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A map produced by the South Australian Geological Survey shows for the first time the geological make-up of Kangaroo Island. Launched yesterday by the State Government, the map shows the island's geology, landforms and mineral deposits. [url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/0...

Omelek Island is part of the Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. It is controlled by the United States military under a long-term lease (along with ten other islands in the atoll) and is part of the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defence Test Site. [url=http://en.wikipedia.o...

Deception Island is a volcanic caldera, which formed a natural harbour when the caldera collapsed. The harbour is called Port Foster. The Island is in the South Shetland Islands, on the Bransfield Rift where the rift is offset by a short ridge-ridge transform fault . 700000 years ago, volcan...

Eight atolls in the Pacific represent the world's largest marine protected area The Phoenix Islands aren't obvious on a map - eight scattered coral atolls barely above sea level in the equatorial western Pacific. These specks form the most remote coral island archipelago in the world, 1,000 miles...

A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred at 23:32:54 (UTC) on Wednesday, December 7, 2005, in the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand, 80 km SouthSouthEast of Raoul Island. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 37.2 km. Location 29.963°S, 177.631°W

Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel-bridge opens The Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel-bridge opens to traffic Saturday. It provides a quick link between Shanghai and two of its major islands for the first time. The project links Pudong New Area and Chongming Island via Changxing Island. The route to Chon...

Russia gained 4.5 square kilometres from a 2007 quake on Sakhalin Island and from lava flows this summer on uninhabited Matua Island, both of which lie north of Japan, said geologist Boris Levin. The powerful 2007 quake near the Sakhalin Island town of Nevelsk lifted part of the sea floor, said Levin...

The giant stone statues of Easter Island have perplexed generations of archaeologists, engineers and scholars. Ever since European explorers first set eyes on them three centuries ago these carvings have presented a problem. How could the island's primitive inhabitants have erected such mass...

A single olive branch may have solved one of ancient history's most enduring mysteries - when and why did the great Minoan civilisation of the Mediterranean come to a sudden end? The olive branch was buried alive during a cataclysmic volcanic eruption on the Aegean island of Thera - now known as S...

The Mercury Islands lie off the northeast coast of New Zealand's North Island. They are located eight kilometres off the coast of the Coromandel Peninsula, and 35 kilometres northeast of the town of Whitianga. Read more Latitude: 3...

Archaeologists to Excavate the 14000 Years Old Persian Gulf Island Archaeologists of the Cultural Heritage and Tourism Department of Bushehr province are about to start their excavations to identify historic sites of the southern Iranian Island of Khark, located in the Persian Gulf....

On his way back west from India, Alexander the Greats Admiral Nearchos reached the island of Failaka, about 20 kilometres from what is now Kuwait City, and founded a town there called Icaros. Twenty-five centuries later, that Hellenistic city is slowly coming to light again on the 24-square-kilom...

Italy says another European volcano that could erupt is Ischia, the popular tourist island off the coast of Naples. Ischia's thermal waters are popular with visitors seeking relief from aches and pains. [url=http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100427/italy-volcano...

The Isles of Scilly, is an archipelago of approximately 150 islands, located about 44 kilometres southwest of Lands End, England. Expand (447k...

Submarine volcano erupts south of Sarigan Gov. Benigno R. Fitial has declared a state of disaster emergency in the CNMI following the eruption of an active submarine volcano south of Sarigan Friday noon. Fitial declared the island of Sarigan as unsafe for human habitation and restricted all trave...

Scientists are warning airlines and tourists of the danger of ash and volcanic rocks erupting from Mt Yasur on Vanuatu's Tanna island. Wellingtons Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre has reported an ash cloud covering 100 nautical square miles and more than 1.8 kilometres high within the volcano's vici...

A new geological study has shown that many low-lying Pacific islands are growing, not sinking. The islands of Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia are among those which have grown, because of coral debris and sediment. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/mobile/world/asia_pac...

New research suggests that the skies of the Canadian Arctic may be the best in the world for astronomy. Researchers from the Universities of British Columbia and Toronto and the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria are about to report initial results indicating that the best place in the...

Tiny Sark Named First Dark Sky Island The International Dark-sky Association has named the English Channel Island of Sark its first dark sky island. There are billions and billions of stars in the sky, but most people in the developed world can only see a handful of them. The reason for that is light po...

A soft muddy island appeared a few kilometres offshore in Hingol on the Makran coast, Balochistan on November 16, 2010. The Director General, Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) dispatched a team of earth scientists to investigate the sudden appearance of this white mud dome, about three kilomet...

