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(Encyclopedia) Crooked Island: see Bahamas.

(Encyclopedia) Prospect Island: see Teraina.

(Encyclopedia) Pitt Island: see Butaritari.

(Encyclopedia) Edge Island: see Edgeøya.

(Encyclopedia) Goodenough's Island: see Rarotonga. ...

(Encyclopedia) Andros Island: see Bahamas.

(Encyclopedia) Fanning Island: see Tabuaeran.

(Encyclopedia) King William Island, part of the Arctic Archipelago, in the Arctic Ocean, Nunavut Territory, Canada, between Boothia Peninsula and Victoria Island. The northern coast of the island was explored (1831)...

(Encyclopedia) Lippe lĭpˈə [key], former state, N central Germany, between the Teutoburg Forest and the Weser River. It was incorporated in 1947 into the state of North Rhine–Westphalia. Detmold, the former cap...

(Encyclopedia) Pell, Claiborne de Borda, 1918–2009, U.S. politician, b. New York City, grad. Princeton (B.A., 1940), Columbia (M.A., 1946). From an old, distinguished American family, he served (1941–45) in the ...