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Cockburn Island

(Encyclopedia)Cockburn Island: see Manitoulin Islands. ...

Enderbury Island

(Encyclopedia)Enderbury Island: see Phoenix Islands. ...

Parris Island

(Encyclopedia)Parris Island: see Sea Islands.

Ascension Island

(Encyclopedia)Ascension Island, Caroline Islands: see Pohnpei. ...

Peel Island

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

Line Islands

(Encyclopedia)Line Islands or Equatorial Islands, coral group, 43 sq mi (111 sq km), central and S Pacific. Once valuable for their guano deposits, the islands now have coconut groves, airfields, and meteorological...

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. ...

Virgin Lands Territory

(Encyclopedia)Virgin Lands Territory, Rus. Tselinny Kray, former administrative division, c.231,000 sq mi (598,300 sq km), Central Asian USSR, in Kazakhstan. Created in 1960 by the merger of Kokchetav (Kökshetau),...

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. ...

Europa Island

(Encyclopedia)Europa Island yo͝orōˈpə [key], volcanic island, c.11 sq mi (28 sq km), between Madagascar and Mozambique in the Mozambique Channel, W Indian Ocean, part of the Scattered Islands district in the Fr...