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| | Falkland Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The sovereignty of the Falkland Islands has been disputed since their discovery, with France, Spain, Argentina and the United Kingdom all claiming possession after establishing settlements on the islands. | | | Argentina declared independence in 1816 and laid claim to the Islands, which were then uninhabited. | | | Argentina, which had never renounced its claim to the islands, used the newly formed United Nations as an avenue for pursuing its claims, and talks between the British and Argentine foreign missions took place in the 1960s. |
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| | Tachen Islands.html |
| | A communist invasion of these islands was beaten back during 1949 but the threat of another invasion attempt was ever present, and military skirmishes over these islands were constant. | | | The communists took posession of the Tachen islands soon after the evacuation and since then have occupied them. | | | During the mid-1950s a major artillary attack on Quemoy and Matsu, was thought to be the beginning of another invasion attempt on the islands by the communists. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Atlantis |
| | He added that westwards from that island, there were the three islands of Cronus, to where proud and warlike men used to come from the continent beyond the islands, in order to offer sacrifice to the gods of the ocean. | | | The island Atlantis is deduced to be Ireland. | | | The Island of Atlantis, Attica and lands of the ancient Hellenes were all destroyed by the catastrophe. |
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| | Channel Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Nazi occupation 1940–1945 was harsh, with some island residents being taken for slave labour on the Continent; native Jews sent to concentration camps; partisan resistance and retribution; accusations of collaboration; and slave labour (primarily Russians and eastern Europeans) being brought to the islands to build fortifications. | | | Under the Interpretation Act 1978, the Channel Islands are deemed to be part of the British Islands, not to be confused with the British Isles, of which they are also historically considered a part. | | | Îles Normandes and Archipel Normand have also historically been used in Channel Island French to refer to the islands as a whole. |
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| | Spratly Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | However, the Kuomintang withdrew from the Spratly and Paracel Islands when they were defeated by the forces of the opposing Communist Party of China in 1949. | | | Part of the South China Sea Islands, the Spratlys are surrounded by rich fishing grounds and gas and oil deposits, whose true extent are unknown and disputed. | | | Malaysia issues claims to some of the Spratly Islands. |
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| | CHANNEL ISLANDS - LoveToKnow Article on CHANNEL ISLANDS |
| | Both islands had suffered severely from the struggle, and the people of Guernsey, appealing to Cromwell on the ground of their support of his cause, complained that two-thirds of the land was out of cultivation, and that they had lost their ships, their traffic and their trading. | | | The constant recurrence of the names of saints in the place-names of the islands, and the fact that pre-Christian names do not occur, leads to the inference that before Christianity was introduced the population was very scanty. | | | Henry V. confiscated the alien priories which had kept up the same connection with Normandy as before the conquest, and conferred them along with the regalities of the islands on his brother, the duke of Bedford. |
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| | Aran Islands |
| | No bibliography of the Aran islands would be complete without mentioning Tim Robinson's Stones of Aran: Labyrinth (1986) and Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage (1989), and his accompanying, very detailed, map of the islands. | | | The motivations of these visitors are best exemplified by W. Yeats' advice to Synge: "Go to the Aran Islands, and find a life that has never been expressed in literature." | | | Many blame the dying out of Irish speaking among young members of the islands community on English-language television, available twenty-four hours a day since the 1980s; furthermore, many younger islanders leave for the mainland when they come of age. |
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| | Senkaku Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Japan claims that after the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese government conducted surveys of the islands beginning in 1885 which confirmed that there was no evidence that the uninhabited islands had been under Chinese control. | | | China claims that the islands were within the Ming Empire's sea-defense area and were part of Taiwan. | | | Taiwan and its surrounding islands were ceded to Japan in 1895 in the Treaty of Shimonoseki. |
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| | Faroe Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Faroe Islands are an island group consisting of 18 islands, off the coast of Northern Europe, between the Norwegian Sea and the north Atlantic Ocean, about one-half of the way from Iceland to Norway. | | | This action was taken to avert a possible German occupation of the islands, which would have had very grave consequences for the course of the Battle of the Atlantic. | | | The Faroes and the EU The Faroe Islands are not part of the EU, as explicitly asserted by both Rome treaties. |
