* 1483 – Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.

The British Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, and Jost Van Dyke, along with over fifty other smaller islands and cays.

By the summer of 1944, victories in the Southwest and Central Pacific had brought the war closer to Japan, with American bombers able to strike at the Japanese main islands from air bases secured during the Mariana Islands campaign ( June — August 1944 ).

As the Philippines is connected to the worldwide Anglican Communion through the Episcopal Church in the Philippines, the main edition of the Book of Common Prayer in use throughout the Islands is the same as that of the United States.

While Portuguese and Spanish activity in the region had weakened, the English had built fortified trading posts on tiny Ai and Run islands, ten to twenty kilometres from the main Banda Islands.

The main Cook Islands language is Rarotongan Māori.

The Falkland Islands comprise two main islands, West Falkland and East Falkland ( in Spanish Isla Gran Malvina and Isla Soledad respectively ), and about 776 small islands.

The Attorney General ( AG ), appointed by the Governor, is the main legal adviser to the Falkland Islands Government.

* Seymour Airport ( IATA code GPS ), the main airport serving the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador

Located as the southernmost of the Leeward Islands in the eastern Caribbean Sea, Guadeloupe comprises two main islands: Basse-Terre Island, Grande-Terre ( separated from Basse-Terre by a narrow sea channel called Salt River ) forming Guadeloupe proper.

The Hawar Islands used to be one of the settlements of the Bahraini branch of the Dawasir who settled there in the early 19th century and on the main island of Bahrain in 1845 in the areas of Zallaq and Budaiya.

It comprises five main islands: Sumatra, Java, Borneo ( known as " Kalimantan " in Indonesia ), Sulawesi, and New Guinea ; two major archipelagos ( Nusa Tenggara and the Maluku Islands ); and sixty smaller archipelagoes.

Islands close to the shores of modern Ayrshire would have remained part of the Kingdom of Strathclyde during this period, whilst the main islands became part of the emerging Kingdom of Alba founded by Kenneth MacAlpin ( Cináed mac Ailpín ).

The national territory also includes the small Bonin or Ogasawara Islands, which include Iwo Jima and the Volcano Islands ( Kazan Retto ), stretching some 1, 100 kilometers from the main 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.

This is more than three times the species diversity of corals found in the main Hawaiian Islands.

For much of the subsequent period, the main island chain, the Gilbert Islands, was ruled as part of the British Empire.

* Gilbert Islands, the main part of

The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of Pines and a few remote islets.

New Caledonia comprises a main island, Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, and several smaller islands.

New Caledonia is made up of a main island, the Grande Terre, and several smaller islands, the Belep archipelago to the north of the Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands to the east of the Grande Terre, the ( Isle of Pines ) to the south of the Grande Terre, the Chesterfield Islands and Bellona Reefs further to the west.

Events in the main sequence of the Odyssey ( excluding Odysseus ' embedded narrative of his wanderings ) take place in the Peloponnese and in what are now called the Ionian Islands.

The industrial revolution in France was a particular process for it did not correspond to the main model followed by other countries.

One of the main reasons for which spelling and pronunciation deviate is that sound changes taking place in the spoken language are not always reflected in the orthography, and hence spellings correspond to historical rather than present-day pronunciation.

These principal letters are divided into four series (" témar ") that correspond to the main places of articulation and into six rows (" tyeller ") that correspond to the main manners of articulation.

Similar to early graphical shells like Jane, the main interface is portrayed as the inside of a house, with different rooms to correspond to common real-world room styles such as kitchen and family room.

Data in cache does not necessarily correspond to data that is spatially close in main memory ; however, data elements are brought into cache one cache line at a time.

The main island was called Cerna and, according to Henry T. Riley, these islands may correspond to Cape Verde.

Under laws passed after James II was deposed, it became treasonable to correspond with the Jacobite claimants ( main article ), or to hinder succession to the Throne under the Act of Settlement 1701, or to publish that anyone other than the individual specified by the Act of Settlement had the right to inherit the Crown.

Bruce Leverett, writing the English chapter in MCO14, stated, " It is natural to treat the English as a Sicilian reversed, but the results are often surprising -- main lines in the Sicilian Defense correspond to obscure side variations in the English, and vice versa.

While most atolls of the Gilbert Islands correspond to local government areas governed by island councils, Tabiteuea, like the main atoll Tarawa, is divided into two:

Apart from this, because of their large radii and luminosities, giant stars lie above the main sequence ( luminosity class V in the Yerkes spectral classification ) on the Hertzsprung – Russell diagram and correspond to luminosity classes II or III.

In the Canada 2011 Census, Capreol was listed for the first time as one of six distinct population centres ( or urban areas ) within the city, with a population of 3, 276 and a population density of 537. 7 km < sup > 2 </ sup >; however, the boundaries of this statistical aggregation correspond only to the main townsite of Capreol, and not to the full municipal boundaries as they existed prior to 2001.

The aplites of granite areas, for example, are the last part of the magma to crystallize, and correspond in composition to the quartzo-feldspathic aggregates that fill up the interspaces between the early minerals in the main body of the rock.

One main difference between the Tribute and the Ford Escape / Maverick is that the Tribute's suspension is tuned for a firmer ride than the Escape / Maverick, in order to correspond with Mazda's sporty image.

Its borders mostly correspond to these of the Massif des Ecrins, delimited by the main valleys of rivers Drac, Romanche and Durance ( with its Guisane dependency ).

The Northern Circars correspond in the main to the Coastal Andhra region of Andhra Pradesh, including the districts of:

The ceiling within the main chamber is illuminated with lights placed to correspond with the constellations of the southern night sky.

Researchers ' underlying assumption was that simple tasks such as the Tower of Hanoi correspond to the main properties of " real world " problems and thus the characteristic cognitive processes within participants ' attempts to solve simple problems are the same for " real world " problems too ; simple problems were used for reasons of convenience and with the expectation that thought generalizations to more complex problems would become possible.

They correspond to the territories of Ilkhanate and the rival Golden Horde respectively, reinforcing Ilkhanate as the main source of information.

: Beginning in the middle of the Mississippi River, on the parallel of thirty-six degrees of north latitude ; thence west along the said parallel of latitude to the St. Francois River ; thence up and following the course of that river, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to the parallel of latitude of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes ; thence west along the same to a point where the said parallel is intersected by a meridian line passing through the middle of the mouth of the Kansas River, where the same empties into the Missouri River ; thence, from the point aforesaid, north along the said meridian line, to the intersection of the parallel of latitude which passes through the rapids of the River Des Moines, making said line correspond with the Indian boundary-line ; thence east from the point of intersection last aforesaid, along the said parallel of latitude, to the middle of the channel of the main fork of the said River Des Moines ; thence down along the middle of the main channel of the said River Des Moines to the mouth of the same, where it empties into the Mississippi River ; thence due east to the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi River ; thence down and following the course of the Mississippi River, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to the place of beginning.