Sentences with phrase «smaller islets which»

To the North and South of Misool, there is also a collection of smaller islets which is where the island's only holiday resort is located.

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Accounting for about 1 percent of all pancreatic cancers, pNET is a cancer of the endocrine cells, known clinically as the islets of Langerhans, which exist in small clusters throughout the pancreas.

This area is characterized by sandy beaches, many small islets, and offshore reefs which disperse the pacific swell.

In general the larger islands have the - ey suffix, and the smaller ones have the - hou suffix; these are believed to be from the Old Norse ey and holmr, respectively which means island and islet.

Fiji is an archipelago of more than 330 islands, of which about a third are permanently inhabited, and more than 500 small islets in the South Pacific, with beaches, coral gardens, and rain forests.

Palawan is an archipelagic province of the Philippines located in the region of MIMAROPA composed of the main Palawan Island (which it is named after) and a number of other smaller islands surrounding it, totaling roughly 1,780 islands and islets.