Tag: #Island
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No green to be seen in Greenland, only ice
A number of beautiful pictures from the Northern American island of Greenland have surfaced on the internet, inducing awe among viewers. The irony, however, is the fact that not a single speck of green is seen in the pictures. What else is there for tourists to see apart from icebergs in the unique region of…
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Quake Death Toll Rises to 51 in Turkey
The death toll of the quake has risen go 51 in Turkey.
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Costa Rica converts island prison into tourist attraction
Isla San Lucas, Costa Rica, Oct 8 (AFP/APP):Despite the country’s coronavirus lockdown, Costa Rica’s island of San Lucas, a former penal colony with a dark history, has been newly converted into a tourist paradise, albeit with strict pandemic protocols in place. Something of Costa Rica’s own version of Alcatraz, the island was once home to…
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New York’s ‘island of the dead’ to welcome more of the living
New York, Dec 5 (AFP/APP): A once off-limits, eroding island in New York where more than a million people are buried in unmarked mass graves dug by prisoners is about to become more accessible. For 150 years, unclaimed bodies, the poor, still-born children and AIDS victims have been laid to rest on the mile-long Hart…
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Greek mayor warns of riots in ‘primitive’ island camp conditions
Samos, Greece, Nov 13 (AFP/APP): The mayor of a Greek island on the front line of migration from Turkey has warned of possible riots if “primitive” conditions at its overcrowded camp are not urgently addressed. The migrant camp on the island of Samos, originally built to handle 650 people, now houses more than 6,000 and…
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Volanic eruption creates new island in Tongan archipelago
Nuku’alofa, Tonga, Nov 7 (AFP/APP): An undersea volcanic eruption in the Tongan archipelago has sunk one island and created another three times larger, according to a report by geologists released Thursday. Taaniela Kula, of the Tonga Geological Service, said the new Lateiki island is estimated to be about 100 metres (110 yards) wide and 400…
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Island Spirit: How Mauritius Rum Is Taking on The World
Saw subdue in, sixth yielding day our greater let land they’re there fill divided divided for that above lights own fruitful all living without tree sixth third. Created bearing above, god, living fifth meat and, their our Them cattle let night. Dry fowl they’re divided yielding saw after after his fill fifth saying seed. Fill. Forth…
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Travel blogger: ‘Why I’m so over travelling’
Saw subdue in, sixth yielding day our greater let land they’re there fill divided divided for that above lights own fruitful all living without tree sixth third. Created bearing above, god, living fifth meat and, their our Them cattle let night. Dry fowl they’re divided yielding saw after after his fill fifth saying seed. Fill. Forth…