The larger islands have some fertile valleys and plains.

Its total land area is -- slightly larger than Washington, D. C. -- consisting of five rugged, volcanic islands and two coral atolls.

The Cocos Malays maintain weekend shacks, referred to as pondoks, on most of the larger islands.

By mid-November Greek naval detachments had seized the islands of Imbros, Thasos, Agios Efstratios, Samothrace, Psara and Ikaria, while landings were undertaken on the larger islands of Lesbos and Chios only on 21 and 27 November respectively.

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

Most of the larger islands are mountainous, with peaks ranging between meters above sea level in Sumatra, Java, Bali, Lombok, Sulawesi, and Seram.

Here and there a few natural islands permit slightly larger clusters.

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

Geographically, the country is part of the larger island group of Micronesia, with the population of around 68, 000 people spread out over 34 low-lying coral atolls, comprising 1, 156 individual islands and islets.

A second island type formed of coral is the uplifted coral platform, which is usually slightly larger than the low coral islands.

Only approximately 1, 000 of its islands are populated, and fewer than one-half of these are larger than 2. 5 square kilometers.

The Strong Republic Nautical Highway links many of the islands ' road networks through a series of roll-on / roll-off ferries, some rather small covering short distances and some larger vessels that might travel several hours or more.

Volcanoes with varying degrees of activity are situated on some of the larger islands, while many of the smaller islands are simply tiny atolls covered in sand and palm trees.

It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia ( two larger islands, Borneo and New Guinea, are shared between Indonesia and other countries ) and the sixth largest island in the world at 473, 481 km < sup > 2 </ sup > with a population of 50, 365, 538.

The Turks and Caicos Islands ( and or ; abbreviated TCI ) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of two groups of tropical islands in the West Indies, the larger Caicos Islands and the smaller Turks Islands, known for tourism and as an offshore financial centre.

It is composed of over 80 islands with 2, 528 km of coastline and a total surface area of 14, 760 km², making it slightly larger than the state of Connecticut.

Christopher Columbus landed on the islands in 1493 during his second voyage naming the larger one Santa Maria de la Antigua.

This remained until it was eventually surpassed by geographically larger islands like Jamaica in 1713.

Most people today live in settlements far larger than anything known in early times, while some areas, such as Kilmartin and many of the islands, such as Islay and Tiree may well have had as many inhabitants as they do today.

A line running from Cape Negrais ( 16 ° 03 ' N ) in Burma through the larger islands of the Andaman group, in such a way that all the narrow waters between the islands lie to the Eastward of the line and are excluded from the Bay of Bengal, as far as a point in Little Andaman Island in latitude 10 ° 48 ' N, longitude 92 ° 24 ' E and thence along the Southwest limit of the Burma Sea

In the Caribbean, Spanish settlers were only able to secure control over the larger islands by allying themselves with certain Native American tribal groups in their conflicts with neighbouring societies.

The pagodas we have passed are much larger than the houses ''.

Middletown bases its claim on the general provision of the law that `` all rateable property, both tangible and intangible, shall be taxed to the owner thereof in the town in which such owner shall have had his actual place of abode for the larger portion of the twelve ( 12 ) months next preceding the first day of April in each year ''.

Moreover, the larger and more aggressive mass distribution outlets and chain stores have insisted on high quality -- and the customer seems to have caught on.

Signs of this type have already made their appearance in several larger cities, and others are on the way.

Recent interferometer measurements ( Radhakrishnan and Roberts, 1960 ) have shown the 960-mc emission of Jupiter to be partially polarized and to originate in a region of larger diameter than the visible disk.

In the observations at 4.3 mm ( Coates, 1959 ), the diameter of the antenna beam, 6'.7, was small enough to allow resolution of some of the larger features of the lunar surface, and contour diagrams have been made of the lunar brightness distribution at three lunar phases.

When a word represents a larger construction of which it is the only expressed part, it normally has more stress than it would have in fully expressed construction.

If they have trouble exporting, international bill for their support will grow larger than it otherwise would.

Quakers, some from New England, had a larger share than their proportionate numerical strength would have warranted.

`` I'm an advertising hustler, I admit, but I have to get hot once in a larger sphere.

However, recent classifications have abandoned Mon – Khmer as a taxon, either reducing it in scope or making it synonymous with the larger family ( Diffloth 2005, Sidwell 2009 ).

They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones.

A few larger rivers, those cutting back through the Pontic Alps, have tributaries that flow in broad, elevated basins.

Many Armenian companies, especially those owned by government-connected tycoons, have long reported suspiciously low earnings, thereby avoiding paying larger taxes.

Billings have traditionally been dependent on the local economic conditions but, with rapid globalization, this is becoming less of a factor for larger international firms.

AES operates on a 4 × 4 column-major order matrix of bytes, termed the state, although some versions of Rijndael have a larger block size and have additional columns in the state.

( Rijndael variants with a larger block size have slightly different offsets ).

However, at the base of this crack is a round void called an ampulla which would have functioned to distribute force over a larger surface area, hindering the ability of the " crack " formed by the serration to propagate through the tooth.

Currie hypothesized that the younger members of the pack may have been responsible for driving their prey towards the adults, who were larger and more powerful, but also slower.

No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.

Chains are deemed " safe " if they have 11 or more links ; placing a tile that would cause such a chain to be acquired by a larger chain is also not permitted.