Plans to build a house on an uninhabited islet off the south of Sanday were turned down by islands' councillors on Thursday morning. |
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It was resting in a valley in an uninhabited region of the Atlas Mountains. |
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From that point, the property has remained uninhabited, and has slowly decayed. |
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Yes, I know that archives exist, but archives are invariably dusty, filled with cobwebs and virtually uninhabited. |
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The group of uninhabited islets about 180 km north of Taiwan are claimed by Taiwan, China and Japan. |
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His Canadian co-pilot Lorne White will be travelling alongside him over some of the most uninhabited regions in the world. |
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The tiny uninhabited island is in the Sea of Japan halfway between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. |
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He only knew that thirty ships had come through a wormhole that connected Granger's solar system to an uninhabited star system. |
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Many settlers made their way to Utah by wagon train in search of an uninhabited land to start their own way of life. |
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Dressed in their finest and bedecked with gold jewellery, their appearance seemed at odds in that uninhabited place. |
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The high urbanisation has resulted in massive tracts of uninhabited land across the country. |
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The jump is likely to take place in May next year in an uninhabited area of Canada, although the details have not been finalised. |
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By sheer luck, the gas released in Oklahoma City was blown into a mostly uninhabited area. |
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Many of these storms, if they occurred in uninhabited areas, would pass without any notice or impacts. |
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The first two doors led to uninhabited rooms, only filled with unused beds and bureaus. |
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Some small uninhabited Pacific islands that have existed for centuries have disappeared. |
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Even on the stormy day that we visited, the vista over some of the uninhabited islands was magical. |
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Twenty years ago this land was unusable and uninhabited, its soil burdened by a high degree of aluminium toxicity. |
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Less than 30 miles from the centre of Glasgow, in the fresh waters of Loch Lomond, three uninhabited islands are for sale. |
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In 2002, a dozen Moroccan soldiers planted a flag on Parsley Island, a small, uninhabited outcropping off the shore near Ceuta. |
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Australian landscape painting is perhaps better known for scenes of the vast uninhabited bush, or else gritty urban scenes. |
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Owned by Mexico, the islands are uninhabited except for a naval base on Socorro. |
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The 60 mostly uninhabited islands which comprise the group lie within an area only 20 miles square. |
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A chartered helicopter transported construction materials out to the uninhabited islet to allow the construction of the three metre high light. |
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Some urban areas are overcrowded, while other regions are almost uninhabited. |
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But many of the 700 islands and 2,000 cays that make up the archipelago are either uninhabited or have much smaller-scale tourism. |
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A whole small uninhabited town was erected nearby with two shops, a metro station, a factory and road and railway bridges. |
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The first Europeans to visit these uninhabited islands thought they were bewitched. |
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Rusty iron scraps, pipes and unusually shaped stones were scattered around the inhospitable and largely uninhabited area, it said. |
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Some of these places include uninhabited sites, places where an array of spirit beings including jinn and ghosts are believed to reside. |
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The scene is usually uninhabited but spinning wheels, Windsor chairs, rag rugs, and other icons of the colonial revival suggest a human presence. |
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Wide expanses of countryside are uninhabited save for the occasional ramshackle farmhouse. |
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Ahead is a barren land of lochans and beautifully-ridged mountains rising steeply from an uninhabited wilderness. |
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The UCAO needs to codify its due regard procedures for uninhabited aircraft flying in international airspace. |
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The area remains largely unspoiled and uninhabited, complete with undammed rivers and 90-year-old cedars and white and red pines. |
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Just looking at the lactescent SavMart or the uninhabited appearance of Sy's apartment is enough to make you feel hollow inside. |
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On through Crick tunnel and then mile after mile of seemingly uninhabited country as we boxed the compass on the summit section towards Welford. |
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The owl fled to the wild, uninhabited places, and now mournfully cries out for her home. |
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Sea-kayak around uninhabited islands and hike desert arroyos, then spend evenings swapping expedition tales with Messner and Kane. |
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Teal-blue water licked at uninhabited gleaming, creamy beaches backdropped by vertically faced limestone cliffs hundreds of feet straight up. |
