#islands

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The little fishing boat anchors right off the shore of Gili Meno. There are no docks here on this island. You have to roll up your pants, jump off the boat and wade in through the surf on your own power. There's absolutely no way to do this without getting soaking wet or even banged up on the coral, but it's worth all the trouble because the beach here is so beautiful, so special


Elizabeth Gilbert


#beauty

We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.


Barney Ross


#eight #enterprise #force #gilbert #got

I like islands.


Dominic Monaghan


#islands #like

It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka.


Nicole Polizzi


#islands #long #straight #sucks #vodka

It's always been a dream to have my own sunglass line and I'm so excited to be able to finally offer it to my fans!


Nicole Polizzi


#islands #long #straight #sucks #vodka

A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.


Tomas Transtromer


#away #behind #blazes #both #dew

It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries.


Nils-Axel Morner


#analysis #been #careful #centuries #changes

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.


Jack Adams


#islands #japanese #may #solomon

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.


Jack Adams


#around #built #carrier #chicago #december

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.


Jack Adams


#called #early #eve #force #gilbert