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+1 rate 1. anagram landis
rate 2. Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands, islands in southeastern Asia in the Indian Ocean
rate 3. Bahamas, island group located in the Atlantic Ocean to the south of Florida; country located on the Bahama Islands
rate 4. Norwegian island located south of the Cape of Good Hope in the Atlantic Ocean (South Africa)
rate 5. uninhabited atoll in North Pacific Ocean which is a possession of France
rate 6. Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, group of islands that are located in the Indian Ocean and are under Australian administration
rate 7. country composed of a group of islands in the central Pacific Ocean (former name for Tuvalu)
rate 8. Faroe Islands, group of islands located in the northern Atlantic Ocean between Great Britain and Iceland
rate 9. group of islands off the western and northwest coast of Scotland
rate 10. city in Kentucky (USA)
rate 11. group of islands between Kamchatka and Japan
rate 12. former name of Mariana Islands, group of volcanic and coral islands in the West Pacific Ocean
rate 13. group of islands located in the South China Sea
rate 14. British colony made up of a cluster of islands in the south central Pacific Ocean
rate 15. island off the southeast coast of Russia
rate 16. group of islands located in the South China Sea near the Philippines
rate 17. French territory in the southwestern Pacific Ocean that consists of the two island groups of Wallis and Futuna
rate 18. piece of land completely surrounded by water; something which resembles such a piece of land; raised area or a platform set aside for some specific purpose; (Medicine) cluster of cells, piece of tissue separated from others
rate 19. make into an island; furnish with islands; seclude, isolate
rate 20. Island group (population in 2000 estimated: 41,748), Papua New Guinea. An extension of the Bismarck Archipelago comprising about 40 islands, the Admiralty Islands lie about 190 mi (300 km) north of the mainland of Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific Ocean. Most of the land area of the islands is contained in Manus Island, which is the site of Lorengau, the islands' principal settlement. First sighted by the Dutch explorer Willem Schouten in 1616, it was named by the British captain Philip Carteret in 1767. Subsequently ruled by the Germans, Australians and Japanese, the islands were made part of the UN Trust Territory of New Guinea in 1946. When Papua New Guinea attained independence in 1975, the islands became part of that country.
rate 21. Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, particularly the Cyclades, Sporades and Dodecanese groups. The Cyclades consist of about 220 islands. The Dodecanese, or Southern Sporades, include Kálimnos, Kárpathos, Cos, Léros, Pátmos, Rhodes and Sími. The Sporades, or Northern Sporades, include Skyros, Skópelos and Skíathos.
rate 22. Chain of small islands, Alaska, United States They form a border of the Bering Sea, extending in an arc about 1,100 mi (1,800 km) west from the tip of the Alaska Peninsula to Attu Island. The major island groups, from east to west, are the Fox Islands (including Unimak and Unalaska), Islands of the Four Mountains, Andreanof Islands (including Adak) and Near Islands (including Attu). The main settlements are on Unalaska and Adak. Originally inhabited by Aleuts, the islands were explored by Russian-sponsored ships in 1741. As Siberian fur hunters moved eastward through the islands, the Russians gained a foothold in North America but nearly caused the extinction of the Aleuts. Russia sold the islands, with the rest of Alaska, to the United States in 1867.
rate 23. Union territory (population in 2001: 356,265), India. It consists of two groups of islands in the Bay of Bengal about 400 mi (650 km) west of Myanmar; the total area is 3,185 sq mi (8,249 sq km). The chief islands are North Andaman, Middle Andaman and South Andaman (known collectively as Great Andaman) and Little Andaman. The Nicobar group includes Car Nicobar, Camorta (Kamorta) and Nancowry and Great Nicobar. Most of the population lives in the Andaman group. The first European settlement was at Port Blair, South Andaman, now the union territory capital. In the Nicobar group there are remnants of inhabitation dating to AD 1050.
rate 24. Group of the Aleutian Islands, southwestern Alaska, United States Lying between the Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea, the islands extend east to west about 270 mi (430 km) between the Fox and Rat island groups. They were strategically important in World War II, when United States military bases were developed, especially on Adak Island. Other islands in the group include Atka, Tanaga and Kanaga.
rate 25. Islands (population in 2001: 543), Galway Bay, western Ireland. The group of small islands, totaling about 18 sq mi (47 sq km), includes Inishmore (or Aranmore), Inishmaan and Inisheer. Their main town is Kilronan on Inishmore. The islands contain impressive prehistoric and early Christian forts. Novelist Liam O'Flaherty was born on Inishmore.
rate 26. Island group, eastern Indonesia. The easternmost island group of the Moluccas, located off southwestern New Guinea, it consists of one large island and about 90 small ones. The main island, Tanabesan, is about 120 mi (195 km) long and is divided into six sections by narrow channels. Dobo, on Wamar Island, is the principal harbour. The islands became part of Indonesia in 1949.
rate 27. Group of islands (population in 1996: 6,563), southern French Polynesia. The southernmost part of French Polynesia (austral is Latin for "south"), the islands form a chain about 850 mi (1,370 km) long. They were sighted by Capt. James Cook in 1769 and 1777. They were taken over by the French in the late 19th century. The inhabited islands are Rimatara, Rurutu, Tubuai, Raevavae and Rapa.
rate 28. Island group, northern Philippines. Lying north of Luzon, it consists of about 24 islands with a total area of 225 sq mi (583 sq km). The chief islands are Babuyan, Camiguin, Calayan, Fuga and Dalupiri. Calayan is the largest town and only port.
