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(Encyclopedia) Melville Island, c.16,400 sq mi (42,500 sq km), Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada, N of Victoria Island; largest of the Queen Elizabeth Islands. Generally hilly (rising to c.1,500 ft/460 m), i...

(Encyclopedia) Flores flôrˈĕs [key], island, 6,627 sq mi (17,164 sq km), E Indonesia, one of the Lesser S...

(Encyclopedia) Síros sīˈrŏs [key], island (1991 pop. 19,870), 33 sq mi (85 sq km), SE Greece, in the Aegean Sea, one of the Cyclades. Ermoupolis, or Síros, is the island's main town and port. Síros is the rich...

(Encyclopedia) Valencia, island, Ireland: see Valentia. ...

(Encyclopedia) Isabela, island, Ecuador: see Galápagos Islands. ...

(Encyclopedia) Albemarle, island, Ecuador: see Galápagos Islands. ...

(Encyclopedia) Pomona, Orkney Island, Scotland: see Mainland. ...

(Encyclopedia) Jura, island, Great Britain: see Hebrides, the. ...

(Encyclopedia) Dyer, Mary, d. 1660, Quaker martyr in Massachusetts, b. England. She accompanied (c.1635) her husband to Massachusetts and supported Anne Hutchinson, whom she followed to Rhode Island, where her husba...

(Encyclopedia) Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824–81, Union general in the U.S. Civil War, b. Liberty, Ind. He saw brief service in the Mexican War and remained in the army until 1853, when he entered business in Rho...