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| x Isle Royale |
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Isle Royale is an island of the Great Lakes, located in the northwest of Lake Superior. The island and the 400 surrounding smaller islands and waters make up Isle Royale National Park. It is pronounced /ˌaɪlˈrɔɪəl/, with a long "I" in Isle and the...
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| x Bear Island |
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Bear Island is one of the Apostle Islands of northern Wisconsin in Lake Superior, and is part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Unlike nearby Madeline Island, it is not open to commercial development. There is another Bear Island in Balsam...
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| x Hermit Island |
Hermit Island is a Wisconsin island in Lake Superior and a part of the Apostle Islands. Along with most of the islands in the group, it is a part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.
Hermit Island was home to a number of quarries for its...
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| x Cat Island |
Cat Island is a Wisconsin island in Lake Superior. It is one of the Apostle Islands and a part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. It is located at 47°00′48″N 090°33′33″W / 47.01333, -90.55917. Variant names include Caterhemlock Island and...
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| x Manitou Island |
One of the twenty-two Apostle Islands of northern Wisconsin, Manitou Island has also been known as New Jersey Island (Henry R. Schoolcraft's 1820 map) and Tait's Island (Asaph Whittlesey's 1871 map).
The island is located in western Lake Superior...
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| x Devils Island | Apostle Islands |
Devils Island is one of the twenty-two Apostle Islands of northern Wisconsin, and has also been known as Louisiana Island (Henry R. Schoolcraft's 1820 map), Barney and Lamborn's Island (Asaph Whittlesey's 1871 map), Brownstone Island, and Rabbit...
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| x Navy Island |
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Navy Island is a small island in the Niagara River in the province of Ontario, Canada. It is currently under the administration of the Niagara Parks Commission. It is located about 4.5 km (2.8 mi) upstream from Horseshoe Falls, and has an area of...
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| x Grand Island |
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Grand Island is a town and an island in Erie County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 18,621. The current town name derives from the French name "La Grande Ile," as Grand Island is the largest island in the Niagara River...
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| x Java |
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Sunda Arc | Java Sea |
Java (Indonesian: Jawa) is an island of Indonesia and the site of its capital city, Jakarta. Once the centre of powerful Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms, Islamic sultanates, and the core of the colonial Dutch East Indies, Java now plays a dominant role in...
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| x Sumatra |
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Sunda Arc |
Sumatra (also spelled Sumatera) is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia (two larger islands, Borneo and New Guinea, are shared between Indonesia and other countries), and...
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| x Timor |
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Lesser Sunda Islands |
Timor is an island at the southern end of Maritime Southeast Asia, north of the Timor Sea. It is divided between the independent state of East Timor, and West Timor, belonging to the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara.
The island's surface is...
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| x Sumbawa |
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Lesser Sunda Islands |
Sumbawa is an Indonesian island, located in the middle of the Lesser Sunda Islands chain, with Lombok to the west, Flores to the east, and Sumba further to the southeast. It is in the province of West Nusa Tenggara.
Sumbawa is 15,448 km² (three...
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| x Sumba |
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Lesser Sunda Islands |
Sumba is an island in Indonesia, and is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands. It has an area of 11,153 km², and the population was officially at 611,422 in 2005. There is a dry season from May to November and a rainy season from December to April....
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| x Savu |
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Lesser Sunda Islands |
Savu (also known as Sawu, Sabu, Sawoe, Havu, Hawu, Hawoe) is an island which is situated midway between Sumba and Rote, west of Timor, in Indonesia's eastern province, East Nusa Tenggara. Ferries connect the islands to Waingapu, on Sumba, and Kupang...
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| x Sangeang | Lesser Sunda Islands |
Sangeang is an island in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia. It is located northeast of Sumbawa in the Flores Sea. It is 13 kilometers wide, and it is formed from the volcano Gunung Api, that is one of the most active volcano in the Lesser Sunda...
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| x Solor |
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Lesser Sunda Islands |
Solor is a volcanic island located off the eastern tip of Flores island in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia, in the Solor Archipelago. The island supports a small population that has been whaling for hundreds of years. They speak the languages...
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| x Rote Island |
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Lesser Sunda Islands |
Rote Island (Indonesian: Pulau Rote, also spelled Roti) is an island of Indonesia, part of the East Nusa Tenggara province of the Lesser Sunda Islands. It has an area of 1200 km². It lies 500 km northeast of the Australian coast and 170 km northeast...
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| x Pantar |
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Lesser Sunda Islands |
Pantar (Indonesian: Pulau Pantar) is the second largest island in the Indonesian Alor Archipelago, after Alor. To the east is the island of Alor and other small islands in the archipelago; to the west is the Alor Strait, which separates it from the...
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| x Palu'e | Lesser Sunda Islands |
Palu'e Island is an island located north of Flores Island in the Flores Sea. It is part of Lesser Sunda Islands. Palu'e island is under the administrative region of Sikka regency of East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia.
The island has an area of...
