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America
North America and South America and Central America
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Continent
the European mainland
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Asia Minor
a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey
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Anguilla
a British colony in the West Indies
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Aran Islands
three small islands belonging to Ireland at the entrance to Galway Bay
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Antigua
the largest of the islands comprising Antigua and Barbuda
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Barbuda
an island in Antigua and Barbuda
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Redonda
an island in Antigua and Barbuda
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Bermudas
a group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast; British colony; a popular resort
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Bouvet Island
an island belonging to Norway in the South Atlantic near the Antarctic Circle
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Montserrat
a volcanic island in the Caribbean; in the West Indies
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Balkan Peninsula
a large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range
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Cape Verde Islands
a group of islands in the Atlantic off of the coast of Senegal
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Sao Tiago Island
largest of the Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic Ocean
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Falkland Islands
a group of over 100 islands in the southern Atlantic off the coast of Argentina; a British Crown Colony
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Ceylon
an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India
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Chiloe
the largest Chilean island and the only one to be settled; located off south-central Chile
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Tierra del Fuego
an archipelago off southern South America; separated from the continent by the Strait of Magellan; islands are administered by Chile and by Argentina
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Cape Horn
a rocky headland belonging to Chile at the southernmost tip of South America (south of Tierra del Fuego)
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Formosa
an island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea
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Nationalist China
a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong
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Indochinese peninsula
a peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnam
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Comoro Islands
three main islands and numerous islets in the Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar
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Central America
the isthmus joining North America and South America; extends from the southern border of Mexico to the northern border of Colombia
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Yucatan Peninsula
a peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea
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Guadalupe Island
a Mexican island in the Pacific to the west of Baja California
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West Indies
the string of islands between North America and South America; a popular resort area
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Antilles
a group of islands in the West Indies
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Greater Antilles
a group of islands in the western West Indies
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Lesser Antilles
a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies
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Netherlands Antilles
a group of islands in the Lesser Antilles just to the north of Venezuela that are administered by The Netherlands
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Aruba
a popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles
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Bonaire
a popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles
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Curacao
a popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles
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Saba
a island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano
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Saint Eustatius
an island in the Netherlands Antilles
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Leeward Islands
a group of islands in the eastern West Indies
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Saint Maarten
an island in the western Leeward Islands; administered jointly by France and the Netherlands
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Windward Islands
a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies; the southern part of the Lesser Antilles
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Cuba
the largest island in the West Indies
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Guadeloupe
an island territory of France located in the eastern West Indies; tourism is the major industry
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Hispaniola
an island in the West Indies
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Puerto Rico
the smallest and easternmost of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean
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Culebra
a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico with miles of beautiful beaches
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Vieques
a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico used for target practice by the United States Navy
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Jamaica
an island in the West Indies to the south of Cuba and to the west of Haiti
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Virgin Islands
a group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493; owned by United States and Britain
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Barbados
easternmost of the West Indies about 300 miles to the north of Venezuela
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Trinidad
an island in West Indies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela
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Tobago
island in West Indies
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Cyprus
an island in the eastern Mediterranean
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Scandinavian Peninsula
the peninsula in northern Europe occupied by Norway and Sweden
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Jutland
peninsula in northern Europe that forms the continental part of Denmark and a northern part of Germany
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Sjaelland
the largest island of Denmark and the site of Copenhagen
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Dominica
a volcanic island in the Windward Islands that was once a stronghold of the Carib Indians
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Bioko
an island in the Gulf of Guinea that is part of Equatorial Guinea
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Svalbard
a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean
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Spitsbergen
islands in the Svalbard archipelago to the east of northern Greenland; belonging to Norway
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Lofoten
a string of islands off the northwestern coast of Norway in the Norwegian Sea
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Lindesnes
a cape at the southern tip of Norway
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Galapagos Islands
