Together they form the Archipelago Sea.

LDII already recorded in the Agency for National Unity and Community Protection Department of the Interior.

Indonesia was targeted by the Japanese for its rich oil resources which would become a vital asset during the war.

The other main islands in the archipelago are Kobroor, Kola and Maikoor.

Joint exploration and development of the resources within and beneath the archipelago could then begin.

Alor is the largest island in the archipelago which is located at its eastern end.

Lembaga Dakwah Islam Indonesia (Indonesia Institute of Islamic Dawah) or LDII, is an independent social organization for study and research on Alqur'an and Alhadist.

Kakskerta is an island in the Archipelago Sea, south of the city of Turku, Finland.

With the creation of the Nunavut in 1999 all islands and fractions of islands of the archipelago east of the 110th meridian west became part of Qikiqtaaluk Region of the new territory, which was the major portion of the archipelago.

For the first time, Russia sent its squadrons from the Baltic Sea to distant theaters of operations ( see Archipelago expeditions of the Russian Navy ).

Before the Suez Canal was opened in 1869, the Indonesian archipelago was reached via the Sunda Strait from Africa.

1. In 1856, the Government of the United States of Venezuela notified the Government of New Granada, through the diplomatic channel, of its claim to the aforementioned archipelago.

The Amphibious Battalion is built around the Stridsbåt 90H, a small combat boat capable of carrying 21 troops for fast transports and landings in the archipelago.

The widest definition of Oceania includes the entire region between continental Asia and the Americas, thereby including islands in the Pacific Rim such as the Japanese archipelago, Taiwan, and the Aleutian islands.

To the east is the island of Alor and other small islands in the archipelago to the west is the Alor Strait, which separates it from the Solor Archipelago.

But in 1898, Spain ceded its control of the island to United States following the Spanish American War, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris.

The islands, along with Adélie Land, the Crozet Islands and the Amsterdam and Saint Paul Islands are part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands and are administered as a separate district.

The name of this archipelago predated the province by over two hundred years, and historically did not include the Lingga Islands or Natuna Islands, which now belong to the province of the same name.

Recent research suggests that the historical Ainu culture originated in a merger of the Okhotsk culture with the Satsumon, one of the ancient archaeological cultures that are considered to have derived from the Jōmon period cultures of the Japanese Archipelago.

Imagine urban geography as an archipelago . On its islands live the modern consumers globally connected in their consuming behaviors, computers and abilities to earn sufficiently well to maintain their lifestyles and speedy rhythm.

The summer monsoon brings heavy rains to most of the archipelago from May to October, whereas the winter monsoon brings relatively cooler and drier air from December to February.

Once again, Colombia did not object to this decree or to any of the jurisdictional claims repeatedly made by the Government of the United States of Venezuela to the aforementioned archipelago, which have been recorded in official Venezuelan publications.

The way in which the inhabitants of this archipelago were systematically dispossessed and thrown off their land in the name of Western strategic interests is a human tragedy for which the West can and should make restitution.

Floating in the springtime air is a cloud of pollen grains that induce sneezing, sniffling, and itchy eyes and noses in hay fever sufferers all over the Japanese archipelago.

He hoped that the understandings could be extended so that the dispute involving sovereignty over those archipelagos and the surrounding waters would be resolved through negotiations, which the United Nations and the countries of South America had called for many times.

The Swedish map made the islands appear to be closer to the mainland of Sweden than to Finland the Finnish map stressed the continuity of the archipelago between the main island and mainland Finland, while a greater gap appeared between the islands and the archipelago on the Swedish side.

On that level, there are only two municipalities, Resolute and Grise Fiord, with an aggregate area of (0.11 percent of the area of the Queen Elizabeth Islands), but with most of the population of the archipelago (370 out of 375).

The population has been relatively stable over the last two decades and has increased by more than 28 relative to the 1990 levels, with migrants from the smaller settlements in the archipelago helping keep the population level stable.

In a recent visit to this tropical archipelago of 1.3 million people, I had a chance to see some of the leaps Mauritius has taken accomplishments that can seem bewildering in light of the debate in the US and elsewhere.

While the Minister for Foreign Affairs of New Granada, Lino de Pombo, stated in his reply that he would not enter into the question of control and jurisdiction over the group of islands known as Los Monjes , which by virtue of their location appear to be a natural annex of the Guajira Peninsula', he did not challenge Venezuela's acts asserting control and jurisdiction.

When you think of springtime in Japan, the first thing that comes to mind is iconic clouds of cotton candy pink blossoms, known as sakura (桜) in Japanese. The flowers bloom earliest in Japan's southwest, advancing north and eastward across the archipelago in what is known as the cherry blossom front or sakura zensen (桜前線).