Maria Island is a mountainous island off the east coast of Tasmania.

Saadiyat Island is a large, low lying island off the coast of Abu Dhabi island in the UAE, and is currently under development.

The island was declared off limits in 1905 by the Dutch.

The largest island of Northern Ireland is Rathlin, off the north Antrim coast.

The main island is entirely south of the Arctic Circle, which passes through the small Icelandic island of Grímsey off the main island's northern coast.

Chiloé Island (Spanish Isla de Chiloé ), also known as Greater Island of Chiloé ( Isla Grande de Chiloé ), is the largest island of the Chiloé Archipelago off the coast of Chile, in the Pacific Ocean.

The story of a young girl stranded for years on an island off the California coast.

Jeju Island, situated off the southern coast, is a large volcanic island whose main mountain Mount Halla or Hallasan (1950 m) is the highest in South Korea.

It is a marshy island situated in the eastern Celebes Sea, off the northeastern coast of Borneo.

The village of Sand Point should be included here, despite its location on Popof Island, an island of the Sumagin Islands, just off the southern coast of the Peninsula.

Christianity constitutes the majority religion in Cape Verde, an island nation located off the western coast of Africa.

On 28 March 2005 an 8.7 magnitude stuck with its epicenter just off the south end of Simeulue Island.

Kilwa Kisiwani is a community on an island off the southern coast of present day Tanzania in eastern Africa.

January 22, 1906 The strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, Canada, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster.

cedrosensis on Cedros Island, both in the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of the northern Baja California Peninsula in Mexico.

Great Britain, also known as Britain , is an island in the North Atlantic off the north west coast of continental Europe.

Background Zanzibar was an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Tanganyika today it forms part of Tanzania.

Cavendish set off across the Atlantic towards Saint Helena with the remainder of the crew, but died of unknown causes at age 31, possibly off Ascension Island in the South Atlantic in 1592.

In the final peace treaty, Venice retained a few isolated island fortresses off Crete, and made some territorial gains in Dalmatia.

The Norwegians raided during the winter between 840 and 841, rather than the usual summer, having waited on an island off Ireland.

Bawean () is an island of Indonesia located approximately 150 km north of Surabaya in the Java Sea, off the coast of Java.

In 2009, he bought an island off mainland Belize on which he is planning to create an eco friendly resort.

Now, the island of Mauritius is a small island off the east coast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, and it is the place where the dodo bird was discovered and extinguished, all within about 150 years.

China may regard the nineteenth century experience of a windswept island off the northwest coast of Europe as an odd source of inspiration.

On 26 July 2010, AAD was successfully test fired from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Wheeler Island off the Orissa's east coast.

Distribution Japanese spider crabs are mostly found off the southern coasts of the Japanese island of Honshū, from Tokyo Bay to Kagoshima Prefecture.

But Mauritius, a small island nation off the east coast of Africa, is neither particularly rich nor on its way to budgetary ruin.

The naval Battle of the Saltes Island or Battle of Saltes ( Spanish Batalla de la Isla Saltés ) took place on 17 July 1381, off Saltes Island, between the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Portugal during the Third Ferdinand War.

She gave birth I caught the baby I got off the island I landed in San Francisco and all the press wanted to talk to me because my three weeks on the island made me an expert in Indian affairs.

Maria Island National Park has a total area of 115.50 km², which includes a marine area of 18.78 km² off the island's northwest coast.

Grand Bahama is the northernmost of the islands of the Bahamas, and the closest major island to the United States, lying off the state of Florida.

Chávez is giving away oil to Caribbean island nations and Cuba, and buying off Argentine debt to help President Nestor Kirchner s political fortunes.

At night, all the lights are turned off on the island so that visitors can harmonize with nature under the light of the moon and stars.

After the Norwegian Coastal Cruise Liner ran aground off the coast of Deception Island on 30 January 2007, fuel from the ship washed into a bay.

And they killed about 12,000 sharks in this period, literally just by stringing a manila rope off the tip of Keem Bay at Achill Island.

The largest island is Andros Island.

Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar ( ) and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Southeast Africa.

The Battle of Port Cros was a battle of World War II fought off the French Riviera in the Mediterranean Sea on the island of Port Cros.

The only inhabited island is Willis Island.

Melville Island may refer to Melville Island (Australia), in the Northern Territory Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut), in northern Canada Melville Island (Nova Scotia), a small island in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada Melville Island, a small island in the Discovery Islands near Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada Melville Island, a small island near Dundas Island near Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada

Borden Island, Mackenzie King Island and Melville Island were divided between the two territories.

It is bounded on the west by the De Long Strait, off Wrangel Island, and in the east by Point Barrow, Alaska, beyond which lies the Beaufort Sea.

In 1971, Papa Doc entered into 99 year contract with Don Pierson representing Dupont Caribbean Inc. of Texas for a free port project on the old buccaneer stronghold of Tortuga island located some off the north coast of the main Haitian island of Hispaniola.

At , Samosir is the largest island within an island, and the fifth largest lake island in the world.

Hawaii, also called the Island of Hawaii, the Big Island or Hawaii Island ( or Hawaiian or ), is an island located in the U.S. state of Hawaii.