It has seven major continents and nine continental islands similar in size to Australia, in addition to innumerable smaller islands.
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"' Brown's Island "'is an artificial continental island on the James River in Richmond, Virginia, formed by the Haxall Canal.
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Islands in the Pacific Ocean are of four basic types : continental islands, high islands, coral reefs and uplifted coral platforms.
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The scene of all the action is "'Paz "', a grouping of four major continents and four continental islands in one hemisphere.
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What's more, there are 600 continental islands and 300 cays, or reef islands, many of them emerald-colored and fringed with sandy beaches.
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By 13, 000 years ago, sea level had risen to lower than at present, and many hills of the coastal plains had become continental islands.
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However, it agrees in this respect with many species of rail still found on other continental islands worldwide, whereas most other forms were on oceanic islands.
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A special type of continental island is the microcontinental island, which is created when a continent is New Caledonia, New Zealand, and some of the Seychelles.
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Smaller numbers of reef fish collections exist from Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Sombrero Island, other Lesser Antilles islands, continental islands off northern South America, Brazil, and Ascension Island.
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Bedarra is a continental island made up of granite boulder formations that rise to moderately high rocky peaks, with steep granite escarpments on the north-easterly and south-easterly aspects.
