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Gracious hosts and good neighbors that they are, the folks at the PGA Tour opened their doors Tuesday night to an overflow crowd of media representatives in town to cover Sunday's Super Bowl in Jacksonville, 30 minutes north.
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Photographs of Governors Islands, where there are only a couple of days left for the annual summer tours.
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Two storms battered the island; Ivan may spare it. Still, residents prepare for worst - or stubbornly plan to stay. By Warren Richey | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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The devastating earthquake that struck the Indian Ocean probably caused some islands to move by several metres.
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The Soay sheep of St. Kilda, a group of small Scottish islands, have been living free and unfettered for millennia. While these primitive sheep are still unmanaged, detailed records have been kept on them for the past 20 years. That makes St. Kilda a kind of natural evolutionary experiment, an island-scale Petri dish where sheep, not fruit flies, are the subjects.
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The Ocean State was looking pretty dry. Rhode Island had not seen a single day of film production last year. Or 2002 for that matter.
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Four decades after it was abandoned, King Island holds an almost mystical pull for former inhabitants and their descendants, its crumbling homes still perched on stilts, clinging to the steep, rocky terrain.
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Entire villages were wiped out in the tiny Andaman and Nicobar islands in the Bay of Bengal. They lost more than 3000 residents in the disaster - 12 per cent of their population.
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More than half the residents of an isolated Arctic village were evacuated as storm surges threatened to flood their slender barrier island Thursday, the latest chapter in their losing battle against the sea.
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MEULABOH, Indonesia -- In town after town, the scene was the same from the helicopter taking one of the first glimpses of Sumatra's ravaged coast: whole villages ripped apart, covered in mud and sea water. The only signs of life were a few desperate people scavenging a beach for food.
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It was once home to a venerated tribal people who were renowned carpenters, but today the Indian island of Chawra is deserted, left only to pigs and dogs howling in the wake of last week's tsunami.
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QAQORTOQ, Greenland -- The biggest island in the world is a wind-raked place, gripped by ice over four-fifths of its land, prowled by polar bears, its coastlines choked by drifting icebergs and sea ice. Many of its 56,000 people, who live on the fringes of its giant ice cap, see the effects of...
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The fate of thousands of people missing in India&#39;s Andaman and Nicobar islands is still unclear as rescuers battle to reach remote communities.
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By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 14--Wooded Island's "Bird Man" is back -- but that doesn't mean Doug Anderson now approves of measures taken to remove several hundred shrubs and small trees on the bird-lover's paradise.
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Running out of space in its crowded capital, this republic of 1,200 islands thought it had a can't-miss solution: build another island.
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MALE, Maldives -- Many people thought the Dec. 26 tsunamis would turn this tropical tourist paradise into a modern-day Atlantis. After all, the islands that make up the Maldives average only 3 feet in height.
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In one tsunami-hit Thai town, more than half of the 5,000-strong population are missing, police say.