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unusual facts about Island nation



Economy of Samoa

These experiences and Samoa's position as a low-lying island state punctuate its concern about global climate change.


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2011 Commonwealth Youth Games medal table

This was the first time in the history of the Commonwealth Youth Games that Games were organised in any island nation, and second time in any British Islands venue, after inaugural Games in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2000.

Albion

Albion is used as the name of a floating island nation in the world of the anime, "Zero no Tsukaima"

Just Cause 2

Just Cause 2 is set four years after the first Just Cause, with Agency operative Rico Rodriguez being dropped into Panau, a fictional dystopian island nation in Maritime Southeast Asia.

Morne Diablotin National Park

Morne Diablotin National Park is a national park in the northern mountain ranges of Dominica, an island nation in the Caribbean.

Our Airline

The airline has been in dispute with the Export-Import Bank of the United States since 2002, and in December 2005 the High Court of Australia upheld an earlier decision to allow the bank to seize Air Nauru's only aircraft, registered VH-RON, leaving Nauru and the island nation Kiribati without air services.

Sol Yurick

Appearing in Datamation, a then-leading trade magazine focused on enterprise computing, "The King of Malaputa" (translation: bad whore) predates by at least 15 years Neal Stephenson's better-known novel, Cryptonomicon (1999) and its imaginary island nation, Kinakuta, which has been set up for use in anonymous, computer-based banking activities.