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Coral Sea Islands

(Encyclopedia)Coral Sea Islands, external territory of Australia, comprising scattered small islands and reefs spread over c.400,000 sq mi (1,035,995 sq km) of the South Pacific Ocean, E of the Great Barrier Reef, ...

Channel Islands, California

(Encyclopedia)Channel Islands or Santa Barbara Islands sănˈtə bärˈbrə, –bərə [key], chain of eight rugged islands and many islets, extending c.150 mi (240 km) along the S Calif. coast from Point Conceptio...

Entrecasteaux Islands, D'

(Encyclopedia)Entrecasteaux Islands, D': see D'Entrecasteaux Islands. ...

Loo-choo Islands

(Encyclopedia)Loo-choo Islands: see Ryukyu Islands. ...

New Siberian Islands

(Encyclopedia)New Siberian Islands, Rus. Novosibirskiye Ostrova, archipelago, c.10,900 sq mi (28,200 sq km), N Siberian Russia, in the Arctic Ocean between the Laptev and East Siberian seas, part of the Sakha Repub...

Northern Mariana Islands

(Encyclopedia)Northern Mariana Islands märēäˈnä [key], officially Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a self-governing entity in association with the United States (2015 est. pop. 55,000), c.185 sq m...

Liu-kiu Islands

(Encyclopedia)Liu-kiu Islands: see Ryukyu Islands. ...

Lu-chu Islands

(Encyclopedia)Lu-chu Islands: see Ryukyu Islands. ...

South Sandwich Islands

(Encyclopedia)South Sandwich Islands: see South Georgia. ...

South Shetland Islands

(Encyclopedia)South Shetland Islands, barren, snow-covered archipelago off N Antarctic Peninsula, W Antarctica; Livingston and King George islands are the largest. The South Shetlands were bases for sealers in the ...