narrow islet ( Sphacteria ).

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.

By the 1950s, the Marshallese population coming to work at the base at Kwajalein had grown, and the conditions in the makeshift labor camp on Kwajalein islet were such that the U. S. Navy administering the atoll at the time decided to relocate these Islanders to nearby Ebeye, an islet only three islands to the north of Kwajalein and accessible by a short boat ride or walk over the reef at low tide.

* The islet of Rockall, designated as an independent state by Greenpeace

Zadar was a Liburnian settlement, laid out in the 9th century BC, built on a small stone islet and embankments where the old city stands and tied to the mainland by the overflown narrow isthmus, which created a natural port in its northern strait.

The name Drottningholm ( literally meaning " Queen's islet ") came from the original renaissance building designed by Willem Boy, a stone palace built by John III of Sweden in 1580 for his queen, Catherine Jagellon.