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Princes Islands

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

Carteret Islands

(Encyclopedia)Carteret Islands, Papua New Guinea: see Tulun. ...

Scattered Islands

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

Bay Islands

(Encyclopedia)Bay Islands, Honduras: see Bahía, Islas de la. ...

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. ...

Marshall Islands

(Encyclopedia)Marshall Islands, officially Republic of the Marshall Islands, independent nation (2015 est. pop. 53,000), in the central Pacific. The Marshalls extend over a 700-mi (1,130-km) area and comprise two m...

San Juan Islands

(Encyclopedia)San Juan Islands săn wän [key], archipelago of 172 islands constituting San Juan co., NW Wash., E of Vancouver Island. The islands were visited and named c.1790 by Spanish explorers. The islands wer...

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