As remote as their island
106376
Charles Christian will not hear a word said against his great-great-grandfather. Revisionist histories of the mutiny that overtook His Majesty&#39;s Armed Vessel Bounty in April
594548
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.
196382
On the Isle of Man, admittedly...
58362
The road to this island on  Finland&#39;s western coast winds through pristine fields and  forests, an idyllic place for a cottage by the shore -- if you  ignore the heavy-duty power lines overhead.
189013
On the third day after the tsunami hit the Andamans, Nicobar island is still inaccessible. Telecommunication links are down and there are no ships ferrying between Andaman and Nicobar islands.
179570
Thousands of Andaman and Nicobar islanders are missing, feared killed by last week's deadly tsunami, but few bodies have been located so far, Indian officials on the remote archipelago said.
207431
By Houston Chronicle  Dec. 17--No man is an island, the poet John Donne writes, but many residents of Houston's far-flung suburbs once thought they could profitably isolate themselves from Houston and all its problems.
185820
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.
535030
Lost has added another bad guy to the island mix. Or,   actually, he could be a good guy. Really, the odds are 50-50 either way.
43231
Global warming is increasingly rendering Inuit and other Arctic peoples at a loss for words. They simply do not have names in their languages for the temperate species flocking up from the south.
535938
Largely confined to a sprinkling of islands off South Africaâs tip, the African penguin, the continentâs only native penguin, are endangered.
457749
A legal challenge to British jurisdiction over the Pacific island of Pitcairn has far-reaching, albeit highly improbable implications for other British territories in the Caribbean.
576029
Although the oceans cover 70 percent of the Earth's surface, human activity has affected even the remotest corners of the marine environment -- usually for the worse.
357401
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...
551468
Travel: A remote lakeside cottage surrounded by deep forest - you usually have to cross the Atlantic for this kind of escape. Owen Sheers discovers one closer to home.
469741
A sexual abuse trial garnering international attention began on tiny Pitcairn Island, one of the most isolated places in the world.
367
SYDNEY -- When Fletcher Christian and his crew of Bounty mutineers landed 214 years ago on tiny Pitcairn Island, its remote location halfway between New Zealand and Peru made it the perfect place to hide. Its isolation has protected the little colony's customs -- some quaint and some sinister -- ever since.