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Bananal Island

(Encyclopedia)Bananal Island, Brazil: see Araguaía, river. ...

Flinders Island

(Encyclopedia)Flinders Island, Australia: see Furneaux Group. ...

Peel Island

(Encyclopedia)Peel Island, Japan: see Bonin Islands. ...

Graham Island

(Encyclopedia)Graham Island, 2,485 sq mi (6,436 sq km), off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, northernmost and largest of the Queen Charlotte Islands. ...

North Yorkshire

(Encyclopedia)North Yorkshire, county (2011 pop. 598,376), 3,209 sq mi (8,313 sq km), N England. The county comprises the districts of Craven, Hambleton, Harrogate, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough, and Selby. Y...

Thursday Island

(Encyclopedia)Thursday Island (2016 pop. 2,938), Queensland, NE Australia, N of Cape York Peninsula, in Torres Strait. It is the administrative and commercial center of the Torres Strait Islands. ...

Jesus Island

(Encyclopedia)Jesus Island or Île-Jésus, Que., Canada: see Laval. ...

North Plainfield

(Encyclopedia)North Plainfield, residential borough (1990 pop. 18,820), Somerset co., NE N.J.; settled 1736, inc. 1885. A Revolutionary War cemetery is there. ...

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