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Korčula (Italian Curzola, Greek Korkyra Melaina) is the modern Croatian name for an island in the Adriatic Sea with a long Byzantine and Venetian history. The island of Korčula, about 40 km (25 miles) long and about 6.5 km (4 miles) across, lies lengthwise on the Dalmatian coast, in the Dubrovnik-Neretva county of Croatia.

Ascension Island is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean, a dependency of Saint Helena. The capital is Georgetown. The island became a dependency of Saint Helena in 1922 after it transferred from the control of the Admiralty.

It is home to Wideawake Field, built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers during World War II, as a refueling and staging station for aircraft flying between the Americas and Africa.

Groote Eylandt is the largest island in the Gulf of Carpentaria in northeastern Australia. The island is approximately 2,260 km² in size, with an average height above sea level of 15 m. It was named by Abel Tasman in 1644 and is Dutch for "Big Island", in a now archaic spelling.

The Pribilof Islands (often called the Fur Seal Islands, Russian: Kotovi) are a group of four islands, part of Alaska, lying in the Bering Sea, about 200 miles north of Unalaska and 200 miles south of Cape Newenham, the nearest point on the North American mainland. About 200 sq km in total area, they are mostly rocky, covered with meadow and tundra, and support a human population of somewhat over 600, concentrated in the towns of St. Paul and St. George, each on an island of the same name.