Encyclopedia - Island: Encyclopedia - Island
An island or isle is any piece of land that is completely surrounded by water. Very small islands are called islets. Although seldom adhe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Island - Continental Islands
Continental islands are bodies of land that are connected by the continental shelf to a continent. That is, these islands are part of an ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Island - Continental Islands
Continental islands are bodies of land that lie upon the continental shelf of a continent. Examples include Greenland and Sable Island of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Island - Volcanic Islands
Volcanic islands are built by volcanoes. Mid-ocean examples are not geologically part of any continent. One type of volcanic island is fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Island - Volcanic Islands
Volcanic islands are built by volcanoes. Mid-ocean examples are not part of any continent. One type of volcanic island is found in a volc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Windward Islands Society Islands: Encyclopedia - Windward Islands Society Islands
The Windward Islands (French: Îles du Vent) are the eastern group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. The archipelago comprises ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Windward Islands: Encyclopedia - Windward Islands
This article is about the Caribbean island group. For the eastern Society Islands in French Polynesia, see Windward Islands (Society Isla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Islands: Encyclopedia - British Islands
Under the Interpretation Act 1978 of the United Kingdom, the term British Islands refers to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and North...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antipodes Islands: Encyclopedia - Antipodes Islands
The Antipodes Islands (49°41′S 178°48′E) are an inhospitable uninhabited island group to the south of—and territorially part of�...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crowlin Islands: Encyclopedia - Crowlin Islands
The Crowlin Islands (gaelic: crò linne) a group of uninhabited islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. They lie between Skye and the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ascrib Islands: Encyclopedia - Ascrib Islands
The Ascrib Islands are a group of small islands lying in Loch Snizort off the north west coast of Skye, Scotland. Together with Isay and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amity Island: Encyclopedia - Amity Island
Amity Island is the fictional setting of the films Jaws (1975), Jaws 2 (1978), and the first act of Jaws: The Revenge (1987). The island ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Admiralty Islands: Encyclopedia - Admiralty Islands
The Admiralty Islands are a group of 18 islands in the Bismarck Archipelago. These are also sometimes called the Manus Islands, named aft...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Artificial Island: Encyclopedia - Artificial Island
An artificial island is an island that has been formed by human, rather than natural means. It is usually constructed on an existing reef...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cape Islander: Encyclopedia - Cape Islander
A Cape Island style fishing boat is a single keeled flat bottom at the stern and more rounded towards the bow. a Cape Island style boat i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cara Island: Encyclopedia - Cara Island
Cara Island is a small island which is located off the west coast of Kintyre in Scotland, one kilometre south of Gigha. The island has no...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aeolian Islands: Encyclopedia - Aeolian Islands
The Aeolian Islands (Italian Isole Eolie) are a volcanic archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily. They are a popular tourist de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ascension Island: Encyclopedia - Ascension Island
Ascension Island is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean, and includes tiny satellite islands and rocks such as Boatswain Bird Island, B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canadian Arctic Islands: Encyclopedia - Canadian Arctic Islands
The Canadian Arctic islands make up most of the territory of Nunavut and part of the Northwest Territories. The islands form the northern...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Uninhabited Island: Encyclopedia - Uninhabited Island
An uninhabited island is an island that has yet to be (or is not currently) populated by humans. Most of these islands are uncharted and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cayman Islands: Encyclopedia - Cayman Islands
The Cayman Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the western Caribbean Sea comprising the islands of Grand Cayman, C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bell Island: Encyclopedia - Bell Island
Bell Island is an island located off Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula in Conception Bay. Measuring 9 km in length and 3 km in width, Bell ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chatham Islands: Encyclopedia - Chatham Islands
The archipelago of the Chatham Islands, Rekohu in the Moriori language, consists of about 10 islands within a 40-kilometre radius. Chatha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wrangel Island: Encyclopedia - Wrangel Island
Wrangel Island (Russian: Остров Врангеля Ostrov Vrangelya) is an island in the Arctic Ocean, between the Chukchi and East S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cavalli Islands: Encyclopedia - Cavalli Islands
The Cavalli Islands are a small group of islands of the east coast of the North Auckland Peninsula in northern New Zealand. They lie five...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baffin Island: Encyclopedia - Baffin Island
Baffin Island (Inuktitut: Qikiqtaaluk ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ) is one of the Arctic Islands in the north of Canada and is part of the territor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sevii Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Sevii Islands - Islands 1-3
These islands are accessible after the player defeats the 7th gym leader, Blaine. Bill will give the player a Tri-Pass at the Cinnabar Is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aegean Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Aegean Islands - The Dodecanese Islands
