Mediterranean and Other Atlantic Islands
The continent may sometimes refer to the continental part of Italy (excluding Sardinia, Sicily, etc.), the continental part of Spain (as opposed to the Balearic islands, the Canary Islands, Alboran, etc.), the continental part of France (as opposed to Corsica, etc.), the continental part of Portugal (as opposed to the Madeira Islands and Azores), or the continental part of Greece (as opposed to Ionian Islands, Aegean Islands, Crete). That is used from the perspective of the island residents of each country to describe the continental portion of their country or the continent (or mainland) as a whole.
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Famous quotes containing the words atlantic and/or islands:
“We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What are the islands to me
if you are lost
what is Naxos, Tinos, Andros,
and Delos, the clasp
of the white necklace?”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)