41.   Corsican nationalists fighting for independence of the island from France frequently set off bombs against government offices and vacation homes owned by people who live on the French mainland.

42.   Cruise ships come to the islands from the Norwegian mainland and elsewhere, sometimes sending tourists ashore in rubber rafts to watch wildlife or wander glaciers.

43.   Cook was a British naval officer who explored Pacific islands from New Zealand to Hawaii.

44.   Flights to the mid-Atlantic British island from the United States and Canada were turned back and others canceled as the gale-force winds blasted the airport.

45.   Forza, which seeks greater autonomy for this Mediterranean island from France, defeated the mainstream Rally for the Republic party Monday in elections to the Chamber of Commerce.

46.   Fourteen infants have died on a remote Papua New Guinea island from diarrhea brought on by the prolonged drought, health officials said Friday.

47.   Groups of illegal immigrants, mostly from the Middle East or Pakistan, often try to reach Greek islands from the Turkish coast by paying Turkish smugglers.

48.   He was coming back into the island from neighboring Antigua where he works for the Antigua Cable Television company.

49.   Hundreds of thousands of people attempt to sneak into Greece each year across its northern borders or reach the Aegean islands from Turkey.

50.   Honduras issued a tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch for the north coast and nearby islands from Limon westward.