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Ten islands off the coast of Great Britain
Which of these islands seems the most romantic? remote? scary? lush?
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How to define an Island?
It may not be as easy as you think? Atlas Obscura offers some ways to think about islands
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Beautiful images of an abandoned town
Thanks to Atlas Obscura, I found this powerful images of our presence in the Arctic and what remains when we leave. Islands continue to fascinate.
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Wallace and Darwin
David Quammen sets up a kind of scientific adventure story: the race between two men to explain the origin of species and how species vary so dramatically around the world. Islands feature prominently in the story as the laboratories in … Continue reading
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The meaning of islands
In our tour around the twenty islands in Roger Lovegrove’s book Islands we have visited far flung regions of the globe. In addition to simply learning about many obscure and beautiful (or not-so-beautiful) places we have asked ourselves why islands … Continue reading
Extreme Islands
While we tend to think of balmy tropical islands when we ponder “island” we also have encountered islands on the margins: of the globe (OK- a sphere, I know, but stick with this for a moment”) and of human experience. … Continue reading
Island of the Colorblind
The recently deceased neurologist and author Oliver Sacks wrote a fascinating book about an island where the inhabitants are all colorblind. This video is part of a series on his experiences there.
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The Doomsday Seed Vault
High above the Arctic Circle on a Norwegian island is a special place in which seeds are kept as a safeguard of world wide loss of crops and climate change. In the Svalbard archipelago there is a huge vault carved … Continue reading
Pico in the Azores
What story do these images tell us of this island chain in the middle of the Atlantic?
Mingulay
Lovegrove explains that this Mingulay Boat song has nothing particularly to do with Mingulay. But this island captures the tenuous relationship between humans and nature. Out at the end of the Outer Hebrides Islands, Mingulay reveals the abundance of wild … Continue reading
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