Roanoke Island is off the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States, in North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The colonists,however, settled on Roanoke Island instead of sailing farther north.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The center had been moved farther north to Vancouver Island.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Indian peacekeeping forces were invited to the Tamil north of the Sinhalese-dominated island nation by Colombo in 1987.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

As voters in the northern half of the island, known as the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus,go to the polls, its leader Mehmet Ali Talat has warned if he is defeated the current United Nations sponsored reunification talks will grind to a halt.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

It's all we have to go on,at the moment." Sri Lanka's military says it is on the verge of totally defeating the LTTE, which has waged a violent campaign for decades to split the island and create an independent Tamil homeland in the north.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11