Cumbre Vieja (Spanish: Old Summit) is an active volcanic ridge on the volcanic ocean island of Isla de La Palma in the Canary Islands. This ridge trends in an approximate north-south direction and covers the southern third of the island. It is lined by several volcanic craters. [url=http://en.wik...

Holbox Island and the Yalahau Lagoon Holbox Island and the Yalahau Lagoon on the northeast corner of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula are featured in this satellite image. Holbox is a 42-km-long island running along the peninsula's coast that is separated from the mainland by Yalahau Lagoon. One of the...

Saint Helena is an island of volcanic origin in the South Atlantic Ocean. Most historical accounts state that the island was discovered on 21 May 1502 by the Galician navigator João da Nova sailing at the service of the Portuguese Crown, and that he named it "Santa Helena" after Helena of C...

Island of broken figurines On a June morning in 1963 Colin Renfrew stepped from a caïque boat onto the scrub-covered Aegean Island of Keros on the basis of a tip-off. In search of material for his graduate studies, the young Cambridge graduate had been intrigued by rumours of a recent looting of the al...

Prehistoric finds on remote St Kilda's Boreray isle The remains of a permanent settlement which could date back to the Iron Age has been uncovered on a remote Scottish island, according to archaeologists. It was previously thought Boreray in the St Kilda archipelago was only visited by islanders t...

Excavations on Bulgaria's St Ivan island a success The new archaeological excavations on the island of Saint Ivan close to the seaside town of Sozopol are successful, Tsonya Drazheva, deputy head of the excavations, said. Quoted by local news agency Focus, she said that the team's priority this ye...

Timanfaya National Park or Parque Nacional de Timanfaya is a Spanish national park covering the municipalities of southern portion of Tinajo and the northern portion of Yaiza in the southwestern part of the island of Lanzarote. The greatest recorded eruptions occurred between 1730 and 1736. Rea...

Tiny Toshima island big on natural attractions On the small island of Toshima, roughly 140 km south of Tokyo's Takeshiba Port, a narrow forest path covered with damp leaves and lined with moss-covered trees weaves toward a lookout near the 508-meter-high peak of Mount Miyatsuka. If you're unlucky...

Bouvet Island is an uninhabited Antarctic volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, 2,525 km south-southwest of South Africa. It is a dependent territory of Norway and, lying north of 60°S latitude, is not subject to the Antarctic Treaty. The centre of the island is an ice-filled crater of an ina...

The Heard Island and McDonald Islands (abbreviated as HIMI) are an Australian external territory and volcanic group of barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. Neither island cluster had recorded visitors until the mid-1850s. Peter Kemp, a British s...

Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of 49,070 km² lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island w...

The Territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, also called Cocos Islands and Keeling Islands, is a territory of Australia, located in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Christmas Island and approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka. The territory consists of two atolls and 27 coral island...

Skomer Island's 'hidden' prehistoric buildings found by archaeologists A team of archaeologists have found "hidden" remains of prehistoric buildings and fields on Skomer Island, off the Pembrokeshire coast. Using new technology, they "X-rayed" fields and found buri...

Gruinard Island (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Ghruinneard) is a small, oval-shaped Scottish island approximately 2 kilometres long by 1 kilometre wide, located in Gruinard Bay, about halfway between Gairloch and Ullapool. In 1942, during the Second World War, Gruinard was the site of a biological w...

Coll (Scottish Gaelic: Cola) is a small island, west of Mull in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. Coll is known for its sandy beaches, which rise to form large sand dunes, for its corncrakes, and for Breachacha Castle. In April 2012, in a bid to boost tourism, residents on the Isle of Coll applied for it to...

Scientists pursue paleoclimate, deglaciation records from atop Roosevelt ice dome Not much more than a large, icy bump on the northern edge of the nearly Texas-sized Ross Ice Shelf , Roosevelt Island is the site of an international research campaign to learn more about the climate and deglaciatio...

On 29 August 1930, the remaining 36 inhabitants of St Kilda were removed to Morvern on the Scottish mainland at their own request. Read more

South Pacific Sandy Island 'proven not to exist' A South Pacific island, shown on marine charts and world maps as well as on Google Earth and Google Maps, does not exist, Australian scientists say. The supposedly sizeable strip of land, named Sandy Island on Google maps, was positioned midway betwe...

Exploring Bonaire's deep reef by submarine In a submarine, IMARES Wageningen UR researchers Erik Meesters en Lisa Becking will explore the deep reef of Bonaire, an island in the Dutch Caribbean. They aim to map the biodiversity of their research location, take samples and examine the bacteria tha...

