volcanic islands are, in north–south sequence, Kita-Iō (San Alexander) Island, Iō Island (Iō-tō; conventionally, Iwo Jima), and Minami-Iō (San Augustino) Island. Unclaimed until the arrival of Japanese fishermen and sulfur miners in 1887, the islands were claimed formally by Japan in ...
In 1874, the Marshall Islands were claimed by Spain until Spain sold the islands to the German Empire, resulting in them becoming part of German New Guinea in 1885. In 1919, during WWI, the Japanese invaded, defeating Spain and the Marshall Islands was now under the rule of the Japanese ...
The status of Mayotte—which was still claimed by Comoros but administered by France—was the subject of a March 2009 referendum. More than 95 percent of Mayotte voters approved changing the island’s status with France from a territorial collectivity to an overseas department in 2011, strengthenin...
The islands were nominally claimed by Spain, but there were no major efforts for colonizing them. The Spanish Empire became extremely wealthy from the treasure of the conquered Aztec and Inca empires, and other Europeans powers such as England grew jealous and supported pirates who looted Spanish ...
One website claimed that pyramid-like structures were found on the island.Biblioteca Pleyadespurported to show an actual photo of an island pyramid. The site compared it to a Mayan pyramid. Another claim from the site stated that the famous 20th-century Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl had redis...
-- alive or dead. A man once claimed to have found a mermaid. The creature he displayed did indeed look half human, half fish. But closer inspection showed that it was nothing but the head and shoulders of a dried monkey and the tail of a fish -- sewn together by the cunning faker...
China claimed sovereignty over the uninhabited Senkaku Islands, which are validly controlled by Japan, for the first time in December 1971, only after the 1968 United Nations geophysical survey discovered the potential for undersea petroleum reserves. Ch
Pacific Island countries are not passive targets of statecraft efforts. They also exercise tools of statecraft to try to influence their partners and each other. In this policy paper,Lalaga, tithiki, talia vata: Pacific Islands weaving statecraft,Derek Futaiasi, Priestley Habru, Maima Koro, Will...
Soon, Majapahit claimed nominal suzerainty over Borneo and the Sulu Islands. Few Ming ships, therefore, sailed through the Celebes Sea. Eastern Indonesian commodities passing through the Sulu Islands could either go to Mindoro and then to China, as was said, or they could be sent via Mindoro...
With the decline of whaling by 1800, the islands’ importance centred on the presence of coal. Not until the beginning of the 20th century were the deposits surveyed and mineral rights claimed by American, British, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, and Russian companies and individuals. The claims were...