rate 29. Spanish Islas Baleares; Archipelago, (population in 2001: 841,669), western Mediterranean Sea, constituting an autonomous community and province of Spain. It occupies an area of 1,927 sq mi (4,992 sq km); its capital is Palma. The most important islands are Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, Formentera and Cabrera. Long inhabited, the islands were ruled by Carthage in the 5th century BC, by Rome from ƹ 120 BC and by the Byzantine Empire from AD 534. Raided by the Arabs, the area was conquered in the 10th century by the Umayyad dynasty at Córdoba. It was reconquered by the Spanish and united with the kingdom of Aragon in 1344. Fought over in the 18th century by the Spanish, British and French, the islands came under Spanish rule in 1802. Their modern economy is fueled by tourism.
rate 30. Japanese Ogasawara-gunto; Island group, western Pacific Ocean. Located about 600 mi (950 km) south of Tokyo and consisting of 27 volcanic islands with a total area of about 40 sq mi (104 sq km), the group includes Chichi (the largest), Haha, Muko and Yome islands. They were colonized in 1830 by a group of Europeans and Hawaiians. The islands were formally annexed by Japan in 1876; they were administered by the United States in 1945–68.
rate 31. Archipelago (population in 2000 estimated: 137,200), western Pacific Ocean. Lying south of the Philippines, the islands and their lagoons cover an area of 3,740 sq mi (9,687 sq km). Formerly part of the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the group consists of more than 550 islands, including Yap, Pohnpei, Chuuk, Kosrae and Palau, as well as many coral islets and reefs. Though explored by the Spanish in the 17th century, they were rarely visited until Germany took them in 1899. Granted as a mandate to Japan after World War I, they were placed under United States trusteeship in 1947. With the exception of Palau, the islands became the Federated States of Micronesia in 1979. Palau became independent in 1994.
rate 32. British colony (population in 2000 estimated: 34,763), Caribbean Sea. Located about 200 mi (320 km) northwest of Jamaica, it has a total land area of 118 sq mi (306 sq km). The islands include Grand Cayman (the largest and the location of the capital, George Town), Little Cayman and Cayman Brac. Though discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1503, the islands were never occupied by the Spanish. Ceded to the British in 1670, they were subsequently settled by the English arriving from Jamaica. The islands were administered as a dependency of Jamaica until Jamaican independence in 1962; a constitution providing for an elected governor was enacted in 1972. The Cayman Islands are a popular tourist area and a financial centre.
rate 33. Santa Barbara Islands; Chain of islands, southern California, United States Extending 150 mi (240 km) along and 25–90 mi (40–145 km) off the coast, it is divided into the Santa Barbara group (San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz and Anacapa) and the Santa Catalina group (Santa Barbara, San Nicolas, Santa Catalina and San Clemente). The islands range in size from Santa Cruz (98 sq mi (254 sq km)) to the small Anacapa islets. Rugged and mountainous, they are frequented by colonies of sea lions, seals and birds and are noted for their distinctive plant life (about 830 varieties). The larger islands support sheep and cattle ranches and Santa Catalina is a noted resort. Channel Islands National Park (established as a national monument in 1938) embraces Anacapa, San Miguel, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa.
rate 34. Island dependencies, United Kingdom. Located in the English Channel 10–30 mi (16–48 km) off the western coast of France, they cover an area of 75 sq mi (194 sq km) and include the islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark and several islets. They are domestically independent of the British government. Structures, including menhirs, are evidence of prehistoric occupation. A part of Normandy in the 10th century AD, the islands came under British rule at the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066. The islets of Ecrehous and Les Minquiers were disputed between England and France until 1953, when the International Court of Justice confirmed British sovereignty. The dispute revived in the late 20th century because sovereignty determines the rights to the continental shelf's economic development (especially petroleum). The Channel Islands were the only British territory occupied by Germany in World War II. The islands are famous for their cattle breeds, including the Jersey and Guernsey.
rate 35. Keeling Islands; Territory (population in 1996: 558) of Australia. Lying in the eastern Indian Ocean about 580 mi (930 km) southwest of Java, it consists of two isolated atolls and 27 small coral islets and has a total land area of 5.6 sq mi (14.4 sq km). They were discovered in 1609 by William Keeling and first settled in 1826. Declared a British possession in 1857, the Cocos at times came under the government of Ceylon but ultimately passed to Australia in 1955. In 1984 the residents voted to merge with Australia.
rate 36. Island group (population in 1998 estimated: 17,100), southern Pacific. Located 2,000 mi (3,000 km) northeast of New Zealand, the 15 islands, scattered from north to south over 900 mi (1,450 km) of ocean, are divided into a southern group of eight islands, including Raratonga (the seat of government) and a northern group of seven. All of the northern Cooks are true atolls; most of the southern group have volcanic interiors. They were probably settled by Polynesians from Tonga and Samoa; there is evidence of a highly organized society ƹ AD 1100. Capt. James Cook explored many of them during the 1770s. Established as a British protectorate in 1888, they were annexed by New Zealand in 1901. Self-government in free association with New Zealand was achieved in 1965.
rate 37. Island group, Papua New Guinea. Located in the South Pacific Ocean, the group includes Normanby, Fergusson and Goodenough islands and many islets, atolls and reefs. Most are volcanic, precipitous and forested. They have a combined land area of 1,213 sq mi (3,142 sq km). They were named by the French navigator Bruni d'Entrecasteaux in 1793. The chief settlement is Dobu, located on an islet between Normanby and Fergusson.
rate 38. Two islands in the Bering Strait. Lying about 2.5 mi (4 km) apart, they are separated by the U.S.-Russian boundary, which coincides with the International Date Line. The larger island, Big Diomede (Russian Ratmonov), belongs to Russia and is the site of an important weather station. To the east lies Little Diomede Island, a part of Alaska.
