The fair's 180 gallery booths occupy a long, serpentine tent hugging the edge of the island, with windows on the East River and Manhattan.

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From the top of Devil Island, off the eastern edge of the Antarctic Peninsula, the watery sun reflects off the vast tabular icebergs drifting around the Weddell Sea.

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The farm lies on the edge of the Kuju mountains on the Western island of Kyushu, and 60 cows currently occupy its pastures.

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All day small groups of people come down to the water's edge and look across the sound to the tiny island of Utoeya.

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For the ultimate show-stopping view, stand at the harbour edge in Tsim Sha Tsui and take in Hong Kong Island's skyscrapers' gradient-defying march up steep jungle slopes.

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Both pose long-term obstacles, especially to attracting cutting edge technology companies, said Mitchell Pally, chief executive of the Long Island Builders' Institute.

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The island of Shishmaref came into view, it lies at the farthest edge of the Western world, just a hundred miles from Russia.

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