a group of islands in the Pacific off South America; owned by Ecuador; known for unusual animal life
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Fiji Islands
a group of more than 800 islands (100 inhabited) in the southwestern Pacific; larger islands (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu) are of volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs; smaller islands are coral
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Viti Levu
a volcanic island in the Fijis
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Vanua Levu
a volcanic island in the Fijis
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Aaland islands
an archipelago of some 6,000 islands in the Gulf of Bothnia under Finnish control
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Aegina
an island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf
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Chios
an island in the Aegean Sea off the west coast of Turkey; belongs to Greece
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Kikladhes
a group of over 200 islands in the southern Aegean
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Dhodhekanisos
a group of islands in the southeast Aegean Sea
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Mytilene
an island of eastern Greece in the eastern Aegean Sea; in antiquity it was famous for lyric poetry
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Rhodes
a Greek island in the southeast Aegean Sea 10 miles off the Turkish coast; the largest of the Dodecanese; it was colonized before 1000 BC by Dorians from Argos; site of the Colossus of Rhodes
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Crete
the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 BC
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Ithaca
a Greek island to the west of Greece; in Homeric legend Odysseus was its king
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Aegadean Islands
a group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean
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Peloponnesian Peninsula
the southern peninsula of Greece; dominated by Sparta until the 4th century BC
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Lemnos
a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea; famous for a reddish-brown clay that has medicinal properties
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Olympia
a plain in Greece in the northwestern Peloponnese; the chief sanctuary of Zeus and the site of the original Olympian Games
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Italian Peninsula
a boot-shaped peninsula in southern Europe extending into the Mediterranean Sea
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Capri
an island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy; a tourist attraction noted for beautiful scenery
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Ischia
a volcanic island (part of Campania) in the Tyrrhenian Sea at the north end of the Bay of Naples
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Sardegna
an island in the Mediterranean to the west of Italy
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Sicilia
the largest island in the Mediterranean
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Cape Passero
a cape that forms the southeastern corner of the island of Sicily
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Kalaallit Nunaat
the largest island in the world; lies between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean; a self-governing province of Denmark
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Baffin Island
the 5th largest island and the largest island of Arctic Canada; lies between Greenland and Hudson Bay
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Vancouver Island
an island off southwestern Canada (off the southwestern coast of British Columbia); the largest island off the west coast of North America
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Newfoundland
an island in the north Atlantic
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Arctic Archipelago
all the islands that lie to the north of mainland Canada and the Arctic Circle
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Cape Breton Island
an island that forms the northeastern part of Nova Scotia
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Nova Scotia
a peninsula in eastern Canada between the Bay of Fundy and the Saint Lawrence River
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Tasmania
an island off the southeastern coast of Australia
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Norfolk Island
an island territory of Australia in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Australia; formerly a British penal colony
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Nullarbor Plain
a vast arid plain of southern Australia stretching inland from the Great Australian Bight; has sparse vegetation and no surface water and is almost uninhabited; the site of a major rocket research center
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Aleutian Islands
an archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska
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Oceanica
a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)
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Australasia
Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands in the South Pacific
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Austronesia
islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia)
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Melanesia
the islands in the southwestern part of Oceania
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Micronesia
the islands in the northwestern part of Oceania
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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 1521
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Saipan
the largest island in the Northern Marianas and the administrative center of the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in union with the United States
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Guam
the largest and southernmost island in the Marianas which is administered as a territory of the United States; it was ceded by Spain to the United States in 1898
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Wake Island
an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii
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Caroline Islands
a long archipelago of more than 500 islands in Micronesia to the east of the Philippines
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Marshall Islands
a group of coral islands in eastern Micronesia
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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 1979
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Ellice Islands
a group of coral islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii
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Pleasant Island
a small island in the central Pacific Ocean 2,800 miles to the southwest of Hawaii; in Micronesia to the west of the Gilbert Islands
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Polynesia
the islands in the eastern part of Oceania
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Malay Archipelago
a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia
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Sunda Islands
a chain of islands in the western Malay Archipelago
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Greater Sunda Islands
a chain of islands including Borneo and Celebes and Java and Sumatra
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Lesser Sunda Islands
a chain of islands forming a province of Indonesia to the east of Java; includes Bali and Timor
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Bismarck Archipelago
a group of islands in the southwestern Pacific to the northeast of New Guinea; part of Papua New Guinea
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Admiralty Islands
