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islands and islets

group of islands

archipelago

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There are islands in the sea.

What animals inhabit those islands?

Spain once governed the Philippine Islands.

And in the Indian Ocean, some islands of the Maldives will disappear completely beneath the water.

This tour takes in each of the five main islands.

Captain Cook discovered those islands.

The Caribbean abounds with islands.

The main islands of Japan are Hokkaido, Shikoku, Honshu and Kyushu.

The world's largest telescope is in the Canary Islands.

A massive earthquake of magnitude 8.8 hit the Japanese islands today.

If you've got nothing else to do, then count the Greek islands.

Galaxies are islands separated by enormous distances.

Indonesia is the largest country in the world situated only on islands.

It is believed that the festival comes from the South Pacific islands.

Although most islands in the ocean have been mapped, the ocean floor is generally unknown.

Japan consists of four major islands and over 3,000 small islands, and is about equal to California in area.

Japan is made up of volcanic islands.

Seen from the plane, the islands were very pretty.

I frequently go to the islands of Menorca and Ibiza.

Indonesia consists of many islands and two peninsulas.

There are many islands in Greece.

By establishing Takeshima Day, it is hoped that more Japanese people will learn about the Takeshima islands.

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Ouessant, which is separated from Bannec by the difficult Fromveur passage. is the biggest and mildest of the islands of the archipelago.

As the Government desires above all things to avoid conflict between the islands under its rule,. it demands the arrest of this man and woman wherever found.

Round about the islands.

Stay here. Do not go to the other islands.

You're not coming? I fancy having a look at a few of the other islands around here.

There will be no more mixing with the degenerate natives of these islands.

It'll take us close to the most savage islands in these waters.

The Fiji islands where cannibalism is perfected almost to a science.

For thousands of years. men have believed in an enclave of islands. known as the Forbidden Islands. where mermaids breed.

A group of islands.

But no one gets to see the Forbidden Islands and walk out alive.

I keep telling them about the Canary Islands while all I know is my canary that doesn't even sing.

Welcome, is it the Canary Islands you want, sir?

The islands of the moon.

England's only an island, and all islands are alike.

All islands are alike.

But I do remember a tapestry in the hall with ships and islands on it.

The Pacific is filled with uncharted islands.

As far away as the islands are.

I'm running out of islands.

You've been deported from several islands, always for the same reasons.

Looking for islands, Doc.

Japanese planes have bombed Singapore, Guam and the Philippine islands.

Half the nearby islands.

If he should ask you what we want tell him a Navy task force a tanker loaded with gasoline and 100,000 men. Give me that, and we can start taking the islands back.

From Tahiti, the Fiji islands, the Coral Sea.

But I know these Indians. They're sick for their islands.

But I've lived in these islands for a good many years, and I've seen things with my eyes that made me think I was crazy.

The authorities, Neil, my boy, you don't know these islands.

Report to your country that here in the farest east a people keeps guard on its rocky islands.

Those islands all look alike.

I used to spend my spare time down on those little islands working truck gardens so my outfit could have fresh tomatoes and green corn and all that.

In Venice, there are 177 canals measuring 28 miles, and there are 156 bridges connecting 114 islands.

The others come from nearby islands.

She's got it all mixed-up in her mind about a cruise to the islands. -.with Shep Huntleigh, an old beau.

That's the custom of the islands.

Da-da, da-da, da, da, da. What does that mean? Well, my transmitter only carries to the neighboring islands. a little over 100 miles.

The season begins on the islands when the wind carries everything away.

Saboteurs is what worries me. I bet they're operatingall over these islands.

My uncle a high priest in islands. west south far away.

News and current affairs

For decades, major oil companies, including Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron, have been producing oil in the Niger Delta, an ecologically fragile environment of freshwater swamp forests, mangroves, lowland rainforests, and coastal barrier islands.

Similarly, the US has urged both China and Japan to resolve peacefully their dispute over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands.

The US has declared that the Senkaku Islands (administered by the Okinawa Prefecture when it was returned to Japan in 1972) are covered by the US-Japan security treaty.

But it is worth recalling that China used lethal force to expel Vietnamese from the Paracel Islands in 1974 and 1988.

The Obama administration's contradictory rhetoric - affirming that the US-Japan security treaty covers the Senkakus, while refusing to take a position on the islands' sovereignty - has not helped.

MANILA - One of the main sources of tension in Asia nowadays are the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, where the Philippines, Vietnam, China, and others have conflicting claims.

Yet on that same day, the headlines in Chinese papers were blasting the Philippines for its historic claim to ownership of the Spratly Islands.

Companies cannot compete with firms that pay much lower wage rates on neighboring islands.

Rather than attacking Communist rule directly, we would create small islands of freedom, inter-connected social circles and associations, which, when the moment came, could all be connected in order to change the system.

Add to that simultaneous tensions over China's claims to South China Sea islands and atolls - claims disputed by the Philippines and Vietnam - and a clash between China and the US was beginning to seem inevitable.

Indeed, China withdrew its jumbo oil platform from the waters of the disputed Paracel Islands last July, and it has been sending surveillance ships to the Senkaku Islands less frequently.

According to South Korean news reports, in addition to its existing mid-range Nodong missiles, North Korea has improved its Scud missiles, extending their range to reach Japan's main islands.

The connection between the general interest and the private interest of individual Americans has, if anything, become much stronger, even if their private interest is tied to a post office box in the Cayman Islands.

As a result, Japan is becoming skeptical about America's willingness to support it militarily in the event of a Chinese attack on the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands (called the Diaoyu Islands in China).

This emboldened China effectively to seize a second Philippine-claimed shoal, part of the disputed Spratly Islands.

What is at stake are not merely islands in the East and South China Seas, but a rules-based regional order, freedom of navigation of the seas and skies, access to maritime resources, and balanced power dynamics in Asia.

Japan, moreover, is likely to let today's passions over disputed islands in the East China Sea cool down, despite the anti-Japanese outbursts in Chinese cities.

TOKYO - China is now engaged in bitter disputes with the Philippines over Scarborough Shoal and Japan over the Senkaku Islands, both located far beyond China's 200-mile-wide territorial waters in the South China Sea.

According to some media reports, in order to secure China's agreement to participate in a meeting during the APEC summit, Abe even agreed to acknowledge that Japan's claim to the Senkaku Islands is disputed.

Given that such a move would imply that China's claim to the islands may have some legitimacy, Abe's possible concession on this point is no trivial matter; it could even mean that he will agree with China to restore the status quo ante.

The seizure of the Paracel Islands from Vietnam in 1974 by Chinese forces was another example of offense as defense.

China also has become more insistent in pressing its territorial claims both to India's northeastern Arunachal Pradesh state and to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands, with Chinese warships making more frequent forays into Japanese waters.

Today, whether it is Arunachal Pradesh or Taiwan or the Senkaku Islands or even the Spratlys, China is dangling the threat of force to assert its claims.

The trigger for this wave of scorn was Li's sell-off of some of his prime Shanghai properties, after relocating his corporate registry from Hong Kong to the Cayman Islands.