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Isla (Cantabria)

Isla is a small village in the municipality of Arnuero in Cantabria, Spain together with other settlements, such as Soane, Castillo Siete Villas and Arnuero. It is in the region of Trasmiera.

Isla (given name)

Isla is a feminine given name traditionally of primarily Scottish usage, derived from " Islay", which is the name of an island off the west coast of Scotland. It is also the name of two Scottish rivers. It was the fifth most popular name for baby girls born in Scotland in 2010 and the 70th most popular name for girls born in England and Wales in 2007. It was among the top 10 names given to girls born on the Isle of Man in 2009 and one of the top five names for girls born in Guernsey in 2010, in 2014 it was the third most popular girls name in the United Kingdom. It ranked 6th for girls born in New Zealand in 2013. It appeared in the top 1,000 names for girls in the United States for the first time in 2008, when it ranked in 619th place. Since then it has increased in popularity and ranked at No. 150 for girls born in the United States in 2014.

The name in its original form was Ilay or Islay (e.g. Ilay Campbell), and it was a masculine given name, and was rare among women. Today Isla is regarded as a distinctly female name and Islay a rare male name. Other forms of the girls' name derived from alternate historical spellings of the Scottish island's name include Ile and Ila.

  • Isla Blair (born 1944), British actress
  • Isla Paschal Richardson (born 1886), writer, author of "To Those I Love"
  • Isla Cameron (c. 1930–1980), Scottish actress and singer
  • Isla Fisher (born 1976), Australian actress
  • Ila Loetscher, early 20th century women's aviation pioneer and explorer
  • Isla Phillips (born 2012), great-granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II
  • Isla St Clair (born 1952), Scottish actress and singer
  • Isla Traquair (born 1980), Scottish broadcast journalist
  • Isla Sitwell (1840-1908), author of Poppy and In Far Japan. Her real name was Sidney Mary Beckwith Sitwell (née Wilson) and she actually used her husband's forename.

Usage examples of "isla".

Two others, and these were brand new in every way, were still being constructed atop the continental divide near Summit Heights and out at sea in the center of the Isla del Rey.

Perhaps on that day at the castle he had moved, without realizing it, a few yards with respect to the highest hill on the Isla de Hierro and had seen the Universe inhabited by another Roberto, a Roberto not sentenced to the conquest of the outwork beyond the walls or saved by another father who did not kill the polite Spaniard.

This is the globe on which we live, and you can see how the wisdom of the ancients divided it into three hundred sixty degrees of longi­tude, usually starting from the meridian that crosses the Isla de Hierro in the Canaries.

And yet, except on the meridian of the Isla de Hierro, in all other places it shifts from true north, moving now east, now west according to the climes and the latitudes.

If the Islands of Solomon, as tradition has it, are on the antimeridian of the Isla de Hierro, and if we are at the correct latitude, sailing towards the west with a following wind, we should land at San Cristoval, or however we choose to rebaptize that ghastly Island.

From Roberto’s confused notes it seems Father Caspar calculates precisely three hundred sixty degrees from the Isla de Hierro, eighteen degrees west of Greenwich, as tradition had required since the days of Ptolemy.

And Father Caspar admitted that the Isla de Hierro was still the best candidate, as—Roberto had already learned this from Dr.

And He took them here because, if the highest mountains of the earth are around the first meridian, between Jerusalem and Isla de Hierro, certainly the marine abysses the most deep must be here, on the antimeridian, for reasons of symmetry.

The lights of the Isla de Santuario were barely visible across the expanse of black water, but the Island's various security devices-the drone submarines, minisats, and hardened sites defended by armed guards-were not visible at all, yet each and every one had to be dealt with.

The lights of the Isla de Santuario were barely visible across the expanse of black water, but the Island's various security devices—the drone submarines, minisats, and hardened sites defended by armed guards—were not visible at all, yet each and every one had to be dealt with.

The lights of the Isla de Santuario were barely visible across the expanse of black water, but the Island's various security devices—the drone submarines, minisats, and hardened sites defended by armed guards—were not visible at all, yet each and every one had to be dealt with.

Dicen que cayó de las estrellas en las islas del poniente en el extremo occidental muchos milenios antes de que el rey Kull reuniera los Siete Imperios bajo su estandarte.

There the Island lay, alone and famous in the sea, discovered on Easter Day, also called Isla de Pascua and Rapa Nui, lying just under the Tropic.