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These guidelines specifically exclude manned aircraft but include the export of uninhabited aerial aircraft and related technology. |
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They are found guilty and are sentenced to banishment to an uninhabited planet. |
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His family were one of the first groups to attempt to footwalk across the uninhabited desert which separated them from the settlement. |
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I always went with the bag and stopped at remote and uninhabited places to practise my Shaolin. |
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Four thousand years ago the valley of Mecca was a dry and uninhabited place. |
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Dashed upon a bleak, inhospitable and unfortunately uninhabited shore, the five shipwrecked souls were faced with extinction if not rescued. |
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Large uninhabited forests and mountain areas have supported a rich wildlife and provided opportunities for hunting. |
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Because of Mongol devastation and subsequent Tatar raids, the Eastern Ukrainian lands were relatively uninhabited. |
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From here, a telescope would show Earth as an uninhabited and uninhabitable world of water, with a few islands here and there. |
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He just sends me out, and I direct the people to the uninhabited areas of the junkyard. |
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If it's solitude you're seeking, Rannoch Moor is the largest uninhabited area in Britain. |
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Their swords clashed with each other, ringing loudly over their uninhabited location. |
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It concentrates on places devoid of human interference, focusing on patterns made on often extreme and uninhabited places. |
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He claimed Midway for the U.S., based on the Guano Acts of 1856, which authorized Americans to temporarily occupy uninhabited islands to obtain guano. |
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American artist Michael Ashkin also employs uninhabited panoramas in a series of photographs and videos that suggest what happens when heavy industry moves on. |
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North and South America, though at that time uninhabited by people, teemed with huge, unfamiliar, and fierce beasts. |
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Sixteen Irish people would be brought to an uninhabited island in the South Pacific and left there to survive on the food they could gather or kill for themselves. |
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The Congo area is thought to have been uninhabited before the 15th century when Pygmies moved into the area from the north and Kongo people from the east. |
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From there, the local authorities transported the group to Kuku, an uninhabited island, and left them there. |
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The Pentagon disregarded the order and sent two huge planes to pass over a group of tiny uninhabited islands south-west of Japan. |
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The Hague Convention, Article Four, states that you are not allowed to bombard uninhabited villages or villages that are not occupied by defendants. |
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They stopped at a normally uninhabited site and chose it to host the fire. |
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What was once one of 505 uninhabited islands in the region quickly became a bustling, crammed metropolis. |
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The English found the island uninhabited when they landed in 1625, although archaeological findings have documented prior habitation by Carib and Arawak Native Americans. |
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Would it not be better if such a terminal was in a more uninhabited area? |
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The beach extends for 10km and is pocketed with serene, uninhabited sections. |
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Many more died on uninhabited islands, victims of tropical diseases, hunger and heartbreak. |
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Commonly, exhaust vents in populated areas are soon sensed and are sealed while vents in uninhabited areas remain undiscovered. |
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These islands are mostly uninhabited and protected as nature reserves, and are home to some unique wild flower species. |
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Earlier, quite large land areas had been either unclaimed or uninhabited, or inhabited by nomadic peoples who were not organised as states. |
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A desert island, deserted island or uninhabited island is an island that is not permanently populated by humans. |
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Some uninhabited islands are protected as nature reserves and some are privately owned. |
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Devon Island in Canada is claimed to be the largest uninhabited island in the world. |
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In the popular conception, such islands are often located in the Pacific, tropical, uninhabited and usually uncharted. |
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In 1820, the crew of the whaler Essex spent time on uninhabited Henderson Island. |
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Norsemen settled the uninhabited southern part of Greenland beginning in the 10th century, and Inuit peoples arrived in the 13th century. |
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The Bailiwick of Jersey consists of the island of Jersey and a number of surrounding uninhabited islands. |
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The rest are either uninhabited or have a transitory population of military or scientific personnel. |
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Each jurisdiction has inhabited and uninhabited islands and its own elected government. |