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Island Kangaroo Island (Preview)	General news	1	1052	May 4 13:01 2008 by Blobrana
A map produced by the South Australian Geological Survey shows for the first time the geological make-up of Kangaroo Island. Launched yesterday by the State Government, the map shows the island's geology, landforms and mineral deposits. [url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/0...
Island Omelek Island (Preview)	KMZ	2	2939	May 22 21:06 2012 by Blobrana
Omelek Island is part of the Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. It is controlled by the United States military under a long-term lease (along with ten other islands in the atoll) and is part of the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defence Test Site. [url=http://en.wikipedia.o...
volcano Antarctic Island Supervolcano Deception Island (Preview)	General news	2	1349	Apr 7 08:48 2015 by Blobrana
Deception Island is a volcanic caldera, which formed a natural harbour when the caldera collapsed. The harbour is called Port Foster. The Island is in the South Shetland Islands, on the Bransfield Rift where the rift is offset by a short ridge-ridge transform fault . 700000 years ago, volcan...
Island Phoenix Islands (Preview)	Trash	0	1097	Oct 18 14:01 2009 by Blobrana
Eight atolls in the Pacific represent the world's largest marine protected area The Phoenix Islands aren't obvious on a map - eight scattered coral atolls barely above sea level in the equatorial western Pacific. These specks form the most remote coral island archipelago in the world, 1,000 miles...
Earthquake Island Kermadec Islands Quake ( 1 2 3 4 ) (Preview)	General news	35	5267	Jun 15 12:30 2013 by Blobrana
A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred at 23:32:54 (UTC) on Wednesday, December 7, 2005, in the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand, 80 km SouthSouthEast of Raoul Island. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 37.2 km. Location 29.963°S, 177.631°W
Island Chongming Island (Preview)	Trash	0	942	Nov 2 15:47 2009 by Blobrana
Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel-bridge opens The Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel-bridge opens to traffic Saturday. It provides a quick link between Shanghai and two of its major islands for the first time. The project links Pudong New Area and Chongming Island via Changxing Island. The route to Chon...
Island Sakhalin Island (Preview)	Off Topic	0	1045	Nov 13 15:09 2009 by Blobrana
Russia gained 4.5 square kilometres from a 2007 quake on Sakhalin Island and from lava flows this summer on uninhabited Matua Island, both of which lie north of Japan, said geologist Boris Levin. The powerful 2007 quake near the Sakhalin Island town of Nevelsk lifted part of the sea floor, said Levin...
Easter Island Island Easter Island ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Off Topic	16	5340	Jul 13 17:46 2017 by Blobrana
The giant stone statues of Easter Island have perplexed generations of archaeologists, engineers and scholars. Ever since European explorers first set eyes on them three centuries ago these carvings have presented a problem. How could the island's primitive inhabitants have erected such mass...
Volcano Island Crete Thera ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview)	General news	22	9719	Nov 11 12:28 2016 by Blobrana
A single olive branch may have solved one of ancient history's most enduring mysteries - when and why did the great Minoan civilisation of the Mediterranean come to a sudden end? The olive branch was buried alive during a cataclysmic volcanic eruption on the Aegean island of Thera - now known as S...
Island Great Mercury Island (Preview)	General news	0	1024	Nov 16 10:28 2009 by Blobrana
The Mercury Islands lie off the northeast coast of New Zealand's North Island. They are located eight kilometres off the coast of the Coromandel Peninsula, and 35 kilometres northeast of the town of Whitianga. Read more Latitude: 3...
Island Khark Island (Preview)	Off Topic	1	1168	Nov 27 11:24 2006 by Blobrana
Archaeologists to Excavate the 14000 Years Old Persian Gulf Island Archaeologists of the Cultural Heritage and Tourism Department of Bushehr province are about to start their excavations to identify historic sites of the southern Iranian Island of Khark, located in the Persian Gulf....
Island The island of Failaka (Preview)	Off Topic	0	1140	Aug 5 22:55 2007 by Blobrana
On his way back west from India, Alexander the Greats Admiral Nearchos reached the island of Failaka, about 20 kilometres from what is now Kuwait City, and founded a town there called Icaros. Twenty-five centuries later, that Hellenistic city is slowly coming to light again on the 24-square-kilom...
Volcano Island Ischia (Preview)	General news	0	1003	Apr 27 19:52 2010 by Blobrana
