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Graham Island

(Encyclopedia)Graham Island, 2,485 sq mi (6,436 sq km), off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, northernmost and largest of the Queen Charlotte Islands. ...

Mulatas

(Encyclopedia)Mulatas, archipelago, Panama: see San Blas Islands. ...

Norman Isles

(Encyclopedia)Norman Isles, Great Britain: see Channel Islands. ...

Novosibirskiye Ostrova

(Encyclopedia)Novosibirskiye Ostrova, Russia: see New Siberian Islands. ...

Neu Lauenberg

(Encyclopedia)Neu Lauenberg: see Duke of York Islands. ...

Tortola

(Encyclopedia)Tortola, largest of the British Virgin Islands. ...

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...

Maori

(Encyclopedia)Maori mäˈōrē [key], people of New Zealand and the Cook Islands, believed to have migrated in early times from other islands of Polynesia. Maori tradition asserts that seven canoes brought their an...

Majorca

(Encyclopedia)Majorca mälyôrˈkä [key], island (1991 pop. 602,074), 1,405 sq mi (3,639 sq km), Spain, largest of the Balearic Islands, in the W Mediterranean. Palma is the chief city. Majorca is mountainous in t...

Quemoy

(Encyclopedia)Quemoy kĭmoiˈ [key], Chin. Chinmen, Kinmen, or Jinmen, Taiwanese island group (2010 pop. 56,703), Taiwan Strait, just off Fujian prov., China, and c.150 mi (240 km) W of Taiwan. The group consists o...