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Outer Banks

(Encyclopedia)Outer Banks or the Banks, chain of sand barrier islands and peninsulas, c.175 mi (280 km), along the Atlantic coast of SE Va. and E N.C. Separated by inlets and enclosing several saltwater lagoons, or...

Vulcano

(Encyclopedia)Vulcano, island and volcano, Italy: see Lipari Islands. ...

Stromboli

(Encyclopedia)Stromboli, island and volcano, Italy: see Lipari Islands. ...

Shetland

(Encyclopedia)Shetland, former county, Scotland: see under Shetland Islands. ...

Port Blair

(Encyclopedia)Port Blair, India: see Andaman and Nicobar Islands. ...

Virgin Gorda

(Encyclopedia)Virgin Gorda, one of the British Virgin Islands. ...

Synge, John Millington

(Encyclopedia)Synge, John Millington sĭng [key], 1871–1909, Irish poet and dramatist, b. near Dublin, of Protestant parents. He was an important figure in the Irish literary renaissance. As a young man he studie...

Danish West Indies

(Encyclopedia)Danish West Indies: see Virgin Islands of the United States. ...

Thursday Island

(Encyclopedia)Thursday Island (2016 pop. 2,938), Queensland, NE Australia, N of Cape York Peninsula, in Torres Strait. It is the administrative and commercial center of the Torres Strait Islands. ...

Dalmatia

(Encyclopedia)Dalmatia dălmāˈshə [key], Croatian Dalmacija, historic region of Croatia, extending along the Adriatic Sea, approximately from Rijeka (Fiume) to the Gulf of Kotor. Split is the provincial capital;...