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Solovetsky Islands

(Encyclopedia)Solovetsky Islands, Russia: see Solovetski Islands. ...

Tenimbar Islands

(Encyclopedia)Tenimbar Islands: see Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia. ...

Aeolian Islands

(Encyclopedia)Aeolian Islands: see Lipari Islands, Italy. ...

Scattered Islands

(Encyclopedia)Scattered Islands: see French Southern and Antarctic Lands. ...

Princes Islands

(Encyclopedia)Princes Islands, Turkey: see Kizil Adalar. ...

Belcher Islands

(Encyclopedia)Belcher Islands, c.1,110 sq mi (2,870 sq km), in E Hudson Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada, off W Quebec. Flaherty Island is the largest of the tundra-covered group. ...

Elizabeth Islands

(Encyclopedia)Elizabeth Islands, chain of small islands off Cape Cod that form the southern boundary of Buzzards Bay; SE Mass. Naushon is the largest island. Cuttyhunk Island was settled in 1641 and has a U.S. Coas...

Auckland Islands

(Encyclopedia)Auckland Islands, small uninhabited group (234 sq mi/606 sq km), S Pacific, c.300 mi (480 km) S of Stewart Island, New Zealand, to which they belong. There is a nature preserve for birds and sea mamma...

Mariana Islands

(Encyclopedia)Mariana Islands: see Northern Mariana Islands and Guam. ...

Mingan Islands

(Encyclopedia)Mingan Islands mĭngˈgən [key], group of 15 small islands and many islets, E Que., Canada, in the St. Lawrence River, N of Anticosti island. They were visited (1535) by Jacques Cartier, the French e...