In two thousand six, scientific census-takers found a hairy new species of crab near Easter Island.

VOA: special.2010.11.09

An immigration history center on the island contains the ship records of passengers who entered through New York from eighteen ninety-two through nineteen twenty-four.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

Soldiers of the new Confederate States of America shelled the Union base at Fort Sumter, built on an island in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

He said it should stand on an island in New York harbor.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

The piece is four times bigger than Manhattan Island in New York.

VOA: special.2010.08.14

The others are New Mexico, Pennsylvania,Rhode Island and Vermont.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

closing an air field in a populated area and building a new one on an existing U.S.base in the northern part of the island.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

A group of the island's top business leaders is visiting New Delhi to entice more of their Indian counterparts to invest in Sri Lanka.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

The 20 musicians playing these instruments are members of Dharma Swara, a New York-based group that specializes in Balinese gamelan, the indigenous music of the Indonesian island just east of Java.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

Cape Town, on the south Atlantic coast, boasts a new 70,000-seat stadium with backdrops of the apartheid-era prison at Robben Island on one side and its iconic Table Mount on the other.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02