Tag: Island

I did not partake in the secession. I was too young and on the opposite side of the globe. It is a minor regret in my life, but I atone for it with an annual pilgrimage to the place of the insurrection. The secession unfolded on April 23rd, 1982. That it happened in the United States is what bogg...

It sounds like the premise of a thrilling new HBO Max TV series… It’s the year 2022 and there exists an island that has remained largely unvisited by humanity because of a fear of the tribal inhabitants that live on it. A fear that this tribe might kill any visitors they see, as they...

Tristan da Cunha is a small island far away in the South Atlantic Ocean, 2,500 kilometers west of Cape Town. It is one of the most remote places where people live in the world. To get there, you have to take a boat through very rough waters, and the trip takes about three weeks from Cape Town. The i...

Lombok Island is located in the central part of the tectonically active zone formed as a result of subduction of the Indo-Austrian Plate in the western part of the Banda Sea. The Lombok geology is characteristic of island-arc territories and is represented by volcanic-sedimentary formations from ...

In Chinese mythology, there are five islands in the Bohai Sea, inhabited by immortal beings who have discovered the elixir of life. Many have searched for the islands, but no one have yet found them. I came close, however, four years ago this very week, when I travelled deep into the Nevada desert, ...

Living in the Island from the beginning teaches you to swim in an early age it was like a SOP for an Island girl like me, teaches you to help your parent for doing the house chores, giving you a wonderful childhood like playing a street games every weekend which you also earned a lot of friends and ...

To these people, it was like a kidnapped child brought back centuries later. It is a reunion of a snatched family member with her people. The Passamaquoddy tribe recently reacquired the 140-acre Kuwesuwi Monihq, formerly called White’s Island and Pine Island, ME, by partnering with Nature C...

If you visit West Sumatra, there is one place you shouldn’t miss The name of the place is Mentawai Island There are many extraordinary things that you will get there What is the Mentawai island? Mentawai Islands is a group of islands located off the western coast of Sumatra, Indone...

When you swim in a Coron lake or lagoon, you are surrounded by walls of limestone some 50 meters high or more. They are like cement facades of skyscrapers without windows, half-submerged and rising from the depths, 50 to 80 meters below. There were moments when we weren’t surrounded by tourist...