Crocker Land: An Expedition To a Non-Existent Island
Kaushik Patowary
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...
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The Colors of Hormuz Island
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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
Kaushik Patowary
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...
