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Entrecasteaux Islands, D'
(Encyclopedia)Entrecasteaux Islands, D': see D'Entrecasteaux Islands. ...Faröe Islands
(Encyclopedia)Faröe Islands: see Faeroe Islands, Denmark. ...Aeolian Islands
(Encyclopedia)Aeolian Islands: see Lipari Islands, Italy. ...Tenimbar Islands
(Encyclopedia)Tenimbar Islands: see Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia. ...Sverdrup Islands
(Encyclopedia)Sverdrup Islands: see Queen Elizabeth Islands. ...Solovetsky Islands
(Encyclopedia)Solovetsky Islands, Russia: see Solovetski Islands. ...Ganges
(Encyclopedia)Ganges gŭngˈgä [key], river, c.1,560 mi (2,510 km) long, rising in the Gangotri glacier in the Himalayas in Uttarakhand state, India, and flowing generally southeast through NE India across a vast ...Kérkira
(Encyclopedia)Kérkira kôrˈfo͞o [key], Lat. Corcyra, island (1991 pop. 104,781), 229 sq mi (593 sq km), NW Greece, in the Ionian Sea, the second largest of the Ionian Islands, separated by a narrow channel from ...Micronesia
(Encyclopedia)Micronesia mīkrōnēˈzhə, –shə [key], one of the three main divisions of Oceania, in W Pacific Ocean, north of the equator. Micronesia includes the Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands, Mariana Is...Juan Fernández
(Encyclopedia)Juan Fernández hwän fārnänˈdās [key], group of small islands, S Pacific, c.400 mi (640 km) W of Valparaiso, Chile. They belong to Chile and are constitutionally a special territory; they are adm...Browse by Subject
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