Roanoke Island is off the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States, in North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

He went up North from Denmark to a deserted island of the coast of Norway and stayed there for about three weeks.

他从丹麦北部,来到了挪威海岸的一个荒芜的岛上,并在这里呆了三周。

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Sea Island cotton, the kind of cotton grown down there in the Georgia where it was first grown in North America in the Georgia, South Carolina islands, was a kind of long and silky kind of cotton.

乔治亚州,有种海岛棉,最初是生长于美国北部的,在佐治亚州的南卡罗来纳州岛上,最初有一种柔软光洁的棉花

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The colonists,however, settled on Roanoke Island instead of sailing farther north.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The center had been moved farther north to Vancouver Island.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Indian peacekeeping forces were invited to the Tamil north of the Sinhalese-dominated island nation by Colombo in 1987.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

As voters in the northern half of the island, known as the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus,go to the polls, its leader Mehmet Ali Talat has warned if he is defeated the current United Nations sponsored reunification talks will grind to a halt.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

It's all we have to go on,at the moment." Sri Lanka's military says it is on the verge of totally defeating the LTTE, which has waged a violent campaign for decades to split the island and create an independent Tamil homeland in the north.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11