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Tiree was famed in later times for its oats and barley, while smaller, uninhabited islands were used to keep sheep. |
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The United States is a federal republic of 50 states, a federal district, five territories and eleven uninhabited island possessions. |
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In the past many smaller islands that are uninhabited today had permanent populations. |
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This is a continuing list of uninhabited Scottish islands smaller than 40 hectares in size. |
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He stated it was a gloomy journey amongst uninhabited islands, but he had visited one which was the retreat of holy men. |
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The derivations of all of the inhabited islands of the Hebrides and some of the larger uninhabited ones are listed below. |
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The names of uninhabited islands follow the same general patterns as the inhabited islands. |
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Apart from the main island of Anguilla itself, the territory includes a number of other smaller islands and cays, mostly tiny and uninhabited. |
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When discovered, Bermuda was uninhabited and mostly dominated by forests of Bermuda cedar, with mangrove marshes along its shores. |
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The Portuguese found Saint Helena uninhabited, with an abundance of trees and freshwater. |
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Diego Garcia and the rest of the Chagos islands were uninhabited until the late 18th century. |
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The 15 inhabited islands have a total population of 27,100 and there are more than 50 substantial uninhabited islands. |
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The island became completely uninhabited by 1980 with the automation of the lighthouse. |
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Kuwait has nine islands, all of which, with the exception of Failaka Island, are uninhabited. |
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The region was almost uninhabited, and there was only a military colony until 1897, with the creation of a postal office in the region. |
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The 15 inhabited islands have a total population of 26,900 and there are more than 50 substantial uninhabited islands. |
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Some of the uninhabited islands have only become uninhabited in recent decades, for economic reasons. |
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Spain claims the sovereignty over the Perejil Island, a small, uninhabited rocky islet located in the South shore of the Strait of Gibraltar. |
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Strabo, based on theory alone, states that Ierne is so cold that any lands north of it must be uninhabited. |
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On some low tides it is possible to walk between Bryher and Tresco and even Samson, the uninhabited island to the south. |
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For centuries Gugh seemed to have been uninhabited and used by the residents of St Agnes for cattle grazing. |
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Though uninhabited, these were intended to cloak the real purpose of the buildings. |
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Iceland was still uninhabited long after the rest of Western Europe had been settled. |
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Apart from Britain and Ireland, Norwegian Vikings established settlements in largely uninhabited regions. |
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Spanish troops had taken the normally uninhabited island after Moroccan soldiers landed on it and set up tents and a flag. |
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Part of the territory, the Free Zone, is a mostly uninhabited area that the Polisario Front controls as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. |
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The islands were uninhabited until their discovery by Portuguese explorers in the 15th century. |
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Tarragona was uninhabited for seven years until the Frankish conquest of Barcelona led to its reoccupation. |
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They continued downriver through an uninhabited area, where they could not find food. |
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Just off the Mauritian coast lie some 49 uninhabited islands and islets, several used as natural reserves for endangered species. |
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The island of Mauritius was uninhabited before its first recorded visit during the Middle Ages by Arab sailors, who named it Dina Arobi. |
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In 1507, Portuguese sailors came to the uninhabited island and established a visiting base. |
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The mostly uninhabited islands north and west of the main island are part of Magallanes Province. |
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Before about 1930, European maps showed the highlands as uninhabited forests. |
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Atolls are uninhabited due to poor living conditions, lack of rain, or nuclear contamination. |
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Going up the coast Cabrillo saw Anacapa Island, which they learned from the Indians was uninhabited. |
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Marooning is the intentional act of abandoning someone in an uninhabited area, such as a desert island. |
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In 2012, Ed Stafford marooned himself on an uninhabited island off Fiji as an experiment for 60 days. |
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The majority of the sea's islands are uninhabited making them ideal breeding grounds for seals, sea lions, seabirds, and other sea island fauna. |
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The islands are currently uninhabited but were known to the mainland Gilyak tribes for their fishing grounds. |
