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island
island relatively small body of land surrounded entirely by water. (As the oceans form a continuous mass of water on the earth's surface, all continents are islands in the strict sense of the word.) The largest islands on earth are, in descending order of size, Greenland , New Guinea , Borneo , ... Read more |
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Islands
ISLANDS ISLANDS. Islands played a larger role in European history during the early modern period than at any other time before or since. They were crucial to economic and political development, and were no less significant culturally. One must consider not only the physical islands that Europe... Read more |
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Mariana Islands
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Island biogeography
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island hopping
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island biotas
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Treasure Island
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Washington Island
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Komandorski Islands
Komandorski Islands or Commander Islands, Rus. Komandorskiye Ostrova, group of treeless islands, off E Kamchatka Peninsula, E Russian Far East, in SW Bering Sea. They consist of Bering Island, Medny Island, and two islets. These hilly, foggy islands often have earthquakes. Their inhabitants,... Read more |
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Line Islands
Line Islands or Equatorial Islands, coral group, 43 sq mi (111 sq km), central and S Pacific. Once valuable for their guano deposits, the islands now have coconut groves, airfields, and meteorological stations. Of the 11 islands in the group, 8 comprise part of the Republic of Kiribati : ... Read more |
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oceanic islands
...flexure: Christmas Island in the eastern Indian...Pacific are examples.Islands can form along transform...that it is based on island origins. By far the majority of oceanic islands have a volcanic origin...visitors to oceanic islands for the ... |
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Ellis Island
Ellis Island served as the entry point for millions of immigrants to the United States.Situated in upper New York Bay, the island has had various names, including Gibbet Island, recalling its history as an execution site where pirates... |
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Solomon Islands
...Islands include several hundred islands scattered over 1400km (900mi...Pacific Ocean. The principal islands are volcanic, mountainous...cool season. The largest island is Guadalcanal, and other inhabited islands include Choiseul, Malaita... |
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island arcs
...remember that the term ‘island arc’ is commonly used as...they are situated as islands in the middle of oceans...Central and South America. Island arcs include only those...therefore a spectrum of island-arc types. Some...and oceanic (Andaman ... |
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VIRGIN ISLANDS
VIRGIN ISLANDS. Caribbean dependencies of Britain and the US in the Lesser...Their languages are English and CREOLE. The British Virgin Islands consist of four large islands (Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, Jost Van Dyke) and numerous... |
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44 Liquormart v. Rhode Island (1996)
44 Liquormart v. Rhode Island (1996), 517 U.S. 484 (1996...The case resulted from a 1956 Rhode Island law, similar to ones in ten other states...that published or broadcast into Rhode Island. Such measures had assumed increasing... |
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Mariana Islands
Mariana Islands Volcanic island chain in the w Pacific Ocean, stretching...The group comprises Guam and the islands of the Northern Marianas: Saipan, Tinian, Rota, Pagan, and 11 smaller islands. Discovered by Ferdinand Magellan... |
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Dodecanese Islands campaign
...000 Germans on the island. Instead, the Germans...amongst eight of the islands and the Aegean island of Samos to the north...now concentrated on the islands. On 12 November the Germans assaulted the island and overran the British... |
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Aleutian Islands campaigns
...The Americans also feared the islands could be used as an invasion...specially built on two other islands, Adak and Amchitka, just...the battle of the Komandorski Islands which followed prevented the...need six months to conquer the island. But Yamazaki and ... |
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Kuril Islands
...The n islands were settled by Russians, the s islands by Japanese. In 1875, Russia gave the islands to Japan in exchange for full control of Sakhalin island. After World War II, the islands were ceded to the Soviet Union. The chief ... |
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Rhode Island
...He came across Block Island, one of the islands of the state, which he considered resembled the island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean...therefore called it Rhode Island. The state now comprises these and other islands and the mainland. It... |
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Aran Islands
...TUIRED). The mysterious island in the Atlantic, Hy...identified with the Aran Islands. A ‘king’ of the Islands...Ailill. These Irish islands are sometimes confused with the Scottish island of Arran in Argyllshire...Ó Síocháin , Aran, ... |
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Virgin Islands
Virgin Islands, UK, USA Santa Ursula...Mil Virgines 1. The island group is divided between...as the British Virgin Islands and the Virgin Islands...Martyred) Virgins’. The island, believed to be the...suggest the number of ... |
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island biogeography, theory of
...usually greater on big islands; it also makes a major...immigration is independent of island size. The theory also...identical near and far islands in relation to the mainland...higher for the nearer islands. The assumption that...rate is independent of ... |
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Prince Edward Island
...had already come upon them, he named the larger island ‘Marion Island’. Both islands were annexed by South Africa, Marion in 1947 and Prince Edward Island in 1948. |
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island hopping
...The colonization of an island or islands by plants and animals from an adjacent island or islands. Birds are particularly likely to hop from one island to another. Over geological time, islands move away from their... |
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Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands An island country in the south...Physical The Solomon Islands form a large archipelago...large and many smaller islands, lying between 5° and...the Equator. The largest island, Bougainville, together... |
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Marshall Islands
