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The island is approximately 16 km (8 + 1 ⁄ 2 nmi) west of Girvan; it is 4 km (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi) [16] in circumference and rises to a height of 340 m (1,120 ft). [5] The island is part of the administrative district of South Ayrshire, in the ancient parish of Dailly. Geologically, Ailsa Craig comprises the remains of a Palaeogene pluton.
A large island in the Mediterranean Sea, of which Malta is the only part not now submerged. Balkanatolia, a sunken land in the Mediterranean Sea. Beringia, connecting Asia and North America. Doggerland, the bed of the North Sea, which once connected Great Britain to Continental Europe before being inundated by rising sea levels during the Holocene
Euboea (/ j uː ˈ b iː ə / yoo-BEE-ə; Ancient Greek: Εὔβοια, romanized: Eúboia, IPA: [ěu̯boi̯a]), also known by its modern spelling Evia (/ ˈ ɛ v i ə / EV-ee-ə; Modern Greek: Εύβοια, IPA:), is the second-largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete, and the sixth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
Caves in Batadomba lena, 460 m above sea level in the foothills of Sri Pada (Adam's Peak), have also yielded several important ancient remains. The first excavation of the cave floor in the late 1930s unearthed skeletal fragments of a child and several adults. [ 5 ]
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 ...
It includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of Pines, the Chesterfield Islands in the Coral Sea, and a few remote islets. [ 2 ] The archipelago is about 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) east of Australia and 1500 km, 1800 km and 1200 km from New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Fiji respectively.
The Chios Basin is a hydrographic sub-unit of the Aegean Sea adjacent to the island of Chios. [10] A kind of white dirt found near Pyrgi on the southern part of the island [ 11 ] was famed as an astringent and cosmetic since antiquity as Chian earth ( Latin : Chia terra ; [ 12 ] Greek : πηλομαιοτικο , pēlomaiotiko ). [ 11 ]
Les Saintes, due to their location in the heart of the Lesser Antilles, were frequented first by Indian tribes coming from Caribbean and Central America. Caaroucaëra (the Arawak name of Îles des Saintes), although uninhabited due to the lack of spring water, were regularly visited by Arawak peoples then Kalinagos living on the neighbourhood islands of Guadeloupe and Dominica around the 9th ...