Falkland Islands

This area, a circle 20 nautical miles in diameter, was referred to as the Red Cross Box (), about north of Falkland Sound).

The name was not applied to the islands until 1765, when British captain John Byron of the Royal Navy, claimed them for King George III as Falkland's Islands .

The name Falkland was applied to the channel by John Strong, captain of an English expedition, which landed on the islands in 1690.

The Falkland Islands wolf ( Dusicyon australis ), also known as the warrah and occasionally as the Falkland Islands dog, Falkland Islands fox, Antarctic wolf or Malvinas fox was the only native land mammal of the Falkland Islands.

Amidst a climate of rising tensions with the United Kingdom, the Argentinian government has decided to take the conflict over the sovereignty of the Falklands to the UN.

E. c. filholi breeds on the Prince Edward Islands, the Crozet Islands, the Kerguelen Islands, Heard Island, Macquarie Island, Campbell Island, the Auckland Islands and the Antipodes Islands.

The countries with the highest inequality in the region (as measured with the Gini index in the UN Development Report) in 2007 were Haiti (59.5), Colombia (58.5), Bolivia (58.2), Honduras (55.3), Brazil (55.0), and Panama (54.9), while the countries with the lowest inequality in the region were Venezuela (43.4), Uruguay (46.4) and Costa Rica (47.2).

The black browed albatross ( Thalassarche melanophrys ), also known as the black browed mollymawk, is a large seabird of the albatross family Diomedeidae it is the most widespread and common member of its family.

In Spanish, the territory was designated as Islas Malvinas (Falkland Islands) .

History The island was first claimed for Britain on 16 October 1819, formally annexed by Britain as part of the Falkland Islands Dependencies in 1908, and now as part of the separate British Antarctic Territory.

The nomenclature used by the United Nations for statistical processing purposes is Falkland Islands (Malvinas) .

The residual Maluku province includes Ambon (the site of the provincial capital) and the other Lease Islands the much larger islands of Seram and Buru the smaller islands lying south and east of Seram the Banda Islands, Gorong Islands, Watubela Islands, Kai Islands and Aru Islands and in the far south the Babar Islands, Damar Islands, Romang, Kisar, the Leti Islands, Tanimbar Islands, and Wetar.

Small surrounding islands are also part of various Sicilian provinces the Aeolian Islands (Messina), isle of Ustica (Palermo), Aegadian Islands (Trapani), isle of Pantelleria (Trapani) and Pelagian Islands (Agrigento).

Goa has more than forty estuarine, eight marine and about ninety riverine islands.

The islands' only native terrestrial mammal, the warrah, was hunted to extinction by European settlers.

Turks Islands The Turks Islands are separated from the Caicos Islands by Turks Island Passage, which is more than deep, The islands form a chain that stretches north south.

Islands There are a number of islands spread all over the city's coastline.

Examples are Åland (Finland), Hong Kong (China), and Macau (China).

Falkland () is a town and former royal burgh, formerly known as the Parish of Kilgour c. 1300AD in Fife, Scotland at the foot of the Lomond Hills.

Cayman Islands

Strong named the strait in honour of Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount of Falkland, the Treasurer of the Navy who sponsored their journey.

The Viscount's title originates from the town of Falkland, Scotland, whose name comes from folkland (land held by folk right).

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British Virgin Islands

Islands of Isolation

You can see the Islands there are eight islands that pop out of the water.

Etymology The name (which is occasionally misspelled Macronesia in false analogy with Micronesia) is derived from the Greek words for islands of the fortunate μακάρων νῆσοι makárōn nêsoi , a term used by Ancient Greek geographers for islands to the west of the Straits of Gibraltar.

Wallis and Futuna Islands

Turks and Caicos Islands

There are islands in the sea.

There are islands in the sea.

There were islands in the sea.

Tortola is the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands that form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands.

The territory is geographically contiguous to the Bahamas, both comprising the Lucayan Archipelago, but is politically a separate entity.

Saint Kitts and Nevis are considered to be geographically part of the Leeward Islands.

Surrounding islands A large number of islands, islets, and rocks hug the coast of Crete.

Forever Marshall Islands is the national anthem of the Marshall Islands.

Most of the islands, including the famous Valaam archipelago, Kilpola and Konevets, are situated in the northwest of the lake.

In Japanese, the Kuril Islands are known as the Chishima Islands (Kanji , literally, Thousand Islands Archipelago ), also known as the Kuriru Islands (Katakana , literally, Kuril Archipelago ).

However in some islands, mostly Lesser Antilles (such as the British Virgin Islands, US Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, as well as Turks and Caicos Islands) and the Bahamas, most passenger cars are still LHD equipped (despite driving on the left), being imported from the United States or Brazil.

In Rwanda, in the Solomon Islands.

Declaration on the Åland islands

Provisions on the Faroe Islands

Female divers of the Jeju Islands.