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	Pacific Islands - Search View - MSN Encarta
		The islands of the Pacific are often classified according to their altitudes as high or low islands.
		The continental high islands were once part of the eastern edge of the Australian and Asian continents and are composed of substances similar to their former continents: ancient metamorphic rocks and sediments as well as rocks such as schist, gneiss, clay, and sandstone.
		The larger islands, typically continental and oceanic islands, have narrow coastal plains with spectacular volcanic mountains and plateaus rising abruptly from the coast.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761595628__1/Pacific_Islands.html (7044 words)

	Tahiti: Outer Islands
		The main island is surrounded by lagoon, with long motu islets offshore which provide coral gardens for watermelon and cantaloupe plantations.
		Huahine is north-west of Tahiti in the Leeward Society Islands.
		Nuku Hiva is the main island in the northern archipelago with the town of Taiohae serving as the administrative and economic centre.
	www.janeresture.com /tahiti_islands/index.htm (536 words)

	Caroline Islands - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Caroline Islands form a large archipelago of widely scattered islands in the western Pacific Ocean, northeast of New Guinea.
		Japan occupied the islands in 1914 and received a League of Nations mandate over them in 1920, but after World War II the islands became trust territories of the United States, eventually gaining independence (1986 / 1994).
		Many unused copies of the low values still exist today, left over after the Japanese occupation, but as one might expect from the short period of German rule and the very small numbers of letter-writers living in the Carolines, genuinely used stamps are both uncommon and prized.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Caroline_Islands (486 words)

	The Pacific Region
		On the low islands, drought is the rule and fishing and the coconut palm are the mainstays of life.
		Micronesia is the group of islands located to the North of Melanesia from Guam and the Marianas on the west to Kiribati on the east.
		The natural economic complimentary between the high-island farming cultures and the low island fishing communities all too often is negated by a cultural and spatial distance.
	maps.unomaha.edu /Peterson/funda/Notes/Notes_Exam3/Pacific.html (2627 words)

	Bahama Islands - MSN Encarta
		The other islands, all of which are low-lying, are known as the Family Islands, chief of which are the Abacos (Great and Little), Acklins, Andros, Bimini, Cat Island, Crooked Island, Eleuthera, the Exumas, Harbour Island, Inagua (Great and Little), Long Island, Mayaguana, Rum Cay, and San Salvador.
		Many of the islands are covered in scrub or Caribbean pines, although there are also coppices of hardwoods such as mahogany and wild coffee.
		Like the other islands in the Caribbean Sea, the Bahamas are subject to hurricanes and tropical storms between June and November, but individual islands usually go several years without experiencing severe weather damage.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576189/Bahama_Islands.html (458 words)

	Cayman Islands History
		During the 18th century, the Islands were certainly well known to such pirates as Edward Teach (Blackbeard), Neal Walker, George Lowther and Thomas Antis, even after the Treaty of Utrecht, in 1713, was supposed to have ended privateering.
		The first census of the Islands was taken in 1802, showing a population on Grand Cayman of 933, of whom 545 were slaves.
		In 1906 more than a fifth of the population of 5,000 was estimated to be at sea, and even as late as the 1950s the government annual report said that the main "export" was seamen whose remittances were the mainstay of the economy.
	www.gocayman.ky /content/view/51/141 (1274 words)

	Cook Islands - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Cook Islands (Cook Islands Maori: Kūki 'Āirani) are a self-governing parliamentary democracy in free association with New Zealand.
		The Cook Islands became a British protectorate at their own request in 1888, then were transferred to New Zealand in 1901.
		The Cook Islands are one of three New Zealand dependencies, along with Tokelau and Niue.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Cook_Islands (505 words)

