islands

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Legitimate Cycladics were made in the Cyclades, a group of islands in Greece, during the Bronze Age about 3,000 years ago.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

As tourists start to look further afield, seeking out less well-known destinations, smaller Caribbean islands such as Grenada are also seeing legal disputes.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

The crew found itself off the coast of Palau, an archipelago of some 340 small islands in the Pacific with a total land area of 189 square miles.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

In places, the amassed rubbish has formed veritable islands of plastic.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Native Mexican women dressed in pale tunics slid their paddles into the lake and rowed slowly, serenely across the water toward what could only be described as densely vegetated islands floating on the water.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall