Flores Island

Flores Island may refer to:

  • Flores, an island in Indonesia
  • Flores Island (Azores), an island of the Azores archipelago
  • Flores Island (British Columbia), laying off the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada
  • Isla de Flores in Uruguay

Famous quotes containing the words flores and/or island:

    At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,
    And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away:
    ‘Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!’
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the “big canoe” of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)