rate 39. Lipari Islands; Volcanic island group, Tyrrhenian Sea. Located off the northern coast of Sicily, the seven major islands and several islets have a total land area of 34 sq mi (88 sq km). The main islands are Alicudi, Stromboli, Vulcano, Lipari (the largest; 13 sq mi (34 sq km)), Salina, Filicudi and Panarea. Vulcano and Stromboli are active volcanoes. The Greeks believed the islands to be the home of the god Aeolus, who kept the winds confined in one of their caves. They have been inhabited since the Neolithic Period (New Stone Age) and were held successively by the Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Saracens, Normans and Aragonese.
rate 40. Spanish Islas Malvinas; British self-governing colony (population in 1996: 2,564), in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Located about 300 mi (480 km) northeast of the southern tip of South America, the Falklands are made up of two main islands, East Falkland and West Falkland and about 200 smaller islands. The islands are spread out over some 4,700 sq mi (12,200 sq km). The capital is Stanley, on East Falkland. The population is English-speaking and of British descent. The economy is based on sheep raising. The French founded the islands' first settlement, on East Falkland in 1764 and the British settled West Falkland in 1765. In 1770 the Spanish purchased the French settlement and expelled the British, but the latter's settlement was restored in 1771. In 1820 Argentina proclaimed its sovereignty over the Falklands, but the British took them back in 1833. Argentina invaded in 1982 and the British reclaimed the islands after a brief conflict.
rate 41. Malvinas War; (1982) Brief but undeclared war between Argentina and Great Britain over control of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) and associated island dependencies. Both countries long had claimed sovereignty over the Falklands and had been in protracted negotiations over them. On April 2, 1982, Argentina's military government, impatient with the negotiations, occupied the islands with some 10,000 troops. British prime minister Margaret Thatcher responded by sending a naval task force to the region and within three months British forces had defeated the Argentines and reoccupied the islands. Britain lost about 250 men and Argentina about 700. Argentina's defeat discredited its military government and helped lead to the restoration of civilian rule in 1983.
rate 42. Faeroe Islands; Group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean that form a self-governing region of Denmark. Area: 540 sq mi (1,399 sq km). Population: (2002 estimated) 47,400. Lying north of the British Isles, the islands are politically situated within the kingdom of Denmark. There are 17 inhabited islands and many islets and reefs. The largest, Strømø, holds the capital of Tórshavn. The islands are high and rugged, with coasts that are deeply indented with fjords. The economy is based on fishing and sheep raising. First settled by Irish monks (ƹ 700), the islands were colonized by the Vikings (ƹ 800) and were ruled by Norway from the 11th century until 1380, when they passed to Denmark. They unsuccessfully sought independence in 1946 but received self-government in 1948. In the early 21st century they continued discussions with Denmark on full independence.
rate 43. Chain of islands, North Sea. They extend 3 to 20 mi (5 to 32 km) off the northern European mainland, along the Dutch and German coasts and the southern part of Denmark's Jutland peninsula. Although they form a single physical feature, it is customary to subdivide them into the West Frisian Islands (held by The Netherlands), East Frisian Islands (Germany) and North Frisian Islands (Germany and Denmark). After the North Sea established a southwestern outlet to the Atlantic about 7,000–5,000 BC, its southeasterly shore probably coincided with the present curve of the Frisians. Periodic subsidence, storms and flooding have since produced this long chain of islands separated from the mainland by a narrow belt of shallow waters and tidal mud flats. The Dutch and German governments have spent large sums to protect the islands' seaward coasts and reclaim the land for farming. The beaches and resorts attract many tourists.
rate 44. Hoorn Islands; Island group (population in 1996: 4,638), South Pacific Ocean. Lying northeast of Fiji, the islands, Futuna and Alofi, form the southwestern part of the French overseas territory of Wallis and Futuna. Their combined land area is 36 sq mi (93 sq km). Futuna is the site of Mount Singavi, 2,493 ft (760 m) high. The islands became a French protectorate in 1888. Both are well watered and Alofi is heavily wooded. The main villages are on the southern coast of Futuna. Alofi is uninhabited.
rate 45. Spanish Archipiélago de Colón; Island group, eastern Pacific Ocean. A province (population in 2001: 18,640) of Ecuador, the Galápagos are a group of 19 islands lying on the Equator 600 mi (1,000 km) west of the mainland. Their total land area of 3,093 sq mi (8,010 sq km) is scattered over 23,000 sq mi (59,500 sq km) of ocean. Visited by the Spanish in 1535, they were unclaimed when Ecuador took official possession of them in 1832. They became internationally famous after being visited in 1835 by British naturalist Charles Darwin; their unusual fauna, including the giant tortoise (Spanish galápago), contributed to his ideas on natural selection. Ecuador made the Galápagos a wildlife sanctuary in 1935 and a national park in 1968; in 1978 they were designated a UNESCO World Heritage site.
rate 46. Island group (population in 1996: 1,087), French Polynesia. It is the southeasternmost extension of the Tuamotu Archipelago. The largest island, Mangareva, is 5 mi (8 km) long and encircled by a barrier reef 40 mi (64 km) in circumference. Mangareva rises to about 1,444 ft (440 m) in the peaks Duff and Mokoto; the chief village, Rikitea, is on Mangareva's eastern side. The Gambier Islands were annexed by the French in 1881. Their economy is based on subsistence agriculture; pearl harvesting is also of economic importance.
rate 47. Group of 16 coral atolls (population in 1995: 65,939), part of the island nation of Kiribati, western Pacific Ocean. The islands, including Tarawa, the largest, occupy a total land area of 105 sq mi (272 sq km). The British visited them in the 18th and 19th centuries and in 1892 they became a British protectorate. In 1916 they became part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands crown colony. They were occupied by Japanese forces from 1941 to 1943 and saw heavy fighting. Made a separate territory in 1976, they became part of Kiribati in 1979.
