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Two people died, and one remains missing in the ocean after a medical transport helicopter flying from Santa Catalina Island to the mainland went down in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, officials said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Fourteen existing health boards would be reduced to just two Strategic Health Boards, covering the west and east of mainland Scotland, with different arrangements considered for the three island health boards.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

However, they announced their move back to the mainland in August 2024, one month after purchasing a six-bedroom abode in Encino, Calif., for $6.8 million.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Novo will obtain exclusive rights to develop, manufacture and commercialize HRS-1596 globally, excluding mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

For school, Harriet and her brothers also crossed to the mainland.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

Zoologists provide evidence that fewer animal species live on islands than on nearby mainlands.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

The marsupials of Australia, the finches on the Galápagos, and many species on the Hawaiian Islands are all unique to their one point of origin, yet they display distant relationships to ancestral species on mainlands.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

The Berlin-based ethnographer Alexa Clay, who studied change agents in her book, “The Misfit Economy,” talks about mainlands, islands and peninsulas.

From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2016

The British had decided to get the pro-Axis revolt there in hand while the invasion of Crete gave them a breather on Middle Eastern mainlands.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the usual experience of archaeologists, inventions are supposed to flow from mainlands to islands, and small peripheral societies aren’t supposed to contribute revolutionary advances to the rest of the world.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond