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Ilha da Queimada Grande. / 24.48611°S 46.67500°W / -24.48611; -46.67500. Ilha da Queimada Grande, more commonly referred to as Snake Island, is an island off the coast of Brazil in the Atlantic Ocean. The island became famous for its abundant snakes, hence the name "Snake Island." It is administered as part of the municipality of ...
Torsa, [ 6] archaically Torsay, [ 12] is a Gaelic name derived from Old Norse. It means "Thorir's island" or [ 1] possibly "Thor's Island". [ 13][ 5] The names were common ones and there is an early reference to the Norse presence in the Irish records to a king of "Viking Scotland" whose heir Thórir brought an army to Ireland in 848. [ 14 ...
Elliðaey ( Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈɛtlɪːðaˌeiː] ⓘ; or Ellirey [ˈɛtlɪrˌeiː]) is a small, uninhabited island south of Iceland. It is the most northeastern of the Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands), an archipelago consisting of 15 to 18 islands and assorted smaller rocks. [1]
The Island is a 2005 American science fiction action thriller film directed and co-produced by Michael Bay and written by Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, from a story by Tredwell-Owen. It stars Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Steve Buscemi. The film is about Lincoln ...
Elba is the largest remaining stretch of land from the ancient tract that once connected the Italian peninsula to Corsica. [citation needed] The northern coast faces the Ligurian Sea, the eastern coast the Piombino Channel, the southern coast the Tyrrhenian Sea, and the Corsica Channel divides the western tip of the island from neighbouring Corsica.
Bouvet Island ( / ˈbuːveɪ / BOO-vay; Norwegian: Bouvetøya [3] [bʉˈvèːœʏɑ]) [4] is an uninhabited island and dependency of Norway. It is a protected nature reserve. It is a subantarctic volcanic island, situated in the South Atlantic Ocean at the southern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and is the world's most remote island.
Location. Paraná Delta. Coordinates. 34°15′08″S 58°49′48″W. / 34.25222°S 58.83000°W / -34.25222; -58.83000. Area. 13,924 m 2 (149,880 sq ft) El Ojo ( lit. 'The Eye') is an uninhabited circular rotating floating island located within a slightly larger circular lake in the Paraná Delta in the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
Google Earth is getting a few more hits lately. An image has many suspecting that a giant sea creature is lurking in New Zealand waters. An engineer reportedly spotted the being in the Oke Bay ...