rate 48. Former British colony, western central Pacific Ocean. The colony consisted of the Gilbert Islands, Tuvalu (formerly Ellice islands), the northern Line Islands and the Phoenix Islands. First visited by Europeans by the early 19th century, the group was proclaimed a British protectorate in 1892 and made a crown colony in 1916. In 1979 the colony was divided and formed parts of independent Kiribati and Tuvalu.
rate 49. Gorée Island; Island, Senegal. Inhabited by the Lebu people when it was occupied by the Portuguese in the mid 15th century, it was later occupied by the Dutch and then taken by the French in 1677. It was a major Atlantic slave-trading centre until 1848. Millions of Africans are said to have been shipped through the island; many died there. Under French control until Senegal's independence in 1960, it later lost importance with the rise of St.-Louis and Dakar on the mainland. It is now a World Heritage site; a museum there displays slavery artifacts.
rate 50. Japanese Got&#014D;-rett&#014D;; Island chain, China Sea, part of Nagasake prefecture, Japan. Lying off the western coast of Japan, the chain comprises more than 100 islands, of which 34 are inhabited. The five main ones are Fukue, Hisaka, Naru, Uku and Nakadori; the capital is Fukue, on Fukue Island. They have a total area of 266 sq mi (689 sq km), stretching about 60 mi (100 km) from northeast to southwest. The islands were a gateway to Japan for the introduction of Chinese culture. Fishing is the major activity in the northern islands; agriculture predominates in the southern islands.
rate 51. Inlet, South Pacific Ocean, on the northeastern coast of North Island, New Zealand. The bay was formed when the sea flooded an old river valley system. It has a 500-mi (800-km) shoreline and about 150 islands. It opens to the ocean through a passage between Brett Cape and Wiwiki Cape. The first European to enter the bay was Capt. James Cook in 1769. The bay was the site of the 1840 signing of the Treaty of Waitangi between Britain and native Maori. It is now a popular resort area.
rate 52. Island group, South Pacific Ocean. Located 400 mi (650 km) west of Chile, it consists of two islands and an islet. They were discovered in 1563 by Spanish navigator Juan Fernández. In 1704 Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish seaman, was stranded there alone until 1709; his adventures are believed to have inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Possessions of Chile since the early 19th century, they have often been used as penal settlements.
rate 53. Archipelago, southern Indian Ocean. It consists of the island of Kerguelen (also called Desolation Island) and about 300 islets, which together cover about 2,400 sq mi (6,200 sq km). Kerguelen Island, about 100 mi (160 km) long, has active glaciers and peaks up to 6,445 ft (1,965 m) high. Discovered in 1772 by the French navigator Yves-Joseph de Kerguélen-Trémarec, the archipelago was annexed to France in 1893 and became part of the French Southern and Antarctic Territories in 1955. Port-aux-Français is a scientific base on the main island.
rate 54. Volcanic island group, South Pacific Ocean. Located northeast of Auckland, N.Z., it includes Raoul, Macauley and Curtis islands and l'Esperance Rock and it has a total land area of 13 sq mi (34 sq km). Explored in the late 18th century by the British and the French, the islands were annexed to New Zealand in 1887. A meteorological communications station was built on Raoul, the largest island, in 1937, but permanent settlement is discouraged.
rate 55. Kuria Muria Islands; Island group, Oman. Located in the Arabian Sea off the country's southeastern coast, it comprises five mainly uninhabited islands with a total land area of 28 sq mi (73 sq km). &#1E24;alleniyyah Island, the largest, is sparsely inhabited. The sultan of Oman ceded the islands to Britain in 1854 and they became part of the British colony of Aden in 1937. Britain returned the islands to Oman in 1967.
rate 56. Archipelago, eastern Russia. It extends for 750 mi (1,200 km) from the southern tip of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula to the northeastern coast of Japan's Hokkaido island. The 56 islands cover 6,000 sq mi (15,600 sq km) and together with Sakhalin Island form an administrative region (population in 2001 estimated: 591,000) of Russia. The Kurils were originally settled by the Russians in the 17th–18th centuries. Japan seized the southern islands and in 1875 obtained the entire chain. After World War II they were ceded to the Soviet Union and the Japanese population was repatriated and replaced by Soviets. Japan still claims historical rights to the southern islands and has tried repeatedly to regain them.
rate 57. Arc of West Indian islands that constitute the most westerly and northerly of the Lesser Antilles, northeastern Caribbean Sea. The major islands are, from north to south, the Virgin Islands of the United States and the British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, St. Martin, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat and Guadeloupe. Just south of this chain is Dominica, sometimes classified as part of the Leeward Islands but usually designated as part of the Windward Islands.
rate 58. Island group (population in 2001: 242,603) and autonomous region of Portugal, in the North Atlantic Ocean. Madeira, the largest of the Madeira Islands, is the site of the region's capital, Funchal. Madeira Island is 34 mi (55 km) long and 14 mi (22 km) wide and has deep ravines and rugged mountains. Possibly known to ancient Phoenicians, it was rediscovered by the Portuguese navigator João Gonçalves Zarco, who founded Funchal in 1421. It allegedly had the world's first sugarcane plantation. Its Madeira wine has been an important export since the 17th century. Tourism is also important.
rate 59. French Îles de la Madeleine; Island group of eastern Quebec, Canada. Located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence between Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland, the group comprises several islands and islets, with a total area of 88 sq mi (228 sq km). The largest include Havre-Aubert (Amherst) and Cap aux Meules (Grindstone). Discovered by Jacques Cartier in 1534, the islands are inhabited mainly by French Canadians.
rate 60. formerly Ladrone Islands; Island group, western Pacific Ocean. Located east of the Philippines, it comprises 15 islands and is divided politically into Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. The population is descended from the pre-Spanish Chamorro people and Spanish, Mexican, German, Philippine and Japanese settlers. Spanish cultural traditions are strong. After Ferdinand Magellan became the first European to discover them in 1521, they were visited frequently but were not colonized until 1668, at which time Jesuit missionaries changed their name to honor Mariana of Austria, regent of Spain.
