As a group of islands they are fully autonomous in internal affairs and constitutionally equal with the Netherlands.
The reptiles are unique to a small group of islands in eastern Indonesia.
What group of islands was affected by an earthquake and tsunami on Wednesday?
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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According to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre, the waves this week were triggered by an 8.3 magnitude earthquake that took place some 120 miles (195km) south of the Samoa group of islands (see map).
The first group of islands in the Bahamas chain, Bimini -- with the small islands of North Bimini and South Bimini at its core -- is only about 50 miles from Miami, but the slow-and-easy lifestyle on the historic atoll feels like a world away.
Tuvalu is a group of nine islands lying about half-way between Hawaii and Australia.
The Netherlands Antilles is a group of five islands in the Caribbean Sea.
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.
Amongst the assets of this group of companies are the islands of Scorpios and Sparti.
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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.
Also in the group, Bank of the Philippine Islands boasts the lowest delinquent-loan ratio in the country.
His Digicel Group now operates in dozens of Caribbean islands, Honduras, Haiti, Fiji, Tonga and Papua New Guinea.
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.
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.
As did Isobel McCallum from the Highlands and Islands Agricultural Group, Dr Andrew Moxey the director of Pareto Consulting, Andrew Midgeley from Scottish Land and Estates Ltd and William Houstoun from Angus Growers Ltd.
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.
As with the Marshall Islands' declaration, the Cook Islands' effort was with the help of the Pew Environment Group, which advocates island nations' involvement because of the vast scope of their territorial waters.
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