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A continent is one of several very large landmasses on ___MASK79___ . Generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria , up to seven regions are commonly regarded as continents . Ordered from largest in size to smallest , they are : ___MASK34___ , Africa , North America , ___MASK74___ , Antarctica , Europe , and Australia . In geology , areas of continental crust include regions covered with water . Raasay is an island between the Isle of ___MASK50___ and the ___MASK28___ of Scotland . It is separated from ___MASK50___ by the Sound of Raasay and from Applecross by the Inner Sound . It is most famous for being the birthplace of the poet Sorley MacLean , an important figure in the Scottish literary renaissance . The Philippines , officially the Republic of the Philippines , is a sovereign island country in ___MASK67___ situated in the western Pacific Ocean . It consists of about 7 , 641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south : Luzon , Visayas , and Mindanao . The capital city of the Philippines is Manila and the most populous city is Quezon City , both part of Metro Manila . Bounded by the South ___MASK26___ Sea on the west , the Philippine Sea on the east and the Celebes Sea on the southwest , the Philippines shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north , Vietnam to the west , Palau to the east and Malaysia and Indonesia to the south . An island or isle is any piece of sub - continental land that is surrounded by water . Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets , skerries , cays or keys . An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait , and a small island off the ___MASK92___ may be called a holm . A grouping of geographically or geologically related islands is called an archipelago , e . g . the Philippines . An oceanic climate ( also known as marine , west ___MASK92___ and maritime ) is the climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents , and generally features cool summers ( relative to their latitude ) and cool but not cold winters , with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature , with the exception for transitional areas to continental and subarctic climates . Oceanic climates are defined as having a monthly mean temperature below in the warmest month , and above in the coldest month . The Applecross peninsula (' The Sanctuary ') is a peninsula in Wester Ross , Highland , on the north west ___MASK92___ of Scotland . The name Applecross is at least 1300 years old and is now used locally to refer to the 19th century village with the pub and post office , lying on the small Applecross Bay , facing the Inner Sound , on the opposite side of which lies the Inner Hebridean island of Raasay . Trotternish or Tròndairnis ( Scottish Gaelic ) is the northernmost peninsula of the Isle of ___MASK50___ , in Scotland . The ___MASK17___ , also known as the Western Isles ( Scottish Gaelic : ' or ' ), " Innse Gall " (" islands of the strangers ") or the Long Isle or Long Island ( Gaelic : " An t - Eilean Fada "), is an island chain off the west coast of mainland Scotland . The islands are geographically coextensive with Comhairle nan Eilean Siar , one of the 32 unitary council areas of Scotland . They form part of the Hebrides , separated from the Scottish mainland and from the Inner Hebrides by the waters of ___MASK96___ , the Little Minch and the Sea of the Hebrides . Scottish Gaelic is the predominant spoken language , although in a few areas English speakers form a majority . An archipelago , sometimes called an island group or island chain , is a chain , cluster or collection of islands . The word " archipelago " is derived from the Greek "  -  arkhi -" (" chief ") and "   pélagos " (" sea ") through the Italian " arcipelago ". In Italian , possibly following a tradition of antiquity , the Archipelago ( from medieval Greek "*  " and Latin " archipelagus ") was the proper name for the ___MASK24___ and , later , usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands ( since the sea is remarkable for its large number of islands ). It is now used to refer to any island group or , sometimes , to a sea containing a small number of scattered islands . The Inner Hebrides ( Scottish Gaelic : " Na h - Eileanan a - staigh ", " the inner isles ") is an archipelago off the west ___MASK92___ of mainland Scotland , to the south east of the ___MASK17___ . Together these two island chains form the Hebrides , which experience a mild oceanic climate . The Inner Hebrides comprise 35 inhabited islands as well as 44 uninhabited islands with an area greater than . The main commercial activities are tourism , crofting , fishing and whisky distilling . In modern times the Inner Hebrides have formed part of two separate local government jurisdictions , one to the north and the other to the south . Together , the islands have an area of about , and had a population of 18 , 948 in 2011 . The population density is therefore about 4 . 6 per km ( 12 per square mile ). Rona ( Scottish Gaelic : Rònaigh , pronounced ( rnaj ) ) , sometimes called South Rona to distinguish it from North Rona , is a small island in the Scottish Inner Hebrides . It lies between the Sound of Raasay and the Inner Sound just north of the neighbouring island of Raasay and east of the Trotternish peninsula of ___MASK50___ . It has a total area of 930 hectares ( 3 . 6 sq mi ) . A cay ( or ), also spelled caye or key , is a small , low - elevation , sandy island on the surface of a coral reef . Cays occur in tropical environments throughout the Pacific , Atlantic and Indian Oceans ( including in the ___MASK8___ and on the Great Barrier Reef and Belize Barrier Reef ). Water is a transparent and nearly colorless chemical substance that is the main constituent of ___MASK79___ ' s streams , lakes , and oceans , and the fluids of most living organisms . Its chemical formula is HO , meaning that its molecule contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms , that are connected by covalent bonds . Water strictly refers to the liquid state of that substance , that prevails at standard ambient temperature and pressure ; but it often refers also to its solid state ( ice ) or its gaseous state ( steam or water vapor ). It also occurs in nature as snow , glaciers , ice packs and icebergs , clouds , fog , dew , aquifers , and atmospheric humidity . Scotland ( Scots : ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of ___MASK90___ . It shares a border with ___MASK54___ to the south , and is otherwise surrounded by the ___MASK75___ , with the North Sea to the east and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the south - west . In addition to the mainland , the country is made up of more than 790 islands , including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides . Lake Island is an island on the ___MASK92___ of the Canadian province of British Columbia . It is located between Mathieson Channel and Lady Trutch Passage , and is flanked by Dowager Island ( to the northwest ), Lady Douglas Island ( to the west ), and a long finger shaped peninsula of the Canadian mainland to the east . Ironically , Lake Island is not a lake island , as it is in an inlet of the Pacific Ocean , and lies only some 6 kilometres from the open sea . The Hebrides ( Scottish Gaelic : " Innse Gall "; Old Norse : " Suðreyjar ") comprise a widespread and diverse archipelago off the west ___MASK92___ of mainland Scotland . There are two main groups : the Inner and ___MASK17___ . These islands have a long history of occupation dating back to the Mesolithic , and the culture of the residents has been affected by the successive influences of Celtic , Norse , and English - speaking peoples . This diversity is reflected in the names given to the islands , which are derived from the languages that have been spoken there in historic and perhaps prehistoric times .