What is the History of Agalega Islands? and Its current Status?
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Agalega consistis or two small islands, the North Island, which is also the main island, and the South Island, located in the Indian Ocean, 1122 Km (697 miles) north of Mauritius. The islands have a total land area of 27 square miles (70 square km).\n\nHistory\nThe twin islands of Agalega may have been known to the Malays and to the Arabs. They may also have been perceived by the Portuguese, those indefatigable sailors who scoured the Indian Ocean in the XVIth century. It may equally be true that, when in 1512 Don Pedro de Masceranhas visited the already known Archipelago of Mauritius and Bourbon and called them by the collective name of the Mascarenes, he also gave the names of Agalega and Ste. Marie (off the East coast of Madagascar) in honour of two of his ships, "Le Galega" and "Santa Maria".\n\nBe that as it may, a school of thought now accepts that the islands were discovered and baptised in 1501 by Juan de Nova, who was a Galician in the employ of the Portuguese and who was nicknamed ‘Jean Gallego’ by his sailors.\n\nAn extract from Les Nouvelles Annales de Voyage (Tome 38, page 88) reads :\n\nL’Ile Galega , avec l’article A’Galega (La Galicienne), porte ce nom parce qu’elle fut decouverte en 1501 par Juan de Nova, galicien, au service du Portugal, qui commandait une flotte destinee pour les Indes. En revenant en Europe, ce meme navigateur decouvrit les iles de l’Ascension et Sainte Helene’. Sir Robert Scott, in his "Lumuria", however argues that Agalega was discovered in 1509 and was named Baixas da Gale or Galeass Bank because when Diego Lopos de Seqaiera came alongside the islands he jocularly told his pilots that a "galeass" had foundered there joining itself to the banks and thus making them so long". Subsequent maps published showed Agalega as Gale, Galera, Galega and finally Agalega
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Dig here:\nhttp://www.luth.se/luth/present/sweden/history/
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http://agrolink.moa.my/jph/kelantan/KMK.html
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The earliest historical record is in Ujung Kulon National Park, West Java. An early Hindu archeological relic of a Ganesha statue from the 1st Century AD has been found on the summit of Mount Raksa in Panaitan Island.\n\nBased on archeological dig, there was a kingdom in Tatar Sunda / Sunda Territory (West Java) at second century AD. According to Dr Tony Djubiantono, the head of Bandung Archeology Agency, Jiwa Temple in Batujajar, Karawang, Java was built on the second century AD.\n\nThree rough plinths dating from the beginning of the fourth century are found in Kutai, East Kalimantan, near Mahakam River. The pliths are recorded in the Pallava script of India. The inscription reads: "A gift to the Brahmin priests".\n\nOn the "Batu Tulis" monument (huge black boulder) near Bogor, West Java, around 450 A.D king Purnawarna inscribed his name and made an imprint of his footprints, as well as his elephant's footprints. The accompanying inscription reads, 'Here are the footprints of King Purnawarna, the heroic conqueror of the world'. This inscription is in Sanskrit and is still clear after 1500 years.\n\nUnder the influences of Hinduism and Buddhism, several kingdoms formed on the islands of Sumatra and Java from the 7th to 14th century. The arrival of Arabs trading in spices later brought Islam, which became the dominant religion in many parts of the archipelago after the collapse of Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms. When the Portuguese came in early 16th century, they found a multitude of small states, vulnerable to the Portuguese, and later other Europeans wanting to dominate the spice trade. In the 17th century, the Dutch became the most powerful of the Europeans, ousting the Spanish and Portuguese (except for their colony of Portuguese Timor on the island of Timor). Dutch influence started with trading by the Dutch East India Company (VOC), a chartered private enterprise constituting a state in all but name, complete with its own fleet and army, which gradually expanded its influence and grip on political matters. Like the British, the Dutch mainly relied on indirect rule, using traditional native elites as vassals, while imposing their will and extracting major income under supervision by their colonial officials. After VOC was dissolved in 1799 by the Batavian Republic (Napoleon's Dutch satellite state) and the political instability from the Napoleonic Wars including partial British occupation, the East Indies were awarded to the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815. Since then, the East Indies were officially ruled as the major colonies of the Dutch crown.\n\nUnder the 19th-century Cultivation System (Cultuurstelsel), large plantations and forced cultivation were established on Java, finally creating the profit for the Netherlands that the VOC had been unable to produce. In a more liberal period of colonial rule after 1870, the Cultivation System was abolished, and after 1901 the Dutch introduced the Ethical Policy, which included limited political reform and increased investment in the colony.\n\nDuring World War II, with the Netherlands under German occupation, Japan began a five-prong campaign in December 1941 towards Java and the vital fuel supplies of the Dutch East Indies. Though Japan captured Java by March 1942, it initially could not find any national leader willing to collaborate with the Japanese government against the Dutch. Eventually the Japanese commander ordered Sukarno’s release from his prison island, and in July 1942, Sukarno arrived in Jakarta. Sukarno and his colleagues collaborated with the Japanese occupiers. In 1945, with the war drawing to a close, Sukarno was made aware of an opportunity to declare independence. In response to lobbying, Japan agreed to allow Sukarno to establish a committee to plan for independence. Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declared independence on 17 August.\n\nFollowing the defeat of Japan in the World War, the Netherlands' Army, at fi
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Apparently not yet.  The closest to you probably would be in Guam.  The article I've attached discusses some of the issues involved and what changes may come in the future.
