The islands include most of the land area of Indonesia, with only northern and northwestern Borneo not under Indonesian political control.
The islands include 47 permanently inhabited ones, the most populous among them being Krk and Korčula.
Europe's most popular vacation islands - including Mallorca, Corfu and Ibiza - are well known, but there are hundreds of other smaller, less developed islands that offer a real sense of escape, and the chance to boast that you've been somewhere your friends haven't even heard of.
Most of the other islands, including the Lomaiviti, Lau, and Yasawa groups, are volcanic in origin, but, like the major islands, they are bounded by coral reefs, offshore rocks, and shoals that make the Koro Sea hazardous for navigation.
Within Orkney, the council operates airfields on most of the larger islands including Stronsay, Eday, North Ronaldsay, Westray, Papa Westray, and Sanday.
German forces occupied the strategically more important areas of Athens, Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia and several Aegean islands, including most of Crete.
We obtained evidence for CTVT's presence in some of the world's most isolated communities and islands, including the Solomon Islands, Samoa, American Samoa, Fiji, Reunion, Mauritius and several islands in Micronesia.
When the tsunami struck, it covered most of the country's 200 inhabited islands, including Vilufushi and Kolhufushi.
There are introduced populations in Australia, Florida, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Ogasawara, Ishigaki Island and the Daitō Islands of Japan, most Caribbean islands, Fiji and many other Pacific islands, including Hawaii.
Moreover, the most suitable habitats during the LGM were the southern islands, including Amami-Ōshima Island and Okinawa Main-Island.
