2.An island country in the Atlantic Ocean east of Florida and Cuba comprising some700 islandsandisletsand numerous cays. The country gained its independence from Great Britain in1973. Nassau, on New Providence Island, is the capital and the largest city. Population,218, 000.
4.As one of the most beautiful places on earth, the 137 islands, isletsand shoals that make up the Hawaiian Island chain sit at the northern tip of the Polynesian Triangle, an expanse of ocean roughly the size of Europe and North America combined.
5.Starting from the early 1990s, the Chinese navy has invited the related experts to conduct exhaustive hydrological and geological freshwater exploration over 19 islets on the Xisha Islands.
