World Directory, North America, United States, California, Orange County

Charming island and peninsula, with great beaches. Despite all of its charms, it's often overlooked by tourists and area residents alike, which keeps it relatively uncrowded. The seven islands of Newport Beach Harbor lie cradled inside Balboa Peninsula, and are some of the most expensive real estate in Southern California. Homes costing $1.5 million and up are surrounded by one of the world's largest small yacht harbors. Newport Beach is a quiet, relaxed place where you're more likely to meet the harbor patrol than the highway patrol, and you'll hear more birds than automobiles.

World Directory, Europe, Croatia, Primorje-Gorski kotar, Krk

Punat is a municipality in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar county in western Croatia. There are 1,876 inhabitants, with 91% Croats. The town first appears in writings from AD 1377, but we do know the exact date of foundation. In the bay there's the little island of Kosljun.

World Directory, Asia, Japan, Kyushu, Okinawa

Ishigaki is an island west of Okinawa Honto and the second-largest island of the Yaeyama Island group. It is within the City of Ishigaki in Okinawa Prefecture.

World Directory, Africa, Seychelles, Mahe, Mahe

The largest island in the archipelago, 27kms long and 12kms at its widest, the economic centre and seat of government with approximately 85 percent of the population. The island is spectacular with its huge mountains and lush tropical vegetation rising to 905 meters at its highest.

World Directory, Africa, Cape Verde, Barlavento Islands, Sao Vicente

Sao Vicente (Portuguese for "Saint Vincent"), also Son Visent or Son Sent in Cape Verdean Creole, is one of the Barlavento islands of Cape Verde. It is located between the islands of Santo Antao and Santa Luzia, with the Canal de Sao Vicente separating it from Santo Antao. The island is composed by a single administrative division, the São Vicente municipality.

World Directory, Europe, United Kingdom, England, Devon

Lundy is the largest island in the Bristol Channel, lying 12 miles (19 km) off the coast of Devon, England, approximately one third of the distance across the channel between England and Wales.

World Directory, Europe, Greece, Cyclades, Cyclades

In the heart of the Cyclades Islands, Paros, with 10,000 inhabitants and 120km coastline, is a whole world fulfilling everybody's dream of an Aegean Island. Serene landscape with fertile valleys and rolling hills dotted with small churches and monasteries, endless sandy beaches with sparkling blue waters, famous monuments from the lands rich ancient and medieval past, picturesque white villages bathed in the unique, dazzling Aegean light.

World Directory, Europe, Greece, Crete, Crete

Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km² (3,219 square miles).

World Directory, Caribbean, Netherlands Antilles, Sint Maarten, Sint Maarten

With an area of only 37 square miles, the island of St. Maarten/St. Martin is the smallest land mass in the world to be divided between two governments. Its dual owners are the Dutch and the French, who have shared the tiny and paradisical island more or less peacefully for almost 350 years. This understated absence of conflict testifies to one of the island's most precious and attractive characteristics--its unusual serenity.

World Directory, North America, United States, Alaska, Hoonah-Angoon

Angoon is a city on Admiralty Island in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 572. The name in Tlingit, Aangoon, means roughly "isthmus town."