a group of islands in the Bismarck Archipelago
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Kalimantan
3rd largest island in the world; in the western Pacific to the north of Java; largely covered by dense jungle and rain forest; part of the Malay Archipelago
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Bougainville
the largest of the Solomon Islands; a province of Papua New Guinea
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Guadalcanal
a mountainous island; the largest of the Solomon Islands in the independent state that is a member of the British Commonwealth
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New Britain
the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea
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New Caledonia
an island to the to the east of Australia and to the north of New Zealand
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New Guinea
a Pacific island to the north of Australia; the 2nd largest island in the world; the western part is governed by Indonesia and the eastern part is Papua New Guinea
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New Ireland
an island in the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea
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Arabian Peninsula
a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources
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Bahrain Island
an island in the Persian Gulf
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British Isles
Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic
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Great Britain
an island comprising England and Scotland and Wales
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Emerald Isle
an island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
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Marston Moor
a former moor in northern England
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Channel Island
any of a group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France
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Isles of Scilly
an archipelago of small islands off the southwestern coast of England near the entrance to the English Channel; formerly a haven for smugglers and pirates
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Isle of Man
one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea
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Hebridean Islands
a group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland
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Inner Hebrides
islands between the Outer Hebrides and the western coast of Scotland
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Isle of Skye
an island of northwestern Scotland noted for its rugged mountain scenery
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Islay
an island of western Scotland at the southern end of the Inner Hebrides
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Mull
an island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides
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Staffa
an island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides to the west of Mull; site of Fingal's Cave
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Outer Hebrides
a 130-mile long archipelago to the northwest of Scotland
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Anglesea Island
an island to the northwest of Wales
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Sinai Peninsula
a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea
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Java
an island in Indonesia to the south of Borneo; one of the world's most densely populated regions
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Bali
an island in Indonesia to the east of Java; striking volcanic scenery; culture is known for elaborate dances and rituals and for handicrafts
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Timor
an island in Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago; the largest and most eastern of the Lesser Sunda Islands
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Sumatra
a mountainous island in western Indonesia
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Sulawesi
a mountainous island in eastern Indonesia
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Spice Islands
a group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea; settled by the Portuguese but taken by the Dutch who made them the center for a spice monopoly, at which time they were known as Spice Islands
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Japanese Archipelago
a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean
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Hokkaido
the second largest of the four main islands of Japan; to the north of Honshu
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Honshu
the central and largest of the four main islands of Japan; between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean; regarded as the Japanese mainland
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Kyushu
the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan; contains coal fields
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Shikoku
the smallest of the four main islands of Japan; to the south of Honshu and to the east of Kyushu; separated from Honshu by the Inland Sea; forested and mountainous
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Okinawa
the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands
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Ryukyu Islands
a chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific to the to the southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972)
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Volcano Islands
a group of Japanese Islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean to the north of the Marianas
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Iwo Jima
the largest of the Volcano Islands of Japan
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Ile-St-Louis
island in Paris on the Seine
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Corsica
an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France
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Martinique
an island in the eastern Caribbean in the Windward Islands; administered as an overseas region of France
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Frisian Islands
a chain of islands in the North Sea off the coast of northwestern Europe extending from the IJsselmeer to Jutland
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Faeroe Islands
a group of 21 volcanic islands in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetland Islands
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Iceland
a volcanic island in the North Atlantic near the Arctic Circle
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Orkney Islands
an archipelago of about 70 islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland
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Shetland Islands
an archipelago of about 100 islands in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland
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Dae-Han-Min-Gook
an Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan; the Korean name is Dae-Han-Min-Gook or Han-Gook
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Madagascar
an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa; the 4th largest island in the world
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Malay Peninsula
a peninsula in southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and Myanmar
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Maldive Islands
a group of about 1,200 small coral islands (about 220 inhabited) in the Indian ocean
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Malta
a strategically located island to the south of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea
