11.   The mountainous volcanic islands combine rain forests, sandy beaches and steep sea cliffs, fringed by coral reefs.

12.   The volcanic islands are beautiful but impoverished.

13.   There were only a few who remembered all notices in the papers and the disappearance of Laysen, a volcanic island of the Tongas group.

14.   Only officials and relief workers remained on a volcanic island south of Tokyo on Monday after stragglers boarded a boat to flee eruptions and earthquakes.

15.   Payne said hundreds of weapons remained in the hands of people living on the mountainous volcanic island.

16.   A few residents who remained on a Japanese volcanic island plagued by eruptions and earthquakes left by boat Sunday, the second day of a government-ordered evacuation.

17.   A British diplomat now in Australia, Tony Abbott, will become governor of Montserrat, a volcanic island in the Caribbean, the Foreign Office said Friday.

18.   A light ash fall in the southern part of Montserrat set this volcanic island on full alert Tuesday.

19.   A light ash fall in the southern part of Montserrat set this tiny volcanic island on full alert Tuesday.

20.   A moderate earthquake shook a chain of volcanic islands south of Tokyo early Wednesday, but no injuries or damage were reported.