List Of Islands Of North America
The following is a list of the major island groups of North America.
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—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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what is Naxos, Tinos, Andros,
and Delos, the clasp
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—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
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—Matsuo Basho (1644–1694)
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—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)