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Charles Island
Charles Island may refer to: * Charles Island (Connecticut), United States * Charles Island, Bermuda, see List of islands of Bermuda#Charles Island * Charles Island (Nunavut), Canada * Floreana Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, formerly known as Charles Island * Española Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, formerly known as Charles Island See also * Charles (other) * Prince Charles Island Prince Charles Island is a large, low-lying island in Canada. With an area of , it is the List of islands by area, world's 77th largest island and the List of Canadian islands by area, 19th largest island in Canada. It is located in Foxe Basin, o ..., Nunavut, Canada * Sir Charles Hardy Islands, Queensland, Australia {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Island (Connecticut)
Charles Island is a 14-acre (57,000 m2) island located roughly 0.5 mile (1 km) off the coast of Milford, Connecticut, in Long Island Sound centered at . Charles Island is accessible from shore via a tombolo (locally referred to as a sandbar), which is exposed at low tide. According to early local histories, the Sachem Ansantawae resided there during the summer months. European discovery of the island occurred in 1614 when Adriaen Block sailed through and mapped Long Island Sound. The island appears on his hand-drawn map found in The Netherlands National Archives. Access Though an island during high tide, during low tide it is accessible by foot using a rocky tombolo that stretches from the beach to the island. Visitors are cautioned about the strong undertow and twice-daily flooding of the sandbar as a result of the tides. Currently (2005) the crossing window is at least two hours. However, Milford locals note that earlier in the 20th century the window was much grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Islands Of Bermuda
Bermuda is an archipelago consisting of 181 islands. List of islands See also * Geography of Bermuda ReferencesBermuda's 123 Islands Listed by name, large and small, present and past External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Islands Of Bermuda * Bermuda
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Charles Island (Nunavut)
Charles Island is an Arctic island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located within Hudson Strait, an arm of Hudson Bay. Charles Bay is on the north side of Charles Island. Cap de Nouvelle-France, on the Ungava Peninsula of Quebec Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ..., is directly southeast of the island. References Sea islands: Atlas of Canada; Natural Resources Canada Islands of Hudson Strait Uninhabited islands of Qikiqtaaluk Region {{QikiqtaalukNU-island-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floreana Island
Floreana Island () is a southern island in Ecuador's Galápagos Archipelago. The island has an area of . It was formed by volcanic eruption. The island's highest point is Cerro Pajas at , which is also the highest point of the volcano like most of the smaller islands of Galápagos. The island has a population of about 100. Names Floreana, sometimes written as Floriana, is named in honor of Juan José Flores, the first president of Ecuador. It was during Flores's presidency that Ecuador took possession of the archipelago. The island was previously known in Spanish as Mercedes Island (), sometimes corrupted to Mascarenas,. in honor of Flores's wife Mercedes Jijón. It was also known as Santa Maria, after the Virgin Mary and the '' Santa María'', one of Christopher Columbus's ships during his initial voyage. Pinta Island similarly remembers another one of his ships. The English pirate William Ambrosia Cowley did not apparently chart or name this island in his 17th-century ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Española Island
Española or Espanola Island () is the most southerly of the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador, about a 10 to 12-hour trip by boat from Santa Cruz. Names ''Española'', Spanish for "Little Spain", is named for Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea owing to its discovery by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage. The name was changed with several other islands in 1892 during the celebration of the quadricentennial of Columbus's voyage. The English pirate William Ambrosia Cowley named the island King Charles's Island in 1684 in honor of the then-reigning monarch CharlesII of England. However, the British captain James Colnett later misunderstood Cowley's maps and accidentally transferred that name to what is now Floreana Island. Thinking Española undiscovered until that point, he renamed it Hood Island in 1793 in honor of Admiral Samuel Hood, Baronet of Catherington and 1st Baron Hood, later created 1st Viscount Hood for his success in the Napoleonic Wars. Geography Es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles (other)
Charles is an English masculine given name. Charles may also refer to: People * Charles (surname) * Saint Charles (other), various saints and places named for them * King Charles (other), various monarchs and places named for them * Prince Charles (other), various princes and places named for them * Lord Charles (other), various nobles * Sir Charles (other), various nobles and knights Places * Charles, Providence, Rhode Island * Charles, Devon, a hamlet in the North Devon district of Devon, England * Charles Bridge in the Czech Republic * Charles City, Iowa, U.S.A. * Charles City, Virginia, U.S.A. * Charles County, Maryland, U.S.A. * Charles City County, Virginia, U.S.A. * The Charles, a building on the Upper East Side of New York City, U.S.A. * Charleston (other), various towns * Charlestown (other), various towns * Charles Town (other), various towns * Charles River (other), various rivers * Charl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Charles Island
Prince Charles Island is a large, low-lying island in Canada. With an area of , it is the List of islands by area, world's 77th largest island and the List of Canadian islands by area, 19th largest island in Canada. It is located in Foxe Basin, off the west coast of Baffin Island, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. Though Prince Charles Island has no permanent residents, Inuit visited the island to hunt caribou; the island has no specific name in the Inuktitut language. Despite the island's size, it was not recorded by Western world, Western cartographers until 1932, when the tug captain W. A. Poole first sighted it. His information never made it onto any published map.Hayes, Derek. 'Newestfoundland' (''Canadian Geographic'', 123 (5), Sep.-Oct. 2003: 34-35). It was rediscovered in 1948 by Albert-Ernest Tomkinson navigating an Avro Lancaster for the RCAF 408 (Photo) Squadron. The island was named for British Charles, Prince of Wales, Prince Charles (later King Charles III ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
