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floating island
A floating island is a mass of floating aquatic plants, mud, and peat ranging in thickness from several centimeters to a few meters. Sometimes referred to as ''tussocks'', ''floatons'', or ''suds'', floating islands are found in many parts of t ...
is a mass of floating aquatic plants, mud, and peat.
Floating island may also refer to:
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Very large floating structure
Very large floating structures (VLFSs) or very large floating platforms (VLFPs) are artificial islands, which may be constructed to create floating airports, bridges, breakwaters, piers and docks, storage facilities (for oil and natural gas), ...
, a real or fictional artificial floating "island"
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Floating island (fiction)
In science fiction and fantasy, floating cities and islands are a common trope, ranging from cities and islands that float on water to ones that float in the atmosphere of a planet by purported scientific technologies or by magical means. While ...
, the concept in fiction
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Floating island (dessert)
A floating island or ''île flottante'' () is a dessert consisting of soft meringue floating on crème anglaise (a vanilla custard). The meringue used is baked in a bain-marie. It may be served at room temperature or chilled.
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, a French dessert
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''The Floating Island'' (Head novel), a 1673 novel by Richard Head
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''Floating Island'' (novel), a 1930 novel by Anne Parrish
*''The Floating Island'' (Haydon novel), a 2006 novel by
Elizabeth Haydon
Elizabeth Haydon (born 1965) is an American fantasy author. Her ''Symphony of Ages'' series contains two trilogies, a duology, and a final book, and begins with '' Rhapsody: Child of Blood'' (1999). Her other series, ''The Lost Journals of Ven ...
*The "Floating Island" or "Angel Island," a recurring location in the ''
Sonic the Hedgehog
is a video game series and media franchise created by the Japanese developers Yuji Naka, Naoto Ohshima, and Hirokazu Yasuhara for Sega. The franchise follows Sonic the Hedgehog (character), Sonic, an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who battle ...
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Floating islands (Bingöl)
The floating islands of Bingöl ()
are mass of floating aquatic plants in the form of floating islands, islands on a lake in Bingöl Province, eastern Turkey. The formation is a registered List of natural monuments of Turkey, natural monument of t ...
, mass of floating aquatic plants in the form of islands on a lake in Bingöl Province, Turkey
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''Floating Islands'' (album), an album by Lotte Anker
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