This lush, green-black volcanic island is considered Italy's diving paradise, with 40 spots on the country's first protected marine reserve.
Unlike bland, austere northern Taiwan, Green Island is a sparkling paradise, a volcanic island where the sea is always blue and the weather sunny and warm.
About 100 km south of the Korean Peninsula, the volcanic island has a vibrant economy based largely on tourism and several well preserved geosites of world importance.
The next morning, some 36, 000 villagers were swept into oblivion by tidal waves more than 100 feet high, set in motion when the volcanic island of Krakatoa blew itself to bits.
The 276 inhabitants of the volcanic island still face a long wait for letters and parcels - mail comes via Cape Town and must be put on board a fishing vessel for the 2, 800-kilometre journey to the island.
Other highlights are hiking day trips to Flores Island, a volcanic First Nation island nearby, and Zodiac boat trips to hot springs.
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Images of Titan were also compared with regions on Earth, including volcanic terrain on the island of Kauai and recently glaciated landscapes in North America.
The station, established in 1955, is built on volcanic rock on Ross Island, the solid ground farthest south that is accessible by ship, according to the NSF, an independent U.S. government agency.
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Volcanic obsidian forms the island's spectacular cliffs and grottos, and since access to fresh water has always been of prime concern, the indigenous houses, or dammusi, were brilliantly conceived back in the 10th century with domed roofs designed to channel rainwater into adjoining cisterns.
He was living in a volcanic field on Santa Cruz island 500 miles off the coast of Ecuador, where you couldn't find a decent bagel if you tried: in fact, a place a lot like Washington.
The Network includes sites as diverse as Lagkawi Island, featuring the oldest rock formations in Malaysia, the petrified forest on Lesvos Island (Greece) and the volcanic craters of Vulkaneifel in Germany.
It's the world's most remote inhabited island chain -- so precariously occupied that when a volcanic vent erupted in 1961, the whole population was evacuated to England.
For Montserrat, a tiny British island in the Caribbean, not even a devastating hurricane and multiple volcanic eruptions have proved enough to win unconditional assistance from its imperial rulers in Whitehall.
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