There were also the tree-covered islet near Lang ( Poolsche Hoed ) and several small rocky islets or banks between Krakatoa and Verlaten.

Rockall (, ) is an extremely small, uninhabited, remote rocky islet in the North Atlantic Ocean.

A Goliath Heronry is located on a rocky islet in the lake known as Gibraltar.

The Perejil Island ( Berber: Tura,, ) is a small, uninhabited rocky islet located in the southern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar, 200 meters from the Moroccan coast.

The rocky islet of Jiddah formerly housed the state prison but has now been converted to a holiday resort.

According to legend, the Archangel Michael appeared to St. Aubert, bishop of Avranches, in 708 and instructed him to build a church on the rocky islet.

** And, east of Barkarholmen, a rocky islet called Lilla Stockholm (" Little Log Islet ") in the 16th century, renamed Bryggeriholmen (" Brewery Islet ") during the 17th century ( in reference to a brewery in operation 1641-45 ), and after that called Slaktarholmen (" Butcher's Islet ") after a slaughterhouse operating there.

" King Sinmun did as his father asked, and scattered his ashes over Daewangam ( the Rock of the Great King ), a small rocky islet a hundred metres or so off the Korean coast.

Filfoletta, a small rocky islet some 100 meters southwest of Filfla, has the southernmost point of Malta.

Martin is unconscious at the opening of the novel, but wakes in complete darkness, submerged, before nearly drowning after being thrown into the side of a rocky islet.

The North Atlantic islet in question is described in the novel as very small, rocky, barren and remote, " only appearing on weather charts ".

A rocky islet resembling a ship is used for bombing practice.

* Nu ' usafe ' e, uninhabited, tiny rocky islet off the south coast of Upolu by the village of Poutasi.

The small, rocky islet of Fleves lies off shore.

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.

Italian being still the administrative language of Corsica ( until 1848 ), the town was originally called Isola Rossa ( Red Island, from the ochre colour of a rocky islet that served as a natural harbour ).

* Reid Rocks, small rocky islet in western Bass Strait, Tasmania, Australia

Caledonian MacBrayne ferries sail from the terminal, on the rocky islet Eilean Ceann na Creige, to Port Ellen or Port Askaig on Islay and to Colonsay.

It has a magnificent view over the sea and the rocky islet Tindhólmur with its many peaks, Gáshólmur and the two " drangar ", ( tall, pointed clifftops sticking up from the sea ).

The small rocky islets ( of which Fragata, Garajau, Carneiros and the islet of Álvaro Rodrigues ) are all rocky, shallow features ; apart from the islet of Álvaro Rodrigues, which was cultivated until about the middle of the 20th century, the islets are uninhabitable and lack sources of water.

Hanakee is the name of a small rocky islet lying off the southern coast of Hiva Oa, separating Atuona Bay from Ta ‘ a Oa.

Although there is no cliff at the site where his body was found there is a very steep rocky embankment-which would have been fatal in the dark.

Iron's very common presence in rocky planets like Earth is due to its abundant production as a result of fusion in high-mass stars, where the production of nickel-56 ( which decays to the most common isotope of iron ) is the last nuclear fusion reaction that is exothermic.

The band officially announced the production of a new studio album in December 2002, revealing its new work was inspired by the rocky region of Meteora in Greece, where numerous monasteries have been built on top of the rocks.

It studies habitats such as coral reefs, kelp forests, tidepools, muddy, sandy and rocky bottoms, and the open ocean ( pelagic ) zone, where solid objects are rare and the surface of the water is the only visible boundary.

Tabonuco trees are especially large on ridges, where they are firmly rooted in the rocky substrate and connected by root grafts with each other.

One habitat is rocky, sea-side cliffs, where the plants are bushy with broad leaves and expanded inflorescences ; the other is among sand dunes where the plants grow prostrate with narrow leaves and compact inflorescences.

In the northeast and the southwest, where the coast cuts across the stratification of the crystalline rocks, rocky cliffs, bays, and offshore islands can be found ; these conditions have created one of the world's best natural harbors at Trincomalee on the northeast coast, and a smaller rock harbor at Galle on the southwestern coast.

These are used for frozen or rocky terrain, and are normally issued only where needed, such as extremely cold areas.

Most species live on rocky mountain sides, where there are numerous crevices to shelter in, although some also construct crude burrows.

It is a thickly forested plateau, very rocky and not very good for farming, which extends into northern France and in Germany where it is named Eifel.

It grows in dry localities where snow melts early, on gravel and rocky barrens, forming a distinct heath community on calcareous soils.

The Blackjack oak grows in poor, thin, dry, rocky or sandy soils where few other woody plants can thrive, usually on low ground, from sea level up to 900 m altitude.

Chiton plates or valves often wash up on beaches in rocky areas where chitons are common.

According to the Roman poets Virgil ( Aeneid, book v. 864 ) and Ovid, the Sirenum scopuli were three small rocky islands where the Sirens of Greek mythology lived and lured sailors to their deaths.

Because his force was inferior, he chose the narrow, rocky body of water between the western shore of Lake Champlain and Valcour Island ( near modern Plattsburgh, New York ), where the British fleet would have difficulty bringing its superior firepower to bear, and where the inferior seamanship of his relatively unskilled sailors would have a minimal negative effect.

On rocky seashores, where nearly all caves and crevices are occupied, crabs may also fight over hiding holes.

The band officially announced the production of a new studio album in December 2002, revealing their new work was inspired by the rocky region of Meteora in Greece, where numerous monasteries have been built on top of the rocks.

This central Orontes valley ends at the rocky barrier of Jisr al-Hadid, where the river is diverted to the west, and the plain of Antioch opens.

Another extraordinary usage of siege-mining in the ancient Greece, where during Philip V of Macedon's siege of the little town of Prinassos, according to Polybius, " the ground around the town were extremely rocky and hard, making any siege-mining virtually impossible.

It is found in rocky, desert as its habitat, where it nests in the hollows of trees or abandoned wooden structures.

and he himself was buried there-and indeed the locals will show visitors the site of the ancient town of Plakotos at the northernmost end of the island, where the rocky entrance to a tomb may be seen.

The seashore of Tukums district stretches to the length of 50 km, where old fishermen's huts alternate with modern villas, the sandy beaches interchange with rocky shores and meadows.