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 ...

Chagos islanders still dream of returning home five decades after being expelled by Britain, but with Donald Trump in the ...

Perched at the edge of the British mainland, the Duncansby Head lighthouse serves as a sentinel at ... While only 20 of these islands are inhabited today, the largest—aptly named Mainland ...

North Sentinel Island lies in the archipelago of the Bay of Bengal ... Even though there are many inhabited islands across the planet, Bouvet stands out. A glacier covers Ninety-three percent of the ...

Patmos is considered the holiest island in the Aegean. It is also called the Greek ... The Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa has been standing there, a bright white sentinel against the grey rock ...

North Sentinel Island remains one of Earth's last true time capsules—its people living as their ancestors did for millennia, untouched by modern civilization. And since 1956, the Indian government has ...

Tucked away in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean lies Tristan da Cunha, a remote British territory that is often described as the most isolated inhabited island in the world. Home to just 200 ...

Before being discovered by Russian explorers in 1820, Vostok Island had shown no sign of ever being inhabited by humans, according to a 1966 article in Pacific Islands Monthly, and it has not had ...

is now on a potential collision course with the sparsely inhabited island – and threatening to disrupt the lives of millions of penguins and seals that call it home. "South Georgia is an ...