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	Northerly Island and Lagoon, Century of Progress Exposition, 1933
		Northerly Island and Lagoon, Century of Progress Exposition, 1933
		It was the first in an intended chain of connected islands to extend south to 51st Street.
		In 1933 Northerly Island housed the botanical exhibit at the Century of Progress World's Fair.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/10843.html (130 words)

	Ellesmere Island
		The entire island is deeply incised by fjords, and the northern coast is extended by ice shelves - aprons of SEA ICE which are fused to the shore.
		The island was sighted by William BAFFIN in 1616, but was not explored until the 19th century.
		John ROSS discovered parts of the coastline in 1818; the island was named for the earl of Ellesmere during the Inglefield expedition of 1852.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002578 (602 words)

	Island safaris, lodges and wildlife tours
		Nosy Iranja in Madagascar consists of two islands connected by a 1500 m sandbank that is exposed during low tide.The setting is idyllic, stunning beaches surround a lush tropical island covered with coconut palms, Filaos trees and tropical flowers.
		Bird Island, perched on the edge of the Seychelles' continental shelf, is the most northerly island of the Seychelles Archipelago.
		Cousine is a granitic island in the Seychelles, and lies 1500 kilometers of the east coast of Africa.
	www.ecoafrica.com /african/travel/Island.html (511 words)

	Implementation Map (Northerly Island)
		What would become Northerly Island is here the northernmost reach of a stretch of manmade land that flanks the eastern edge of a continuous lagoon extending all the way southward to Jackson Park.
		Both Northerly Island and the mainland areas to the west and south are occupied by the buildings of the Century of Progress, the world's fair held in Chicago in 1933-34.
		Meigs Field, which occupied Northerly Island for some fifty-five years, was shut down by the city of Chicago in 2003.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/300122.html (233 words)

	andros island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Like the other islands of the Cyclades it is washed by the Aegean and cooled in summer by the "meltemi" wind.
		hora, the capital of the island stands on a headland between two beaches, and is an attractive and sun-drenched town.
		At the tip of the headland there is a small rocky island with the remains of a Venetian fortress.
	www.greekislands.com /andros/message.htm (703 words)

	Meigs Field - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Merrill C. Meigs Field Airport (IATA airport code CGX) was a single strip airport built on Northerly Island, the landfill originally created to house the 1933-1934 Century of Progress in Chicago, Illinois.
		Northerly Island was not originally intended for private use.
		It is the first and only lakefront island to be built based on Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago.
	www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Meigs_Field (691 words)

	Andros
		The coastline is 178 km in length, the island is 41 km long and it varies in width from 6 to 17 km.
		The island is 7 nautical miles from Evia, from which it is separated by the narrow Channel of Cavo d'Oro.
		The Village of Mesaria, which was the center of the island during the Byzantine period because of its strategic position, is located by the central motorway 5 km to the SW of Chora.
	www.greece.org /arts-culture/poseidon/work/islands2/cyclades/andros.htm (1703 words)

	Meigs Field - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Merrill C. Meigs Field Airport [previously (IATA: CGX, ICAO: KCGX)] was a single strip airport built on Northerly Island, the man-made island originally created to house the 1933-1934 Century of Progress in Chicago, Illinois.
		Northerly Island, owned by the Chicago Parks Department, is the first and only lakefront island to be built based on Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago.
		In 2001, a compromise was reached between Chicago, the State of Illinois, and others to keep the airport open for the next twenty-five years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meigs_Field (703 words)

	Greekislands.com: Andros Greece, virtual tour of andros island
		Andros island is 89 nautical miles from Piraeus and 36 from Rafina.
		In 200 BC, the Romans attacked the island, forcing all the inhabitants to flee and settle at Delius in Attica, and laid it waste, before handing it over to Attalus, king of Pergamos.
		The Venetians took Andros in 1207 and remained rulers of the island until 1556, when it was conquered by the Turks.
	www.greekislands.com /andros/home.htm (431 words)

	Island Superlatives
		The reservoir was formed by the damming of a river to flood a 210 million-year-old meteor crater, whose central uplift became the island.
		However, most islands now in existence are extremely young, the result of sea level changes and glacial retreat over the last 12,000 years or so.
		However, most Singaporeans live on the main island of Singapore, which is connected to the mainland by a solid causeway, and is thus not strictly speaking an island at all.
	www.worldislandinfo.com /SUPERLATIVESV2.html (2146 words)

	Weekend photos (B12 Solipsism)
		Northerly Island is a 91- acre peninsula that juts into Lake Michigan at 1200 South.
		Chicago's famous architect and planner Daniel H. Burnham imagined Northerly Island as one of the northernmost points in a series of manmade islands stretching between Grant and Jackson Parks.
		Northerly Island and Burnham Park were selected as the site of Chicago's second World's Fair entitled A Century of Progress, 1933-34, and by the early 1930s, Northerly Island had been increased to its present size.
	www.b12partners.net /mt/archives/2005/06/weekend_photos.html (494 words)