rate 61. Island group (population in 1996: 8,064), French Polynesia. Located in the central South Pacific Ocean northeast of Tahiti, the Marquesas comprise 10 islands. The southeastern group includes Hiva Oa, the largest and most populous island and the burial place of artist Paul Gauguin; Fatu Hiva and Tahuata; and the uninhabited Motane and Fatu Huku. The northwestern group comprises Nuku Hiva, Ua Pu, Ua Huka, Eiao and Hatutu. The Spanish explorer Àlvaro de Mendaña de Neira named the islands for the marquesa de Mendoza in 1595. Annexed by France in 1842, the Marquesas form an administrative division of French Polynesia with headquarters at Taiohae on Nuku Hiva.
rate 62. officially Republic of the Marshall Islands; Island country, central Pacific Ocean. It is composed of two parallel chains of low-lying coral atolls: the Ratak, or Sunrise, to the east and the Ralik, or Sunset, to the west. The chains lie 125 mi (200 km) apart and extend some 800 mi (1,290 km) northwest to southeast. The islands and islets number more than 1,200. Area: 70 sq mi (181 sq km). Population (2002 estimated): 56,600. Capital: Majuro. The indigenous people are Micronesian. Languages: Marshallese, English (both official). Religion: Christianity (majority). Currency: United States dollar. The largest atoll is Kwajalein, consisting of about 90 islets, with a total land area of 6 sq mi (16 sq km). Much of Kwajalein is used as a missile-testing range by the United States military, which provides a major source of revenue to the Marshall Islands. Subsistence farming, fishing and the raising of pigs and poultry are the principal economic activities. The Marshall Islands is a republic with two legislative houses; its head of state and government is the president. The islands were sighted in 1529 by the Spanish navigator Àlvaro Saavedra. Germany declared the islands a protectorate in 1885 and purchased them from Spain in 1899. Japan seized them in 1914 and after 1919 administered them as a League of Nations mandate. During World War II the United States seized Kwajalein and Enewetak and the Marshall Islands were made part of the UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under United States jurisdiction in 1947. Bikini and Enewetak atolls served as testing grounds for United States nuclear weapons from 1946 to 1958. The country became an internally self-governing republic in 1979. It signed a compact of free association with the United States in 1982. The Marshall Islands became fully self-governing in 1986.
rate 63. Island group, Arctic Ocean, northeastern Russia, north of eastern Siberia. The islands divide the Laptev Sea from the East Siberian Sea. They are separated from the Siberian mainland by Dmitry Laptev Strait. With an area of about 14,500 sq mi (38,000 sq km), they are snow-covered for more than nine months of the year. Arctic fox, northern deer, lemming and many species of birds inhabit the islands.
rate 64. Self-governing commonwealth (population in 2002 estimated: 70,000) in political union with the U.S., in the western Pacific Ocean. Composed of 22 islands north of Guam, the Northern Marianas extend 450 mi (720 km) and have an area of 184 sq mi (477 sq km). The capital, Chalan Kanoa, is on Saipan. Saipan, Tinian and Rota are the principal inhabited islands. Others include Alamagan and Agrihan; Pagan was evacuated for a time after a 1981 volcanic eruption. The indigenous people are Micronesian; other inhabitants are Chamorro and Filipino. The islands were discovered by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521. They were colonized by Spain in 1668. Sold by Spain to Germany in 1899, they were occupied by Japan in 1914 and became a Japanese mandate from the League of Nations after 1919. They were the scene of fierce fighting in World War II; Tinian was the base for United States planes that dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Northern Marianas were granted to the United States in 1947 as a UN trust territory, became self-governing in 1978 and became a commonwealth under United States sovereignty in 1986, when the residents became United States citizens. The UN trusteeship ended in 1990.
rate 65. Island group (population in 2001: 19,245), Scotland. Lying north of the Scottish mainland, it comprises more than 70 islands and islets and constitutes the Orkney council area. The Orkney Islands, only 20 of which are inhabited, were the Orcades of ancient Classical literature. There is much evidence of prehistoric inhabitants. Norse raiders arrived in the late 8th century AD and colonized the islands in the 9th century. Thereafter they were ruled by Norway and Denmark until Scotland annexed them in 1472. It is a prosperous agricultural area. Kirkwall is the administrative seat.
rate 66. Former United Nations trusteeship, administered by the United States from 1947 to 1986. It consisted of more than 2,000 islands scattered over about 3,000,000 sq mi (7,770,000 sq km) of the tropical western Pacific Ocean, north of the Equator. It covered the region known as Micronesia and comprised three major island groups: the Marianas, the Carolines and the Marshalls. The seat of government was Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. In 1986 the United States declared the trust territory agreements no longer in effect. The Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands became sovereign states and the Northern Mariana Islands became a commonwealth of the United States The Republic of Palau became a sovereign state in 1994.
rate 67. Chinese Xisha Qundao or Hsi-sha Ch'ün-tao Vietnamese Quan Dao Hoang Sa; Group of about 130 small coral islands and reefs, South China Sea, east of central Vietnam and southeast of Hainan Island, China. The low, barren islands, none of which exceeds 1 sq mi (2.5 sq km) in area, lack fresh water and there are no permanent human residents. In 1932 the islands were claimed by French Indochina and Japan occupied some of them during World War II. China, Taiwan and Vietnam all claim them. In 1974 China assumed control and they have remained a matter of contention.
rate 68. Group of islands, southeastern Bering Sea, Alaska, United States It includes St. Paul, St. George and three islets and it lies about 300 mi (500 km) west of the mainland. Control of the islands was transferred from Russia to the United States with the Alaska Purchase (1867). The islands are hilly and treeless with no harbours. They are breeding grounds from April to November for most of the world's fur seals. Commercial harvesting of seals was discontinued in 1986. The islands are also home to enormous numbers of birds and both blue and white phases of Arctic foxes. The indigenous population is made up of Aleuts.