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| | Geographia: Islands |
| | Naxos was one of the larger islands of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea. | | | Scyrus (Skyrus) was an Aegean island northeast of Euboea. | | | Leucas was an island in the Ionian Sea, north of Cephallenia and Ithaca. |
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| | Glorioso Islands - definition of Glorioso Islands in Encyclopedia |
| | The islands have been classified as natural reserves. | | | The islands are part of an atoll and emerge from a circular reef that sits atop a long-extinct, submerged volcano. | | | The Glorioso Islands (French: Îles Glorieuses) are an uninhabited 5 km² group of islands in the Indian Ocean at 11 30 S, 47 20 E, northwest of Madagascar. |
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| | Falklands War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Falklands consist of two large and many small islands in the South Atlantic Ocean east of Argentina, whose ownership had long been disputed. | | | After heavy combat, the British eventually prevailed and the islands remained under British control, although as of 2006, Argentina has still not relinquished its claim to the Falkland Islands. | | | The invasion of the populated areas of the Falkland Islands was preceded by the invasion of South Georgia, located 1,390 kilometres east of the Falklands. |
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| | Senkaku Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The islands sit on the edge of the continental shelf of mainland Asia, and are separated from the Ryukyu Islands by a deep sea trench. | | | Japan claims that after the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese Government conducted surveys of the islands from 1885 that confirmed for her that these uninhabited islands had no trace of having been under the control of China. | | | Some Chinese suggest that during the Cixi era, the islands were presented as a gift to a mandarin "for the purpose of collecting herbs on the islands," but its credibility is questioned. |
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| | Ponza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Ponza is the largest in the Pontine Islands, which are the remains of extinct volcanos, with a surface area is 7.3 square kilometers. | | | Ponza (Isola Di Ponza) is the largest of the Italian Pontine islands archipelago, located 33 km south of Cape Circeo in the Tyrrhenian Sea. | | | Ponza is said to have been connected to the mainland by a narrow strip of land, which sunk into the sea with most of the island below the water, with the parts remaining above sea level. |
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| | Economy of the Spratly Islands |
| | Spratly Islands Flags of various secessionist groups claiming rights over the Spratly Islands and opposing their occupation by China, Taiwan, Indonesia and Vietnam. | | | Republic of Morac-Songhrati-Meads Fictional "Government in Exile" inspired by an actual group of people that lived on the Spratly Islands and claimed to be an independent state. | | | Territorial Claims in the Spratly and Paracel Islands Details of land claims in the South China Sea by Brunei, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Phillipines. |
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| | Senkaku Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The islands sit on the edge of the continental shelf of mainland Asia, and are separated from the Ryukyu Islands by a deep sea trench. | | | Japan claims that after the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese Government conducted surveys of the islands from 1885 that confirmed for her that these uninhabited islands had no trace of having been under the control of China. | | | China claims that it had already ruled the islands before Japan controlled them, while Japan claims that they were terra nullius, i.e. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Falkland Islands |
| | Argentina continued to claim the islands; the British government refused to participate in further negotiations, but the two nations resumed diplomatic relations in 1990. | | | In 1816 Argentina overthrew Spanish rule and in 1820 claimed sovereignty of the islands. | | | Geologically, the Falkland Islands are a part of Patagonia in Argentina, being connected with the mainland by a raised submarine plateau. |
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| | Robben Island Museum |
| | The duty of those who ran the Island and its prison was to isolate opponents of apartheid and to crush their morale. | | | Those imprisoned on the Island succeeded on a psychological and political level in turning a prison 'hell-hole' into a symbol of freedom and personal liberation. | | | "Robben Island Museum NOT on the danger list and never faced being de-listed" - so says RIM CEO. |
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| | Falkland Islands |