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www.geocities.com/southbeach/\n/lagoon/8541/pba.emenk.html
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Yahoo News Search on the topic of volcanos doesn't turn up anything in the Caribbean.\n\nThere's news today 2/10 of tracking Augustine in Alaska.  But that's pretty far from the Caribbean.\n\nhttp://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=volcano&c=\nhttp://news.yahoo.com/fc/Science/Earthquakes_and_Volcanoes/\n\nI did a Yahoo Search for february 9 2006 volcano caribbean\nand found more information on the\n\nhttp://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv1-&p=february%209%202006%20volcano%20caribbean\n\nMontserrat Soufriére Hills Volcano\n\nhttp://search.yahoo.com/search?p=february+9+2006+volcano+montserrat&ei=UTF-8&fr=slv1-&x=wrt\n\nI agree, the news media at large has not done a great job of reporting this info.  \n\nThanks for the pointer.  I'd give you the 10 points if I could.
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Hell no!  The last time a alfornacer got his hands on a shlebnic he destroyed a small island in the south pacific.
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The entire island was bulldozed, all buildings removed down to the foundations, everything taken off the island and the whole place was abandoned and turned into a wildlife sanctuary.\n\nThey did this when the last of the chemical weapons was destroyed a couple years ago.
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Last I heard, Easter Island has nothing to do with early man at all. More recent studies are dating the constructions well within the second millenium. Wish I could remember where I read that, but I am sure it has something to do with environmental destruction. i.e. the more recent population lived an unsustainable lifestyle and wiped themselves out. Really wish I could remember that article's details. Sorry.
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I think you are misspelling it, and it's not in Colombia...it's an island in the Carribean. They had a nasty volcanic eruption there about ten years ago, buried almost half the island.
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go to\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina
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Barra, South Uist, Canna, all have Catholic majorities and I believe Benbecula has a significant Catholic population but I would not like to say they are in the majority. There are other tiny islands I cannot remember off the top of my head.\n\nDue to many factors, many people in the highlands and islands maintained the traditional faith in Scotland after the 'Reformation Parliament' of 1560. Some had been well catechized and so would not accept the new religion, others retained the religion of their local leaders be they landowners of chieftains. Some of these likewise kept the old faith out of conviction, others for political reasons. \n\nAnother important factor to take into account is the isolation both cultural and geographical of some these communities.\n\nFinally, some island communities which were won over to the new religion returned to their anscestors' faith due to the missionary activity by Irish Fransiscan missionaries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These men made effective missionaries for where they were not received with marked hostility they were able to converse in the native Gaelic of the people. Much protestant missionary activity was unfortunately tainted with a mission to anglicize these populations too. The presbyterians made great strides towards the establishment of a native Gaelic presbyterianism which made successful inroads into the populations of other islands usually with the support of local notables.
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If it is in reference to the Antarctic research area, then I believe you can find information in http://www.smitha.demon.co.uk/zfids/ on this page, there are links that let you know about the progress of the area since 1956 to this day –there are pictures too. In addition, I believe you can find it in Wikipedia too and work from there. Make sure you visit the external links; they might be able to provide you with important information. Good luck with the assignment ;)
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Try this \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quito
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I'm an old timer who got interested in Sri Lank forty years ago. I was fascinated by the Kandy Empire, the legend of Adam's peak, the singing shellfish at Lake Batticaloa, the construction of the ancient tanks among many other things. I read a book that I still find interesting called "Jungle Tide". I forget the author's name but he must have written it during the British occupation as he was English. I am sure there are many other fascinating archaeological and educational opportunities in your country, which, I regret, I never did visit. Still, after 40 years, my interest has been retained by what I read. My very best wishes with your project.
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http://www.igsb.uiowa.edu/about/history/history.htm\n\nStatehood\n\nI was born and raised there give me more questions.