`` Even when the islands were under German mandate before World War 1,, Europeans gave Eromonga a wide berth.

To Serenissimus such tribes as the Cossacks of the Don or those ex-bandits the Zaporogian Cossacks ( in whose islands along the lower Dnieper the Polish novelist Sienkiewicz would one day place With Fire And Sword ) were just elements for enforced resettlement in, say, Bessarabia, where, as `` the faithful of the Black Sea borders '', he could use their presence as bargaining points in the Czarina's territorial claims against Turkey.

In the Delaware River, three long islands were overgrown with greening trees and underbrush.

When they were first occupied, the present-day islands including Milos with its important obsidian production were probably still connected to the mainland.

* Aran Islands: These islands off the west coast of Ireland, ( not to be confused with the Isle of Arran in Scotland's Firth of Clyde ), were unsuitable for arable farming because they were too rocky.

In 1868 there were about 15, 000 Ainu in Hokkaido, 2000 in Sakhalin, and around 100 in the Kurile islands.

The Ainu were distributed in the northern and central islands of Japan, from Sakhalin island in the north to the Kuril islands and the island of Hokkaidō and Northern Honshū, although some investigators place their former range as throughout Honshū and as far north as the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula in what is now Cape Lopatka.

The Andaman and Nicobar islands were later occupied by Japan during World War II.

The islands were nominally put under the authority of the Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind ( Provisional Government of Free India ) headed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

The Spotted Deer Axis axis, the Barking Deer and the sambar were all introduced to the Andaman islands, though the sambar did not survive.

Because unlike the Hawaiians, Cubans and Puerto Ricans, the Filipinos were willing to fight for their independence, Carnegie believed that the conquest of the islands is a denial of the fundamental democratic principle, and he also urged William McKinley to withdraw American troops and allow the Filipinos to live with their independence.

For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia ; and the inhabitants of it — they add — preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon.

The islands were the scene of the Battle of the Aegates Islands of 241 BC, in which the Carthaginian fleet was defeated by C. Lutatius Catulus ; the engagement ended the First Punic War.

With the end of western Roman power, the islands, to the extent that they were governed at all, were part of territories of Goths, Vandals, Saracens, before the Normans fortified Favignana in 1081.

The islands belonged to the Pallavicini-Rusconi family of Genoa until 1874, when they were bought by the Florio family of Palermo.

* Structures ; Ruins of palaces, palatial villas, houses, built dome-or cist-graves and fortifications ( Aegean islands, Greek mainland and northwestern Anatolia ), but not distinct temples ; small shrines, however, and temene ( religious enclosures, remains of one of which were probably found at Petsofa near Palaikastro by J. L. Myres in 1904 ) are represented on intaglios and frescoes.

Certain central Aegean islands, Antiparos, Ios, Amorgos, Syros and Siphnos, were all found to be singularly rich in evidence of the Middle-Aegean period.

This is corroborated by Benedict of Peterborough's graphic account of Greece, as it was in 1191, where he states that many of the islands were uninhabited from fear of pirates and that Aegina, along with Salamis and Makronesos, were their strongholds.

The Virgin Islands were first settled by the Arawak from South America around 100 BC ( though there is some evidence of Amerindian presence on the islands as far back as 1500 BC ).

Apollo Delphinios was a sea-god especially worshiped in Crete and in the islands, and his name indicates his connection with Delphi and the holy serpent Delphyne ( womb ).

The family consists of a single genus Xeronema with two species, one found only on the Poor Knights islands in New Zealand and the other in New Caledonia.

The Aegean Islands are found within its waters, with the following islands delimiting the sea on the south ( generally from west to east ): Kythera, Antikythera, Crete, Kasos, Karpathos and Rhodes.

The people covered the islands with a shallow layer of seaweed and sand from the ocean.

The archipelago with the most islands is the Archipelago Sea in Finland.

Typical landscape for the Antarctic Peninsula area, with fjords, high coastal mountains and islands.

A similar situation is observed in modern Komodo dragons, with hatchlings beginning life as small insectivores before growing to become the dominant predators on their islands.

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

It has 325 islands which cover an area of, with the Andaman Sea to the east between the islands and the coast of Burma.

The subsoil of the Andaman islands consists essentially of Late Jurassic to Early Eocene ophiolites and sedimentary rocks ( argillaceous and algal limestones ), deformed by numerous deep faults and thrusts with ultramafic igneous intrusions.

The coast contains sufficient estuaries, inlets, rivers, islands, swamps and marshes to have been then inaccessible to those not familiar with the terrain, such as the Romans, who considered it unknown, inaccessible, with a small population and of little economic interest.

