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Zabargad Island (Egyptian Arabic: جزيرة الزبرجد Geziret El Zabargad, also known as St. John's Island in English) is the largest of a group of islands in Foul Bay, Egypt. It covers an area of 4.50 square kilometres (1.74 square miles).
Ball notes that the legendary "topaz" of Topazios island is olivine, which is not luminescent while true topaz is, and suggests, "This tale may well have been told to travelers by astute Egyptian gem merchants anxious to enhance the value of their wares by exaggerating the dangers inherent to procuring the olivines" (1938: 500).
Pitdah (פִּטְדָה in the Masoretic text) / Topazios (in the Septuagint) – despite the suggestion of some interpreters that it was topaz, topaz was scarcely known at the time the Book of Exodus was written; [2] in the classical era, topazios referred to Topazos Island (topazios means to seek, in reference to the difficulty in finding ...
The second largest island in area is Euboea or Evvia, which is separated from the mainland by the 60m-wide Euripus Strait, and is administered as part of the Central Greece region. After the third and fourth largest Greek islands, Lesbos and Rhodes , the rest of the islands are two-thirds of the area of Rhodes, or smaller.
Archipelagos of the Arctic Ocean: . Arctic Alaska. Kasegaluk Lagoon Islands; Midway Islands; Pye Islands; Pencil Islands; Seahorse Islands; Bear Island; Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Patmos (Greek: Πάτμος, pronounced) is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea.It is famous as the location where John of Patmos received the visions found in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament, and where the book was written.
The island, spanning 83.2 hectares (roughly 205 acres), is irregularly shaped, with main axes about 1,500 m (4,900 ft) and 1,000 m (3,300 ft). It is heavily forested from south to north and features over 200 varieties of trees imported to the once nearly barren island by Aristotle Onassis .
Tikopia is a Polynesian outlier, meaning that while its inhabitants are culturally Polynesian, the island lies some distance from the Polynesian Triangle, a region of the Pacific bounded by Hawaii, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and New Zealand (Aotearoa).