Deserted or inhabited by strange creatures, paradise lost or hellish lands, islands have this magic they inspire as much fear and fascination. Here is a world tour of abandoned islands that takes us on a journey through the territories scattered across the globe, on the border of the tangible world and imagination. In polar waters of the North Island Solitude is walled in ice. Millions of red crabs flourish beaches of Christmas Island in the early tropical rains. In the Pacific, the woman-bird feeds Banaba collective fabrications ...
Isle of Solitude (Russia)
Island of Solitude is an island located in the middle of the Kara Sea between Novaya Zemlya and Severnaya Zemlya in northern Russia. The island is 18.5 km in length and its surface is 202 km2. Although it is not flat, the elevation of the island is moderate, as its highest point is only 30 m. This island was discovered in 1878 by the Norwegian master Edvard Holm Johannesen Tromsø. He gave her the name of "Solitude" because of its isolated position, far from land. In polar waters of the North Island Solitude is walled in ice.
Christmas Island (Australia)
The Christmas Island is an island and an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean, about 350 km from the island of Java, less than 1600 miles from the Australian coast (including 2,623 km from Perth) and 417 km east of Cocos. The island is 14 km wide and 19 km long and covers an area of 135 square kilometers. The capital is Flying Fish Cove. Australia has sovereignty since 1958, nearly two-thirds of the area of the island was declared a national park. Millions of red crabs flourish beaches of Christmas Island in the early tropical rains.
Island of Tristan da Cunha
Tristan da Cunha is both the main island (or Tristan) and the volcanic archipelago of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, north of the Roaring Forties, and discovery in the early sixteenth century. Tristan da Cunha is dependent on the British overseas Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha territory. The archipelago is 2807 km from Cape Town (South Africa) east and 3,360 kilometers of South America. The nearest land is the island of St. Helena, 2438 km NNE. Tristan da Cunha with 96 km2 rises to 2060 m.
In 1961-62, the volcanic eruption of Queen Mary's Peak causes the evacuation of residents in the UK. The majority of them come back to the island after a few years. Considered the world's most isolated land, access to the island is particularly difficult because of the weather, remoteness (at best seven days of sea from South Africa) and the scarcity of boats.
Franklin Island (Antarctica)
Franklin Island is an island in the Ross Sea in Antarctica. It was discovered January 27, 1841 by James Clark Ross and named after John Franklin, not following the Franklin expedition when he died, but thanks to his governorship of the current Tasmania where Ross made a stop during his trip.
The reefs of Peter I (Antarctica)
The Peter I Island is a volcanic island in the Southern Ocean, in the Bellingshausen Sea off the western coast of Antarctica. The ice front makes access difficult and risky landing by boat because of falling seracs. Yet the island has been the subject of exploration and scientific expeditions and sporty character. Ola Olstad and expeditionary manage to land for the first time on the island 2 February 1929 The ascent of the main summit, peak Lars Christensen, was never realized. It remains a little known island.
The island of Rapa (in the Austral Islands in French Polynesia)
Rapa (sometimes called Rapa Iti, "Little Rapa" to distinguish it from Rapa Nui, Easter Island, the "Great Rapa") is an island in the Austral Islands in French Polynesia. Rapa was discovered in 1791 by George Vancouver: it was called at the time Oparo, the "barrier island", a kind of strong whose ruins still dot the island, especially on ridges and steep places.
The island of Rapa has an area of about 40 km2. It is inhabited island's southernmost Austral and most isolated, being distant 500 km from the nearest inhabited island, Raivavae, and more than 1,420 miles from Tahiti. The island has no airstrip and is connected to other islands by the Joint Cargo Aranui1 every two or three months; a patrol of the Navy also conducts liaison missions from Tahiti. Because of its isolation, rapa, locally called reo rapa, is a language clearly differentiated from other languages of the Austral Islands.
The island of Banaba
Banaba or Ocean Island is the only island of Kiribati high (81 meters at the highest point), slightly away from the main islands of the Gilbert Islands. Its phosphate has long been exploited by the British colonialists until the deposits are exhausted in 1979 The public, Banaban decimated during the Japanese occupation during World War II was reinstalled on the Fijian island of Rabi in the immediate postwar period. The island is surrounded by coral reefs making it difficult to access.
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