1.   Charleston suffered in the aftermath of the Civil War, whose first shots were fired at Fort Sumter, a manmade island visible from East Battery Street.

2.   Other proposals include using manmade islands as dumps for industrial waste and sites for energy-generating wind turbines.

3.   Bahrain-based Shamil Bank E.C. signed a deal with a prominent Bahraini family to form a company to build properties for five planned manmade islands.

4.   Dutch pilots warned the government Thursday that plans to build a new airport on a manmade island in the North Sea would create difficult conditions for aircraft landing there.

5.   Like other large cities, Kobe spent billions to create manmade islands on landfill, while doing little to improve crowded neighborhoods known to be firetraps.

6.   Manmade islands could protect the fragile coast against erosion, they concede, and could also provide valuable breeding waters for North Sea marine life.

7.   Schiphol says the only way it can keep pace with expected growth in the aviation sector is to build new runways on a manmade island in the North Sea.

8.   The government on Friday announced it will launch an investigation into the feasibility of building a new national airport on a manmade island in the North Sea.

9.   The group fears that the manmade islands will sink faster than expected, meaning even more money will have to be spent to support them.

10.   The government has been studying various options for expansion, including one controversial proposal to build a new satellite airport on a manmade island in the North Sea.