Showing posts with the label Island

Crocker Land: An Expedition To a Non-Existent Island

Jun 1, 2023

In 1906, Robert Peary had just returned from an unsuccessful trip to the Arctic. The veteran explorer had hoped to reach the North Pole, but...

The Colors of Hormuz Island

Jul 21, 2021

Off the Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf, about 8 km from the mainland, lies Hormuz Island, a small, teardrop shaped mound of rock salt, gy...

HMS Diamond Rock: The Stone Frigate

Jun 11, 2021

South of Martinique, an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, lies a small basalt island called Diamond Rock. With an imposing peak of 175 me...

Banda: The Secret Island of Nutmegs

Nov 3, 2020

In the Banda Sea, roughly 2,500 km east of Jakarta lies the Banda Islands, a part of Indonesia. For thousands of years, this group of ten is...

Astola Island: Pakistan’s Hidden Gem

Jul 23, 2020

About 25 km off the coast of Balochistan, in the Arabian Sea, lies a large uninhabited island about 7 km long and 2.5 km wide, with sheer wh...

Peter's Café Sport: The Post Office in The Middle of The Atlantic

Feb 1, 2020

The Azores in the North Atlantic is one of the most remote archipelago in the world. Situated about 1,500 km from the west coast of Portugal...

Bouvet Island: The Uninhabited Island With Its Own Top-Level Internet Domain

Oct 8, 2019

As far as islands go, Bouvet is pretty insignificant—a speck of rock located in the South Atlantic Ocean over 1,600 kilometers off the coast...

Project Isabela: How Goats Helped Eliminate Goats From The Galapagos

Aug 15, 2019

The Galapagos Islands, off the west coast of Ecuador, are a treasure trove of unique ecological specimens. The islands’ extreme isolation an...

The Egg War of Farallon Islands

Jul 31, 2019

The California Gold Rush of the 1850s induced another rush for a commodity, which, although not precious, became such rare and expensive tha...

Crannogs: Neolithic-Era Artificial Islands

Jul 23, 2019

The Neolithic people of Great Britain were prolific builders. Just look at the British Isles—they are studded with countless ancient megalit...

Mocha Dick: The Whale That Inspired Moby Dick

Jun 15, 2019

About thirty kilometers off the coast of Chile is a small teardrop-shaped island called Mocha, inhabited by the indigenous Mapuche people. ...

Banaba: A Tropical Paradise Destroyed by Mining

Oct 8, 2018

In the Pacific Ocean, halfway between Papua New Guinea and Hawaii, there is a small island named Banaba belonging to a scattered group of is...

The Island Named After A Satellite

Aug 25, 2018

Satellite imagery, made available to the public through applications such as Google Earth and Google Maps, have allowed anybody with a compu...

The Forgotten Islands of The Wadden Sea

May 11, 2018

Just off the northwest coast of Germany, in the North Frisian Wadden Sea, are a series of ten extremely low-lying islets known as Halligen o...

The Dark Legacy of Gruinard Island

Dec 8, 2017

Halfway between the villages of Gairloch and Ullapool in the North-West Highlands of Scotland, sits a small oval-shaped island named Gruinar...

Vozrozhdeniya, The Anthrax Island

Oct 24, 2017

In the 1920s, the Soviet government began searching for an isolated place where they could build a military complex to test biological weapo...

The Outer Trial Bank

Sep 19, 2017

In The Wash, a squarish estuary on the East coast of England, where Norfolk meets Lincolnshire, there is a peculiar island, perfectly circul...

Magdalen: The Island of Shipwreck Survivors

Jun 1, 2017

The small archipelago of Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, off the coast of the Canadian province of Quebec, is home to some 1...

St. Pierre and Miquelon: The Last French Colony in North America

May 12, 2017

About 25 kilometers off the coast of Canada, in the North Atlantic, lies a tiny bit of France. It’s a string of islands belonging to the arc...

The Brand New Island of Surtsey

Apr 28, 2017

Located about 30 kilometers off the southern coast of Iceland, lies the small island of Surtsey. It is one of the world's youngest islan...