Aegean islands - The Northern Aegean Islands. Chios Ikaria Limnos Lesvos Samos Samothraki Thassos Aegean islands - The Cyclades Isla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sevii Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Sevii Islands - Islands 4-7
These islands are accessible after you defeat the Elite Four, get the National Pokédex, and get the Ruby from One Island. Celio will giv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tiber Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Tiber Island - The Island
The island eventually became so identified with the temple that, as a reminder of the miraculous event, it was modeled to resemble a Ship...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orange Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Orange Islands - Orange Islands Archipelago
Note: Most of the islands are actually named after varieties of oranges. Orange Islands Hamlin Island Tarroco Island Pumello Island Mi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Island Biogeography: Encyclopedia Ii - Island Biogeography - Theory Of Island Biogeography
The theory of island biogeography holds that the number of species found on an island (the equilibrium number) is determined by two facto...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aegean Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Aegean Islands - Greek Islands:
Chrysi Crete Dia Euboea Gavdos Koufonisi Kos Aegean islands - Saronic Islands. Aegina Hydra Poros Spetses Aegean islands - The ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orkney Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Orkney Islands - Islands
The largest island in Orkney is known as "The Mainland". Other islands can be classified as north or south of "The Mainland." The islands...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Line Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Line Islands - Northern Line Islands
The Northern Line Islands lie between the equator and 6°N, and about 160°W. A few belong to the United States, but most are now part of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gulf Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Gulf Islands - Northern Gulf Islands
The names of the separate islands in alphabetical order are: Denman Island, Hornby Island, Lasqueti Island, Texada Island Cortes Island, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Island Restoration: Encyclopedia Ii - Island Restoration - Islands Endemism And Extinction
Isolated islands have always been known to have greater levels of endemism; since the 1960s the theory of Island biogeography, formulated...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands - Geography
Heard Island ( 368 km² ) is bleak and mountainous, covered in glaciers and dominated by Mawson Peak, a 2745- metre-high volcan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands - History
Heard Island did not have visitors until the mid-1850s. It is probable that no human had ever seen the Island until this time. Peter Kemp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Necker Island British Virgin Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Necker Island British Virgin Islands - History
Don McCullin and Andrew Alexander ran a survival test on the island in 1968. They were on the island for 14 days and chopped down most of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands - Administration And Economy
The islands are a territory of Australia administered from Hobart by the Australian Antarctic Division of the Australian Department of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gulf Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Gulf Islands - Southern Gulf Islands
The southern Gulf Islands form part of an archipelago that stretches to the San Juan Islands in the United States. The following are amon...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sisters' Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Sisters' Islands - The Legend Of The Sisters' Islands
Legend tells of a poor widow who had two pretty daughters, Minah and Linah, who were very close to each other. After their mother died, t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Island Restoration: Encyclopedia Ii - Island Restoration - Island Restoration
The field of island restoration is usually credited with having been started in New Zealand in the 1960s, but other smaller projects, suc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Livingston Island South Shetland Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Livingston Island South Shetland Islands - Geography
Livingston is situated in the Southern Ocean 110 km to the northwest of Cape Roquemaurel on the Antarctic Mainland, 830 km to the south-s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bouvet Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Bouvet Island - Bouvet Island In Fiction
Bouvet, redundantly called "Bouvetøya Island," was the setting of the 2004 movie Alien vs. Predator. It also figured prominently in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Northern Mariana Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Northern Mariana Islands - Islands Island Groups And Municipalities
The islands total some 477 square kilometers. An overview is presented next, with the individual islands from North to South: Administra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coney Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Coney Island - The Coney Island Amusements
Between about 1880 and World War II, Coney Island was the largest amusement area in the United States, attracting several million visitor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Livingston Island South Shetland Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Livingston Island South Shetland Islands - History
Antarctica comprises the Antarctic Continent (that mythical Terra Australis Incognita the pursuit of which has inspired many geographical...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Island Air: Encyclopedia Ii - Island Air - Services
Island Air operates services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (at January 2005): Hilo, Honolulu, Hoolehua, Kahului, Kapal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clipperton Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Clipperton Island - Vegetation
Clipperton Island is now largely covered with scrub vegetation, with a few stands of coconut palms. The scrub vegetation seems to have di...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brownsea Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Brownsea Island - Ecology
