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  List of straits - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nares Strait - between Ellesmere Island and Northern Greenland and connects Baffin Bay with Lincoln Sea / the Arctic Sea.
Surigao Strait - between Leyte and Mindanao islands in the Philippines
Tablas Strait - between Mindoro and Panay islands in the Philippines
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_straits   (768 words)

  
 History of Mauritius - The Malays
From north to south, it included the island of Taiwan (Pekan, for the Nusantarian natives), the archipelago of Hawaii (from "Hava-iki" or "Little Java", to recollect the ancestral homeland of the Polynesian), and New Zealand (Aotearoa in Maori language).
The Indonesian voyaged the wide Pacific from Africa to Easter Island, from China to the coral seas of the south.
In all likelihood, the island was discovered in the first centuries of the common era by seafarers from central Indonesia, related to the ancestors of the present people of Southeast Kalimantan.[7] One wonders what drove them so far to the west.
www.oldmaps.mu /History/Malays.htm   (599 words)

  
 SORS National Museum of Natural History
Most of the specimens in the collection are standard herbarium mounted sheets although several small collection subsets of fluid preserved specimens are available for some groups as well as bulky parts – typically large specimens stored in boxes or trays.
The herbarium includes approximate 96,000 type specimens and is among the richest in North American and New World tropical species, with additional strengths in the Pacific Islands, the Philippines, and the Indian subcontinent; however, all areas of the world are represented.
Carrie Bow Cay, a 0.4 hectare (1 acre) sand island on top of the southern Belize barrier reef serves as a field laboratory for scientific investigators from NMNH and co-investigators from other Smithsonian units.
www.si.edu /ofg/Units/sorsnmnh.htm   (14664 words)

  
 kauai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Maui condo vacations are like being home on the island with a cleaning lady.
The Garden Island newspaper for the island of Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands.
The other notable wet sites in the islands were Mount Waialeale on Kauai with 29.54 inches, 75 percent of the normal 39.3 inches for April, and West Wailua Iki...
www.kauai-guide.net   (501 words)

  
 ECORA - Outrigger Links
Kanaka I Kai Ka - O'ahu island paddlesports association.
Hamilton Island Cup - richest outrigger event in the world; Australia.
Vermont Waterways - paddling adapter for the C2 rower.
www.eastcoastoutrigger.com /links.html   (283 words)

  
 False Killer Whale - Dolphins And Whales Window
The dolphins take the fish from the longlines used by the fishermen.
This led to a concerted effort from Japanese fisherman working from Iki Island to deplete the species in the area - 900 inidividuals were killed for this purpose between 1965 and 1990.
National Audubon Society: Guide to Marine Mammals of the World.
dolphins.jump-gate.com /differnt_dolphins/false_killer_whale.shtml   (602 words)

  
 The Ocean Channel > People Making a Difference
The Pew Environmental Health Commission will provide leadership for strengthening the country's defenses against environmental threats.
Bottlenose dolphins lie bloodied on the beaches of Iki Island, Japan.
It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
www.ocean.com /category.asp?CatId=119&locationid=2   (1041 words)

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