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| x Lombok |
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Lesser Sunda Islands |
Lombok (population 2,950,105 in 2005) is an island in West Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. It is part of the chain of the Lesser Sunda Islands, with the Lombok Strait separating it from Bali to the west and the Alas Strait between it and Sumbawa...
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| x Komodo |
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Lesser Sunda Islands |
Komodo is one of the 17,508 islands that make up the Republic of Indonesia. The island has a surface area of 390 km² and over 2000 inhabitants. The inhabitants of the island are descendants of former convicts who were exiled to the island and who...
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| x Flores |
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Lesser Sunda Islands |
Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, an island arc with an estimated area of 14,300 km² extending east from the Java island of Indonesia. The population is estimated to be around 1.5 million, and the largest town is Maumere.
Flores is located...
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| x Bali |
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Lesser Sunda Islands |
Bali is an Indonesian island located at the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east. It is one of the country's 33 provinces with the provincial capital at Denpasar towards the south of the...
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| x Alor |
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Lesser Sunda Islands |
Alor is the largest island in the Alor Archipelago located at the eastern-most end of the Lesser Sunda Islands that runs through southern Indonesia, which from the west include such islands as Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Komodo, and Flores.
To the east...
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| x Adonara |
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Lesser Sunda Islands |
Adonara is an island in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia, located east of the larger island of Flores in the Solor Archipelago. To the east lies Lomblen. It is the highest of the islands of the archipelago, at 1659 metres, and has an area of...
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| x Brač |
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Adriatic Sea |
Brač (Croatian pronunciation: [ˈbɾaːtʃ]; Latin: Bretia, Brattia; Italian: Brazza; German: Bratz) is an island in the Adriatic Sea within Croatia, with an area of 396 km², making it the largest island in Dalmatia, and the third largest in the...
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| x Bouvet Island |
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Bouvet Island (Norwegian: Bouvetøya) is an uninhabited Antarctic volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, 2525 km south-southwest of South Africa. It is a dependent territory (Norwegian: biland) of Norway and is not subject to the Antarctic...
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| x Minorca |
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Balearic Islands |
Minorca or Menorca (Catalan and Spanish: Menorca; from Latin: Insula Minor, later Minorica "minor island") is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to Spain. It takes its name from being smaller than the nearby...
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| x Mallorca | Balearic Islands |
Majorca (Spanish and Catalan: Mallorca) is the largest island of Spain . It is located in the Mediterranean Sea and part of the Balearic Islands archipelago. The name derives from Latin insula maior, "larger island"; later Maiorica.
The capital of...
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| x Bowen Island |
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Howe Sound |
Bowen Island, British Columbia, is an island municipality in Howe Sound, and within Metro Vancouver. Approximately 6km wide by 12km long, the island at its closest point is about 2km west of the mainland. There is regular ferry service from...
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| x Gambier Island |
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Howe Sound |
Note: For the Gambier Islands in Polynesia see Gambier Islands.
Gambier Island is an island located in Howe Sound near Vancouver, British Columbia. It is about 17,000 acres (69 km²) in size and is located about 10 km north of the Horseshoe Bay...
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| x Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands |
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United States Virgin Islands | Caribbean Sea |
Saint John is an island in the Caribbean Sea and a constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States. St. John is an exclusive travel and honeymoon destination with several resorts and...
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| x Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands |
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United States Virgin Islands | Caribbean Sea |
Saint Thomas is an island in the Caribbean Sea, a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States. Located on the island is the territorial capital and port of Charlotte...
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| x South Bass Island |
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South Bass Island is a small island in western Lake Erie, and a part of Ottawa County, Ohio, United States. It is the southernmost of the three Bass Islands and located 12 miles (19.3 km) from the south shore of Lake Erie. It is the third largest...
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| x Gibraltar Island |
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Gibraltar Island (or the "Gem of Lake Erie") is an island in Ohio, located within Lake Erie. This small island is just offshore of South Bass Island.
Gibraltar Island became a lookout point for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the fight against the...
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| x Middle Bass Island |
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Middle Bass Island is an island of the U.S. state of Ohio, located in Lake Erie. A small town, Middle Bass, lies on the island. The 805-acre (3.258 km²) island is shaped like the Big Dipper and is one of three Bass Islands located at the center of a...
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| x North Bass Island |
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North Bass Island is an island of the U.S. state of Ohio located in Lake Erie. A small unincorporated community, Isle Saint George, is on the island. The North Bass Island Post Office was established on May 25, 1864, and the name changed to Isle...
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| x Vuaqava |
Vuaqava (pronounced [βuaŋɡaβa]) is an outlier to Kabara, 5 kilometers to the SSW, in Fiji's Southern Lau Group. Located at 18.83° South and 178.92° East, it occupies an area of 8.1 km. This limestone island has a maximum altitude of 107 meters. The...
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| x Zykov Island |
Zykov Island (66°32′S 93°1′E / 66.533°S 93.017°E / -66.533; 93.017) is a small island lying between Fulmar Island and Buromskiy Island in the Haswell Islands. Discovered and first mapped by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Mawson, 1911...
