The modern Greek navy has its roots in the naval forces of various Aegean Islands, which fought in the Greek War of Independence.

After defeating the two Turkish sallies from the Straits at Elli (December 1912) and Lemnos (January 1913), the Aegean Sea was secured for Greece.

Patmos (Greek, Πάτμος ) is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea.

Bangka lies just east of Sumatra, separated by the Bangka Strait to the north lies the South China Sea, to the east, across the Gaspar Strait, is the island of Belitung, and to the south is the Java Sea.

The Sea of Crete (, Kritiko Pelagos ) is the sea south of the Aegean Sea, north of the island Crete, and south of the Cyclades.

The island of Bornholm is located east of the rest of the country, in the Baltic Sea.

Other airports supporting military operations are located in the Aegean Islands of Karpathos, Santorini (Thira), Rhodes, Kos, Skyros, and Lemnos as well as in Kavala, Heraklion, Ritsona and Tatoi Dekeleia, north of Athens.

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

Lemnos () is an island of Greece in the northern part of the Aegean Sea.

The star also represents the island itself a land of often red soil bordered by white beaches in a blue sea.

İmralı is a small Turkish island in the south of the Sea of Marmara, west of the Armutlu Bozburun peninsula within Bursa Province.

Mountains are limited to the west, the southern tip of Ukraine on the Crimean Peninsula, and near the Sea of Azov.

The Labrador Sea (French mer du Labrador ) is an arm of the North Atlantic Ocean between the Labrador Peninsula and Greenland.

From northeast to southeast, it fronts the Bohai Sea, the highlands of Shandong Peninsula, and the Yellow Sea.

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.

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

Onekotan Island ( Japanese 温禰古丹島 Onekotan tō, occasionally Onnekotan tō, ) is an uninhabited volcanic island located near the northern end of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean.

The eastern tip of the peninsula is the Kerch Peninsula, separated from Taman Peninsula on the Russian mainland by the Kerch Strait, which connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Azov, at a width of between .

The western region has the Carpathian Mountains, the Crimean Peninsula has the Crimean Mountains, and some eroded mountains from the Donets Ridge are in the east near the Sea of Azov.

The natural border between the Crimean Peninsula and the Ukrainian mainland is formed by the Sivash or Rotten Sea , a large system of shallow lagoons.

The Gulf of Bahrain is an inlet of the Persian Gulf on the east coast of Saudi Arabia, separated from the main body of water by the peninsula of Qatar.

In June 1497 he was given two more large galleys and in July 1497 he made the island of Chios his base for operations in the Aegean Sea against the Venetians and the Knights of St. John.

It was a natural island in the Alboran Sea until 1934, when a huge thunderstorm washed large quantities of sand in the short channel between the island and the African continent, turning it into a tombolo.

An Israel and Palestine that could resolve their differences and live side by side as democracies would become an island of stability and sanity in a sea of political disorder and economic retrenchment.

Badas Islands is a group of islands in the Tudjuh Archipelago in the South China Sea between the Malaysian mainland to the west and the island of Borneo to the east.

It contains 95 islands and islets, including the largest island in Guangdong, Shangchuan Island.

Chukchi Sea () is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.

The Laptev Sea () is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.

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

Pechora Sea (, or Pechorskoye More), is a sea at the northwest of Russia, the southeastern part of the Barents Sea.

Cedros Island (Isla de Cedros, island of cedars in Spanish, also called in English Cerros Island in former times) is a Mexican island in the Pacific Ocean.

Samosir, or Samosir Island, is a large volcanic island in Lake Toba, located in the north of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.

) is the largest and northernmost island of the group.

Santa Fe Island (Spanish Isla Santa Fe ), also called Barrington Island after admiral Samuel Barrington, is a small island of 24 km² (9m²) which lies in the centre of the Galapagos archipelago, to the south east of Santa Cruz Island.

At the surface, it is the biggest, most prominent peninsula in Antarctica as it extends 1300 km (800 miles) from a line between Cape Adams (Weddell Sea) and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands.

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

He was confined first on Ganghwa Island and then on Jeju Island, where he died in 1641.

Sector II the Bahr el Ghazal area, including the states of West Bahr el Ghazal, North Bahr el Ghazal, Warab and Al Buhairat the sector headquarters would be located in Wau

One of the larger members of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Prince of Wales Island is an Arctic island in Nunavut, Canada, lying between Victoria Island and Somerset Island and south of the Queen Elizabeth Islands.

Pinta Island, also known as Abingdon Island, after the Earl of Abingdon, is an island located in the Galapagos Islands group, Ecuador.

The Norwegian Sea () is a marginal sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of Norway.

To the north is the Savu Sea, and to the south is the Timor Sea.

The Lazarev Sea is a marginal sea of the Southern Ocean.

The Coral Sea Islands Territory includes a group of small and mostly uninhabited tropical islands and reefs in the Coral Sea, northeast of Queensland, Australia.

Along the Pacific Ocean's irregular western margins lie many seas, the largest of which are the Celebes Sea, Coral Sea, East China Sea, Philippine Sea, Sea of Japan, South China Sea, Sulu Sea, Tasman Sea, and Yellow Sea.