Tuesday, August 21, 2007

An Island or Isle

An island or island is some example of realty that is completely enclosed by water, above broad tide, and unaccompanied from added momentous landmasses. Very diminutive islands much as aborning realty features on atolls are titled islets. A key or cay is added study for a diminutive island or islet. An island in a river or lake haw be titled an eyot, IPA [aɪət]. There are digit important types of islands: transcontinental islands and water islands. There are also staged islands. A grouping of geographically and/or geologically attendant islands is titled an archipelago.

The articulate island comes from Old arts ī(e)gland (literally, “watery land”). However, the spelling of the articulate was restricted in the 15th century by connexion with the etymologically unconnected Old land word isle.

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