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    Cayman Islands. As of 2017[update], no evidence has been found that the islands had been occupied before their discovery by Europeans. The Cayman Islands got...
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    continent by plate tectonics, and oceanic islands, which have never been part of a continent. Oceanic islands can be formed from volcanic activity, grow...
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    The islands have a population of 2.2 million people and are the most populous special territory of the European Union. The seven main islands are, from...
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    economic difficulties. The Faroe Islands are an island group consisting of 18 major islands (and a total of 779 islands, islets, and skerries) about 655...
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    claim to the islands. In April 1982, Argentine military forces invaded the islands. British administration was restored two months later at the end of the...
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    Virgin Islands, officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and a territory of the United States. The islands are...
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    Islands (/ˈpɪtkɛərn/ PIT-kairn; Pitkern: Pitkern Ailen), officially Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, are a group of four volcanic islands...
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    Caicos Islands (abbreviated TCI; /ˈtɜːrks/ and /ˈkeɪkəs, -koʊs, -kɒs/) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller...
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    The Marshall Islands (Marshallese: Ṃajeḷ), officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Marshallese: Aolepān Aorōkin Ṃajeḷ), is an island country west...
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    the largest of the islands; and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, consisting of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm and some smaller islands. Historically, they...
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    Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons, is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Melanesia, part...
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    The Galápagos Islands (Spanish: Islas Galápagos) are an archipelago of volcanic islands in the Eastern Pacific, located around the Equator 900 km (560 mi)...
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    The Hawaiian Islands (Hawaiian: Mokupuni Hawaiʻi) are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the...
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    Caribbean (redirect from Carribean Islands)
    of the West Indies; the Quintana Roo islands and Belizean islands of the Yucatán Peninsula; and the Bay Islands, Miskito Cays, Archipelago of San Andrés...
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    consisting of 181 islands. Geography of Bermuda Bermuda's 123 Islands Listed by name, large and small, present and past Bermuda at Wikipedia's sister...
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    Polynesia (redirect from Polynesian islands)
    up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. The indigenous people who inhabit the islands of Polynesia are called...
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    Orkney (redirect from Orkney islands)
    an historic county. The local council is Orkney Islands Council. The islands have been inhabited for at least 8,500 years, originally occupied by Mesolithic...
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    Shetland (redirect from Shetland islands)
    Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway. It is the northernmost region...
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    The Thousand Islands (French: Mille-Îles) constitute a North American archipelago of 1,864 islands that straddles the Canada–US border in the Saint Lawrence...
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    Ocean. It consists of 15 islands whose total land area is approximately 236.7 square kilometres (91 sq mi). The Cook Islands' Exclusive Economic Zone...
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    Balearic Islands as one of the nationalities of Spain. The official languages of the Balearic Islands are Catalan and Spanish. The archipelago islands are...
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    The Leeward Islands (/ˈliːwərd/) are a group of islands situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean. Starting with...
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    it down to two choices—Future Shoes and Already Islands—and combining them into one. Future Islands self-released the EP Little Advances on April 28...
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    -ɡoʊs/) or Chagos Islands (formerly the Bassas de Chagas, and later the Oil Islands) is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 islands in the Indian...
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    The Princes' Islands (Turkish: Prens Adaları; the word "princes" is plural, because the name means "Islands of the Princes", Greek: Πριγκηπονήσια, Pringiponisia)...
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    The Ryukyu Islands (琉球列島, Ryūkyū-rettō), also known as the Nansei Islands (南西諸島, Nansei-shotō, lit. "Southwest Islands") or the Ryukyu Arc (琉球弧, Ryūkyū-ko)...
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  • lake itself is located on an island. Only a few notable examples are given. There are nearly 1,000 islands in lakes on islands in Finland alone. Moose Boulder...
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    Archipelago (redirect from Group of islands)
    an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands. Examples...
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    Islands constitute one of the five administrative divisions (subdivisions administratives) of French Polynesia. The capital of the Marquesas Islands'...
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    islands. Aleksandry, Franz Josef Land Atlasov Island, Kuril Islands Ayon Belkovsky, New Siberian Islands Bely Island, in the Kara Sea Bennett Island,...
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