	OSHIMA - LoveToKnow Article on OSHIMA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		, a group of three small islands belonging to Japan, lying southwards of Kiushiu, in 30 50' N. and 130 E. Their names, from west to east, are Kuroshima, Iwo-shima and Taka-shima.- Kuro-shima rises to a height of 2475 ft., and Iwo-shima has an active volcano 2480 ft. high.
		These islands are not to be confounded with Oshima, the most northerly island of the Izu-noshichito, or with the northern group of the Luchu Islands.
		There are several other islands of the same name in Japan, Oshima signifying " big island." One of the best known lies off the Kii promontory, and has been the scene of many maritime disasters.
	73.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OS/OSHIMA.htm (123 words)

	Bird Island safaris, lodges and wildlife tours
		Bird Island, perched on the edge of the Seychelles continental shelf is the most northerly island of the Seychelles Archipelago and is situated 60 miles from the main island of Mahé.
		The island is best known for the nesting colony of two million Sooty Terns, which find refuge here between May and October.
		Currently the island is Seychelles' only member of Green Globe, an international Ecotourism organization that promotes active conservation participation and sustainable development within the tourism industry.
	www.ecoafrica.com /african/travel/BirdIsland.html (390 words)

	Chicago Audubon Society: Flint Creek Northerly Island Wildlife Rehabilitation Center Opened April 1
		Flint Creek Northerly Island will be the first wildlife rehabilitation facility within city limits, and will be used primarily to rehabilitate and care for birds injured during the spring and fall migration seasons when they collide with buildings as they make their way along migratory fly ways that take them through the Loop.
		The opening of Flint Creek Northerly means that birds injured and picked up by CBCM volunteers will receive medical attention sooner, boosting their chances of survival and allowing monitors to extend the time they spend monitoring the Loop.
		Flint Creek Northerly Island is made possible by the joint efforts of CBCM, Flint Creek Rehabilitation’s founder and director, Dawn Keller; Bob O’Neill, president of the Grant Park Conservancy, and the Chicago Park District.
	www.chicagoaudubon.org /pages/20-03_02.shtml (686 words)

	AllRefer.com - Skye (British And Irish Political Geography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The climate is mild, and Skye is a resort despite its heavy rainfall; a bridge connecting the island to the mainland opened in 1995.
		At Dunvegan, on the west coast, is the castle of the Macleod clan.
		At the north end of the island are the ruins of Duntulm Castle, belonging to the rival clan, the Macdonalds.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Skye.html (284 words)

	Seeing The Light - St. Martin Island Lighthouse
		Martin Island was a wooded and hilly island approximately 2 ¼ miles in length by 1 ¼ miles in width, tapering gradually at its southeast end until it disappeared beneath the waves.
		However this disappearance was deceptive, since the island continued just beneath the surface for an additional 1 3/8 miles, with St. Martin Island Shoal sitting 1 mile yet beyond the end of the spit.
		However a shortage of government funds precluded the hiring of keepers to man the station until the opening of the navigation season in 1905, and during that first year of operation the station's keepers fed 13 cords of wood to the boilers to keep the 10-inch team whistles wailing for a total of 110 hours.
	www.terrypepper.com /lights/michigan/st-martin (1400 words)

	ABC7Chicago.com: Park district unveils plans for Northerly Island concert venue
		Northerly Island could soon be home to a concert stage.
		The new concert venue would reportedly be operated by the Clear Channel corporation and could be up and running by mid-June, two years after the mayor destroyed the airport on Northerly Island.
		It is the park district's latest effort to keep the public informed of plans for 78-acre Northerly Island.
	abclocal.go.com /wls/story?section=News&id=2915786 (576 words)

	A History of Chicago's Northerly Island
		Chicago’s Northerly Island was to be the first in a series of islands envisioned by the famed planner and architect Daniel Burnham as a unique island parkway for public recreation.
		However, for over 50 years this vision went neglected, as Northerly Island—one of the Chicago Park District’s most significant lakefront assets—was set aside not for public recreation, but for limited interests as a private airfield.
		1933 — Northerly Island is used as a part of the “Century of Progress” World’s Fair festivities.
	www.openlands.org /policy.asp?pgid=247 (387 words)

	NICOBAR ISLANDS - LoveToKnow Article on NICOBAR ISLANDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		NICOBAR ISLANDS, a British group of twelve inhabited and seven uninhabited islands in the Bay of Bengal, between Sumatraand the Andaman Islands, to which latter they are administra-tively appended.
		The marine surveys of these islands are still meagre and unsatisfactory, but the wholeof the Nicobars and outlying islands were surveyed topographi-cally by the Indian Survey Department in 18861887, when a number of maps on the scale of 2 in.
		In the southernmost islands are a small monkey, rats and mice, treeshrews (Cladobates nic.), bats, and flying-foxes, but it is doubtful if the wild pig is indigenous; cattle, when introduced and left, have speedily become wild.
	www.1911ency.org /N/NI/NICOBAR_ISLANDS.htm (2656 words)

