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Scolopendra abnormis, the Serpent Island centipede, is a species of centipede in the family Scolopendridae that is endemic to Mauritius. [1] It only occurs on two outlying islands, Round Island and Serpent Island. On Serpent Island it is very common, reaching densities among adults of 12 per square metre (1.1 per square foot) in suitable ...
The genus name "Mascaraneus" means "spider of the Mascarene Islands"; mixing the word "Mascarene" with the Latin word for "spider" araneus. The specific name remotus is derived from the Latin word for "remote", referring to the isolated type locality (Serpent Island). [2] The holotype of Mascaraneus remotus is desiccated, missing the third ...
The story is set between the events of Shiren the Wanderer GB: Monster of Moonlight Village and Shiren the Wanderer 4: The Eye of God and the Devil's Navel. [13] As Shiren and Koppa, referred to as a ferret, leave Tsukikage Village few months after, both of them start dreaming of an island.
Round Island seen from West, with Serpent Island to the right (north) of it Round Island is an uninhabited islet 22.5 kilometres north of Mauritius . It has an area of 1.69 square kilometres and a maximum elevation of 280 metres.
Serpent Island may refer to: Serpent Island (film), a 1954 film directed by Tom Gries; Snake Island (Black Sea), also known as Serpent Island; Serpent Island (Mauritius) , an island in Mauritius near Île Ronde, Mauritius
Île de la Passe is a rocky islet in the bay of Grand Port on the island of Mauritius.Between 20 and 25 August 1810, during the British campaign to capture the island (then called Île de France) from the French, it was the scene of a long and very hard-fought action between roughly equal forces of French and British frigates and, on balance, a defeat for the British, who lost four frigates ...
The 4th century Roman poet Rufius Festus Avienius, writing on geographical subjects in Ora Maritima ("Seacoasts"), a document inspired by a Greek mariners' Periplus, related that the Oestriminis (Extreme West in Latin) was peopled by the Oestrimni, a people who had been living there for a long time; they had to flee their homeland after an invasion of serpents.
Snake Island, also known as Serpent Island, White Island, Island of Achilles or Zmiinyi Island (Ukrainian: острів Зміїний, romanized: ostriv Zmiinyi; Romanian: Insula Șerpilor), is a Ukrainian island located in the Black Sea, near the Danube Delta, with an important role in delimiting Ukrainian territorial waters