Historians say British mapmaker Bartholomew Gosnold first made a map of the island for the rulers of England in sixteen-oh-two.

VOA: special.2011.07.25

For example, the popular bobsleigh team from the island of Jamaica did not qualify for the Olympics four years ago.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

That was three years after the United States established a naval base at Pearl Harbor, on the island of Oahu.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The next day, Joe Rosenthal's film went by airplane to the island of Guam where it was developed and printed.

VOA: special.2011.05.30

The one hundred seventeen men,women and children were not the first white people to try to live on the island.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Congress agreed. It also demanded that Spain withdraw from Cuba and give up all claims to the island.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

It allowed me to leave the island and build myself separate from the long-long shadow of my twin.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

In two thousand five, almost one thousand people were killed in an earthquake near the island of Nias.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

The son of Thomas Mayhew established the first European settlement on the island in sixteen forty-two at Edgartown.

VOA: special.2011.07.25

In about sixteen fifty-three, a trader named John Farrar and three friends landed on the island from Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The work was named after the island of Melos where the statue was discovered in eighteen twenty.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

Some members of the local community had strong feelings about the death and worked to make sure the skeleton stayed on the island.

VOA: special.2011.06.29

And the D.P.J. has questioned an agreement about an American Marine base on the island of Okinawa.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Mister Brennan says about one hundred seventy kinds of birds use the island for a nesting place.

VOA: special.2009.10.06