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A Micronesian navigational chart from the Marshall Islands, made of wood, sennit fiber and cowrie shells. Stick chart in Überseemuseum Bremen. Stick charts were made and used by the Marshallese to navigate the Pacific Ocean by canoe off the coast of the Marshall Islands. The charts represented major ocean swell patterns and the ways the ...
Many island countries are spread over an archipelago, as is the case with Indonesia, Japan, and the Philippines —these countries consist of thousands of islands. Others consist of a single island, such as Barbados, Dominica, and Nauru; a main island and some smaller islands, such as Cuba, Iceland, and Sri Lanka; a part of an island, such as ...
The Society Islands ( French: Îles de la Société, [ 2][ 3] officially Archipel de la Société; [ 4][ 5] Tahitian: Tōtaiete mā) [ 6] are an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean that includes the major islands of Tahiti, Moʻorea, Raiatea, Bora Bora and Huahine. Politically, they are part of French Polynesia, an overseas country of the ...
Scotland has over 900 islands, each with its own unique history, culture and wildlife. This Wikipedia article provides a comprehensive list of islands of Scotland, grouped by geographical location, size, population and other features. Learn about the largest island in Scotland, the most remote island in the British Isles, the island where Saint Patrick was born and more.
Zanzibar [a] is an insular semi-autonomous region which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania.It is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, 25–50 km (16–31 mi) off the coast of the African mainland, and consists of many small islands and two large ones: Unguja (the main island, referred to informally as Zanzibar) and Pemba Island.
Internet TLD. .mh. The Marshall Islands ( Marshallese: Ṃajeḷ ), [ 5] officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands ( Marshallese: Aolepān Aorōkin Ṃajeḷ ), [ note 1] is an island country west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in the Micronesia region in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.
The Falkland Islands ( / ˈfɔː ( l) klənd, ˈfɒlk -/ FAW (L)K-lənd, FOLK-; [ 6 ] Spanish: Islas Malvinas [ˈislas malˈβinas]) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about 300 mi (480 km) east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about 752 mi (1,210 km) from Cape ...
The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.In the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of 7,641 islands, with a total area of 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.