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  • Madagascar has been stripped of its foliage to the point that it is known as the Red Island; less than ten percent of the island bears native vegetation, and less than three percent is protected.

    Valerie Tarico: Madagascar: West Knows Best 2010

  • Madagascar has been stripped of its foliage to the point that it is known as the Red Island; less than ten percent of the island bears native vegetation, and less than three percent is protected.

    Valerie Tarico: Madagascar: West Knows Best 2010

  • Hollywood became an unlikely champion of tourism in Madagascar when an animated film took the country's name as its title and deposited a group of animals from a zoo in New York on the shores of the 'Red Island'.

    BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition 2009

  • According to Steve Horton of Red Island Australian Olive Oil, the arduous manufacturing process of EVOO is as much art as science; by definition, its olives must be pressed within hours of harvest.

    Oil Slick 2009

  • Escape to Red Island while you still have a chance.

    City Hall Surrenders Sidewalks To Homeless 2006

  • 'Been to Red Island, and the mistress there is kind unlike some other wenches we've blogged about, savvy?

    Zuma Dogg Says "No on R" 2006

  • Red Island is the place where ROMERO, NUNEZ, DELEON, CEDILLO AND PADILLA will end up after walking the plank in November.

    Zuma Dogg Says "No on R" 2006

  • This was known to the Dutch as Roode or Red Island.

    A Brief History of the United States

  • As usual he kept his watch and ward on the cliffs by the Red Island

    Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902

  • As there appeared to be every chance of our losing the sea-horizon, and consequently our noon observation, if we stood on and the breeze continued, our course was changed to the other tack until that hour; and then having correctly ascertained our position, Red Island bearing south-east by east, distance

    Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 George Grey 1855

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