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The umbrella term Pacific Islands has taken on several meanings. [1] Sometimes it is used to refer only to the islands defined as lying within Oceania. [2] [3] [4] At other times, it is used to refer to the islands of the Pacific Ocean that were previously colonized by the British, French, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, or Japanese, or by the United States.
English: Cocos (Keeling) Islands – Territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands: West Island [24] / Bantam [22] 544 [33] 14 km 2 (5 sq mi) Coral Sea Islands Coral Sea Islands Territory External territory of Australia: English: Coral Sea Islands — Coral Sea Islands Territory: Willis Island: Uninhabited: 3 km 2 (1 sq mi) Easter Island: Special ...
Schematic overview of Majuro. Majuro Atoll consists of over 60 islands, three of which are larger than 0.5 km 2 (0.2 sq mi). [3] At the western end of the atoll, about 50 kilometers (30 mi) from Delap-Uliga-Djarrit (DUD) by road, is the island community of Laura, an expanding residential area with a popular beach. [4]
Ian Todd's 1974 book Island Realm: A Pacific Panorama also defines oceanic Latin American islands as making up a Spanish language segment of Oceania, and included the Desventuradas Islands, Easter Island, the Galápagos Islands, Guadalupe Island, the Juan Fernández Islands, the Revillagigedo Islands and Salas y Gómez. Cocos Island and Malpelo ...
Pacific Islands.png Module:Location map/data/Pacific Islands is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Pacific Islands . The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
As of 2023, Adamstown has a population of 35, which is the entire population of the Pitcairn Islands. All the other islands in the group are uninhabited. Adamstown is where all residents live, while they grow food in other areas of the island. [2] Adamstown is the third smallest capital in the world by population.
Island's Name Island group Country/Dependency; Caballo: Manila Bay Philippines: Cabanaas: Algarve islands Portugal: Cabbage: Holston River, Tennessee United States Cabrera Balearic Islands Spain Cacela: Algarve islands Portugal: Caillou: Timbalier Bay, Louisiana United States Caja de Muertos Puerto Rico United States Calayan: Babuyan Islands ...
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