Islands conventional long form: Coral Sea Islands Territory conventional short form: Coral Sea Islands www.exxun.com/CoralSeaIslands/d_gv.html
islands controls most land routes from Western Europe to Aegean Sea and Turkish Straits; most Adriatic Sea islands lie off the coast of Croatia - some 1,200 islands, islets, ridges, and rocks www.exxun.com/Croatia/b_mp.html
Islands ... off 3 foreign-owned: 1 (Bermuda 1) registered in other countries: 33 (Bahamas 1, Belize 2, Liberia 2, Malta 11, Marshall Islands 6, Panama 3, St Vincent and the Grenadines 8) (2008 www.exxun.com/Croatia/g_tr.html
Islands ... 9, Comoros 1, Georgia 1, Germany 1, Gibraltar 4, Greece 7, Liberia 7, Malta 23, Marshall Islands 38, Norway 2, Panama 17, Poland 1, Russia 1, Samoa 1, St Kitts and Nevis ... www.exxun.com/Cyprus/g_tr.html
islands ... the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark (the Jutland Peninsula, and the major islands of Sjaelland and Fyn), but excludes the Faroe Islands and Greenland www.exxun.com/Denmark/b_mp.html
Islands ... People's Assembly or Folketinget (179 seats, including 2 from Greenland and 2 from the Faroe Islands; members are elected by popular vote on the basis of proportional representation to serve four ... www.exxun.com/Denmark/d_gv.html
Islands ... international: country code - 45; a series of fiber-optic submarine cables link Denmark with Canada, Faroe Islands, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and UK; satellite earth stations - 18 (6 Intelsat ... www.exxun.com/Denmark/f_cm.html
Islands ... of Man 31, Italy 3, Jamaica 1, Liberia 14, Lithuania 5, Luxembourg 1, Malta 26, Marshall Islands 16, Mexico 2, Netherlands 27, Netherlands Antilles 2, Norway 29, Panama 38, Portugal 3, Singapore ... www.exxun.com/Denmark/g_tr.html
Islands Iceland, the UK, and Ireland dispute Denmark's claim that the Faroe Islands' continental shelf extends beyond 200 nm; Faroese continue to study proposals for full independence; sovereignty dispute with Canada over ... www.exxun.com/Denmark/i_ti.html
islands Dominica was the last of the Caribbean islands to be colonized by Europeans due chiefly to the fierce resistance of the native Caribs. France ceded possession to Great Britain in 1763, which ... www.exxun.com/Dominica/a_fg.html
Islands ... cable with links to 13 other islands in the eastern Caribbean extending from the British Virgin Islands to Trinidad; microwave radio relay and SHF radiotelephone links to Martinique and Guadeloupe; VHF and ... www.exxun.com/Dominica/f_cm.html
Islands deforestation; soil erosion; desertification; water pollution; pollution from oil production wastes in ecologically sensitive areas of the Amazon Basin and Galapagos Islands www.exxun.com/Ecuador/b_mp.html
Islands ... links to the west coast of South America, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and extending onward to Aruba and the US Virgin Islands in the Caribbean; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2007 www.exxun.com/Ecuador/f_cm.html
islands ... 190 years of Spanish rule. This tiny country, composed of a mainland portion plus five inhabited islands, is one of the smallest on the African continent. President Teodoro OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO has ... www.exxun.com/EquatorialGuinea/a_fg.html
islands coastal plains rise to interior hills; islands are volcanic www.exxun.com/EquatorialGuinea/b_mp.html
islands ... the coat of arms has six yellow six-pointed stars (representing the mainland and five offshore islands) above a gray shield bearing a silk-cotton tree and below which is a scroll ... www.exxun.com/EquatorialGuinea/d_gv.html
islands ... final delimitation; UN urges Equatorial Guinea and Gabon to resolve the sovereignty dispute over Gabon-occupied Mbane and lesser islands and to create a maritime boundary in the hydrocarbon-rich Corisco Bay www.exxun.com/EquatorialGuinea/i_ti.html
islands 2,234 km (mainland on Red Sea 1,151 km, islands in Red Sea 1,083 km) www.exxun.com/Eritrea/b_mp.html
islands total: 45,226 sq km land: 43,211 sq km water: 2,015 sq km note: includes 1,520 islands in the Baltic Sea www.exxun.com/Estonia/b_mp.html
Islands ... Bulgaria), Constanta (Romania), Copenhagen (Denmark), Galati (Romania), Gdansk (Poland), Hamburg (Germany), Helsinki (Finland), Las Palmas (Canary Islands, Spain), Le Havre (France), Lisbon (Portugal), London (UK), Marseille (France), Naples (Italy), Peiraiefs or Piraeus ... www.exxun.com/EuropeanUnion/g_tr.html
islands ... its claim to the islands by establishing a naval garrison there in 1833. Argentina invaded the islands on 2 April 1982. The British responded with an expeditionary force that landed seven weeks ... www.exxun.com/FalklandIslands_IslasMalvinas/a_fg.html
islands overfishing by unlicensed vessels is a problem; reindeer were introduced to the islands in 2001 for commercial reasons; this is the only commercial reindeer herd in the world unaffected by the 1986 ... www.exxun.com/FalklandIslands_IslasMalvinas/b_mp.html
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