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Funk Island (49°44'13"N 52°58'26"W) is a small, barren, isolated, uninhabited island approximately 60 km northeast of Wesleyville, Newfoundland, Canada.
The Island is roughly trapezodial in shape, with a maximum length of .8 km and a maximum width of .3 km and is nearly flat, rising 14 m out of the North Atlantic. The island is composed of feldspathic granite and is traversed by two distinct fault lines which cross the island in a northwesterly direction, almost parallel to each other. The fault lines divide the island into three seperate entities. The northestern portion consists mainly of bare rock; the central portion has scattered vegetation; and the largest portion of the island, the southwestern, which occupies over half of the land surface, is covered with grasses, lichens and mosses.
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Elba is an island in Tuscany, Italy, 20 km from the coastal town of Grosseto. It is the largest island of the Tuscan Archipelago, and the third largest Italian island. Elba and other islands of the Tuscan Archipelago are protected in the National Park of the Tuscan Archipelago.
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Lord Howe Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean 600km (375 miles) east of Australia. The island is in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Lord Howe Island was discovered in February 1788 by H.M.S Supply, commanded by Lieutenant Lidgbird Ball, who was on his way to Norfolk Island with convicts to start a settlement there. |
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Ponza is the largest of the Italian Pontine islands archipelago, located 33 km south of Cape Circeo in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Other Pontine islands include Gavi, Palmarola, and Zannone. The Pontine Archipelago is at the Southern edge of the Italian Riviera. |
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Crete, sometimes spelled Krete (Greek Κρήτη / Kriti) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. It is the Greek island closest to North Africa. Tourist attractions in Crete include archeological sites at Knossos, Phaistos, Gortys and many other places, the Venetian castle in Rethimno, the Samaria Gorge and many other minor gorges (Agia Irini, Aradena, etc). Crete was the location of the Minoan civilization (ca. 3000–1400 BC), one of the first civilizations in Europe. |
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