rate 69. Island chain (population in 2000: 1,329,000), Japan. It extends in an arc 600 mi (970 km) long from southern Japan to the northern tip of Taiwan. The 55 islands and islets have a total land area of 871 sq mi (2,255 sq km). In ancient times it was an independent kingdom, but Chinese and Japanese sovereignty were successively imposed on the archipelago from the 14th to the 19th century. In 1879 the Ryukyus became an integral part of Japan. After Japan's defeat in World War II, the United States took control of the islands; it returned them all by 1972. The United States maintains military bases on Okinawa. The islands are primarily rural and agriculture is the dominant occupation.
rate 70. Archipelago, across the entrance to Cenderawasih Bay of the Pacific Ocean, off the northern coast of Papua (Irian Jaya), Indonesia. The islands cover an area of 1,231 sq mi (3,188 sq km). The chief islands, Biak, Supiori and Numfoor, are among the most densely populated areas of Papua. Another island group of the same name is located off the northeastern coast of New Guinea island; it is part of Papua New Guinea.
rate 71. Zetland Islands; Island group (population in 2001: 21,988), Scotland. The Shetlands comprise some 100 islands located 130 mi (210 km) north of the Scottish mainland and about 400 mi (640 km) south of the Arctic Circle. They form the Shetland administrative region; the region's capital is Lerwick. Fewer than 20 of the islands are inhabited. The northernmost part of Britain, the islands have fjordlike coasts and a climate warmed by the North Atlantic Current. The Norse ruled the Shetlands from the 8th to the 15th century. In 1472 the islands, with Orkney, were annexed to the Scottish crown. They are famous for their livestock, which includes the Shetland pony and the Shetland sheep. The latter's fine wool is used in the distinctive Shetland and Fair Isle knitted patterns. The North Sea oil industry has contributed to the economy.
rate 72. Archipelago (population in 1996: 189,522), western French Polynesia. Its chief island is Tahiti. The Society Islands comprise two groups, the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands. They are volcanic in origin and mountainous. Claimed for Britain in 1767, the islands were visited in 1769 by Capt. James Cook with a scientific expedition of the Royal Society (hence their name). They were claimed by France in 1768 and became a French protectorate in 1842, a French colony in 1881 and a part of French Oceania in 1903. Their chief products are copra and pearls.
rate 73. Island group, southern Atlantic Ocean. Located southeast of South America, the South Orkneys are composed of two large islands (Coronation and Laurie) and many smaller islands; they form part of the British Antarctic Territory. Barren and uninhabited, the islands have a total area of 240 sq mi (620 sq km). They were part of the Falkland Islands Dependencies until 1962. Signy Island is used as a base for Antarctic exploration.
rate 74. Group of reefs, China Sea. Located midway between Vietnam and the Philippines, the group is claimed variously by Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines. Of the 12 main islets, the largest is the 90-acre (36-hectare) Itu Aba. Turtles and seabirds are the only permanent inhabitants. After World War II China established a garrison on Itu Aba, which the Chinese Nationalists maintained after their exile to Taiwan. Japan renounced its claim to the islands in 1951.
rate 75. Archipelago extending from the Malay Peninsula to the Moluccas. The islands make up most of the land area of Indonesia, with only northern and northwestern Borneo and the eastern portion of Timor not under Indonesian political control. They include the Greater Sunda Islands (Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi and adjacent smaller islands) and the Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, Timor, Alor and adjacent smaller islands). Most of the islands are part of a geologically unstable and volcanically active island arc. Malay cultures and languages predominate in the area.
rate 76. Group of about 30 islands, southeastern Moluccas, Indonesia. It includes the large island of Jamdena, 70 mi (113 km) long by 28 mi (45 km) wide and the nearby islands of Larat and Selaru. Though there is a lack of fresh water, the soil supports corn, rice, coconut palms and fruits. The Dutch claimed the group in 1639 but did not establish rule until 1900. After World War II, the islands became part of Indonesia.
rate 77. Group of about 1,500 small islands extending 80 mi (128 km) in the Saint Lawrence River between New York state, United States and Ontario, Canada. Some islands belong to Canada and some to the United States The Thousand Islands include summer resort facilities and the Canadian St. Lawrence Islands National Park, which was established in 1904 and covers 988 ac (400 ha). The Thousand Islands International Bridge, which contains five spans linking some of the islands and is 8.5 mi (13.7 km) long, connects New York and Ontario.
rate 78. Island group (population in 1981: 6,000), in the Torres Strait. They are inhabited by a mixture of Polynesians, Melanesians and Aborigines. They comprise three clusters: Western (high, rocky and barren), Central (coral) and Eastern (volcanic, with dense vegetation); each has its own local government. The islands may be remnants of a land bridge that once linked Asia and Australia. They were annexed by Queensland in the 1870s. Pearls, fishing and tourism are the main sources of income.
rate 79. Kiriwina Islands; Group of small coral islands, Solomon Sea, South Pacific Ocean, Papua New Guinea. The islands are low-lying with coral reefs. The group has a total land area of about 170 sq mi (440 sq km). The largest, Kiriwina, is an atoll 30 mi (48 km) long and 3–10 mi (5–16 km) wide, covered largely with swamp; it served as an air and naval base for the Allies in 1943. Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski conducted research among the Trobriand islanders 1915–18.
