The Islands
Operation Flashpoint's three main islands, Everon, Malden, and Kolgujev, are based on actual existing islands. Everon is the Croatian island of Krk. Malden is the Greek Ionian island Levkas. Kolgujev is based on Tenerife Island, one of the Canary Islands. Another island in the game, Meganissi, the largest island just to the east of Levkas. Nogova is an island introduced in the Resistance expansion pack. While it has no real world analogue, it shares landmark names with Bohemia Interactive's native Czech Republic and several areas appear to be very similar to areas in the game.
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Famous quotes containing the word islands:
“Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple of Irishmen have a private sparring- match on one of them, as it is a government monopoly; all the great seaports are in a boxing attitude, and you must sail prudently between two tiers of stony knuckles before you come to feel the warmth of their breasts.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)