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Mauritius
an island in the southwestern Indian Ocean
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New Zealand Islands
North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific
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North Island
the smaller but more populous of two main islands of New Zealand; separated from South Island by Cook Strait
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South Island
the larger but less populous of two main islands of New Zealand; separated from North Island by Cook Strait
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Palau Islands
a chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean
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Philippine Islands
an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands
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Cebu
one of the Visayan islands of the central Philippines; important for its fine harbor
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Luzon
the main island of the Philippines
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Mindanao
the second largest island of the Philippines at the southern end of the archipelago; mountainous and volcanic
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Mindoro
a mountainous island in the central Philippines
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Visayan Islands
group of islands in the central Philippines
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Iberian Peninsula
a peninsula in southwestern Europe
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Acores
islands in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to Portugal
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Madeira
an island in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa; the largest of the Madeira Islands
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Madeira Islands
a group of volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean to the west of Morocco; the group forms an autonomous region of Portugal
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Katar Peninsula
a peninsula extending northward from the Arabian mainland into the Persian Gulf
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Saint Christopher
the largest of the islands comprising Saint Christopher-Nevis
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Nevis
one of the islands of Saint Christopher-Nevis
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Sombrero
one of the islands of Saint Christopher-Nevis
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Saint Lucia
a volcanic island in the Windward Isles to the south of Martinique
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Saint Vincent
an island in the center of the Windward Islands; the largest of the islands comprising Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Tahiti
an island in the south Pacific; the most important island in French Polynesia; made famous by Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin
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Society Islands
an island group of French Polynesia in the South Pacific to the east of Samoa
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Paumotu Archipelago
a group of about 80 coral islands in French Polynesia
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Austral Islands
a chain of small islands in French Polynesia
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Gambier Islands
a group of islands in the south central Pacific; part of French Polynesia
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Marquesas Islands
a group of volcanic islands in the south central Pacific; part of French Polynesia
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Samoan Islands
a group of volcanic islands in the South Pacific midway between Hawaii and Australia; its climate and scenery and Polynesian culture make it a popular tourist stop
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Principe
an island in the Gulf of Guinea that is part of Sao Tome and Principe
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Seychelles islands
a group of about 90 islands in the western Indian Ocean to the north of Madagascar
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Singapore Island
an island to the south of the Malay Peninsula
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Solomon Islands
the northernmost islands are part of Papua New Guinea; the remainder form an independent state within the British Commonwealth
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Somali peninsula
a peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia
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Cape of Good Hope
a point of land in southwestern South Africa (south of Cape Town)
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Novaya Zemlya
two islands in the Arctic Ocean belonging to Russia; site of a test center for nuclear warheads
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Kola Peninsula
a peninsula in northwestern Russia projecting eastward between the Barents Sea and the White Sea
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Crimea
a Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov
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Kamchatka Peninsula
a peninsula in eastern Siberia; between Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk
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Taimyr Peninsula
a peninsula in northern Siberia
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Balearic Islands
an archipelago in the western Mediterranean off the eastern coast of Spain
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Majorca
the largest of the Balearic Islands
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Canary Islands
a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish provinces
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Tenerife
a Spanish island in the Atlantic off the northwestern coast of Africa; the largest of the Canary Islands
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Zanzibar
an island in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa; part of the United Republic of Tanzania
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Serengeti Plain
a vast plain in Tanzania to the west of the Great Rift Valley known for its wildlife
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Seward Peninsula
a peninsula in western Alaska that projects westward into the Bering Sea just below the Arctic Circle
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Alexander Archipelago
a group of islands off southeastern Alaska
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Admiralty Island
an Alaskan island in the Alexander Archipelago near Juneau
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Catalina Island
an island resort in the Pacific off the southwestern coast of California
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Hawaiian Islands
a group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific
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Hawaii Island
the largest and southernmost of the Hawaii islands; has several volcanic peaks
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Kahoolawe Island
an island of south-central Hawaii
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Kauai Island
an island of Hawaii to the northwest of Oahu
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Lanai Island
an island of central Hawaii; a pineapple-growing area
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Maui Island
the second largest of the Hawaiian Islands
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Molokai Island
an island of central Hawaii (between Maui and Oahu)
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Nihau Island
the most northwestern Hawaiian island (beyond Kauai)
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Oahu Island
an island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai); the chief island of the state
