Leyte Leyte Island Leyte invasion | a battle in World War II, the return of United States troops to the Philippines began with landings on Leyte Island in October , the battle marked first use of kamikaze aircraft by the Japanese |
Battle of Wake Battle of Wake Island | in December the island was captured by the Japanese after a gallant last-ditch stand by a few hundred United States marines |
Rhode Island red | American breed of heavy-bodied brownished general-purpose chicken |
gas pump gasoline pump petrol pump island dispenser | a pump in a service station that draws gasoline from underground storage tanks |
island | a zone or area resembling an island |
kitchen island | an unattached counter in a kitchen that permits access from all sides |
traffic island safety island safety isle safety zone | a curbed area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded, provides safe area for pedestrians |
islands of Langerhans isles of Langerhans islets of Langerhans | cell clusters in the pancreas that form the endocrine part of that organ, secrete insulin and other hormones |
volcanic eruption eruption | the sudden occurrence of a violent discharge of steam and volcanic material |
Thousand Island dressing | mayonnaise with chili sauce or catsup and minced olives and peppers and hardooked egg |
Channel Islands National Park | a national park in California featuring sea birds and marine life |
Lassen Volcanic National Park | a national park in California having mountains and volcanic lakes and hot springs |
Virgin Islands National Park | a national park in the Virgin Islands having tropical plants and animals, sandy beaches and coral reefs |
Aran Islands | three small islands belonging to Ireland at the entrance to Galway Bay |
Cayman Islands | a British colony in the Caribbean to the northwest of Jamaica, an international banking center |
Bouvet Island | an island belonging to Norway in the South Atlantic near the Antarctic Circle |
Cape Verde Islands | a group of islands in the Atlantic off of the coast of Senegal |
Sao Tiago Island | largest of the Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic Ocean |
Falkland Islands | a group of over islands in the southern Atlantic off the coast of Argentina, a British Crown Colony |
Comoro Islands Iles Comores | three main islands and numerous islets in the Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar |
Guadalupe Island | a Mexican island in the Pacific to the west of Baja California |
Caribbean Island | an island in the Caribbean Sea |
Leeward Islands | a group of islands in the eastern West Indies |
Windward Islands Windward Isles | a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies, the southern part of the Lesser Antilles |
Virgin Islands | a group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Columbus in , owned by United States and Britain |
British Virgin Islands | more thannortheastern Virgin Islands ( inhabited), a dependent territory of the United Kingdom |
United States Virgin Islands American Virgin Islands VI | more thansoutheastern Virgin Islands, a dependent territory of the United States |
Galapagos Islands Galapagos | a group of islands in the Pacific off South America, owned by Ecuador, known for unusual animal life |
Fiji Islands Fijis | a group of more than islands ( inhabited) in the southwestern Pacific, larger islands (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu) are of volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs, smaller islands are coral |
Aland islands Aaland islands Ahvenanmaa | an archipelago of some , islands in the Gulf of Bothnia under Finnish control |
Aegean island | an island in the Aegean Sea |
Egadi Islands Aegadean Isles Aegadean Islands Isole Egadi Aegates | a group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean |
Baffin Island | the th largest island and the largest island of Arctic Canada, lies between Greenland and Hudson Bay |
Vancouver Island | an island off southwestern Canada (off the southwestern coast of British Columbia), the largest island off the west coast of North America |
Cape Breton Island | an island that forms the northeastern part of Nova Scotia |
Prince Edward Island | an island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the smallest province of Canada |
Norfolk Island | an island territory of Australia in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Australia, formerly a British penal colony |
Aleutian Islands Aleutians | an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska |
Mariana Islands Marianas Ladrone Islands | a chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia (including Guam and the Northern Marianas) halfway between New Guinea and Japan, discovered by Magellan in |
Northern Marianas Northern Mariana Islands | a self-governing territory comprising all of the Mariana Islands except Guam |
Wake Island Wake | an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii |
Caroline Islands | a long archipelago of more than islands in Micronesia to the east of the Philippines |
Marshall Islands | a group of coral islands in eastern Micronesia |
Marshall Islands Republic of the Marshall Islands | a republic (under United States protection) on the Marshall Islands |
Gilbert Islands | a group of islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii, formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it became part of the Republic of Kiribati in |
Tuvalu Ellice Islands | a group of coral islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii |
Gilbert and Ellice Islands | a former British possession in Micronesia |
Nauru Nauru Island Pleasant Island | a small island in the central Pacific Ocean , miles to the southwest of Hawaii, in Micronesia to the west of the Gilbert Islands |
Sunda Islands | a chain of islands in the western Malay Archipelago |
Greater Sunda Islands | a chain of islands including Borneo and Celebes and Java and Sumatra |