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Satellite image of the Big Island of Hawaii, the largest island in the United States. Scale depiction of the 5 largest islands in the US, with some other significant islands This is a list of islands of the United States , as ordered by area.
This list includes all islands in the world larger than 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi). For size and location reference, the four continental landmasses are also shown. Continental landmasses Continental landmasses are not usually classified as islands despite being completely surrounded by water. [Note 1] However, because the definition of continent varies between geographers, the Americas are ...
Jumbo (December 25, 1860 – September 15, 1885), also known as Jumbo the Elephant and Jumbo the Circus Elephant, was a 19th-century male African bush elephant born in Sudan. Jumbo was exported to Jardin des Plantes , a zoo in Paris , and then transferred in 1865 to London Zoo in England.
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According to the November 2020 Hong Kong policy address, the operator of the Jumbo Floating Restaurant agreed to donate the vessel to Ocean Park Hong Kong as part of the Invigorating Island South project. [25] [26] On 12 March 2021, it was reported that the plan to reactivate the restaurant had been shelved. [27]
The following is a list of countries by largest island. It does not include divided islands ; several of the world's largest islands, such as New Guinea , Borneo , Ireland and Hispaniola , are divided between two or three states.
The Delta jumbo-jet was the first-ever 747-400 built by Boeing. EQRoy/Shutterstock Northwest Airlines first flew the 747 in 1988, and it was transferred to Delta in 2008 after the two airlines merged.
M4A3E2 Assault Tank or Jumbo, a variant of the US M4 Sherman tank "Jumbo", code-name of a steel canister constructed for the Trinity nuclear test; Drilling jumbo, rock drilling machine used in underground mining and tunnelling; Jumbo Water Tower, Colchester, England; Jumbo frame, an Ethernet frame with more than 1500 bytes of payload