11. ORKNEY Harbours Authority is calling for a helicopter to be based on the islands for rescue work and pollution control, following the Braer oil tanker disaster in Shetland. 12. The British have been alone on their island for over a thousand years, without successful invasion. 13. American politicians and business executives have been trooping through the island for years, talking to Castro and others about thawing out our long-frozen relations. 14. Among the most popular islands for cycling and hiking and favored for most water sports. 15. As far as using the island for a summer camp for city kids, Yost said the Navy base would lend itself to that as well. 16. A marine terminal will be constructed on the island for supertankers that will transport the gas to markets like Japan and Korea, several thousand miles away. 17. A Norwegian explorer tried to claim some islands for Norway. 18. A novelist from Connecticut who lives on the island for a couple of months each summer? 19. A Thlingit tribal court will fight attempts to end banishment of two Indian teens who were sent to a remote Alaskan island for an armed-robbery conviction. 20. After that he focused his activities on Paris, while returning to the Greek islands for summer holidays and traveling the world to lecture and attend performances. |