Italy says another European volcano that could erupt is Ischia, the popular tourist island off the coast of Naples. Ischia's thermal waters are popular with visitors seeking relief from aches and pains. [url=http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100427/italy-volcano...
Island Isles of Scilly (Preview)	Off Topic	3	1242	Oct 30 18:13 2012 by Blobrana
The Isles of Scilly, is an archipelago of approximately 150 islands, located about 44 kilometres southwest of Lands End, England. Expand (447k...
Volcano Island Sarigan Island (Preview)	General news	3	1166	May 31 23:57 2010 by Blobrana
Submarine volcano erupts south of Sarigan Gov. Benigno R. Fitial has declared a state of disaster emergency in the CNMI following the eruption of an active submarine volcano south of Sarigan Friday noon. Fitial declared the island of Sarigan as unsafe for human habitation and restricted all trave...
Volcano Island Mount Yasur (Preview)	General news	1	1130	Apr 18 13:05 2017 by Blobrana
Scientists are warning airlines and tourists of the danger of ash and volcanic rocks erupting from Mt Yasur on Vanuatu's Tanna island. Wellingtons Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre has reported an ash cloud covering 100 nautical square miles and more than 1.8 kilometres high within the volcano's vici...
Island Pacific islands (Preview)	Off Topic	0	944	Jun 3 14:58 2010 by Blobrana
A new geological study has shown that many low-lying Pacific islands are growing, not sinking. The islands of Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia are among those which have grown, because of coral debris and sediment. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/mobile/world/asia_pac...
Island Ellesmere Island (Preview)	General news	1	1358	Jul 13 01:03 2010 by Blobrana
New research suggests that the skies of the Canadian Arctic may be the best in the world for astronomy. Researchers from the Universities of British Columbia and Toronto and the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria are about to report initial results indicating that the best place in the...
Island Sark Island (Preview)	General news	0	853	Feb 1 18:06 2011 by Blobrana
Tiny Sark Named First Dark Sky Island The International Dark-sky Association has named the English Channel Island of Sark its first dark sky island. There are billions and billions of stars in the sky, but most people in the developed world can only see a handful of them. The reason for that is light po...
Island Volcano Khizr island (Preview)	Volcano	0	1006	Feb 27 17:36 2011 by Blobrana
A soft muddy island appeared a few kilometres offshore in Hingol on the Makran coast, Balochistan on November 16, 2010. The Director General, Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) dispatched a team of earth scientists to investigate the sudden appearance of this white mud dome, about three kilomet...
Island Volcano Tsunamis Cumbre Vieja ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Volcano	13	9390	Oct 5 15:45 2016 by Blobrana
Cumbre Vieja (Spanish: Old Summit) is an active volcanic ridge on the volcanic ocean island of Isla de La Palma in the Canary Islands. This ridge trends in an approximate north-south direction and covers the southern third of the island. It is lined by several volcanic craters. [url=http://en.wik...
Island Holbox Island (Preview)	Off Topic	0	859	Mar 25 12:02 2011 by Blobrana
Holbox Island and the Yalahau Lagoon Holbox Island and the Yalahau Lagoon on the northeast corner of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula are featured in this satellite image. Holbox is a 42-km-long island running along the peninsula's coast that is separated from the mainland by Yalahau Lagoon. One of the...
Island Saint Helena (Preview)	General news	0	739	May 20 22:44 2011 by Blobrana
Saint Helena is an island of volcanic origin in the South Atlantic Ocean. Most historical accounts state that the island was discovered on 21 May 1502 by the Galician navigator João da Nova sailing at the service of the Portuguese Crown, and that he named it "Santa Helena" after Helena of C...
Island Keros (Preview)	Off Topic	1	757	Apr 15 11:01 2013 by Blobrana
Island of broken figurines On a June morning in 1963 Colin Renfrew stepped from a caïque boat onto the scrub-covered Aegean Island of Keros on the basis of a tip-off. In search of material for his graduate studies, the young Cambridge graduate had been intrigued by rumours of a recent looting of the al...
Island Boreray isle (Preview)	Off Topic	0	659	Jun 17 00:01 2011 by Blobrana
Prehistoric finds on remote St Kilda's Boreray isle The remains of a permanent settlement which could date back to the Iron Age has been uncovered on a remote Scottish island, according to archaeologists. It was previously thought Boreray in the St Kilda archipelago was only visited by islanders t...
Island St Ivan island (Preview)	Off Topic	0	642	Aug 31 14:14 2011 by Blobrana
