The Islands of Turku consist of islands belonging to the Finnish city of Turku. There are dozens of islands and skerries, of which four are permanently inhabited:
- Ruissalo/Runsala
- Hirvensalo
- Kakskerta
- Satava
Famous quotes containing the words islands of and/or islands:
“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)
“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)