Aman Vir created an interactive map of his favorite obscure islands. Some you may well have heard of, such as Midway, for which a major WWII naval battle was named, and North Sentinel, home of the ...

What’s more, many Caribbean islands come with a real pirate history, such as Nassau, Jamaica, and Barbados, which makes them an exciting choice for a vacation—even though people shouldn’t ...

The Canary Islands archipelago is a string of seven islands, closer to Morocco than to their mother country Spain. The islands are home to more than 2 million people, and their main trade is tourism.

A new map of the South Orkney Islands has been released by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) – the first UK published, topographic map of the region in almost 40 years. Created by the Mapping and ...

On his visit to the islands in 1835, Charles Darwin noticed the slight differences between the same types of animal on each island. This helped him work out how they had adapted to their ...