Marshall Islands A country consisting of a cluster of 29 low-lying atolls and five islands in the central Pacific.Physical The archipelago comprises two parallel chains of islands, the Ratak (sunrise) chain to the east and... |
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island biogeography
island biogeography The study of the...of plant and animal species on islands or in areas that are sufficiently isolated to resemble islands. Islands are numerous and their biotas (see island biotas) are often small enough... |
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Diomede Islands
...August) by Vitus Bering†. Big Diomede Island is on the Russian side and is known to them as Ostrov Ratmanova ‘Ratmanov Island’; Little Diomede Island is on the American side. The two islands together are called the Gvozdev Islands... |
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island
island • noun she lived on an island synonyms: isle, islet; atoll; (islands) archipelago. • verb he was islanded from the problems of real life synonyms: isolate, cloister, seclude; separate, detach, cut off. |
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cake
...cake crumble cupcake custard dacquoise devil’s food cake Dobos torte duff dulce de leche Dundee cake financier flan floating island flummery fool fruitcake galette des rois gateau genoise German chocolate cake gingerbread granita honey cake hummingbird cake... |
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chicken
...cuz he's chicken.See cowardly.Chickens and Other Ground Birds Chickens bantam brahma Cornish leghorn Plymouth Rock Rhode Island Red Rock Cornish Sussex White Rock Wyandot Other Ground Birds black grouse blue grouse bobwhite capercaillie chukar fool hen... |
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desert
...moistureless, parched; scorched, hot; barren, bare, stark, infertile, unfruitful, dehydrated, sterile.antonym: fertile. 2. an uncharted desert island synonyms: uninhabited, empty, lonely, desolate, bleak; wild, uncultivated. |
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formation
formation • noun 1. the formation of the island's sand ridges synonyms: emergence, coming into being, genesis, development, evolution, shaping, origination.antonyms: destruction... |
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gird
gird • verb 1. the island was girded by rocks synonyms: surround, enclose, encircle, circle, encompass, border, bound, edge, skirt, fringe; close in, confine... |
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hike
...a five-mile hike synonyms: walk, trek, tramp, trudge, slog, footslog, march; ramble. • verb they hiked across the island synonyms: walk, trek, tramp, tromp, trudge, slog, footslog, march; ramble, rove, traipse; informal hoof it, leg it... |
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mainly
mainly • adverb the people on the island are mainly touristssynonyms: mostly, for the most part, in the main, on the whole, largely, by and large, to a large extent, predominantly... |
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pocket
...funds, money, wherewithal, pocketbook. 3. pockets of disaffection synonyms: area, patch, region, isolated area, island, cluster, center. • adjective a pocket dictionary synonyms: small, little, miniature, mini, compact, concise, abridged... |
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replace
...displacement by force, fraud, or innovation (the democratic government had been supplanted by a power-hungry tyrant). It can also mean to uproot or wipe out (the English immigrants gradually supplanted the island's native inhabitants). |
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Island life They come in many sizes. They can be isolated, romantic . . . or...
...owns Ram and Carr islands in Salisbury and Milk Island off Rockport...welcoming policies. On islands that solely support...like Straitsmouth Island and Egg Rock...seekers and all the islands are patrolled regularly. Tinkers ... |
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Island on the edge: an environmental catastrophe is unfolding on Christmas...
...most Australians, the name Christmas Island is synonymous with its offshore immigration...Over the past few years, Christmas Island has witnessed an exponential loss of endemic...unique biogeography and remoteness of the island--an isolated volcanic peak in the northern... |
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Jekyll Island Authority Selects Private Partner for Future Revitalization.
JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of the Jekyll Island Authority today voted to enter into a contract with...revitalization partner to help steer, along with the Jekyll Island Authority and the public, the course of future... |
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Island Pacific's 30th Annual Users' Conference Attended by Top Retailers.
--Island Pacific and attending customers celebrate...of Innovation-- IRVINE, Calif. -- Island Pacific, a division of 3Q Holdings (ASX...that the recently concluded 30th Annual Island Pacific User Conference held at the Island... |
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ISLANDS OUT OF THE MAINSTREAM NATURE BEGINS TO REASSERT HER HOLD ON THE MOST...
...the 1950s, these islands were the penal colony...known as Devil's Island. Ile du Diable...has been to these islands more than a dozen...Royale was the island of exile, St. Joseph...a year visit the islands. The hotel has a...Escaped From ... |
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Island ECN Selects Kx Systems for Real-time Trade Reporting Platform.
...at extremely high speeds, today announced that The Island ECN has selected Kx to supply the relational database management platform for Island's new real-time trade reporting system. Island ECN will use Kdb, the ultra high-performance relational... |
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Island Routes Caribbean Adventure Tours Launches in St. Lucia and Antigua.
...Jamaica, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Island Routes Caribbean Adventure Tours is proud...now join Jamaica as part of the unique Island Routes Caribbean experience. "We are thrilled to bring Island Routes to St. Lucia and Antigua and to... |
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ISLAND OF DREAMS; As some on Orkney campaign for a road link to the mainland,...
...location: an island lying just south of the equator. Islands have also been...isolation of a desert island provides the scene...central point about islands is essentially...Orkney and Shetland Islands, the selfcontained strength of ... |
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Island of freedom, island of tears. (Ellis Island)
...and Florence Quivar. Ellis Island History Located off the New...Statute of Liberty, Ellis island was the principal US federal...to encompass three connected islands covering 27.5 acres. Some...United States through Ellis Island. Reportedly 40% of living... |
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Island, Largest ECN, to Participate in Nasdaq's SuperMontage.
...YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 2002 Island ECN announced today that in a continuing effort...move in order to deliver greater profitability to Island subscribers," said Island CEO Matthew Andresen. "Our subscribers will be... |
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