| | Vernet's occupation of the Falkland Islands in 1830 | | | The United Kingdom claimed that Spain had left the Falkland Islands in 1811 without reiterating their claim and thereby had sacrificed their claim to the Falkland Islands. | | | The British left Falklands three years later, but reiterated their claim on the islands and they left a plaque behind to mark English sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. |
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| | Åland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | When the islands were ceded to Russia, the Swedes were unable to secure a provision that the islands should not be fortified. | | | During the Åland crisis, the parties sought support from differently looking maps over the islands. | | | The islands are demilitarised and the male population is exempted from conscription. |
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| | Ponza - encyclopedia article about Ponza. |
| | Ponza is the largest in the Pontine Islands, which are the remains of extinct volcanos, with a surface area is 7.3 square kilometers. | | | The island is well known for the tragic story of Lucia Rosa who threw herself into the Tyrrhenian Sea rather than being forced to marry a man she did not want. | | | Legend says that Ponza is what is left of the lost island of Tyrrhenia, which somewhat resembles the Atlantis legend. |
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| | South China Sea Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Malaysia and the Philippines also claim and occupy some islands. | | | The PRC strongly asserted its claims to the islands, but in the late 1990's, under the new security concept, the PRC put its claims much less strongly. | | | There is an atoll in the Spratly Islands named after Zheng He though. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Aleutian Islands |
| | After the ships were separated by a storm, Chirikov discovered several eastern islands of the Aleutian group, and Bering discovered several of the western islands, finally being wrecked and losing his life on the island of the Komandorski Islands (Commander Islands) that now bears his name (Bering Island). | | | The great majority of the islands bear evident marks of volcanic origin, and there are numerous volcanic cones on the north side of the chain, some of them active; many of the islands, however, are not wholly volcanic, but contain crystalline or sedimentary rocks, and also amber and beds of lignite. | | | The climate of the islands is oceanic, with moderate and fairly uniform temperatures and heavy rainfall. |
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| | Encyclopedia: List of islands |
| | This is a list of islands in the world grouped by oceans and by continents. | | | Woody Island is one of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea. | | | Islands in the East China Sea include: Chongming Mount Putuo Ryukyu Islands Senkaku Islands (also Tiaoyutai Islands, Pinnacle Islands, Diaoyu Islands, Diaoyutai) Zhoushan Archipelago Zhoushan Island See also List of islands List of islands in the Arctic Ocean List of islands in the Atlantic Ocean List of islands in the... |
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| | The Falklands War (1982) / La Guerra de Las Malvinas (1982) |
| | The fact that the islands are 100% populated by English speaking "Kelpers" (about 1800 of them then, and over 2300 today), who preferred to remain under British rule according to the falkland islands government official statements, was never mentioned to us. | | | Afraid that the Americans seized the islands, the British remember the expedition of the 17th century, re-invade the islands, forcefully depose Vernet and send the Argentines back to the mainland albeit without having to fire a shot. | | | These historical ``revisionists'' began to reexamine the 19th century and to catalogue Britain's imperialist encroachments: the british invasions of 1806-1807, Britain's role in the foundation of Uruguay in the late 1820s, its seizure of the Falkland Islands in 1833, the blockades under Rosas... |
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| | Cocos (Keeling) Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The islands were brought under the British Empire in 1857. | | | Cocos (Keeling) Islands entry from the CIA World Factbook | | | He studied the natural history of the islands and collected specimens. |
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| | Malta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | After a period of Byzantine rule (4th to 9th century) and a probable sack by the Vandals, the islands were conquered by the Arabs in AD Life in Malta during the Arab rule was completely different from contemporary Maltese life. | | | The period of Arab rule lasted until 1090, when the islands were taken by the Sicilian Normans, restoring Christianity again. | | | In 1530, the islands were given by Spain to the Order of Knights of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in perpetual lease (Aragon having owned the island as part of their Mediterranean empire for some time). |
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| | Ionian islands - Corfu |
| | The Ionian Sea is connected with the Adriatic Sea in the north by the Strait of Otranto. | | | During World War II the island was held by Italian and German forces until it was retaken by Greek and British troops in October of 1944. | | | The Ionian Sea (Greek-- Ionion Pelagos) is another arm of the Mediterranean Sea, separating Greece and Albania from Italy and Sicily. |
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