The ‘Whiskey War’ of Hans Island
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 13, 2016
In the remote north of the Atlantic Ocean, right on the edge of the freezing waters of the Arctic Ocean, lies a tiny speck of an island. Nam...
The Plague Village Of Eyam And Its Great Sacrifice
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 12, 2016
The Great Plague of London affected many places across England, but one small village in Derbyshire called Eyam, will always be remembered f...
World War 2 Wrecks of Solomon Islands
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 9, 2016
In the remote South Pacific, east of Papua New Guinea, and not far from Australia, lies a string of about nine hundred islands that make up ...
Pozzo di S. Patrizio
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 8, 2016
Pozzo di S. Patrizio, or the St. Patrick's Well, is a historic well in Orvieto, Umbria, central Italy, built between 1527 and 1537 at th...
The Ghosts of St. George’s Church in Lekova
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 8, 2016
For nearly fifty years, St. George’s Church in the village of Lukova, in Czech Republic, lay abandoned. The last congregation held in this 1...
The Birth Of An Ocean: The Afar Rift of Ethiopia
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 8, 2016
In the remote Afar depression in northern Ethiopia, the African Continent is slowly splitting apart and a new ocean is forming. Normally geo...
The Remarkable Story of St Kilda’s Residents
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 6, 2016
The remote archipelago of St Kilda, off the west coast of the Scottish mainland, is truly an isolated place. Located some 64 km west of the ...
The Strange Victorian Dinosaurs of Crystal Palace Park
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2016
Inside an enclosure at the Crystal Palace Park in London, is a collection of over thirty concrete sculptures of dinosaurs. Built more than o...
The Toxic White Beaches of Rosignano Solvay
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2016
The dazzling white sand of “Spiagge Bianche”, or “white beaches”, in the town of Rosignano Solvay, in southern Tuscany, has been luring tour...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 30
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 4, 2016
From the archives of Amusing Planet. The Floating Islands of Lake Titicaca Lake Titicaca, on the border of Peru and Bolivia, is notable fo...
