All amazing islands of the world
Did you know that one in every ten people in the world lives on an island? There is even a word for a “craze or a strong attraction to islands” - islomania! Islands have many roles in cultures and literature, from places of paradise to the last refuge of pirates.
7 Island Wonders of the World
The Pitcairn islands are best known for being the home of the descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers.
Palmyra is the quintessential combination of classic island stereotypes. It is simultaneously a kind of desert island paradise as well as a mysterious source of superstition.
Bouvet is the remotest uninhabited island in the world.
Tristan da Cunha is the remotest group of inhabited islands in the world.
Bishop Rock holds the Guinness Book of World Records title of smallest island in the world.
Nauru is the smallest independent island country in the world.
Dubai is home to an increasingly infamous set of awe-inspiring man-made islands, by far the largest in the world.
World's Most Amazing Islands
GUNKANJIMA (Japan): the Ghost (and forbidden) Island
SURTSEY (Iceland): The emerging island
PALM ISLANDS (Dubai): the palm-shaped man-made island
SEALAND (Principality): World's smallest island
EASTER ISLAND (Polynesian triangle, Chile): world heritage site and one of the most isolated inhabited islands in history
MALDIVE ISLANDS: the paradisiac island nation with 1,192 islets
THE WORLD ISLANDS (Dubai): man-made islands in the form of a world map
ALCATRAZ ISLAND (USA): home to the first lighthouse on the Pacific Coast
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