The Aegadian Islands ( Sicilian: Ìsuli Ègadi, ;,, meaning the islands of goats ), are a group of small mountainous islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the northwest coast of Sicily, Italy, near the city of Trapani, with a total area of.

Thus the " Aegean Area " has now come to mean the Archipelago with Crete and Cyprus, the Hellenic peninsula with the Ionian islands, and Western Anatolia.

In 1699, thanks to English mediation, the war ended with the peace of Karlowitz by which Venice retained possession of the 7 Ionian islands, Butrinto and Parga, the Morea, Spinalonga and Suda, Tenos, Santa Maura and Aegina and ceased to pay a tribute for Zante, but restored Lepanto to the Ottoman sultan.

View of Amakusa islands ( with Yushima, Kami-Amakusa in foreground ).

Along with six other islands, the island was administered by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the Pacific Remote Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex.

country code-1-284 ; connected via submarine cable to Bermuda ; the East Caribbean Fiber System ( ECFS ) submarine cable provides connectivity to 13 other islands in the eastern Caribbean ( 2007 )

Crete with its nearby islands form the Crete Region (), one of the 13 regions of Greece which were established in the 1987 administrative reform.

It forms the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately and a 2001 census population of 13, 670.

On 13 May Powell, said the task force was sent " to repossess the Falkland Islands, to restore British administration of the islands and to ensure that the decisive factor in the future of the islands should be the wishes of the inhabitants " but the Foreign Secretary ( Francis Pym ) desired an " interim agreement ": " So far as I understand that interim agreement, it is in breach, if not in contradiction, of each of the three objects with which the task force was dispatched to the South Atlantic.

Sharp also noted that orders given to Maddox to stay eight miles ( 13 km ) off the North Vietnamese coast put the ship in international waters, as North Vietnam claimed only a five-mile ( 8 km ) nautical limit as its territory ( or off of its off-shore islands ).

:::* 1 ) the East Caribbean Fiber System ( ECFS ) submarine cable with links to 13 other islands in the eastern Caribbean extending from the British Virgin Islands to Trinidad ;

On August 13, 2004, the county was struck by Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, particularly on the northwestern islands of Captiva, Gasparilla and North Captiva.

By 13, 000 years ago, sea level had risen to 60 m ( 200 ft ) lower than at present, and many hills of the coastal plains had become continental islands.

At the end of 1960, however, 13 of the island's 18 registered voters approved the incorporation of a municipality, and the 33 northernmost islands of the Florida Keys became the city of Islandia.

The only remnant of the former colonial territory of New France that remains under French control to this day is the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon ( French: Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon ), consisting of a group of small islands 25 kilometres ( 13 nmi ; 15 mi ) off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

Australia was struck first around 45, 000 years ago, followed by Tasmania about 41, 000 years ago ( after formation of a land bridge to Australia about 43, 000 years ago ), Japan apparently about 30, 000 years ago, North America 13, 000 years ago, South America about 500 years later, Cyprus 10, 000 years ago, the Antilles 6000 years ago, New Caledonia and nearby islands 3000 years ago, Madagascar 2000 years ago, New Zealand 700 years ago, the Mascarenes 400 years ago, and the Commander Islands 250 years ago.

The group consists of 13 main islands, 3 smaller islands, and 107 rocks and islets.

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

As of 1997, scientists counted 97 iguanas living on Baltra ; 13 of which were born on the islands.

In addition to Lulu and Sea Islands, 13 smaller islands make up the city's land area.

The largest islands inside the lagoon are Île Michel ( Michael Island ), in the east ( 0. 34 km² or 0. 16 sq mi ) and Île Esprit ( Spirit Island ), in the west ( 0. 41 km² 0. 13 sq mi ).

Geographically, the Marianas are the northernmost islands of a larger island group called Micronesia, situated between 13 ° and 21 ° N latitude and 144 ° and 146 ° E longitude.

It operates scheduled and charter services serving 13 islands in the West Indies.

The Three Kings Islands or Manawa Islands ( Manawa-tawhi or Ngā Motu Karaka in Māori ) are a group of 13 islands about northwest of Cape Reinga, the northernmost point of the North Island of New Zealand, where the South Pacific Ocean and Tasman Sea converge.

Since 1 January 2011 it is divided into 13 regional units, formed around major islands:

The next total eclipse of the sun, on 13 November 2012 UTC ( 14 November AEST ), should be visible from Cape York, Australia, as well as some northern islands of New Zealand.

Its lagoon has no islands and is relatively open with few shoals in its centre, but having mazes of coral patches close to the NW and NE corners of its encircling reefs in 7 to 10 fathoms ( 13 to 18 m ) of water.