The phrase "insular region" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a term that describes an isolated area or land mass which is surrounded by water and distinct from other parts of the country, state, or continent. For example, "The Hawaiian Islands are an insular region in the middle of the Pacific Ocean."
This study is focused in the evolution of NO, NO2, SO2, O3 and PM10 concentrations, from 2000 to 2012, at urban, suburban and regional observatories in the Balearic Islands Spainn), an insular region in the Western Mediterranean.
The flooded people of southern Louisiana are losing a race against mold, hunger and homelessness, driving an already insular region into deeper mistrust of the federal government and other outside agencies.
While the diocese, 350 miles away in Portland, promises to replace the priests if they are removed, the spokeswoman, Sue Bernard, acknowledges there is "a very short pool" and no guarantee that replacements will understand French or this insular region.
Laili Cave, in northern Timor-Leste, preserves the oldest human occupation in this insular region with a cultural sequence spanning 11,200 to 44,600 cal BP.
The profile of activation associated with the serial-order strategy, which resulted in poor recall performance, featured early activation of the inferior frontal, sensorimotor, and insular region in the left hemisphere, between 200 and 400 ms after stimulus onset.
Tierra del Fuego is an insular region of Patagonia in which several types of peatlands are very well represented, covering a vast portion of the landscape of the central and southern areas of the island.
Developments on these relatively insular regions have the potential to reduce local populations of species with limited dispersal capabilities and an aversion to exurbia.
Specifically, anterior-most insular regions were associated with a ventrally-based network involving orbital/inferior frontal and anterior/polar temporal regions, forming part of a key emotional salience and cognitive control network associated with the implementation of goal-directed behavior.
The posterior and dorsal-middle insular regions were associated with a network focused on posterior and (to a lesser extent) anterior temporal regions via both dorsal and ventral pathways.
We show that variation between acquisitions is affected by the presence of large vessels and venous sinuses, with potential adverse effects especially in the temporal and insular regions, and provide maps of the number of acquisitions or subjects required to reach the desired estimate precision.
Cluster e shows a network consisting of bilateral insular regions and cingulate gyrus.
