Only a 14 mile ferry ride off the coast of surf-haven Montauk, NY, the island welcomes world-weary travelers a place of refuge.
In addition to world-class Chinese and Pacific Island displays, the museum boasts a fine Native American collection.
Madagascar, the world's fourth-largest island, has become a destination for tourists as well as foreign companies, searching for oil, gold, cobalt, nickel and uranium.
Nearly one and a half times the size of California, the world's fourth-largest island boasts over 12, 000 plant species, nearly 10, 000 of them not found anywhere else, and 346 species of reptile, including 66 varieties of chameleon threatened by a largely illegal international pet trade.
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The West Indies cricket team, once a world-beating symbol of Caribbean unity, has been brought low by inter-island squabbles.
Last week's move by French Polynesia overtook the Marshall Islands' area, outlined in late 2011, as the world's largest - and the Cook Island's claim adds 40% more area to that title.
Calling Hurricane Katrina "a portal into the future, " he says it is already too late to avert a rise of up to one degree that will lead to Arctic meltdown, extreme drought across much of the world and the destruction of low-lying island nations such as Tuavalu and the Maldives.
The former World Supersport runner-up added that the whole racing scene on the island was very different to that of a World Superbike paddock.
Strangers in the night dance 'til dawn in this four-acre garden of earthly delights, featuring world-class DJs, swim-up blackjack, interactive performance artists and a private island.
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.
In addition to winning multiple swimming marathons, she was one of the first women to encircle the island of Manhattan, and she holds the world's record for longest ocean swim -- 102.5 miles from the island of Bimini in the Bahamas to Jupiter, Florida.
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It is of an island people cut off from the wider world - isolated and exposed.
Last week, it was suggested the island of Easdale - venue of the World Stone Skimming Championships - near Oban in Argyll could be taken over by the local community.
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The 25-year-old, who represented the island at several World Winter Games, passed away after taking ill.
Notwithstanding the terrorist blast in Bali that hurt air traffic to the resort island, Asia remains the world's fastest-growing air traffic market.
Ferrari World, an enormous, family-friendly theme park on Yas Island, offers thrill rides that imitate the g-forces of Ferrari racing, and Yas Waterworld Abu Dhabi just opened in January with epic waterslides and wave pools.
Dead Island: Riptide is the followup to Dead Island, an intriguing and deeply flawed open-world zombie game.
Climbing the six Abels in the brutal Western Arthurs Range, located inside the World Heritage-listed Tasmanian Wilderness Area that covers 20% of the island, necessitates a walk through such difficult mountain terrain that it can take walkers up to two weeks to hike what is often described as the most difficult bushwalk in Australia.
Harman also served as president of Friends World College, an experimental Quaker college on Long Island, from 1970-73.
At 42 years old, I competed in the Ultraman World Championships, a grueling three-day uber-endurance triathlon circumnavigating the Big Island of Hawaii that involves 6.2 miles of swimming, 260 miles of cycling and culminates with a 52.4-mile double marathon run.
She holds the world's record for longest ocean swim -- 102.5 miles from the island of Bimini in the Bahamas to Jupiter, Florida.
The obvious first step on a Sri Lanka architectural itinerary is the 17th-century walled Galle Fort, one of seven Unesco World Heritage sites on the island, and set just steps away from those glorious beaches on the south coast.
Enthusiasts from all over the world will travel to the island this summer for the chance to drive the restored train - as part of the 'Ultimate Driving Experience' project, which currently has a two-year waiting list.
In 1521, Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese navigator, was killed by natives on the island of Mactan in the Philippines while on a pioneering round-the-world voyage.
The capital Willemstad, settled in 1634, is the financial and commercial centre of life on the island, as well as a Unesco World Heritage Site, thanks to its well-preserved, cotton-candy-coloured Dutch Colonial architecture and buildings like the Mikve Israel Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in use in the Western Hemisphere.
The yachtsman was attempting a solo round-the-world voyage when he ran into trouble on Friday, 500 nautical miles off Australia's island state.
In October, 3D-printing startup Shapeways opened its New York production facility in Long Island City, Queens, the biggest consumer-focused 3D printing factory in the world.
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That's why we'll follow the example of places like the Met Center in Rhode Island that give students that individual attention, while also preparing them through real-world, hands-on training the possibility of succeeding in a career.
Fred returned to the U.S. on the eve of World War II and built an even larger fortune around Rock Island Refining, a refinery and oil-gathering pipeline system in southern Oklahoma, and a part-interest in a refinery outside of Minneapolis.
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