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 ...
Possession Island
The Possession Island is the main island of the archipelago subantarctic Crozet Islands, belonging to the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. With an area of 150 square kilometers, the Possession Island is the largest of the archipelago Crozet. It is also the only one with a permanent basis, based Alfred Faure, built in 1963, home to between 18 and 30 people for research. With the island of East located 18 km east, beyond the canal Orcs, it forms the eastern group of the archipelago.
The Possession Island, as well as the other islands of the archipelago, is protected within the National Nature Reserve of French Southern Territories. This protection only covers the land area of île1.
The Possession Island was discovered January 24, 1772 by the French explorer Nicolas Thomas Marion Dufresne. Julien Crozet, second aboard Mascarin, was sent to earth where he performed a ceremony of possession by filing a bottle containing a parchment on behalf of King Louis XV. The island was then named Isle of Taking Possession.
Cocos Island
The Cocos Island (Spanish: Isla del Coco) is a Costa Rican island located 550 kilometers southwest of the western coast of the country in the Pacific Ocean. It is attached to the province of Puntarenas. The island is known for hosting the pirates who hid the treasures looted from the Spaniards, which earned him the nickname of "Treasure Island."
Since 1997 she has been a World Heritage Site and is a protected national park in Costa Rica. Cocos Island is home to rare flora and fauna and an underwater rainforest, only island in the tropical eastern Pacific to own one.
The island is completely covered with lava flows of andesite. The climate is tropical humid and hot. For nine months of the year, from May to October, there was rain and fog.
The islands of Disappointment
The Disappointment Islands are a group of islands northeast of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia. Disappointment Islands consist of three atolls municipally owned Puka Puka and Napuka. Their accumulated area is about 15 km2.
The Deception Island
The Deception Island is an island in the South Shetland Islands in the Southern Ocean, located 120 miles north of the Antarctic Peninsula. The only inhabited places are dependent on scientific research bases of Argentine and Spanish armed forces.
The Crusoe island
Robinson Crusoe Island is located in South America, the Pacific Ocean, 674 kilometers off the South American coast. Administratively, the island is Chilean and is part of the municipality of Juan Fernández de Valparaíso Province in the region of Valparaíso.
Clipperton Island
Clipperton Island, also known Clipperton1, or Clipperton Island Passion Island, a French possession is composed of a single atoll in the Pacific Ocean, 12 000 km of metropolitan France in 6000 miles Tahiti and 1,300 miles west of Mexico.
Clipperton Island - his baptismal name French "Passion Island" - is the smallest in land owned by the France bordering the Pacific. It is located 1280 km from the first mainland coast, Acapulco, Mexico, and 945 miles from the first ground, that of the small island of Socorro in the Revillagigedo Archipelago Mexican north, while Nuku Hiva, islands Marquesas Islands, French nearest land is 4,018 kilometers south-west. The Hawaiian archipelago is 4930 km. According to the French Committee of IUCN is the world's most remote atoll.
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