English Captain John Strong, commander of the Welfare, sailed between the two principal islands in 1690 and called the passage " Falkland Channel " ( now Falkland Sound ), after Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland ( 1659 – 1694 ), who as Commissioner of the Admiralty had financed the expedition and later became First Lord of the Admiralty.

A principal reason for this decision was that, during the winter, the islands are physically linked to Finland by the frozen waters of the sea and are thus essential for the country's defense.

The country consists of four principal islands: Hokkaidō, Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū ; more than 3, 000 adjacent islands and islets, including Izu Ōshima in the Nanpō Islands ; and more than 200 other smaller islands, including those of the Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima chains of the Ryukyu Islands.

The Republic of Palau consists of eight principal islands and more than 250 smaller ones lying roughly 500 miles southeast of the Philippines.

The southwestern islands of the archipelago, including Cape Horn, are part of the Patagonian Batholith, while Cordillera Darwin and the area around Beagle Channel forms the principal codillera hosting the highest mountains.

Control of the islands was then held by clan chiefs, principal of whom were the MacLeods, MacDonalds, Mackenzies and MacNeils.

The principal islands are Saint Paul and Saint George.

During the latter part of its course the river expands into a large estuary containing many islands, the principal of which is that of Dakshin Shahbazpur.

The principal islands appear to have been Cair Andros, on the borders of Ithilien and Tol Brandir in Nen Hithoel.

Situated on the northern coast of Mainland Orkney and with a population of about 8, 500, Kirkwall is a port with ferry services to Aberdeen and Lerwick, as well as the principal north islands in the group.

Control of the islands was then held by various clan chiefs, principal of whom were the MacLeans, MacLeods and MacDonalds.

Whalers and sealers set up temporary bases, the islands becoming one of the principal sealing stations in the Pacific in the years immediately after their discovery.

The principal language on the islands is Spanish.

The principal barrier islands forming the sound are Montague Island, Hinchinbrook Island, and Hawkins Island.

Jack Abramoff and his law firm were paid at least $ 6. 7 million by the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands ( CNMI ) from 1995 — 2001 to change or prevent, or both, Congressional action regarding the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands ( CNMI ) and businesses on Saipan, its capital, commercial center, and one of its three principal islands.

The southern of the two principal islands, Fukue Island, measures approximately 25 km north-to-south by 25 km east-to-west ; the northern, Nakadori Island, measures approximately 40 km north-to-south by 20 km east-to-west at its widest point.

The principal threats to storm petrels are introduced species, particularly mammals, in their breeding colonies ; many storm petrels habitually nest on isolated mammal-free islands and are unable to cope with predators like rats and feral cats.

Tinian ( or ) is one of the three principal islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

The principal islands under consideration are as follows:

They are traditionally called the Heptanese, i. e. " the Seven Islands " (, Heptanēsa, or, Heptanēsos ; ), but the group includes many smaller islands as well as the seven principal ones.

While the pelagic range covers an enormous span, breeding is restricted to only about seven principal areas, four of which are on islands off the coast of California.

The six principal islands of the Blaskets are:

In the summary of the principal events of the campaign compiled from the official records there are only ten days which show no fighting.

SBA works closely with the principal property disposal installations of the Federal Government in reviewing proposed sales programs and identifying those types of property that small business concerns are most likely to be interested in purchasing.

If the less developed countries are to be persuaded to adopt a long-term approach, the United States, as the principal supplier of external aid, must be prepared to give long-term commitments.

after completing the payments prescribed by paragraphs ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) of this subsection, to make payments, from time to time in ratable proportions, on account of the unpaid principal of all awards in the principal amount of more than $1,000, according to the proportions which the unpaid principal of such awards bear to the total amount in the fund available for distribution at the time such payments are made ; ;

Their locations in all parts of the United States, and their locations in the several kinds of educational and research institutions that are the principal homes of our intellectual and artistic strengths also are factors in the Trustees' minds.

There are three principal feed bunk types for dairy and beef cattle: ( 1 ) Fence-line bunks -- cattle eat from one side while feed is put in from the opposite side of the fence by self-unloading wagons ; ;

During summer vacation periods these records are stored in the office of the principal.

Of the various particle accelerators, the Van De Graff machines, resonant transformers, and linear accelerators are the principal ones available for commercial use.

In other countries where cereal grains are not among the principal crops of a region, starchy tubers or roots are processed for starch.

These, he said, are `` two of the principal underlying causes for family breakups leading to ADC ''.

While it must be said that these same Protestants have built some new churches during this period, and that religious population shifts have emptied churches, a principal reason for this phenomenon of redundancy is that fewer Protestants are going to church.

There are three principal families of abugidas, depending on whether vowels are indicated by modifying consonants by diacritics, distortion, or orientation.

They are derived from the characteristics of their spectroscopic lines: sharp, principal, diffuse, and fundamental, the rest being named in alphabetical order ( omitting j ).

The principal abalone farming regions are China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea.

His principal theological works are a commentary in three volumes on the Books of the Sentences of Peter Lombard ( Magister Sententiarum ), and the Summa Theologiae in two volumes.

His principal sources are the Physics ( book 7 ), Metaphysics ( book 12 ), and the Pseudo-Aristotelian On the Universe.

However we are told by Longinus that Ammonius wrote nothing, and if Ammonius was the principal influence on Plotinus, then it is unlikely that Ammonius would have been a Christian.

Aldosterone's effects are on the distal convoluted tubule and collecting duct of the kidney where it causes increased reabsorption of sodium and increased excretion of both potassium ( by principal cells ) and hydrogen ions ( by intercalated cells of the collecting duct ).

Mycenae and Tiryns are the two principal sites on which evidence of a prehistoric civilization was remarked long ago by the classical Greeks.

There are difficulties in this story, of which the following are the principal elements: