Portal:Islands

The first island chain is the first string of major Pacific archipelagos out from the East Asian continental mainland coast. It is principally composed of the Kuril Islands, the Japanese archipelago, the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan (Formosa), the northern Philippines, and Borneo, hence extending all the way from the Kamchatka Peninsula in the northeast to the Malay Peninsula in the southwest. The first island chain forms one of three island chain doctrines within the island chain strategy in the U.S. foreign policy.

Much of the first island chain is roughly situated in waters claimed by the People's Republic of China (PRC). These include the South China Sea, within the nine-dash line, as well as the East China Sea west of the Okinawa Trough. (Full article...)

Okinawan cuisine (Japanese: 沖縄料理, Hepburn: Okinawa ryōri) is the cuisine of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The cuisine is also known as Ryukyuan cuisine (琉球料理, Ryūkyū ryōri), a reference to the Ryukyu Kingdom. Due to differences in culture, historical contact between other regions, climate, vegetables and other ingredients, Okinawan cuisine differs from mainland Japanese cuisine. (Full article...)

• ... that the search for mammals on Booby Island was a bust?
• ... that El Ojo is a circular rotating floating island?
• ... that UK prime minister Rishi Sunak complained when a joint declaration was made at a summit between the EU and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States that used the term Islas Malvinas?
• ... that the dish gogi-guksu, from South Korea's Jeju Island, developed in part because of the Japanese colonial period?
• ... that Saunders Island has a lava lake and is populated by penguins?
• ... that because the capital of The Gambia is on a small island, its population has overflowed into Serekunda in the nearby municipality of Kanifing?