	US National Assessment of Climate Change. Overview: Islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific
		Many islands are facing the stresses of rapid human population growth, increasing vulnerability to natural disasters, and degradation of natural resources.
		The size of the lens is directly related to the size of the island: larger islands have lenses that are less vulnerable to tidal mixing and have enough storage for withdrawals.
		Smaller island freshwater lenses shrink during prolonged periods of low rainfall, and water quality is easily impaired by mixing with salt water.
	www.usgcrp.gov /usgcrp/Library/nationalassessment/overviewislands.htm (2324 words)

	Pacific Ocean - Line Islands
		The group forms one of the remotest island chains on Earth: the Rawaki Islands (also forming part of the nation of Kiribati) lie 1,800 km to the west, the Hawaiian Islands lie 1,600 km to the north and the Marquesas, Tuamotu Archipelago and Society Islands to the southeast and south.
		The atoll of Penrhyn in the northern Cook Islands is the Line Islands nearest Central Polynesian neighbour, lying 610 km to the northwest of Vostok.
		Even though the islands exhibit low levels of endemism and biodiversity, all of the islands in the chain are considered as internationally important for their large populations of breeding seabirds — particularly Kiritimati, Malden, Millenium and Starbuck.
	www.oceandots.com /pacific/line (508 words)

	History Resources for Pirates of the Caribbean
		Small, circular islands formed by reefs are called atolls and have low vegetation on the outer edge and a body of salt water in the center.
		Separated by the Riviere-Salee, the islands of Grande-Terre (in the northeast) and Basse-Terre (in the southwest) compose the colony of Guadeloupe.
		The island of Jamaica is roughly rectangular with mountains along the coast rising to a plateau rich in limestone and bauxite.
	www.kipar.org /piratical-resources/pirate-carib-guide.html (7293 words)

	Cook Islands (COO) - Country Information - ADB.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The 15 islands and atolls of the Cook Islands lie in the Pacific Ocean south of Hawaii and the Equator and west of Tahiti.
		The 7 northern islands are low-lying, sparsely populated coral atolls.
		This is particularly true on the outer islands among the elderly dependent on welfare benefits and those with low levels of education and skills.
	www.adb.org /cookislands/country-info.asp (1069 words)

	Terrain. The World Factbook. 2003
		mostly low plateau with deserts; fertile plain in southeast
		low coral atolls in north; volcanic, hilly islands in south
		low, flat delta in south and north; central highlands; hilly, mountainous in far north and northwest
	www.bartleby.com /151/fields/11.html (2803 words)

	Beach Nourishment - Coastal Geology
		Barrier islands are elongate accumulations of sand that are separated from the mainland by open water in the form of estuaries, bays, or lagoons.
		Due to their length, which at Santa Rosa Island, Florida and Padre Island, Texas exceeds 75 kilometers, the associated inlets are widely spaced with relatively small cross-sectional areas, the latter due to the influence of predominating longshore currents.
		Such barrier islands generally tend to be short, wide at one end (typically drumstick shaped) and narrow at the other, and are separated by large, stable, tidal inlets with large sand shoals at their mouth.
	www.csc.noaa.gov /beachnourishment/html/geo/barrier.htm (2596 words)

	Windward Islands
		The Eastern Caribbean is divided roughly into two sets of islands: those that receive the Trade Winds first, that is the Windward Islands, and those that are a bit to the west, the Leeward Islands.
		The larger islands are all lush volcanic islands with peaks over 3000 feet (1,000m) high, and rugged coastline on the eastern (windward) side.
		The Grenadines (Bequia, Tobago Cays, and Carriacou) are low sand islands surrounded by clear water and coral reefs.
	www.hackingfamily.com /Landfalls/Windwards/windward_islands.htm (137 words)

	Pacific Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These islands include the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador; the Aleutian Islands in Alaska; the Russian islands of Sakhalin and Kuril Islands; the island nation of Japan, which includes the Ryukyu Islands; Taiwan; the Philippines; the South China Sea Islands; and most of the islands of Indonesia.
		However, it should be noted that the inhabitants of these islands are not considered to be Pacific Islanders and are usually identified with their nearest continent.
		Melanesia : Fiji · New Caledonia · Papua New Guinea · Solomon Islands · Vanuatu
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pacific_Islands (525 words)

