The west island holds two boathouses and the main home, a 5-bedroom, 4-bath stone house built in 1934.
In April a coalition was formed to run the north west island.
On Lantau Island, west of Hong Kong Island, are two other idyllic seaside camping spots.
The 38ft vessel, believed to be privately owned, was about 2, 000 miles west of the Hawaiian island of Oahu and 500 miles west of the Midway Atoll at the time.
The Indonesian parliament agreed unanimously to let the province of East Timor become independent, as thousands of refugees from the west of the island made their way back home.
Cornish has died out as a native language but is being revived: and of course Irish Gaelic, or Erse, is still spoken, more widely in the west of the island than the east.
Sunk just off Key West , an island in the Straits of Florida, in 2009, the Vandenberg is the second-largest artificial reef in the world, attracting a diverse range of marine animals and plant life.
The island, today a state park, used to be the West Coast twin of Ellis Island in the east, and is the place where America showed a very different face to yellow newcomers than to white ones.
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Lamma lies some 3km (two miles) south-west of Hong Kong island, and is popular with tourists and expatriates.
Secretary Napolitano will travel to West Virginia and Long Island, New York to see response and recovery efforts underway.
On the west coast of the island of Hawaii, a new international airport generated a 26% increase in tourist arrivals in 1997.
The dinosaurs of the west dwelled on an island called Laramidia.
They have an unconventional approach and a pretty good success rate as well, that one non-human member, which is why we're at a stable tonight in West Hempstead, Long Island.
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The funds collected from donors after Sandy struck on Oct. 29 will go to communities in seven states Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia.
After a morning browsing the souq, jump into a taxi for the 20-minute ride to the Pearl-Qatar, a man-made island in West Bay Lagoon and one of the most up-and-coming areas in Doha.
"Our sales have been pretty steady, " said Michael Benito, general manager at Payless Supermarket in Tamuning on the west side of the island, explaining that there hasn't been a rush to buy canned goods like Spam and corned beef.
Peter Fisher lives on the Richmond headland between Vazon and Perelle, on the island's west coast.
Sark Estate Management has admitted to a "mistake" in the timing of land clearance on the island's west coast.
In a separate incident, another unidentified submarine was detected traveling west of Amami-Oshima Island in Kagoshima prefecture on May 2.
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This is evident, for example, in the rapid thinning seen of late in the mighty Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica.
Her parents moved around the West before settling on Mercer Island near Seattle where Dunham enrolled in the local high school.
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Both the Indonesian portion of the island in the west, and the independent country of Papua New Guinea in the east have infection rates of over 1%.
The fuel will be processed on a floating rig some 80 km northwest of Palawan island in the west, and piped 504 km to Batangas province, south of Manila.
It will accommodate Long Island Rail Road trains that now bypass Manhattan's East Side as they roll east through Queens and straight to Pennsylvania Station on the island's West Side.
For 40 years after the war, West Berlin, a democratic island in the midst of East Germany's communist sea, lived happily off fat and varied federal subsidies that accounted for half its total spending.
On this back side of the island, the West Maui Mountains exert themselves and push the road around like a piece of string, tight switchbacks yield to long swooping arcs that bring me deep into valleys and then shove me back out toward the coast.
The Garifuna people are descendants of Carib Indians (South American natives who settled on the Caribbean island of St Vincent) and West Africans who were said to have escaped from Spanish slave ships in 1635 and made the island their home.
Danny, a school teacher on Palawan island, in the west, was accused of rape.
From there, they will snake across surface streets to reach the West 8th Street beach at Coney Island.
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Secretary Napolitano is traveling to Long Island and also to West Virginia today.
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