Sentence examples for islands called from inspiring English sources

Islands called the Sporades?

The dispute over the islands, called Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan, has turned bitter.

Seven miles off Jersey is a string of tiny islands called Les Ecréhous.

A local Japanese assembly this week asserted claim to the islands, called Tokdo in Korea and Takeshima in Japan.

I got placed, not on one of the four main islands, but on one of the smaller islands called Awaji.

Last summer, the kayak traffic got worse when one of the islands, called Outer Island, was opened to the public.

Daniel Filmus, Argentina's minister for the islands - called the Malvinas locally - announced the case in London.

Relations are severely strained over a raft of issues, including East China Sea islands - called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China - that both claim.

Prior to these encounters, high-level engagement had been frozen since September 2012, when a dormant dispute over a group of islands -- called Diaoyu by China and Senkaku by Japan --was reignited.

Plans for Operation Chronicle, the invasion of Woodlark and Kiriwina Islands, called for fighter cover from Goodenough Island.

"There's a place in the Cayman Islands called Hell," he said, when asked to compare his two worlds.