Malta The second largest of the five Maltese islands. A Maltese rating's time-honoured explanation of his failure to carry out an order is to maintain that the order was not given to him but to his "brother from Gozo."

Gozo is an island of the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea, second in size to the island of Malta. In Maltese, the island is called Għawdex (pronounced áw-desh). Gozo is part of the country of Malta.