	Frisian Islands - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		FRISIAN ISLANDS [Frisian Islands], chain of low-lying islands, off the coasts of the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark, in the North Sea.
		The West Frisian Islands, belonging to the Netherlands, are off the shores of North Holland, Friesland, and Groningen provs.
		The East Frisian Islands, belonging to Germany, are east of the mouth of the Ems and include Norderney and Borkum.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-frisiani1.html (246 words)

	NCNatural Guide - Coastal NC
		What makes North Carolina's islands unique is their distance from the mainland and their close proximity to the Continental Shelf and the Gulf Stream current.
		Rising sea-levels and predominant winds from the northeast cause a landward migration of the islands.
		During storms, overwash of the islands by the sea pushes sand to the mainland side in large quantities.
	ncnatural.com /Coast/dynamics.html (1077 words)

	LOW ISLANDS WITH HIGH STYLE Independent on Sunday, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Arriving by air, you'll land in the island capital West-erland, which is as close as the Friesian Islands come to a mass-market resort.
		The east of the island looks across a nature reserve known as the Wattenmeer, mudflats that are paradise for birdwatchers and lovers of shifting, watery, richly coloured vistas, all blues, browns and silvery light.
		The distances between the islands look negligible on a map' indeed at low tide it's sometimes possible to walk between them, though you must go with a guide to avoid quicksand, marked on the map with skulls.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20060409/ai_n16185221 (809 words)

	Tahiti Experience - About the Islands
		They are divided into the Windward Islands, and the Leeward Islands, two clusters of volcanic and coral islands lying in a chain.
		This island group boasts the largest variety of resorts & activities, as well as the largest, most populous islands in all of French Polynesia.
		Tuamotu is an archipelago comprising 78 low islands or coral atolls scattered over several hundred miles of the eastern Pacific.
	www.tahitiexperience.com /InfoPages/TahitianIslandsList.htm (249 words)

	Tiempo Climate Newswatch, Erosion of Low-lying Reef Islands
		Given the overwhelming prognostications of doom for small island nations, it is vital that erosion impacts are better resolved to either confirm or disprove extreme scenarios of total island disappearance.
		Concepts of island morphological change are evaluated in light of common perceptions of vulnerability and new methodological developments are outlined that allow more robust assessments of the physical response of reef islands to be evaluated.
		Yet the history of most small island states is littered with examples of islands growing in size (accreting), eroding away or fluctuating in size in response to changes in storm energy or monsoon winds.
	www.tiempocyberclimate.org /newswatch/feature040610.htm (3586 words)

	Treasured islands - The Boston Globe
		Yet four centuries later, the islands are still sparsely populated, for reasons that are hard to fathom.
		Chuck Woessner, a longtime islands resident who manages the region's seven state parks, is hard put to explain it.
		Being flatter than the state's interior, the islands lend a feeling of wide-open space, not the kind of landscape usually associated with the Green Mountain State, though ideal for biking, boating, and birdwatching.
	www.boston.com /travel/articles/2005/07/06/treasured_islands/?page=full (1142 words)

	Tsunami - Coral Reefs / Low-lying Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The islands they once called home were either completely covered in water, or the topsoil had been washed away, resulting in the inability to grow any kind of vegetation.
		Nine islands within the archipelago will not be resettled, as a result of the severe damage to both housing and vegetation.
		Like the reefs, these islands will take decades to recover, if it is even possible, but to those who once lived there, their lives will never be the same.
	academic.evergreen.edu /g/grossmaz/engelnm (1162 words)

