RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook British Virgin Islands (redirected fromThe British Virgin Islands) Thesaurus Encyclopedia British Virgin Islands Abbr.BVI A British colony in the eastern Caribbean east of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Road ...
Coast Salish, Salish-speaking North American Indians of the Northwest Coast, living around what are now theStrait of Georgia,Puget Sound, southernVancouver Island, much of the Olympic Peninsula, and most of westernWashingtonstate. One Salishan group, theTillamook, lived south of theColumbia Riverin...
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While many islands lie in Atlantic waters, this entry will focus only on a few of the most significant to illustrate a variety of insular habitats from the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (Fig.1). Except for the Faeroe, Azores, Canaries, Bermudas, Ascension, Gough, and the islands of the...
Who will speak for the islands? (cover story)Profiles island advocate Philip Conkling of the Maine Island Institute in Rockland. Nature Conservancy's 1975 job offer surveying islands in Penobscot Bay and off the Washington County coast; Launch of `Island Journal'; Maine Island Trail.Allen...
Pandža, M. Flora of the island of Zirje and the small islands around it (eastern Adriatic coast, Croatia).Acta Botica Croatia62, 115–139 (2003). Google Scholar Pandža, M. Flora of the small islands of Murter.Nat. Croat.11, 77–101 (2002). ...
If we look to the islands off the American shore, however much they may differ in geological structure, the inhabitants, though they may be all peculiar species, are essentially American. View in context It was the 6th of November, in the sixth year of my reign - or my captivity, which...
Some years we’ve travelled to the Sunshine Coast, Desolation Sound, or the Broughtons. This year we stayed closer to home, in the San Juan Islands. We had considered going to Barkley Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island instead, but didn’t have time to research safe…...
Indonesia,countrylocated off the coast of mainlandSoutheast Asiain theIndianandPacificoceans. The most populous country in Southeast Asia and the fourth most populous in the world, Indonesia is situated on anarchipelagothat lies across theEquatorand spans a distance equivalent to one-eighth of Earth’...
(Haiti), the western third ofHispaniola, which for about half a century had been occupied by buccaneers and French settlers.Curaçao,Aruba, andBonaire, off the coast of present-dayVenezuela, andSint Eustatius,Saba, and half ofSaint Martin(Sint Maarten), in the northern group of the Lesser ...