	Chicago Park District: Northerly Island
		Northerly Island is a 91- acre peninsula that juts into Lake Michigan at the heart of the Museum Campus.
		The nature area at Northerly Island features beautiful strolling paths, casual play areas and a spectacular view of the Chicago skyline.
		In June 2005, a temporary, yet state-of-the-art concert venue was built at the northern end of the island.
	www.chicagoparkdistrict.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/parks.detail/object_id/5235D96E-2F1C-4C63-80B7-C9E7C589E0BA.cfm (422 words)

	Seeing The Light - Poverty Island Lighthouse
		With the keeper's dwelling completed and the tower completed to a height of 31 feet, a temporary light was installed on the roof of the dwelling on August 1, and the crew removed once again until the funds required to complete the project became available.
		By the beginning of August, work on the station was virtually complete, with both the keeper's dwelling, tower and connecting walkway constructed of red brick, with the tower standing seventy feet from the top of the dressed-stone foundation to the ventilator ball atop the decagonal cast iron lantern.
		After ten years of relative peace and quiet on the island, the keeper's knew their lives were to be inexorably changed when the Lighthouse tender WARRINGTON delivered a work party and supplies for the construction of a fog-signal station on the island during the summer of 1885.
	www.terrypepper.com /lights/michigan/poverty/poverty.htm (994 words)

	Pictures from Marco Island, Florida. House, Condo, Beach Photos
		It is part of, and the most northerly island in the group known as the Ten-Thousand Islands.
		Starting at Marco Island and heading south, all along the coast of south Florida to Florida Bay is teeming with exotic wildlife such as alligator, crocodile, manatee, bobcat, panther, otter and large birds of prey such as eagle, osprey and kite.
		Minutes away from Marco Island, by boat or car and one is deep into the south Florida Everglades, on sensory overload as the mind tries to cope with the earthy, primitive textures, sounds, sights and smells.
	www.picturesfrom.com /marco-island (668 words)

	Meigs Field/Northerly Island Plans... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Plans to turn Northerly Island into a natural lakeshore park have been in the works since the mid 90’s, long before Mayor Daley’s midnight bulldozer raid destroyed its Meigs Field airstrip.
		Now, as the Parks Department collects on a successful concert season at the Charter One Pavilion, parks and lakeshore advocacy groups are hoping to push the city to develop the island into a 78-acre shoreline park sooner rather than later.
		Northerly Island, which stretches from south of the Adler Planetarium to just across the from the McCormick Place convention center, housed the temporary, 8,000 seat Charter One pavilion this summer.
	astronomer.proboards23.com /index.cgi?board=Adler&action=print&thread=1127473879 (383 words)

	Taconite Inlet Project: Watershed & northern Ellesmere Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The Queen Elizabeth Islands are the part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago situated north of Parry Channel (Queen Elizabeth Islands Location Map).
		Ellesmere Island is the largest of the Queen Elizabeth Islands.
		The highest peaks of eastern North America are found on Ellesmere Island, especially in the Grantland Mountains, where Barbeau Peak (2604 m) is the highest (Map of northern Ellesmere Island).
	www.geo.umass.edu /climate/TILPHTML/Watershedgeography.html (463 words)

	ANDROS - Dilos Holiday World
		Andros, the most northerly island in the Cyclades and the second largest in the group, is also among the most beautiful.
		In the southeast is Andros or Hora, the capital of the island and its second most important harbor.
		Gavrio is the island's principal harbor, on the west side of Andros.
	www.dilos.com /location/422 (396 words)

	Bernard Voyer, Explorer-Inspirational Speaker - [ Biography ]
		The northern tip of the island is close to the 85th parallel, only about 800km from the North Geographic Pole.
		Just one village, at the southern tip of the Island: Grise Fjord is one of the most northerly permanently inhabited places on the planet.
		Because of the intimidating climbs and the length of the trip, food had to be cached at four spots.
	www.bernard-voyer.com /itinerary/itinerary_ellesmere.html (214 words)

	Wild plan Northerly Island
		The Bisonarium is an initiative by a coalition of Chicago artists to convert Northerly Island (the former Meigs Field) into a bison habitat.
		However, only the northernmost island from the original plan came into being.
		This artificial island, later to be known as Meigs Field, was the site of the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago.
	www.bisonarium.com (259 words)

	EXERCISE 1. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		It is the most northerly island in the Lesser Antilles.
		The sand is milky white due to the fact the island is main composite is limestone.
		Thus telling you that there numerous caves on the island used by the first inhabitants (The Indians) you may wish to explore....O kay, the beaches are just exquisite and can be your own secluded spot on the island...
	www.globalcreative.net /students/maureen/home.htm (244 words)

	Northerly Island: A World-Class Lakefront Park
		Openlands Project has always advocated returning Northerly Island, the brainchild of Chicago architect Daniel Burnham, to its originally intended use: a 91-acre natural lakefront park for the recreation and enjoyment of the general public.
		Now, more than ever, Northerly Island—one of the Chicago Park District’s most significant lakefront assets—has the opportunity to fulfill its intended and most appropriate use: as high quality open space for public recreation and natural preservation.
		We will continue to participate in the planning process to transform Northerly Island into a world-class lakefront nature park of unparalleled quality.
	www.openlands.org /policy.asp?pgid=238 (167 words)

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