As a group of islands they are fully autonomous in internal affairs and constitutionally equal with the Netherlands.
The best that evolutionary biologists can do is usually to point to groups of species that have plainly diversified recently, usually on a group of islands.
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Compean received a resounding endorsement of his colleagues in Central America and a group of islands in the Caribbean, including Cuba and Dominican Republic, but it was not enough.
For instance, after the Papua New Guinea tsunami, an international team was dispatched to Vanuatu, a group of islands in the Pacific, where they showed videos of tsunamis to the villagers.
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Rural motorists on the British mainland hoping for a slice of the government's fuel rebate - launched this week on the Isles of Scilly and a group of Scottish Islands - probably shouldn't hold their breath.
Tuvalu is a group of nine islands lying about half-way between Hawaii and Australia.
The reptiles are unique to a small group of islands in eastern Indonesia.
The Netherlands Antilles is a group of five islands in the Caribbean Sea.
Mr Panetta took the opportunity to announce a delayed timeframe for planned cuts to the Lajes Air Base in Portugal's Azores, a group of nine volcanic islands located almost 1, 000 miles (1, 600km) west of the Iberian peninsula.
This completed a hat-trick: on May 25th, a report on bank supervision from the Financial Stability Forum, a group of international regulators, had ranked the islands in the lowest grade.
It began in 1992 when a small group of recreational divers and marine biologists gathered in California's Channel Islands National Park to conduct a standardized fish count.
The 200 or so Moken living on the Surin Islands are part of a larger ethnic group spread out across the Mergui Archipelago off the coasts of Burma and Thailand.
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