islet
Noun
Meaning
A little island.
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.
The wonder of the world is o'er: The magic from the sea is gone: There is no unimagined shore, No islet yet to venture on. The Sacred Hazels' blooms are shed, The Nuts of Knowledge harvested.
A Goliath heronry is located on a rocky islet in the lake known as Gibraltar.
According to informed sources the victim who was returning from a night in Gros Islet stopped at the location not too far from the bridge where he was shot multiple times by masked men.
A Chinese tourist fell from a cliff to his death after attempting to take a selfie on the edge of a cliff in Nusa Lembongan, Nusa Penida, an islet off the coast of Bali.
In total there have been just over twenty species of seabird and six other animal species observed (including the aforementioned molluscs) on or near the islet.