1.   The goblet, which has no known exact parallel, was probably made in Murano, an island near Venice.

2.   The standard of craftsmanship was good and many such structures have now been re-erected in the Oslo Folk Museum at Bygdy Park on an island near the city.

3.   Being an island near Africa is part of the problem.

4.   A dour-faced Irish man named John stood on the dock of a coastal island near Nha Trang and glared as the sun bounced off the sea.

5.   A murder trial on an island near Puget Sound recalls the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

6.   But he did live on an ice island near Greenland on two occasions when he was in college.

7.   From one stamp he learned about Helgoland, a tiny island near Germany that was used as a bombing range after World War II.

8.   He has trapped and later reconstituted the smell of carnations wafting off an island near Brittany.

9.   Hourlong dramatic series about a minister trying to rebuild a church and its congregation on a rural island near Seattle.

10.   In Massachusetts, thousands of seals congregate on Monomoy Island and small islands near Nantucket for the winter, but an adventurous few choose the urban waters near Boston.