The one hundred seventeen men,women and children were not the first white people to try to live on the island.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

A young boy named Max runs away from his mother and sails to an island full of frightening-looking creatures.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

The lava from Kilauea continues to add land to the island as the volcanoes of Hawaii have always done.

VOA: special.2010.09.08

Millions of immigrants coming to America passed the statue as ships carried them to the immigration processing center on Ellis Island.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

She shows how Darwin came to understand that these island animals had differences, developed over time, that helped them survive.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

The summit was moved from an island to the area in central Italy where a powerful earthquake struck just three months ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

Questions about Eleanor Dare and the other lost colonists continually bring historians and other researchers to Roanoke Island.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

I'm Bob Doughty. And I'm Shirley Griffith. Today we tell about efforts to save an island in the American state of Maryland.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

Congress agreed. It also demanded that Spain withdraw from Cuba and give up all claims to the island.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

It allowed me to leave the island and build myself separate from the long-long shadow of my twin.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

Volcanic activity broke the large island into pieces that came to the surface of the sea over time.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

Kevin Brennan of the Poplar Island Project says ducks like to build their homes on the dead trees.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

In thirteenth century Italy, the government ordered glassblowers in Venice to move to the island of Murano.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

They would fly four thousand kilometers to tiny Howland Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

She was a real lady my mother, she had come to teach in the island school and fell in love with my father.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

Some members of the local community had strong feelings about the death and worked to make sure the skeleton stayed on the island.

VOA: special.2011.06.29

To Rudolf, he seemed like the island strong as the rock the light house was built on.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

Puerto Rico's warm island climate made it easy for the young boy to play baseball all year.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

In nineteen ninety-four, engineers and government agencies joined to plan a possible rescue of Poplar Island.

VOA: special.2009.10.06