Excavations on Bulgaria's St Ivan island a success The new archaeological excavations on the island of Saint Ivan close to the seaside town of Sozopol are successful, Tsonya Drazheva, deputy head of the excavations, said. Quoted by local news agency Focus, she said that the team's priority this ye...
Volcano Island Lanzarote (Preview)	Volcano	1	1344	Aug 31 22:36 2012 by Blobrana
Timanfaya National Park or Parque Nacional de Timanfaya is a Spanish national park covering the municipalities of southern portion of Tinajo and the northern portion of Yaiza in the southwestern part of the island of Lanzarote. The greatest recorded eruptions occurred between 1730 and 1736. Rea...
Island Toshima island (Preview)	Off Topic	0	779	Sep 11 12:53 2011 by Blobrana
Tiny Toshima island big on natural attractions On the small island of Toshima, roughly 140 km south of Tokyo's Takeshiba Port, a narrow forest path covered with damp leaves and lined with moss-covered trees weaves toward a lookout near the 508-meter-high peak of Mount Miyatsuka. If you're unlucky...
Island Bouvet Island (Preview)	Off Topic	1	746	Dec 31 23:54 2012 by Blobrana
Bouvet Island is an uninhabited Antarctic volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, 2,525 km south-southwest of South Africa. It is a dependent territory of Norway and, lying north of 60°S latitude, is not subject to the Antarctic Treaty. The centre of the island is an ice-filled crater of an ina...
Island McDonald Islands (Preview)	Off Topic	1	794	Jan 3 23:39 2013 by Blobrana
The Heard Island and McDonald Islands (abbreviated as HIMI) are an Australian external territory and volcanic group of barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. Neither island cluster had recorded visitors until the mid-1850s. Peter Kemp, a British s...
Island Alexander Island (Preview)	Off Topic	1	750	Jan 27 23:43 2013 by Blobrana
Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of 49,070 km² lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island w...
Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Preview)	Off Topic	1	639	Mar 29 00:53 2012 by Blobrana
The Territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, also called Cocos Islands and Keeling Islands, is a territory of Australia, located in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Christmas Island and approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka. The territory consists of two atolls and 27 coral island...
Island Skomer Island (Preview)	Off Topic	1	646	Oct 19 05:51 2014 by Blobrana
Skomer Island's 'hidden' prehistoric buildings found by archaeologists A team of archaeologists have found "hidden" remains of prehistoric buildings and fields on Skomer Island, off the Pembrokeshire coast. Using new technology, they "X-rayed" fields and found buri...
Island Gruinard Island (Preview)	Trash	0	812	Apr 23 23:19 2012 by Blobrana
Gruinard Island (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Ghruinneard) is a small, oval-shaped Scottish island approximately 2 kilometres long by 1 kilometre wide, located in Gruinard Bay, about halfway between Gairloch and Ullapool. In 1942, during the Second World War, Gruinard was the site of a biological w...
Island Coll (Preview)	General news	2	756	Aug 17 17:02 2012 by Blobrana
Coll (Scottish Gaelic: Cola) is a small island, west of Mull in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. Coll is known for its sandy beaches, which rise to form large sand dunes, for its corncrakes, and for Breachacha Castle. In April 2012, in a bid to boost tourism, residents on the Isle of Coll applied for it to...
Island Roosevelt Island (Preview)	Off Topic	0	616	Jul 13 21:42 2012 by Blobrana
Scientists pursue paleoclimate, deglaciation records from atop Roosevelt ice dome Not much more than a large, icy bump on the northern edge of the nearly Texas-sized Ross Ice Shelf , Roosevelt Island is the site of an international research campaign to learn more about the climate and deglaciatio...
Island St Kilda (Preview)	Off Topic	0	612	Aug 29 06:58 2012 by Blobrana
On 29 August 1930, the remaining 36 inhabitants of St Kilda were removed to Morvern on the Scottish mainland at their own request. Read more
Island Sandy Island (Preview)	Off Topic	0	579	Nov 22 13:37 2012 by Blobrana
South Pacific Sandy Island 'proven not to exist' A South Pacific island, shown on marine charts and world maps as well as on Google Earth and Google Maps, does not exist, Australian scientists say. The supposedly sizeable strip of land, named Sandy Island on Google maps, was positioned midway betwe...
Island Bonaire (Preview)	Off Topic	0	487	May 29 13:51 2013 by Blobrana
Exploring Bonaire's deep reef by submarine In a submarine, IMARES Wageningen UR researchers Erik Meesters en Lisa Becking will explore the deep reef of Bonaire, an island in the Dutch Caribbean. They aim to map the biodiversity of their research location, take samples and examine the bacteria tha...