rate 80. British dependency (population in 2002 estimated: 18,738), West Indies. It comprises two small island groups at the southeastern end of The Bahamas. The Turks group includes Grand Turk, Salt Cay and lesser cays. The Caicos group includes South Caicos, East Caicos, Middle (or Grand) Caicos, North Caicos, Providenciales, West Caicos and several smaller cays. The seat of government is at Cockburn Town on Grand Turk Island. When Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León visited in 1512, the islands were inhabited by Indians. British colonists from Bermuda arrived in 1678. The islands were at first placed under the government of The Bahamas, but in 1874 they were annexed to the colony of Jamaica. The Turks and Caicos Islands became a crown colony in 1962 and shared a governor with The Bahamas from 1965 to 1973. A new constitution was adopted in 1988. The chief industries are tourism and offshore financial services.
rate 81. Dependent territory (population in 2002 estimated: 21,272) of the United Kingdom, eastern Caribbean Sea. Part of the island chain of the Virgin Islands, which are divided between the U.K. and the U.S., it consists of four larger islands (Tortola, Anegada, Virgin Gorda and Jost Van Dyke) and many smaller uninhabited islands. The chief town and port is Road Town on Tortola. The majority of British Virgin Islanders are black or of mixed ancestry, the descendants of African slaves. English is the chief language and Protestantism is the chief religion. The islands are generally hilly and many have lagoons with coral reefs and barrier beaches. Tourism is the mainstay of the economy. The islands were a haunt for pirates and Tortola was held by Dutch buccaneers until it was taken by English planters in 1666; it was annexed by the British-administered Leeward Islands in 1672. The British sugar plantations declined after slavery was abolished in the 19th century. The islands were part of the Colony of the Leeward Islands from 1872 until 1956, when the British Virgin Islands became a separate colony.
rate 82. Group of islands, central Philippines. Covering 23,944 sq mi (62,015 sq km), they are surrounded by the Visayan, Samar and Camotes seas. The main islands are Bohol, Cebu, Leyte, Masbate, Negros, Panay and Samar. These islands and their smaller neighbours make up the central group of the Ph ilippine archipelago. Agriculture and fishing are important. The major urban centres are Cebu City on Cebu and Iloilo City on Panay.
rate 83. Island group (population in 1996: 9,528), forming the northeastern part of the French overseas territory of Wallis and Futuna, South Pacific Ocean. It comprises the main island of Uvea and eight islets, all enclosed in one coral reef and it has an area of 23 sq mi (60 sq km). Visited in 1767 by the British navigator Capt. Samuel Wallis, the islands were occupied by the French in 1842. They became a French protectorate in 1887 and part of the overseas territory in 1959.
rate 84. Island group, South Pacific Ocean. It is a self-governing overseas territory (population in 2000 estimated: 15,283) of France; it includes Wallis Island (also known as Uvea), the Futuna Islands (Futuna and Alofi) and a number of islets. The administrative seat is the village of Matautu, on Uvea. Until 1961 Wallis and Futuna was a protectorate under French authority attached to New Caledonia.
rate 85. Island group, Lesser Antilles, West Indies. Located at the eastern end of the Caribbean Sea, they include Dominica (sometimes classified as part of the Leeward Islands), Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada and the chain of small islands known as the Grenadines. Though near the general area, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados are usually not considered part of the group.
rate 86. Any area of land smaller than a continent and entirely surrounded by water. Islands may occur in oceans, seas, lakes, or rivers. A group of islands is called an archipelago. Continental islands are simply unsubmerged parts of a continental mass that are entirely surrounded by water; Greenland, the world's largest island, is of the continental type. Oceanic islands are produced by volcanic activity, when lava accumulates to enormous thickness until it finally protrudes above the ocean surface. The piles of lava that form Hawaii rise as high as 32,000 ft (9,700 m) above the ocean floor.
rate 87. Holy Island
rate 88. Sandalwood Island
rate 89. Alcatraz Island
rate 90. Alexander Island
rate 91. Anticosti Island
rate 92. Baffin Island
rate 93. Banks Island
rate 94. Bathurst Island
rate 95. Block Island
rate 96. Cape Breton Island
rate 97. Coney Island
rate 98. Devils Island
rate 99. Easter Island
rate 100. Ellesmere Island
rate 101. Ellis Island
rate 102. Fire Island
rate 103. Gorée Island
rate 104. Isabela Island
rate 105. island arc
rate 106. Kangaroo Island
rate 107. Kavaratti Island
rate 108. Kodiak Island
rate 109. Long Island
rate 110. Long Island Sound
rate 111. Mackinac Island
rate 112. Melville Island
rate 113. Muna Island
rate 114. Norfolk Island
rate 115. Norfolk Island pine
rate 116. North Island
rate 117. Padre Island
rate 118. Pitcairn Island
rate 119. Prince Edward Island
rate 120. Rhode Island
rate 121. Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
rate 122. Rhode Island School of Design
rate 123. Roanoke Island
rate 124. Roosevelt Island
rate 125. Welfare Island
rate 126. Blackwell's Island
rate 127. Sakhalin Island
rate 128. San Cristóbal Island
rate 129. San Juan Island National Historical Park
rate 130. South Island
rate 131. Southampton Island
rate 132. Staten Island
rate 133. Three Mile Island
rate 134. Vancouver Island
rate 135. Victoria Island
rate 136. Wake Island
rate 137. Wrangel Island
rate 138. Sandwich Islands
rate 139. Brooks Islands
rate 140. Admiralty Islands
rate 141. Aegean Islands
rate 142. Åland Islands
rate 143. Aleutian Islands
rate 144. Andaman and Nicobar Islands
rate 145. Andreanof Islands
rate 146. Aran Islands
rate 147. Aru Islands
rate 148. Austral Islands
rate 149. Babuyan Islands
rate 150. Balearic Islands
rate 151. Bonin Islands
rate 152. Canary Islands
rate 153. Caroline Islands
