We shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone.

我们要再次证明我们能够保卫我们的岛国，使其逃离战争风暴，并能够在压迫统治下永久的生存，即使需要许多年，即使需要孤军奋战。

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There is a Northern Sea Route close to the island and during the war bodies of sailors from sunken ships would wash up on the shore and then be buried inland.

北海航道就在小岛附近，二战期间时有船员尸体漂到岛上，随之埋在了岛上。

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Since the Pacific War of 1941-45, the United States has enforced a Pax Americana through naval strength and a perimeter of island Allies, from Australia to Japan.

自1941年至45年太平洋战争后，美国通过海军力量和周边岛屿盟国，从澳大利亚到日本，建立了美国式和平(Pax Americana)。

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During the first two years of the Civil War, the Union captured several southern ports: Fort Hatteras and Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

Later,British troops occupied Poplar Island during the War of Eighteen Twelve.

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We urgently need to treat the wounds of war that has alienated the communities in the island for almost three decades."

VOA: standard.2009.05.19

After securing 194 of the 238 local councils contested in the polls, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lanka's president, described the results as a renewed mandate for her to push ahead with proposals to grant limited autonomy to Tamils living in the war-afflicted north and east of the island.

ECONOMIST: Sri Lanka

Meanwhile, the International Criminal Court said it would investigate suspected war crimes by the North after the shelling of Yeonpyeong island on 23 November, in which two South Korean marines and two civilians were killed.

BBC: US renews demand on North Korea to change behaviour

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.

ECONOMIST: Berlin��s bitter Kulturkampf