Thus the term asteroid has come increasingly to refer specifically to the small bodies of the inner Solar System out to the orbit of Jupiter, which are usually rocky or metallic.

Complex-crater morphology on rocky planets appears to follow a regular sequence with increasing size: small complex craters with a central topographic peak are called central peak craters, for example Tycho ; intermediate-sized craters, in which the central peak is replaced by a ring of peaks, are called peak-ring craters, for example Schrödinger ; and the largest craters contain multiple concentric topographic rings, and are called multi-ringed basins, for example Orientale.

A place near this spot, on a small rocky island named ' Tech nDuinn ' (' the House of Donn '), became Donn's dwelling place as god of the dead.

The Sirens lived on three small, rocky islands called Sirenum scopuli and sang beautiful songs that enticed sailors to come to them, which resulted in the crashing of their ship into the islands.

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.

Off the east end of Upolu are the Aleipata Islands, small uninhabited islets ; The terrain of the two main islands are narrow coastal plains with volcanic, rocky, rugged mountains in interior

This region is mainly rocky plateau interspersed by small, sandy deserts and isolated mountain clumps.

Perhaps the most important of his paintings from the first decade of the 1900s was The Blue Rider ( 1903 ), which shows a small cloaked figure on a speeding horse rushing through a rocky meadow.

** Imia-Kardak crisis: A Greek flag is hoisted on a small rocky island named Imia ( Greek ) / Kardak ( Turkish ).

The southern coast consists of a series of small, rocky or sandy bays, such as Langland and Three Cliffs, and larger beaches such as Port Eynon, Rhossili and Oxwich Bay.

Some species, such as the Uria guillemots, nest in large colonies on cliff edges ; others, like the Cepphus guillemots, breed in small groups on rocky coasts ; and the puffins, auklets and some murrelets nest in burrows.

A small rocky island, appropriately named Kamen Opasnosti ( Russian for " Rock of Danger ") is located in the Russian waters in the northeastern part of the strait.

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.

Cilicia Trachea (" rugged Cilicia "— Greek: Κιλικία Τραχεία ; the Assyrian Khilakku or Khilikku, also sometimes transcribed as Hilakku or Hilikku, classical " Cilicia ") is a rugged mountain district formed by the spurs of Taurus, which often terminate in rocky headlands with small sheltered harbors, a feature which, in classical times, made the coast a string of havens for pirates, but which in the Middle Ages led to its occupation by Genoese and Venetian traders.

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.

Like Earth, all of the rocky planets have a small precessional rotation of their spin axis.

There are a small number of rocky coves.

In the east of the park are flood plains, dotted with occasional trees which then give way to small rocky gorges and creek beds.

It has a small harbour and offers a view northwards along the rocky shore to the ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle.

Norie, in his Piloting Directions for the Gulf of Florida, The Bahama Bank & Islands ( 1828 ) states: " Duck Key-Some two miles ( 3 km ) long, low, rocky, & covered with mangroves ; some small patches of good land with a little timber.

The shore is rocky, with many small ledges and rocks lying offshore.

The Township is well watered with small streams and in the North part of the Township there is a large Stream of sufficient size for milling purposes, with high banks, rocky bottom and rapid current.

The city of Helsinki, previously just a small village, was rebuilt on a rocky peninsula near the sea in 1812 by decree of Alexander I, Grand-duke of Finland.

The Sounds are home to the entire breeding population of the rare and vulnerable Rough-faced Shag ( also known as the New Zealand King Cormorant ) which nests on a small number of rocky islets there.

The Milton Loch interpretation is of a small islet surrounded or defined at its edges by timber piles and a gangway, topped by a typical Iron Age roundhouse.

The choice of a small islet as a home may seem odd today, yet waterways were the main channels for both communication and travel until the 19th century in much of Ireland and especially Highland Scotland.

It has a small islet, the Calf of Man, to its south.

* Rock or islet, small island

Tapuaetai ( One Foot Island ), a small islet in the south-east of the lagoon, is often said to be the most important attraction.

Interesting locations in the municipality includes a monument honouring the Treaty of Brömsebro between Denmark and Sweden 1645, and the Garpen lighthouse, located on a small islet outside the coast, where one can spend the night on a hostel.

* Nameless Island – A small islet used mostly for scuba diving.

Eigerøy Lighthouse is located on a small islet off the southern tip of Eigerøya.

Klein Bonaire ( Dutch for " Little Bonaire ") is a small uninhabited islet off the west coast of the Caribbean island of Bonaire, and is part of the Dutch special municipality of Bonaire.

Several studies in small and large animals models have shown that transplantation of islet cells across species is possible.

* Seagull Rock, small islet off south-eastern Tasmania, Australia

An islet is a very small island.

* River island-A small islet within the current of a river.

* Holm or Holmen is a common suffix too in Nordic and northern European countries (" holme " means " islet " in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, although the meaning is more precise: a holme in Swedish is usually big enough to have wood and some fresh water but too small for a village ; smaller islets have other names – there is an intricate name system to make it possible to remember and recognize different islets, hundreds of which have been important in some archipelagos ).

The fishing deck and a small islet at the rear of the pavilion.

There is a suspension bridge that leads to a small islet off the coast which is said to be the Southernmost Point of Continental Asia, or Asia's closest point to the Equator.

The word " holme " or " holm " means small island or islet and comes from Old Norse.

Zadar was a Liburnian settlement, laid out in the 9th century BC, built on a small stone islet and embankments where the old city stands and tied to the mainland by the overflown narrow isthmus, which created a natural port in its northern strait.

Apart from those, Isla Perejil, a small uninhabited islet close to Ceuta that was the subject of a confrontation with Morocco in 2002, has been lately defined as an extra plaza de soberanía.

Marathonissi ( also known as " Turtle Island " because of its turtle-like shape ), an islet near Limni Keriou ( the beach of village Keri ; also known as Keri Lake ) is a small paradise, with tropical vegetation, turquoise water beaches and sea caves.

As of the 2000s, the islet is an uninhabited sea bird reserve, save for a single man who works the light house, manages the small emergency yacht harbour ( depth ca.

* Goat Island ( Cliffs of Moher ) is a small islet near the Cliffs of Moher