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Emerald Isle refers to several different geographic locations:
  • The Emerald Isle is a poetic name for Ireland, due to its green countryside.


  • Emerald Isle
    Emerald Isle, Northwest Territories

    Emerald Isle is one of the Canadian arctic islands located in Northwest Territories, Canada. Located at 76?48'N 114?10'W it has an area of 549 km?....
    , an Arctic
    Arctic

    The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctica region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Greenland , Russia, the United States , Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland....
     island
    Island

    An island or isle is any piece of land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls are called islets....
     in Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
    's Northwest Territories
    Northwest Territories

    The Northwest Territories are a provinces and territories of Canada of Canada.Located in northern Canada, it borders Canada's two other territories, Yukon to the west and Nunavut to the east, and three provinces: British Columbia to the southwest, Alberta and Saskatchewan to the south....
    .


  • Emerald Isle
    Emerald Isle, North Carolina

    Emerald Isle is a town in Carteret County, North Carolina, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Crystal Coast and is located entirely on the Bogue Banks....
    , a town
    Town

    A town is a type of human settlement ranging from a few to several thousand inhabitants, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas; the precise meaning varies between countries and is not always a matter of legal definition....
     on the barrier island
    Shoal

    Things known as shoal, shoals or shoaling include:* Shoal, a sandbank or reef creating shallow water, especially where it forms a hazard to shipping...
     of Bogue Banks
    Bogue Banks

    Bogue Banks is a barrier island off the mainland of North Carolina in Carteret County. The island runs east to west, with the beaches facing due south....
    , in North Carolina
    North Carolina

    North Carolina is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north....
    , USA.


  • The "Emerald Isle" is also a nickname for the islands of Ireland
    Ireland

    Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
    , Lesbos off Greece
    Greece

    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
    , Kodiak Island
    Kodiak Island

    Kodiak Island is a large island on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, separated from the Alaska mainland by the Shelikof Strait. The largest island in the Kodiak Archipelago and at 8975 km? in area, it is the List of islands of the United States by area and the List of islands by area....
     in Alaska
    Alaska

    Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
    , Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about off the southern coast of India....
    , Phú Qu?c
    Phú Qu?c

    Ph? Qu?c is the largest island of Vietnam. Situated in the Gulf of Thailand, the island is part of Kien Giang province. The district of Ph? Qu?c includes the island proper and 21 smaller islets....
     in Vietnam
    Vietnam

    Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east....
    , and Montserrat
    Montserrat

    Montserrat is British overseas territory located in the Leeward Islands, part of the chain of islands called the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea....
     in the Caribbean.


  • "The Emerald Isle
    The Emerald Isle

    The Emerald Isle; or, The Caves of Carrig-Cleena, is a two-act comic opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and Edward German, and a libretto by Basil Hood....
    " is also a comic opera by Sir Arthur Sullivan
    Arthur Sullivan

    Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan Royal Victorian Order was an English composer, of Irish and Italian descent, best known for his comic opera Gilbert and Sullivan with libretto W....


  • The Emerald Island (phantom)
    Emerald Island (phantom)

    The Emerald Island is a phantom island reported by some early explorers to lie between Australia and Antarctica and south of Macquarie Island. Sightings were made, for example, by the ship Emerald in December 1821, and the name of the presumed island derives from the name of this ship....
     is a phantom island
    Phantom island

    Phantom islands are islands that were believed to exist, and appeared on maps for a period of time during recorded history, but were later removed after they proved nonexistent....
     reported by some early explorers to lie between Australia and Antarctica.