And keeping the powers of the Eurasian world island off balance is precisely what the Great Game has always been about.

而维持欧亚大陆这一世界岛的权力平衡，恰恰正是大博弈始终的焦点所在。

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The island is a world of brilliant colours and dramatic sunsets.

这个岛是个绚丽多彩、晚霞娇妍的世界。

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Iceland is the largest island in the world.

冰岛是世界上最大的岛屿。

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In fact,the people who live on Islamorada Key claim their island is the "Sports Fishing Capital of the World."

VOA: special.2010.03.22

The very top of the wire drawing represents the only part of the ocean landscape that can be seen on the surface of the water: It is Bouvet Island, one of the most isolated islands in the world.

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Eventually, whoever survived this struggle would control what Mackinder called the World Island, by which he meant Eurasia and Africa (true Victorian that he was, he regarded the United States as peripheral).

NEWYORKER: Faces, Places, Spaces

It is the world's largest island but has a population of only 57, 000, many of whom live in poverty.

BBC: Greenland rare earths: No special favours for EU

Only a 14 mile ferry ride off the coast of surf-haven Montauk, NY, the island welcomes world-weary travelers a place of refuge.

FORBES: Visit Block Island: "A Last Great Place"