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Just Room Enough Island, also known as Hub Island, [1] is an island located in the Thousand Islands chain, in New York, United States. The island is known for being the smallest inhabited island, which appears to be around 3,300 square feet (310 m 2), or about one-thirteenth of an acre. Purchased by the Sizeland family in the 1950s, the island ...
The landmass is only 452 km 2 (175 sq mi), but the islands are spread wide over an exclusive economic zone of 1,336,559 km 2 (516,048 sq mi). About 90 percent of the population of 100,000 live on Mahé, 9 percent on Praslin and La Digue. Around a third of the land area is the island of Mahé and a further third the atoll of Aldabra. [2]
Henderson Island is an uninhabited island in the south Pacific Ocean. It is part of the Pitcairn Island Group , together with Pitcairn , Oeno , and Ducie Islands. Measuring 9.6 by 5.1 kilometres (6.0 mi × 3.2 mi), it has an area of 37.3 km 2 (14.4 sq mi) and is located 193 km (104 nmi; 120 mi) northeast of Pitcairn Island , which is the only ...
The 1980s, and especially 1985–1986, saw an increase in tensions and the area around the island was the scene of multiple attacks. On April 15, 1986, Libya fired two Scuds at the Lampedusa navigation station, in retaliation for the American bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi , and the alleged death of Colonel Gaddafi 's adopted daughter.
The island has the world's largest collection of blue holes. [21] Geographically, North Andros is the sixth largest island in the West Indies, at roughly 6,000 km 2 (2,300 sq mi) in area and 167 km (104 mi) long and 64 km (40 mi) wide at its widest point, and the 153rd largest island on Earth.
Other islands and archipelagos include the Chagos Archipelago being 475 kilometres (295 mi) away from the Maldives, the Kerguelen Islands and the Heard Island and McDonald Islands are about 480 kilometers away from each other. Other fairly remote islands include Ducie Island, South Orkney Islands, Peter I Island, Malpelo Island, Conway Reef and ...
Vanuatu (English: / ˌ v ɑː n u ˈ ɑː t uː / ⓘ VAH-noo-AH-too or / v æ n ˈ w ɑː t uː / van-WAH-too; Bislama and French pronunciation), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (French: République de Vanuatu; Bislama: Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country in Melanesia located in the South Pacific Ocean.
The World (artificial) Along the coast of Australia. Bonaparte Archipelago; ... Komandorski Islands; Kudomin Islands; Near Islands; Rat Islands; Semidi Islands;