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The Maltese archipelago (made up of three main islands) is one of Europe's smallest countries.

Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said the missile landed inside of Japan's special economic zone in the Sea of Japan, about 250 kilometers 155 miles) west of Aomori, which is on the northern part of Japan's main island of Honshu.

Since massive Hurricane Maria struck in September and knocked out the dialysis center on the tiny satellite island of Vieques, more than a dozen patients needing treatment now must fly several times a week to the main island.

The company traces its roots to a roadside menswear shop that Yanai's father started more than 60 years ago in the city of Ube in Yamaguchi Prefecture, located near the western tip of the country's main island of Honshu.

Since September 2016, the company has grown its portfolio to 210 prospecting rights applications accepted on Japan's three main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, and Kyushu for a combined 69,505 hectares over 17 projects.

Lawrence Roulston, managing director of WestBay Capital Advisors, discusses the mineral - rich, but often overlooked, main island of Fiji, part of the South Pacific Ring of Fire, and several miners active there.

A short boat ride away from the Main Island lies a separate water village of «The Ocean Pearls»; 16 overwater villas perched on platforms overlooking the iridescent ocean, complete with own fine - dining restaurant and team of private butlers.

Heralding a new era for Fiji tourism and taking the destination's luxury resort offering to levels previously unseen, Nanuku Auberge Resort Fiji is the first all - villa boutique resort to be built on the main island of Viti Levu.

Moreover, the overwhelming majority hail from the main island, Oahu.

Located approximately 30 kilometers west of Cayo Guillermo and Cayo Coco on the Jardines del Rey archipelago, Cayo Santa Maria is connected to the main island of Cuba by a 48 kilometre causeway.

It's the largest island in the Antilles that includes an intricate archipelago that includes the main island (about two - thirds the size of Florida), the Isle of Youth, and about 4,195 keys (cayos) and islets.

The Isle of Youth is second in size only to the main island.

After Hurricane Maria hit a week ago, residents on the small island of Vieques off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico were so cut off that the only way they could reliably contact the main island was through a ham radio a resident rigged up on his own.

Iris Monnereau, a co-author of the study on Micronesia, recalled how a resident on the main island of Kosrae used his own money to jump - start funds for building a seawall.

However, several low - lying reef islands — mostly to the south of the main island — have shrunk (Journal of Coastal Conservation, doi.org/ccxz).

Because the country's landfill on the main island has been exhausted and currently there is only one offshore landfill, new methods to manage and dispose of waste have to be devised.

That's what may happen in Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's main islands.

The Bungo Channel is tucked between two of Japan's main islands and is relatively sheltered from Nankai Trough - generated tsunamis.

The magnitude 9.0 earthquake wrenched the main island of Honshu 2.5 metres closer to the US and nudged the tilt of Earth's axis by 16 centimetres.

And Cuba everybody thinks that is just one island but Cuba is an archipelago of around 3,000 islands, keys, rocks and the main island of Cuba and the second main island.

This is Sakurajima volcano, on the southern tip of Kyushu, the most southerly of Japan's main islands.

The earth's crust is made up of eight large tectonic plates that have been moving and grinding against each other for millions of years, and the largest — the Pacific Plate — dips under the slab of rock underneath Japan's main island, Honshu.

They will give Sweden its first fixed link to the mainland of northwest Europe, and tie Denmark's main islands to each other and to the continent's road and rail networks.

At 2:46 P.M. Tokyo time one of the largest earthquakes of the past century hit just off the coast of Honshu, the main island of Japan.

The plant is a small understory tree found only on the main island of New Caledonia in the South Pacific.

But ITER's six international partners have disagreed for nearly a year on whether it should be built at the E.U. site at Cadarache in southern France or at Rokkasho in the north of Japan's main island.

Since the Kobe Ocean Bottom Exploration Center (KOBEC) was established in 2015, the Center has carried out three survey voyages to the Kikai Caldera, south of Japan's main islands.

The research, conducted by Mr Cyrille Brun, a Masters student at the NUS Faculty of Science under the supervision of Asst Prof Carrasco and Asst Prof Cook, looked at the five main islands of Indonesia, namely Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Papua.

The speed of the Pacific Plate, the distance Japan's main island was displaced, and other facts and figures about the March 11 earthquake help to put this event into perspective

There are two main islands surrounded by almost 800 smaller ones, little commas and elbows of...

Japan's environmental reputation suffered a blow last week when a government report cleared the way for the completion of a dam that will tame the last free - flowing river left on the country's main island of Honshu.

The 1,830 - pound satellite will be launched from ISAS» Kagoshima Space Center, at the southern tip of Kyushu, one of Japan's main islands, and will be the first launch with ISAS» new M - 5 series rocket.

What may look like the road to nowhere is in fact Carn Near quay, the most southerly point of the island, and the nearest to St Mary's (the main island of the Isles of Scilly).

Not only did we spend a beautiful four days in Culebra, but we traveled back to the main island for another four days where we lived the resort life of room service, fancy dinners and reclining on the beach.

The state has an estimated population of 500,000 with almost half located in the greater Hobart area, and an area of 68,401 square kilometers, of which the main island covers 62,409 square kilometers.

Puerto Rico is composed of an archipelago that includes the main island of Puerto Rico and a number of smaller islands and keys, the largest of which are Vieques, Culebra, and Mona.

Puerto Rico is composed of an archipelago that includes the main island of Puerto Rico and a number of smaller islands, the largest of which are Vieques, Culebra, and Mona.

It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kant region of the main island of Honsh.

Puerto Rico is composed of an archipelago that includes the main island of Puerto Rico and a number of smaller islands.

Tokyo, officially Tokyo Metropolis, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and is located on the eastern side of the main island Honsh.

Osaka is a city in Japan, located in the Kansai region of the main island of Honsh.

Surrounded by turquoise sea, the interior of the main island is a mixture of Benefit from a 30 % profit share for every customer that you refer with bet365 Affiliates.

Congestion was so bad at a toll gate in Brebes, a city on the main island of Java, Indonesians started calling the gridlock...

Saddle Rock reared out of the water only two hundred yards southeast of the main island, and from certain angles it looked exactly like a dorsal fin.

Two small chunks ended up lost in the wastes of the southern Pacific Ocean, taking with them their primitive flora and fauna, and formed the two main island of New Zealand.

Unless you have a month to spare, don't consider hopping all the main islands in one visit or you'll return frazzled.

It consists of the main island plus 231 minor islands and is north of Nova Scotia and east of Quebec, Canada.

After this distribution, we had given food to groups in Puerto Rico on the main island, Culebra, and Vieques.

Following a successful campaign headed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the main island was in 2006 declared free of feral cats, and sea birds are now once again nesting on Ascension Island.

The private companion animal veterinarian who splits her time between Vieques and the main island of Puerto Rico has equine expertise and could come out to assess the animal, but she wouldn't be able to treat or euthanize the foal without the owner's permission.