South Pacific Islands Fear Drowning, Seek Tawain’s Assistance
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Many south pacific islands are turning to one of their largest allies, Taiwan, fearing that they will be drowned by the rising sea. Tiny island nations such as Nauru, the Solomon Islands, Palau, Kiribati and the Marshall Islands all are at risk from sea level changes. On Nauru, the surface area is shrinking and salt […]
Controversy on Morrison Island
Monday, July 30th, 2007Canada faces the omnipresent task to reconciling with its passed. Like many other countries, Canada lives with a history of European colonization that resulted in the displacement and exploitation of its native inhabitants. Today the reconciliation takes the form of numerous disputes and negotiations. One such dispute is over a region in and surrounding Morrison […]
New Evidence in the Case for Hans Island
Friday, July 27th, 2007Hans Island, is tiny island in Canada and/or Denmark that is hotly contested between the two countries. In recent years Denmark has sent soldiers and ships to the island and in 2005 the Canadian defense minister at the time Bill Graham visited the island.
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New evidence has emerged in the debate and it […]
Unalaska Island a Russian, Aleutian and American Island
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007Unalaska is an island Aleutian Islands which is a chain of islands in the North Pacific. Unalaska Island is the second-largest island in the Aleutian Islands. The coastline of Unalaska is markedly different in appearance than other major Aleutian Islands, with innumerable inlets and peninsulas. However, its terrain is similar to most of the chain, […]
Evil Past on Devil’s Island
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007Island names have a tendency to reflect their past, Devil’s Island in French Guiana is no exception. Devil’s Island is a 34.6 located off the coast of French Guiana and up until 1946 it was the home of a French penal colony. For almost 100 years this island was the home and final resting […]
Despite Coup Fiji Open for Business
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007Fiji, a name that exudes images of the private island experiences is a favorite among island enthusiasts. Recently however there was a coup in Fiji. Naturally when this happens there is a lot of concern about what that means for foreigners in the nation. In the case of private islands there is […]
Fishermen Killed by Stone Age Tribe off Dessert Island
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007This story is a little old, but to interesting to not post. One of the world’s last Stone Age tribes has murdered two fishermen whose boat drifted on to a desert island in the Indian Ocean. The Sentinelese, thought to number between 50 and 200, have rebuffed all contact with the modern world, […]
Bahamas: Beautiful Islands and a Tax Haven
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007I am always surprised when people find out for the first time that the Bahamas is a tax haven. Obviously most of these people have never been to the Bahamas. Having been there many times I noticed that every time I went their were more yachts and more mansions. There is […]
Colonialism is not Dead
Sunday, May 27th, 2007It never ceases to surprise me what a government will do to get what it wants. In the 1960s and 1970s families were forced to leave the Chagos Islands which had recently been exiled by the United Kingdom so that the American Government could build a large military base there. Finally, after […]
Aloha Canada!
Monday, April 16th, 2007I am a bit of a history buff so when I came across this story how Canada just missed out on an attempt to Annex a Hawaiian Island in the 1800s I was enthralled. Even though I am American I found this story complicated and fascinating. So give it a read!
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