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Scilly Isles
     
Scilly Isles also the Isles of Scilly

the Scilly Isles

a group of about 140 small islands off southwest England, five of which have people living on them. The Scilly Isles are popular with tourists, and the weather there is warmer than in the rest of Britain.
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