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:

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

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