Emerald Isle

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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, an Arctic island in Canada's Northwest Territories.
• Emerald Isle, a town and island in North Carolina, USA.
• The "Emerald Isle" is also a nickname for the islands of Ireland, Kodiak Island in Alaska, Sri Lanka, Phú Quốc in Vietnam, and Montserrat in the Caribbean.
• "The Emerald Isle" is also a comic opera by Sir Arthur Sullivan
• The Emerald Island (phantom) is a phantom island reported by some early explorers to lie between Australia and Antarctica.

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