Brownsea Island has built up on a bare sand and mud bank deposited in the shallow harbour. Succession has taken place on the island to cr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cook Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Cook Islands - Culture
See also: music of the Cook Islands ... See also:Cook Islands, Cook Islands - Geography, Cook Islands - Culture   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aru Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Aru Islands - Geography
The islands are the easternmost in Maluku province, and are located in the Arafura Sea southwest of New Guinea and north of Australia. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kangaroo Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Kangaroo Island - Island's History
Kangaroo Island was separated from mainland Australia by a rise in sealevel about 10,000 years ago. Stone tools found, suggest that Abori...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Faial Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Faial Island - Economy
Faial's economy is based on agriculture and related industries, cattle, and tourism. Its fast economic growth was propelled by the produc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wrangel Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Wrangel Island - Nature
Rocky, barren and frozen, the island has a weather station and a single permanent settlement. The island is a breeding ground for polar b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gozo Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Gozo Island - Geography
Gozo is 67 km² in size, which is approximately the same as Hong Kong Island. The island has a population of 30,000, about 6,000 of them ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heron Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Heron Island - Heron Island Resort
The north-eastern quarter of the island is home to a resort, and is a popular getaway for scuba diving. The resort is run by Voyages (for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marshall Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Marshall Islands - History
While settled by Micronesians in the 2nd millennium BC, little is known of the early history of the islands. Spanish explorer Alonso de S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marshall Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Marshall Islands - History
While settled by Micronesians in the 2nd millennium BC, little is known of the early history of the islands. Spanish explorer Alonso de S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ascension Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Ascension Island - Military
The island is home to Wideawake Field, built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers during World War II, as a refueling and staging...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Faial Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Faial Island - Geography
Part of the Central Group of islands (with Pico, São Jorge, Graciosa and Terceira), the pentagonal-shaped island occupies an area of app...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Merritt Island Florida: Encyclopedia Ii - Merritt Island Florida - The Island
Merritt Island was originally an island and is still referred to as one. Because of the construction of the Crawlerway for the NASA Space...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Islands Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Islands Of England - List Of Islands
List of islands of England - Offshore and inshore islands. List of islands of England - Lake and river islands. Eel Pie Island, Rive...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marshall Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Marshall Islands - Demographics
The Marshallese are of Micronesian origin and migrated from Asia several thousand years ago. Although English is an official language and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Solomon Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Solomon Islands - Geography
Main article: Geography of the Solomon Islands Solomon Islands is a wide island nation that lies East of Papua New Guinea and consists of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Solomon Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Solomon Islands - Culture
Main article: Culture of the Solomon Islands In the traditional culture of the Solomon Islands, age-old customs are handed down from one ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christmas Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Christmas Island - History
For centuries, Christmas Island's isolation and rugged coasts provided natural barriers to settlement. British and Dutch navigators first...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Island Kentucky: Encyclopedia Ii - Island Kentucky - Geography
Island is located at 37°26'33" North, 87°8'48" West (37.442444, -87.146633)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bouvet Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Bouvet Island - History
Bouvet Island was discovered on January 1, 1739, by Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, who commanded the French ships Aigle and Mari...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - The Islands - Notable Mlas
This Nanaimo-Gulf Islands area riding's first appearance was in 1903. It was originally created for the 1890 election, but was redistrib...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baker Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Baker Island - History
The United States of America took possession of the island in 1857, claimed under the Guano Islands Act of 1856, and it became a British ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dauphin Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Dauphin Island - Hurricanes
Dauphin Island is one of the most vulnerable places on the Gulf Coast to hurricanes. A bridge connecting the island to the mainland acros...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jekyll Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Jekyll Island - The Jekyll Island Club
By 1885 Jekyll Island had a new destiny. No longer would it have an agricultural future; it would soon become a playground for the wealth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ascension Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Ascension Island - Physical