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Cape Ann
a Massachusetts peninsula to the north of Boston extending into the Atlantic Ocean
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Cape Cod
a Massachusetts peninsula to the south of Boston extending into the Atlantic; a popular resort area
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Martha's Vineyard
an island summer resort off of Cape Cod
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Nantucket
an island resort off Cape Cod; formerly a center of the whaling industry
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Cape May
a cape of southeast New Jersey extending into the Atlantic Ocean
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Bedloe's Island
an island in New York Bay to the southwest of Manhattan where the Statue of Liberty stands
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Manhattan Island
an island at the north end of New York Bay where the borough of Manhattan is located
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Ellis Island
an island in New York Bay that was formerly the principal immigration station for the United States
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Long Island
an island in southeastern New York; Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end
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Cape Fear
a cape in southeastern North Carolina extending into the Atlantic Ocean
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Cape Flattery
a cape of northwestern Washington
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Cape Froward
a cape on the Strait of Magellan in southern Chile; the most southern point on the mainland of South America
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Cape Hatteras
a promontory on Hatteras Island off the Atlantic coast of North Carolina
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Hatteras Island
a barrier island running parallel to the North Carolina shore
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Galveston Island
an island at the entrance of Galveston Bay
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Krakatao
a small volcanic island in Indonesia between Java and Sumatra; its violent eruption in 1883 was the greatest in recorded history
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New Siberian Islands
a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia and to the east of the Laptev Sea
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Africa
the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean
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Alaska Peninsula
a peninsula of southwestern Alaska (a continuation of the Aleutian Islands)
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Antarctic continent
an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep
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Antarctic Peninsula
a large peninsula of Antarctica that extends some 1200 miles north toward South America; separates the Weddell Sea from the South Pacific
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Asia
the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
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Australia
the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean
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Black Forest
a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany
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Cape Sable
a cape at the southwest tip of Florida; the southernmost part of the United States mainland
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Cape Trafalgar
a small cape in southwestern Spain
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Cape York
the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula at the Torres Strait; the northernmost point of the Australian mainland
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Cape York Peninsula
a peninsula in Queensland in northeastern Australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea
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Chukchi Peninsula
peninsula of northeastern Siberia across the Bering Strait from northwestern Alaska
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Eurasia
the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
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Europe
the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
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Eyre Peninsula
a peninsula of southern Australia
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Gondwanaland
a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into India and Australia and Africa and South America and Antarctica
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Hoek van Holland
a cape on the southwestern coast of the Netherlands near Rotterdam
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islet
a small island
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Isthmus of Corinth
a narrow isthmus between the Gulf of Corinth and the Saronic Gulf; a canal crosses the isthmus so that navigation is possible between the gulfs
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Isthmus of Kra
a narrow isthmus linking the Malay Peninsula to the Asian mainland
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Isthmus of Darien
the isthmus that connects Central America and South America; was formerly called the Isthmus of Darien
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Isthmus of Suez
the isthmus in northeastern Egypt that connects Africa and Asia
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Isthmus of Tehuantepec
the narrowest part of southern Mexico is an isthmus between the Bay of Campeche on the north coast and the Gulf of Tehuantepec on the south coast
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Karelian Isthmus
the isthmus between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga that connects Finland and Russia
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Kodiak Island
an island off southern Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska; site of the first European settlement in the area which was founded by the Russians in 1784
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Labrador-Ungava Peninsula
a peninsular region of eastern Canada between Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea; contains most of Quebec and the mainland part of Newfoundland and Labrador
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Laurasia
a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into North America and Europe and Asia
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Liaodong Peninsula
a peninsula in northeastern China that extends into the Yellow Sea, between Bo Hai and Korea Bay
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Lower California
a mountainous peninsula on northwest Mexico
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Lower Peninsula
the part of northern Michigan between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron
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North America
a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama
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Pangaea
(plate tectonics) a hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland
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Sherwood Forest
an ancient forest in central England; formerly a royal hunting ground; said to be the home of Robin Hood and his merry band
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Skagens Odde
a cape on the northernmost tip of Jutland between the Skagerrak and the Kattegatt
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South America
a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama
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Upper Peninsula
the peninsula between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan that forms the northwestern part of Michigan
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Wilderness
a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War