rate 154. Cayman Islands
rate 155. Channel Islands
rate 156. Santa Barbara Islands
rate 157. Cocos Islands
rate 158. Keeling Islands
rate 159. Cook Islands
rate 160. Corn Islands
rate 161. D'Entrecasteaux Islands
rate 162. Diomede Islands
rate 163. Elizabeth Islands
rate 164. Eolie Islands
rate 165. Lipari Islands
rate 166. Falkland Islands
rate 167. Falkland Islands War
rate 168. Faroe Islands
rate 169. Faeroe Islands
rate 170. Frisian Islands
rate 171. Futuna Islands
rate 172. Hoorn Islands
rate 173. Galápagos Islands
rate 174. Gambier Islands
rate 175. Gilbert and Ellice Islands
rate 176. Gilbert Islands
rate 177. Goto Islands
rate 178. Ionian Islands
rate 179. Islands Bay of
rate 180. Juan Fernández Islands
rate 181. Kerguelen Islands
rate 182. Kermadec Islands
rate 183. Khuriyya Muriyya Islands
rate 184. Kuria Muria Islands
rate 185. Kuril Islands
rate 186. islands of Langerhans
rate 187. Leeward Islands
rate 188. Line Islands
rate 189. Madeira Islands
rate 190. Magdalen Islands
rate 191. Mariana Islands
rate 192. Ladrone Islands
rate 193. Marquesas Islands
rate 194. Marshall Islands
rate 195. Republic of the Marshall Islands
rate 196. New Siberian Islands
rate 197. Northern Mariana Islands
rate 198. Orkney Islands
rate 199. Pacific Islands Trust Territory of the
rate 200. Phoenix Islands
rate 201. Pribilof Islands
rate 202. Queen Charlotte Islands
rate 203. Queen Elizabeth Islands
rate 204. Ryukyu Islands
rate 205. Schouten Islands
rate 206. Shetland Islands
rate 207. Zetland Islands
rate 208. Society Islands
rate 209. Solomon Islands
rate 210. South Orkney Islands
rate 211. Spratly Islands
rate 212. Sunda Islands
rate 213. Tanimbar Islands
rate 214. Thousand Islands
rate 215. Torres Strait Islands
rate 216. Trobriand Islands
rate 217. Kiriwina Islands
rate 218. Turks and Caicos Islands
rate 219. Virgin Islands British
rate 220. Virgin Islands National Park
rate 221. Virgin Islands of the U.S.
rate 222. Visayan Islands
rate 223. Volcano Islands
rate 224. Wallis and Futuna Islands
rate 225. Wallis Islands
rate 226. Windward Islands
rate 227. Paracel Islands;
rate 228. Archipelago, southwestern Finland, constituting Ahvenanmaan autonomous kunta (commune). It consists of about 35 inhabited islands (population in 2002 estimated: 26,000) and more than 6,000 uninhabited ones, with a total land area of 599 sq mi (1,552 sq km). Åland, the largest island, is the location of Mariehamn, the administrative capital and chief seaport. The islands were Christianized by 12th-century Swedish missionaries. When Finland declared its independence in 1917, the Ålanders sought to become part of Sweden. Though the archipelago remains with Finland, it has been given unique autonomy.
rate 229. any area of land smaller than a continent and entirely surrounded by water. Islands may occur in oceans, seas, lakes or rivers. A group of islands is called an archipelago. Islands may be classified as either continental or oceanic. Oceanic islands are those that rise to the surface from the floors of the ocean basins. Continental islands are simply unsubmerged parts of the continental shelf that are entirely surrounded by water. Many of the larger islands of the world are of the continental type. Greenland (840,000 square miles (2, 175,000 square km), the largest island, is composed of the same materials as the adjacent North American continent, from which it is separated by a shallow and narrow sea. Likewise the world's second largest island, New Guinea (309,000 square miles (800,000 square km), is part of the Australian continental platform and is separated from it only by the very shallow and narrow Torres Strait. A slight warping of the sea bottom in the vicinity of Torres Strait would be sufficient to join New Guinea to Australia; conversely, a slight rise in sea level may submerge a hilly coast and leave the hilltops remaining as small islands just off shore (such are those off the coast near Boston, Mass and the islands off the Maine coast). The islands that rise from the floors of the ocean basins are volcanic. Lava accumulates to enormous thickness until it finally protrudes above the ocean surface. The piles of lava that form Hawaii rise as high as 32,000 feet (9, 700 m) above the ocean floor. Island life exhibits features of special interest. The sea is a barrier to some forms of life but acts as a carrier of others, which, once established in their new home, frequently develop new features in their isolated surroundings. A long-established sea barrier results in marked differences between the animal life and vegetation even of adjacent islands and from these differences may be deduced the origin of an island. Further, any detailed map of the biological regions of the globe illustrates the importance of islands in the determination of the boundaries of animal-life and vegetational types. For example, to the west of a line (Wallace's Line) running between Bali and Lombok and between Borneo and Celebes, the islands are biologically Asian, but to the east of the line, notwithstanding the narrowness of the Lombok Strait, the vegetation and animal life are Australian. Oceanic islands are usually colonized by only a few animal forms, chiefly seabirds and insects. They are often covered with abundant vegetation, the seeds of which have been carried there, for example, by air and water currents or by birds; but the plant variety is relatively limited.
rate 230. n a piece of land completely surrounded by watera desert islanda Pacific islandan uninhabited island They live on the large Japanese island of Hokkaido. The map showed two small islands in the middle of the river. She grew up in a small island community. An island is also a traffic island. See at traffic (V E H I C L E S) .
rate 231. Dream symbol Heart, circulatory system, emotions
rate 232. A land mass, especially one smaller than a continent, entirely surrounded by water.
rate 233. darts The actual playable area of a dart board (inside the doubles ring). Missing this area entirely is sometimes referred to as "Off the island".
rate 234. not competent to comment on the matter
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