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Ascension Island
(Encyclopedia)Ascension Island, Caroline Islands: see Pohnpei. ...Bedloe's Island
(Encyclopedia)Bedloe's Island: see Liberty, Statue of. ...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. ...Prince of Wales Island, United States
(Encyclopedia)Prince of Wales Island, 2,231 sq mi (5,778 sq km), off SE Alaska; largest island of the Alexander Archipelago. The island is heavily forested, but has little arable land, no source of freshwater, and ...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. ...Navy Island
(Encyclopedia)Navy Island, in the Niagara River, just above Niagara Falls, S Ont., Canada. It is famous as the scene of the last stand made by William Lyon Mackenzie and some of his fellow rebels in the Upper Canad...Browse by Subject
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