The main island has an area of approximately 35 square miles. A volcanic peak rising from just west of the mid-Atlantic Ridge, much of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ascension Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Ascension Island - History
The Portuguese explorer Joao da Nova Castelia was apparently the first to discover the island (in 1501), but did not report it. So when i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Faial Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Faial Island - History
The original name of Faial (aka Fayal) was Insula de La Ventura nos Portulanos (Venture Island) and it was discovered by Diogo de Silves,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Faial Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Faial Island - Culture
There are several festivals on Faial, the most important ones being in the summer. The most popular ones are the Espírito Santo festival...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Malden Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Malden Island - Geography
Malden Island is located 446 km (241 nautical miles) south of the equator, 2840 km (1530 nautical miles) south of Honolulu, Hawaii, and m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baffin Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Baffin Island - Politics
Baffin is part of the Region of Baffin. Largest Communities (2001 population) Iqaluit (5,236) Pangnirtung (1,243) Pond Inlet (1,220) Cly...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bell Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Bell Island - History
Likely settled by Maritime Archaic Indians and/or the Dorset people, Bell Island, as with the rest of the island of Newfoundland was like...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mackinac Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Mackinac Island - Description
The island has a year-round population of approximately 500, mostly in the historic community of Mackinac Island located on the southern ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Java Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Java Island - Geography
Java island - Natural. Java (7° S 109° E) is in a chain of islands with Kalimantan (Borneo) to the north, Sumatra to the no...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tanimbar Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Tanimbar Islands - Geography
The Aru Islands and Kai Islands lie to the northeast, and Babar Island and Timor lie to the west. The islands separate the Banda Sea and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pitcairn Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Pitcairn Islands - Geography
Main article: Geography of the Pitcairn Islands The Pitcairn Islands form the southeasternmost extension of the geological archipelago of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Faial Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Faial Island - Sources
Siebert, L. and T. Simkin (2002-). Volcanoes of the World: an Illustrated Catalog of Holocene Volcanoes and their Eruptions. Smithsonia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goto Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Goto Islands - Geography
There are 140 islands in total, of which five islands are main: Fukuejima (福江島), Hisakajima (久賀島), Narushima (奈留島), Wak...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marshall Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Marshall Islands - Politics
The Marshallese president is both head of state and head of government. The president, who is elected by and from the members of the Niti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marshall Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Marshall Islands - Geography
The country consists of 29 atolls and 5 isolated islands. The most important atolls and islands form two groups: the Ratak Chain and the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marshall Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Marshall Islands - Geography
The country consists of 29 atolls and 5 isolated islands. The most important atolls and islands form two groups: the Ratak Chain and the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Macquarie Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Macquarie Island - Geography
Macquarie Island is located at 54°37′S 158°51′E. It is the Southernmost Point of Australia (including islands). The island is about...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ascension Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Ascension Island - Communications
The island has an Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of .ac. However very few, if any sites are hosted on the island itself a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coney Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Coney Island - History
Coney Island - The Name. There are a number of explanations for Coney's name, but the generally accepted source is from coney, an obsol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andaman Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Andaman Islands - Topography
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, unlike the Lakshadweep-Chagos chain, are high volcanic islands, arising from a submerged mountain chain ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Long Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Long Island - Geography
To the north of the island is Long Island Sound, which separates it from the coast of Connecticut and Rhode Island. To the south are the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gulangyu Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Gulangyu Island - Sights
As a place of residence for Westerners during Xiamen's colonial past, Gulangyu is famous for its architecture and for hosting China's onl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Whidbey Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Whidbey Island - Government
Whidbey Island, along with Camano Island and a few uninhabited islands, comprises Island County, Washington. It also is the home of Islan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gambier Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Gambier Islands - Politics
Together with the Tuamotus, the Gambier Islands form Îles Tuamotu-Gambier (French: (les) (Îles) Tuamotu-Gambier or officially la subdiv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bonaventure Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Bonaventure Island - History
Bonaventure Island (Île-Bonaventure), with Île-Percée, was among the early seasonal fishing ports of New France, associated with the l...   » Read the article