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(Encyclopedia) Graham Island, 2,485 sq mi (6,436 sq km), off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, northernmost and largest of the Queen Charlotte Islands. ...

(Encyclopedia) Farewell, Cape, southernmost point of Greenland, on Egger Island, at lat. 59°46′N. Egger Island and the surrounding islands are called the Cape Farewell Archipelago. ...

(Encyclopedia) Shetland, former county, Scotland: see under Shetland Islands. ...

(Encyclopedia) Stromboli, island and volcano, Italy: see Lipari Islands. ...

(Encyclopedia) Virgin Gorda, one of the British Virgin Islands. ...

(Encyclopedia) Vulcano, island and volcano, Italy: see Lipari Islands. ...

(Encyclopedia) Port Blair, India: see Andaman and Nicobar Islands. ...

(Encyclopedia) Majorca mälyôrˈkä [key], island (1991 pop. 602,074), 1,405 sq mi (3,639 sq km), Spain, largest of the Balearic Islands, in the W Mediterranean. Palma is the chief city. Majorca is mountainous in t...

(Encyclopedia) Outer Banks or the Banks, chain of sand barrier islands and peninsulas, c.175 mi (280 km), along the Atlantic coast of SE Va. and E N.C. Separated by inlets and enclosing several saltwater lagoons, or...

(Encyclopedia) Maori mäˈōrē [key], people of New Zealand and the Cook Islands, believed to have migrated in early times from other islands of Polynesia. Maori tradition asserts that seven canoes brought their an...