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However, the United States' hold on the first island chain is beginning to be pried loose anyway.

The North Korean Government quickly seals off the island chain , claiming the mysteries of the asteroid for themselves.

At the time, the Philippine military also reported sightings of Chinese research vessels and warships in the disputed island chain.

On an island chain located halfway between Africa and Argentina, local authorities say a massive penguin rescue operation is under way.

The island chain is the United States and Japan during the Cold War played together to build a China "containment lines. "

North Sentinel Island is a small speck in the large Andaman Island chain just off the coast of India in the Bay of Bengal.

slamming into the island chain with a cataclysmic force never before witnessed.

Hawaiians exist in an island chain closest to the epicenter of the Earth Mother's global heart chakra.

A sister of the Leeward island chain, Anguilla is truly one of the most romantic places on earth.

Geography: The Broken Isles are an island chain located just south of the Maelstrom in the Great Sea.

The Kuril Island chain is built from a line of volcanoes, an island arc, that extends from Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula to northern Japan.

The island chain is about three hundred twenty kilometers in length, and stretches mostly in a north to south direction.

Three days after a tsunami struck the remote Mentawai island chain in western Indonesia, the full scale of the disaster is emerging.

The island chain stretches northeast from Japan's main northern island of Hokkaido to Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

The disputed area between eastern China and Japan's southern island chain of Okinawa is rich in gas deposits.

Since then, an oil sheen has surrounded the island chain, which officials say could lead to an environmental disaster.

In April, for instance, a 10-ship fleet sailed beyond the First Island Chain, an exercise of unprecedented scale for China.

The Hawaiian island chain has been built up by similar flows of molten rock over millions of years.

Second, the first island chain to maintain and strengthen the defense.

The 343-km (213-mile) Andaman Trunk Road (ATR), completed in 1989, was designed as an economic lifeline to link the island chain .

Midway is one of the islands in the Northwest Hawaiian Island chain that President Bush declared a national marine monument last year.

Glacial melting made Japan an island chain 10, 000 years ago, and as its population grew, the country became highly dependent on the sea.

Go to the extremities of Japan's long island chain , however, and the picture is less bright.

There's an underwater ferris wheel where I found the missing link to this island chain