The Momoyama family had come from Miyagi Prefecture, in the northeast of the main Japanese island of Honshu, where there are still traces of the mysterious Ainu strain.

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

Restoration and the construction of a main entrance to all museums, as well as the reconstruction of the Stadtschloss on the same island is costing over 2 billion Euros since reunification.

The main industries on the island include fishing, arts and crafts such as glass making and pottery using locally worked clay, and dairy farming.

Upon the arrival of the Dutch, the trail soon became the main road through the island from Nieuw Amsterdam at the southern tip.

The main town and administrative centre is Bandanaira, located on the island of the same name.

Five of the Banda islands were within gunshot of each other and he realised that a fort on the main island Neira would give him full control of the group.

The main island, Banda Neira ( centre ) viewed from the peak of Gunung Api volcano.

Palmeira on Sal supplies fuel for the main airport on the island, Amílcar Cabral International Airport, and is important for the hotel construction taking place on the island.

Generally they operate between outlying villages and the main town on each island.

Five of the districts are located on the main island, Grand Cayman.

Geopolitically, the island is divided into four main segments.

The main town of Fermanagh is Enniskillen (, ' Ceithleann's island ').

The Comoros archipelago consists of four main islands aligned along a northwest-southeast axis at the north end of the Mozambique Channel, between Mozambique and the island of Madagascar.

Dzaoudzi, capital of Comoros until 1962 and now Mahoré's administrative center, is situated on a rocky outcropping off the east shore of the main island.

Daily flights linked the three main islands, and air service was also available to Mahoré ; each island had airstrips.

The first two serve international routes, as the main gateways to the island for travellers.

Visitors reach the island via two international airports in Heraklion and Chania and a smaller airport in Sitia ( international charter and domestic flights starting May 2012 ) or by boat to the main ports of Heraklion, Chania, Rethimno, Agios Nikolaos and Sitia.

The majority of islands are low coral atolls in the Northern Group, with Rarotonga, a volcanic island in the Southern Group, as the main administration and government centre.

The main island is the largest of about 60 islands which form the Chagos Archipelago.

Besides the main island, there are three small islets at the mouth of the lagoon: West Island ( 3. 4 ha / 8. 4 acres ); Middle Island ( 6 ha / 14. 8 acres ); and East Island ( 11. 75 ha / 29 acres ).

The game board consists of the main Settlers island as well as a few smaller islands, which award a special victory point to each player for their first settlements on them.

On the large island, there exists a " wall of deserts " that separates the island into a large main area and separate smaller strips of land.

For over six centuries the Maharajahs of Srivijaya ruled a maritime empire that became the main power in the archipelago.

South of Ardnamurchan Gaelic place names are the most common and, after the 13th century, Gaelic became the main language of the entire Hebridean archipelago.

Three endemic species dominate the tall and lower montane forests of the archipelago, Drimys confertifolia on both main islands, Myrceugenia fernandeziana on Robinson Crusoe, and M. schulzei on Alexander Selkirk.

The main island, Grande Terre, is in area and is surrounded by a further 300 smaller islands and islets, forming an archipelago 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 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.

The archipelago of Culebra, located east of Puerto Rico, north of Vieques, and west of the Virgin Islands, is composed of the main island of Culebra and 28 uninhabited islets.

The archipelago consists of a main island Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego divided between Chile and Argentina with an area of, and a group of smaller islands including Cape Horn.

The archipelago consists of a main island, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, often called simply Tierra del Fuego or Isla Grande, with an area of, and a group of smaller islands.

The archipelago is divided by an east-west channel, the Beagle Channel, immediately south of the main island.

The eastern part of the main island, and a few small islands in the Beagle Channel, belong to Argentina, being part of the Tierra del Fuego, Antarctic Territory and South Atlantic Islands Province ; its capital is Ushuaia, the biggest city of the archipelago.

The main islands form an archipelago of which the major islands include Lewis and Harris, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist, and Barra.

The archipelago is geographically subdivided into several groups, most significantly those around the main islands Basilan, Jolo and Tawi-Tawi.

Their main territory is the archipelago of Haida Gwaii in northern British Columbia, but many live across the water in southern Alaska.

Al Janbi's theory is the most widely accepted one by modern scholars, although there are some difficulties with this argument given that Al Ahsa is 60 km inland and thus less likely to be the starting point for a trader's route, making the location within the archipelago of islands comprising the modern Kingdom of Bahrain, particularly the main island of Bahrain itself, another possibility.

The route from Wellington to Tonga went along the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, and then north and east into the open Pacific, passing by the Kermadec Islands en route to Tongatabu, the main island of the Tonga archipelago ( then known as the Friendly Islands ).

Culebra is an archipelago consisting of the main island and twenty-three smaller islands that lie off its coast.

New Castle occupies an archipelago, consisting of one main island ( Great Island ) and several smaller islands surrounded by the Piscataqua River and Atlantic Ocean.

In the 2001 Census, the archipelago was found to support a population of 12, 818, down from 13, 991 in 1991 – the official 2006 census figure is 13, 091 – whose main occupations include lobster fishing.

Maclean ( 1972 ) further suggests that the Dutch may have simply made a cartographical error, and confused Hirta with Skildar, the old name for Haskeir island much nearer the main Outer Hebrides archipelago.

The 13 main islands ( with a land area larger than 1 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) of the archipelago ( with their English names ) shown alphabetically: