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==The Islands== |
==The Islands== |
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The larger islands that constitute the archipelago include: |
The larger islands that constitute the archipelago include: |
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Great Britain and Ireland are the two largest islands of the British Isles, an archipelago off the northwestern coast of France.
The United Kingdom formerly comprised a political union of the two, and was known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, however the majority of Ireland seceded in 1922, forming what would become the Republic of Ireland.
The Islands
The larger islands that constitute the archipelago include:
- clockwise around Great Britain from the north:
- Northern Isles
- Lindisfarne
- Farne Islands
- Mersea Island
- Isle of Sheppey
- Portsmouth Islands
- Isle of Wight
- Isle of Portland
- St Michael's Mount
- Isles of Scilly
- Islands of the Bristol Channel
- Islands in St George's Channel
- Bardsey Island
- Anglesey
- Islands of Furness
- Islands of the Clyde
- Hebrides
- clockwise around Ireland from the north:
See also
- The island of Great Britain
- The island of Ireland
- The state of Ireland, also known as the Republic of Ireland
- The state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- The British Isles
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