	FACT SHEET: The Cayman Islands at a Glance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		On May 10, 1503, the sailors accompanying Christopher Columbus on his fourth and final West Indian voyage sighted "two very small low islands full of turtles (as was all the sea thereabout, so that it seemed to be full of little rocks)".
		The two islands were almost certainly uninhabited though the explorers didn't stop to investigate.
		For the next 200 years, the Cayman Islands were well known to European explorers, sailors, and adventurers, primarily for their turtles, which provided essential fresh meat to seamen away from shore for months and even years at a time.
	deploymentlink.osd.mil /deploy/info/caribbean/cayman_islands/index.shtml (799 words)

	History of the Cayman Islands
		During the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, the islands were replenishment centers supplying abundant fresh water and food, including sea turtles and wild fowl, for English, Dutch, French and Spanish explorers and buccaneers and ships plying the Spanish Main route.
		The Island produces a great quantity of cotton, which is their principle article of export besides Turtle; but for their own consumption, and to supply the vessels that pass by, they raise Indian corn, yams, sweet potatoes.
		In 1971, the Islands received their first Governor and the present constitution was adopted in 1972 and its most recent amendments were adopted in February 1994.
	www.caymanvacations.com /general/history.htm (1084 words)

	Reefs at risk case studies
		The Cayman Islands are a British Crown Colony to the southwest of Cuba, made up of the small low islands of Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, and Cayman Brac.
		The islands are situated on the Cayman Ridge, which extends from southeastern Cuba into the Bay of Honduras and is flanked by the 6,000 m deep Cayman Trench 6 km to the south.
		Coral reef fishing is limited to low-volume recreational and subsistence fishing (in 1999, 500 residents of Grand Cayman were licensed to snorkel with spear guns) [10], but in the analysis this activity represents a relatively high impact, because of the limited habitat area.
	reefsatrisk.wri.org /casestudy_text.cfm?ContentID=3336 (1273 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - Caribbean - Overview
		The Caribbean Islands support exceptionally diverse ecosystems, ranging from montane cloud forests to cactus scrublands, which have been devastated by deforestation and encroachment.
		The Caribbean Islands hotspot consists mainly of three large groups of islands between North and South America: the Bahamas, the Lesser Antilles, and the Greater Antilles (Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Cuba, and Hispaniola, which includes the Dominican Republic and Haiti).
		Low-lying islands tend to be semiarid, and most were originally dominated by dry evergreen bushland and thicket, with savanna, cactus shrub and spiny shrub occurring on parts of Barbuda, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico (where the average rainfall at low elevations is only 300-600 millimeters per year).
	www.biodiversityhotspots.org /xp/Hotspots/caribbean (295 words)

	Islands and Coasts
		Global warming will cause sea level to rise as result of melting ice and a thermal expansion of the oceans.
		Island nations such as the Maldives and the Pacific atolls lie only a few metres above sea level.
		Low-lying coastal regions of the world are also under threat from sea level rise, storm damage and tidal surges.
	www.ace.mmu.ac.uk /eae/GLobal_Warming/Older/Islands_and_Coasts.html (203 words)

	Austral Islands (French Polynesia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		People in the Austral Islands are attracted to the big city of Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia, where they regroup in certain neighborhoods, such as the "Quartier Rurutu" at Vaininiore.
		The flag of the Austral Islands, of ratio 2:3, is vertically divided red-white-red (1:3:1) with a blue emblem in the white stripe.
		The five stars represent the five high islands constituting the Austral Islands and the penu is the symbol of the archipelago.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/pf-au.html (360 words)

	French Polynesia
		Each island is dominated by tall volcanic hills with rocky summits covered in luscious green undergrowth and surrounded by a coral reef which shelters a lagoon and exquisite white sand beaches.
		In contrast to the dramatic peaks of the high islands such as Tahiti, Moorea and Bora Bora, the low islands of the Tuamotu atolls are green rings of coral reef surrounding a turquoise lagoon.
		The islands of French Polynesia are located halfway between Australia and the Americas: 3,085 miles E of Sydney and 3,714 SW of Los Angeles.
	www.gotahiti.com /frenchpolynesia4.htm (2473 words)

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