Isles

Isles may refer to:

  • Isles class trawler, a class of naval trawler used by the Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy and Royal New Zealand Navy
  • Isles FM, a local radio station operating from Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland
  • New York Islanders, a professional ice hockey team that is part of the National Hockey League (NHL)
  • ISLES project, a study on renewable energy potential off the coasts of western Scotland and Ireland
  • these Isles or the Isles alternate formulation of British Isles (see also British Isles naming dispute)
  • Kingdom of the Isles, a medieval realm comprising the Hebrides, the islands of the Firth of Clyde, and the Isle of Man
  • Carlin Isles (born 1989), American rugby sevens player

Famous quotes containing the word isles:

    we cast the vessel ashore
    On the Gulliby Isles where the Pooh-pooh smiles,
    And the Rumbletum bunders roar.
    Charles Edward Carryl (1841–1920)

    The isles of Greece! the isles of Greece
    Where burning Sappho loved and sung,
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)