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The island itself had two associative descriptive epithets: ‘Dolichi' (elongated) and ‘Ichtheoussa' (rich in fish). The name may originally have come from the Phoenician word for fish, ‘ikor', rather than from associations with the mythical Icarus, whose fall was likely associated with the ancient deme of Icaria or Icarion in Attica .
"coastline lengths and areas of islands in the croatian part of the adriatic sea determined from the topographic maps at the scale of 1:25.000". Geoadria . 9 (1): 5– 32 .
Ikariam is a browser-based massively multiplayer online game of the strategy genre produced and maintained by German-based Gameforge AG. The game is set in the era of classical Greece in an archipelago, with players being made ruler of a small town, which they must expand and lead. [ 1 ]
The Pelagie Islands (Italian: Isole Pelagie; Sicilian: Ìsuli Pilaggî), from the Greek πέλαγος, pélagos meaning "open sea", are the three small islands of Lampedusa, Lampione, and Linosa, located in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia, south of Sicily.
The Maidenhead Locator System (a.k.a. QTH Locator and IARU Locator) is a geocode system used by amateur radio operators to succinctly describe their geographic coordinates, which replaced the deprecated QRA locator, which was limited to European contacts. [1]
Nias Island ; Nicobar Islands ; Pamban Island ; Penang Island ; Penguin Island ; Phi Phi Islands ; Phuket ; Rosemary Island ; Rottnest Island ; Sabang ; Sri Lanka; Seal Island (Encounter Bay) Seal Island (Investigator Strait), Shag Island
The island nation of Dominica with a total area of 750 km 2 (290 sq mi) includes two small, off-shore islands and one disputed island: [11] [12] Dominica (745.96 km²), 15°26′14″N 61°20′32″W / 15.43713°N 61.34216°W / 15.43713; -61.34216 (
Flinders Island, the largest island in the Furneaux Group, is a 1,367-square-kilometre (528 sq mi) island in the Bass Strait, northeast of the island of Tasmania. [2] Today Flinders Island is part of the state of Tasmania, Australia. It is 54 kilometres (34 mi) from Cape Portland and is located on 40° south, a zone known as the Roaring Forties.