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| x Maarandhoo |
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Maarandhoo (Dhivehi: މާރަންދޫ) is one of the inhabited islands of Haa Alif Atoll administrative division and geographically part of Thiladhummathi Atoll in the north of the Maldives.
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| x Kuper Island |
Kuper Island belongs to the Penelakut First Nation and is located in the southern Gulf Islands between Vancouver Island and the mainland Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada. Kuper has a population of about 300 members of the Penelakut Band....
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| x Île-aux-Moines |
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Île-aux-Moines (Enizenac'h in Breton; the name means island of the monk(s)) is a commune in the Morbihan department in Bretagne in north-western France.
It is the largest island in the Gulf of Morbihan. It is one of two island communes of the Gulf,...
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| x Musha Cay |
Musha Cay is a 150 acre (1/4 of a sq. mile), privately owned island in the Exuma Chain, in the southern Bahamas. It is located 85 miles southeast of Nassau.
Musha Cay is surrounded by three smaller islands that maintain its guests' privacy. There...
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| x Stephens Island, New Zealand |
Stephens Island is at the northern most tip of the Marlborough Sounds in the South Island of New Zealand. It lies two kilometres to the northeast of Cape Stephens, the northernmost point of D'Urville Island. The Māori call the island Takapourewa but...
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| x Unalaska Island |
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Unalaska (Nawan-Alaxsxa in Aleut) is an island in the Fox Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska, at 53°38′N 167°00′W / 53.633°N 167°W / 53.633; -167. The island has a land area of 2,721 square kilometres (1,051 sq mi),...
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| x Steer Island |
Steer Island is a former bar island in Summers County, West Virginia on the New River in the United States. Steer Island was submerged after the creation of Bluestone Lake on the river.
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| x Oléron |
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Île d'Oléron (English: Island of Oleron) is an island off the Atlantic coast of France (due west of Rochefort), on the southern side of the Pertuis d'Antioche strait. It is the second largest French island after Corsica (not counting French overseas...
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| x Aluk Island |
Aluk Island, is an island off Prins Christian Sound, in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. It is the type locality for allanite a member of the epidote mineral group.
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| x Bressay Lighthouse |
Bressay Lighthouse is a lighthouse in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) SE of Lerwick, it is located in the Sound of Bressay, on the island of Bressay.
It was one of four lighthouses built in Shetland between 1854 and 1858,...
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| x Prudence Island |
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Prudence Island is the third largest island in Narragansett Bay in the U.S. state of Rhode Island and part of the town of Portsmouth. It is located near the geographical center of the bay. It is defined by the United States Census Bureau as Block...
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| x Yos Sudarso Island |
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Pulau Yos Sudarso is an island in Papua province, Indonesia. It separated only by narrow channels from the main island of New Guinea. It also known as Pulau Dolok, Pulau Dolak and Pulau Kimaam, has also been known as Kolepom Island, and in the Dutch...
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| x Stolbovoy Island |
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Stolbovoy Island (Russian: Столбовой остров) is a long and narrow island off the southwest side of the New Siberian archipelago in the eastern part of the Laptev Sea. It is located 184 km away from the Siberian coast and 100 km southwest of Kotelny...
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| x Pasaran |
Pasaran is an island in the province of Lampung, Indonesia. The island is about 1 km from the provincial capital, Bandar Lampung.
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| x Assumption Island |
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Seychelles |
Assumption Island is a small island located at 9°45′S 46°29′E / 9.75°S 46.483°E / -9.75; 46.483 in the Indian Ocean north of Madagascar and is part of the country of the Seychelles. It is located about 30 km southeast of the Aldabra Atoll and is...
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| x Maduvvaree |
Maduvvaree (Dhivehi: މަޑުއްވަރީ) is one of the inhabited islands of Raa Atoll.
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| x Auckland Island |
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Auckland Island is the main island of the Auckland Islands, an uninhabited archipelago in the south Pacific Ocean belonging to New Zealand. It is inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage listtogether with the other subantarctic New Zealand islands in...
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| x Mikhaylov Island |
Mikhaylov Island (66°48′S 85°30′E / -66.8, 85.5) is an ice-covered island in the West Ice Shelf of Antarctica, rising to 240 m, 6 miles (11 km) southeast of Leskov Island. It was discovered by the Soviet expedition of 1956, who named it for Pavel...
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| x Caniçal |
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Caniçal (Portuguese pronunciation: [kɐniˈsaɫ]) is a parish in the district of Machico in the Madeira Islands. The population in 2001 is 3,893, its density is 339.7/km² and the area is 11.46 km². It is located on a road linking to Machico. It is...
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| x Sunday Island |
Sunday Island (16°24′S 123°11′E / -16.4, 123.183) is an island of the coast of Western Australia.
Sunday Island is a small island at the entrance to King Sound in the western Kimberley region of Western Australia. It is several kilometres east of...
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| x Spike Island, Bristol |
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Spike Island is an area of the English port city of Bristol, adjoining the city centre. It comprises the strip of land between the Floating Harbour to the north and the tidal New Cut of the River Avon to the south, from the dock entrance to the west...
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