In December of 2010 Great Britain announced the largest marine protected reserve in the world, 55 islands scattered remotely in the British Indian Ocean Territory, and called the Chagos Archipelago.
The luxury travel world is littered with private islands, boutique hotels, historic castles, and rugged ranches to buy out.
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On the other hand, Dubai's architecture of excess is fading fast as a report revealed that the emirate's world-shaped archipelago of islands is sinking into the sea.
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Japanese soldiers were found living on Pacific Islands a full decade after World War 2 ended.
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The islands were made a natural world heritage site in 1986 because of the bird and plantlife they support.
The plane, which was also carrying vital aid, later landed successfully said Andrew Catford, the Solomon Islands director for the relief agency World Vision.
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Or why the game stands out in the annals of a team that is currently ranked last in the world alongside Bhutan and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
The games started life in the Isle of Man 1985, as a way of bringing together a number of small islands from different parts of the world in friendly competition.
Construction is underway, for example, on the World, a grouping of 300 man-made islands shaped to resemble the earth.
The World Heritage Committee also added four sites to the List of World Heritage in Danger, and removed the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) from this List.
Organizers say the expo will feature, among other attractions, 50, 000 square meters of exhibition space, three islands in an artificial lake and the world's largest flag.
Lion Air was a domestic airline virtually unknown outside of the archipelago nation of 6, 000 inhabited islands until it struck two of the world's biggest ever aircraft orders.
You have to take that alongside the fact that it is a nation which is the 4th largest population in the world, 200 million people and 17, 000 islands.
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Since the Black Stars beat the Cape Verde Islands to qualify for their first ever World Cup finals, there has been no shortage of people offering to 'help' the national team in all sorts of ways.
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Its breezy cosmopolitan capital, Papeete, sits on Tahiti's northeastern tip and is the gateway to a captivating world of indigenous culture that infuses a chain of islands spread across 5 million square kilometres of sparkling ocean between Australia and South America.
" And a history lesson, too: "By leading the way to the Spice Islands, it more or less changed the world.
The British government trumped him by creating the world's biggest single marine reserve round the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean - all 545, 000 sq km of it.
Islands face a double threat in our warming world.
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Grid computing attempts to connect up the islands of processing power and data in the world's universities and to standardise ways of interrogating data and calling on huge amounts of computer power.
In addition to the world's biggest airport, largest man-made islands, longest indoor ski slope and some of the biggest shopping malls and hotels anywhere, it is also building a mega theme park, Dubailand, which consists of some 45 separate projects, including such brand-name attractions as Legoland, a Tiger Woods golf course, a Six Flags fun fair, a Formula One park, and themed attractions from DreamWorks (a Hollywood film studio) and Marvel Comics.
Earlier this month, sunbathers on a Tenerife beach came to the aid of 88 exhausted African migrants - among 205 who reached the islands on three open boats - making headlines around the world.
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Joe is the only person with Diamond Blackfan Anaemia in the Channel Islands and one of just 600-700 around the world, so for Mr Redmond the fundraising is as much about raising awareness as money.
In 1942, the battle of the Coral Sea started in World War II, when naval and air battles began off the Solomon Islands.
This Academy welcomes cadets from all over the world, including two dedicated young men in your class from the Marshall Islands and Romania.
Last week's move by French Polynesia overtook the Marshall Islands' area, outlined in late 2011, as the world's largest - and the Cook Island's claim adds 40% more area to that title.
The scheme is part of efforts to develop the Pentland Firth and waters surrounding the Orkney Islands in the largest planned wave and tidal generating programme in the world.
Overflowing with talent, the islands of the West Indies could have fielded at least two teams of world-class players.
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