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Atlasov Island, an uninhabited volcanic island off the southern tip of Kamchatka, is named after him. |
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Apart from possibly displacing the Caribs, the Spanish and Portuguese made little impact and left the island uninhabited. |
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Our machines have shown us the uninhabited heavens while parting the angelless clouds. |
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Southward from the summit, Esk Pike throws out a long descending ridge into the uninhabited fastness of Upper Eskdale. |
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The land is thus largely uninhabited moorland plateaux where almost any depression is filled with sphagnum bogs and black peat. |
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Iceland, then uninhabited, was discovered by Norwegians during the late 9th century. |
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And yet in those opening scenes Aberystwyth has never looked so dark or sinister, so uninhabited or hard. |
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Two women, who I think still think of themselves as underage tomgirls, in one small corner of the terrible, terribly lovely, uninhabited world. |
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However, a proposal to establish a pearl farm on uninhabited Suwarrow atoll was rejected in 2001 over fears that the atoll's large seabird colonies would be disturbed. |
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According to sources, the Liberal Democratic Party decided to nationalize these uninhabited islets and set them as the new base points of Japan's territorial waters. |
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The Scillies comprise five inhabited and numerous uninhabited islands. |
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Only a short boat trip away are the uninhabited nature sanctuaries Green Island and Great Bird Island, home to West Indian whistling ducks, rare lizards and laughing gulls. |
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Since it seemed to lead in the right direction and its banks were virtually uninhabited, the shiplord declared it good fortune and chose to press on. |
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However, no settlements have lasted more than a few years, and Bear Island is now uninhabited except for personnel working at the island's meteorological station Herwighamna. |
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However, while there was no loss of life, the ship was wrecked beyond repair, stranding its survivors on the uninhabited archipelago, to which they laid claim for England. |
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Mona, which has played a key role in maritime history, is uninhabited most of the year except for employees of the Puerto Rico Department of Natural Resources. |
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Samar at dawn on the 16th March 1521, making landfall the following day at the small, uninhabited island of Homonhon at the mouth of the Leyte Gulf. |
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There are seven inhabited islands and several that are uninhabited. |
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Taino people moved into the uninhabited southern Bahamas from Hispaniola and Cuba around the 11th century, having migrated there from South America. |
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Before the arrival of Europeans, the Cape Verde Islands were uninhabited. |
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During the Hohenstaufen period, German princes facilitated a successful, peaceful eastward settlement of lands that were uninhabited or inhabited sparsely by West Slavs. |
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The civil parish and ward include several uninhabited islands and rocks, including the Eastern Isles, Great Ganilly, English Island and White Island. |
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Off the southern end of Bryher is the uninhabited island of Samson. |
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The islands are uninhabited apart from the personnel of a weather station. |
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Some 70 of them are populated but the remainder are uninhabited. |
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A single track road runs around the coast of the island where the flattest land and houses are, the interior of the island is hilly and uninhabited. |
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The land where the Darien colony was built is virtually uninhabited today. |
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Buffer zones often result in large uninhabited regions which are themselves noteworthy in many increasingly developed or crowded parts of the world. |
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To satisfy the terms of an agreement between the UK and the United States for an uninhabited island, the plantation on Diego Garcia was closed in October of that year. |
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Although archaeologists believe that Polynesians were living on Pitcairn as late as the 15th century, the islands were uninhabited when they were rediscovered by Europeans. |
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For a number of years in the early 2000s, the volcano's activity consisted mostly of infrequent ventings of ash into the uninhabited areas in the south. |
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Although Fuegians from Patagonia may have visited the Falkland Islands in prehistoric times, the islands were uninhabited at the time of their discovery by Europeans. |
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The Cayman Islands remained largely uninhabited until the 17th century. |
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The air force practices dropping live bombs on the uninhabited island. |
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A civil parish can range in area from a small village or town ward to a large tract of mostly uninhabited moorland in the Cheviots, Pennines or Dartmoor. |
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After a few thousand years the mild climate deteriorated leaving these areas uninhabited and consequently relatively undisturbed to the present day. |
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