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:
“‘Society’ in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Each of these has a free pass in every city and village, ‘good for this generation only,’ and it depends on each to make use of this pass or not as it may happen to suit his or her fancy.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)