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    The Insular Islands were an extended chain of volcanic islands forming an arc in what is now the Pacific Ocean during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras....
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    The Insular Government of the Philippine Islands (Spanish: Gobierno Insular de las Islas Filipinas) was an unincorporated territory of the United States...
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    In the law of the United States, an insular area is a U.S.-associated jurisdiction that is not part of a U.S. state or the District of Columbia. This...
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    Island gigantism, or insular gigantism, is a biological phenomenon in which the size of an animal species isolated on an island increases dramatically...
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    valleys and isolated mountains ("sky islands").[citation needed] Insular dwarfism is one aspect of the more general "island effect" or "Foster's rule", which...
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    (Pacific, extension of Hawaiian Islands) Ile Du Sud- African Banks (in the Amirantes) Insular Islands, Pacific Intermontane Islands, Pacific Majority of granitic...
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    Guano Insular area Territories of the United States Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument "Formerly Disputed Islands". Office of Insular Affairs...
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    outlying islands and groups of islands comprise eight United States insular areas in the Pacific Ocean (Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston...
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    volcanic islands approached a pre-existing continental margin and coastline of North America. These volcanic islands, known as the Insular Islands by geoscientists...
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  • 1993 Insular (Insulares), the term used for criollos in the former Spanish East Indies (the Philippines, the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands) Insular...
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    Insular Chile, also called Las islas Esporádicas, or "the Sporadic Islands", is a scattered group of oceanic islands of volcanic origin located in the...
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    island arc called the Insular Islands. The exact collision of the Insular Islands remains uncertain. The major island groups that compose the Insular...
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    was a broad coastal plain. The Insular Mountains formed when a chain of active volcanic islands (the Insular Islands) collided against the North American...
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    Ocean was an ancient ocean that existed between North America and the Insular Islands during the Mesozoic era. Similar to the earlier Slide Mountain Ocean...
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    Insular Italy (Italian: Italia insulare or just Isole, lit. 'Islands') is one of the five official statistical regions of Italy used by the National Institute...
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    Cretaceous period. The Insular Plate had a chain of active volcanic islands that were called the Insular Islands. These volcanic islands, however, collided...
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  • late as 1979. The term "insular" signifies that the territories were islands administered by the War Department's Bureau of Insular Affairs. Today, the categorizations...
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    Retrieved July 9, 2013. "Virgin Islands". The World Factbook. Retrieved July 9, 2013. "Baker Island". Office of Insular Affairs. Archived from the original...
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  • names, which are the Northern Mariana Islands, whose full name is Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Puerto Rico, which is named Commonwealth...
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    States to take possession of unclaimed islands containing guano deposits in the name of the United States. The islands can be located anywhere, so long as...
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    The Islands of Tokyo (東京諸島, Tokyo-shotō), also known as the Insular Area of Tokyo Metropolis (東京都島嶼部, Tōkyō-to-tōshobu) or Izu-Ogasawara islands (伊豆・小笠原諸島...
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    responsible for the outlying insular areas including American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Insular area Compact of Free...
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  • notable islands of the United States, including its insular areas, which are listed at the end. Mormon Island (Colorado River) Arbuckle Island Sentinel...
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    Island syndrome describes the differences in morphology, ecology, physiology and behaviour of insular species compared to their continental counterparts...
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    The governor of the United States Virgin Islands is the head of government of the United States Virgin Islands whose responsibilities also include making...
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    one of the four islands are administered, along with its surrounding minor islands and islets, by an insular council (consell insular in Catalan) of the...
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    the southern islands. The species is around 25% smaller than its mainland ancestor, an example of insular dwarfism. Because the island fox is geographically...
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  • Washington DC) 6 insular areas (including the United States Minor Outlying Islands, a collection of nine islands or groups of islands). (The subdivision...
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  • Insular biogeography or island biogeography is a field within biogeography that examines the factors that affect the species richness and diversification...
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  • alphabetic order: Bridge River Ocean, the ocean between the ancient Insular Islands (that is, Stikinia) and North America Cache Creek Ocean, a Paleozoic...
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