Another retired worker was more optimistic, citing the long history of shipbuilding on the Queen's Island.
Both Garcia and Maggert hit tee shots into the drink on TPC Sawgrass's island-green 17th.
Call it a Fisher's Island of the tropics, with a Louis Vuitton store on Main Street.
Drake's Island covers about six acres and contains military barracks and buildings from the Napoleonic era.
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In the 19th century, Randall's Island held the city's outcasts: orphans, paupers, the developmentally challenged.
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He was spotted by lifeguard Robin Knibb being swept towards rocks near St Catherine's island on Wednesday.
The council currently runs the visitor centre and lighthouse on the tidal St Mary's Island, near Whitley Bay.
In 1884, the cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
Britain's island mentality means we can be quite introspective, but the games are all about comparing ourselves internationally.
Council planners have turned down proposals to turn derelict buildings on Plymouth's Drake's Island into a boutique hotel.
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St Mary's Island attracts up to 80, 000 visitors a year, and offers activities including education sessions to local children.
Former Plymouth Argyle chairman Dan McCauley who owns Drake's Island, announced plans to create a hotel in December 2011.
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The researchers had thought the Hobbit's island-hopping ancestor was Homo erectus, which is known to have lived on nearby Java.
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Water from the North Sea completely covers the road to and from St Mary's Island when the tide is in.
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Once the police had arrested Mr Strauss-Kahn, he was held in the infamous Ryker's Island jail, notorious for gang violence.
Saturday's Diamond League event on Randall's Island was a very different experience.
On a recently built home on John's Island in Vero Beach, Fla.
The yachtsman was attempting a solo round-the-world voyage when he ran into trouble on Friday, 500 nautical miles off Australia's island state.
If the bail had not been accepted, the ex-CEO faced jail time in New York City's infamous Riker's Island--not nearly a white-collar country-club joint.
Pele and the Cosmos played on painted dirt on Randall's Island.
Alaska was slightly cooler and wetter than normal, while nearly two-thirds of Hawaii's island chain faced moderate to exceptional drought conditions by December, NOAA said.
But in the summer and especially during the Buddhist Obon festival in August, Towa's island of Suoh-Oshima is overrun with visitors, many of them returning locals.
Takashi Tezuka, director of Yoshi's Island and Yoshi's Story, is supervising the development of the new game, which is set in a fanciful world of yarn and textiles.
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Next we turn north, floating past the fragrant botanical garden of Lord Kitchener's Island and the domed tomb of the Aga Khan, high on a sandbank to our left.
Stretching along British Columbia's island-dotted coastline, its marvels include ancient red cedar cathedrals (some of the trees are more than a thousand years old) and other towering trees, glacier-fed fjords and wooded islands.
While a small trade-off may take place for a new subway entrance or refurbished park, Governor's Island, an enormous opportunity, has languished in picturesque desuetude since its transfer from the federal government in 2003.
Brother Michael was highly impressive in securing a brace of top-ten finishes at last year's island races and given his impressive displays on the Irish roads so far this season, he should repeat that feat.
The water-bordered 18th hole is a notoriously tough finisher and players each year dunk dozens of balls in the lake surrounding the 17th hole's island green (40 balls took a dive last year, 93 in 2007).
That has set the pattern for the industry: small new label (Chris Blackwell's Island records) discovers new talent (Bob Marley, Roxy Music, U2), turns it into stardust, becomes big label, sells out to the suits (PolyGram).
The smog arrives around this time every year, as loggers and farmers on Indonesia's island of Sumatra and the Indonesian part of Borneo take advantage of the dry season to clear land by burning trees and scrub.
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