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The Longest Ladder in the World
- 11 Jan 2012
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The Longest Ladder in the World.

"On approaching the roads off James Town, in the island of St. Helena, one of the most isolated islands in the world, your attention is attracted by an enormous ladder, that extends from the town beneath to a fort directly over the town, on the summit of a hill, 800 feet high."

via jcgrimshaw.blogspot.com
An Island with a Crown of Clouds
- 26 Dec 2011
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- 25December11 Clouds Islands
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"Luytla-Duymun – the smallest of the 18 Faroe Islands, located between Scotland and Iceland. The island – 0.8 sq km, the highest point – Mount Ravan height 414 meters. The island is uninhabited, except for those frequent cases where clouds encircle or form caps."

much more via oddstuffmagazine.com
Lady Musgrave Island Coral, Australia
- 11 Dec 2011
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- 10December11 Australia Islands World Heritage Site
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Lady Musgrave Island is an uninhabited coral cay in the Great Barrier Reef, one of the world’s greatest natural phenomenons and a World Heritage Listed Marine Park. Lady Musgrave Lagoon’s amazing colours and beauty are unsurpassed anywhere in the world, boasting an abundance of coral, fish and turtles.

via thisblogrules.com
Frankincense Tree ~ Socotra (سُقُطْرَى )‎
- 9 Dec 2011
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- 08December11 Frankincense Incense Islands Socotra
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by Alexandre Baron

"Another glorious Socotri endemic specimen is the frankincense tree, here deeply rooted on the edge of a rock. Highly sought for its aromatic resin, the frankincense was a source of huge wealth for South Arabian kingdoms since Ancient history."

via flickr.com
Isola San Giulio
- 2 Dec 2011
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"Isola San Giulio or San Giulio Island is an island within Lake Orta in Piedmont, northwestern Italy. The island is 275 meters long (north/south), and is 140 meters wide (east/west). The most famous building on the island is the marvelous Basilica of Saint Giulio close to which you can see the monumental old Seminary (1840s). Since 1976 it has been transformed into a Benedictine monastery. The little island, just west of the lakeshore village of Orta San Giulio, has very picturesque buildings, and takes its name from a local patron saint (Julius of Novara), who lived in the second half of the fourth century."

via en.wikipedia.org

"According to the legend, the Island of St. Giulio was dominated by a big serpent that destroyed everything. But when St. Giulio, that had the power to command over the waves, the storms, the wild animals and the human beings, arrived near the lake , waving his hand he chased away the dangerous menacing animal.

He reached the Island journeying over the water on his cloack guided by his staff. The big reptile disappeared and St. Giulio, tired and near to his death, thought that the island was the right place to build his hundredth and last church dedicated to the Holy Apostles."
The Dark Tower : Pico Cão Grande { The Great Dog Peak }
- 19 Nov 2011
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Maybe you've read Stephen King's huge fantasy epic "The Dark Tower", or perhaps the Tower of Mordor from "The Lord of the Rings" more readily comes to mind? In any case, you'll be surprised to find the fantastic huge black tower actually exists... on a small island near Africa. More precisely, in the Obo National Park on the São Tomé island in the Gulf of Guinea. It's called Pico Cão Grande, or the Great Dog peak.

This is one of the highest needle-shaped "volcanic plug" peaks on Earth (300 m), perhaps even more impressive than the Devils Tower in Wyoming (386 m), as it rises above the landscape in an equally unexpected and even bluntly obscene way. It will be however more difficult to photograph than Devils Tower : its top is often hidden by clouds or precipitation, not to mention that it's harder to get to the tiny country of São Tomé and Principe.

The heavy mist and humidity over the surrounding jungle (the rainfall varies between 4500 mm to 5000 mm per year) adds to the mystery and the foreboding feeling of the Great Dog Peak, as its rocky presence rises and darkly glistens in the murk.

via darkroastedblend.com
The Eleuthera Island, Bahamas
- 12 Nov 2011
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"This photograph taken from the Internation Space Station shows the shallow sand bars to the west (left side) of Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas. The water there is only a few feet deep. To the east (right side) the seep water is a pure blue-no subsurface features are visible. (Image ISS004-E-8777 courtesy NASA-JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.)"

via redorbit.com
The Bloody Beaches of the Faroes
- 1 Nov 2011
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"The sea is stained red with blood – the blood of hundreds of pilot whales, flowing into the waters off the Faroe Islands as the sea creatures are slaughtered. The small-toothed whales have been rounded up and beached in shallow waters, and now the whalers wield knives while children play close-by. Later, the meat will be divided amongst the people, either to be frozen or preserved by more traditional means – salting or air-drying. First, though, there is the butchery to deal with."

more via environmentalgraffiti.com
Sandbank on the Coast of Whitsunday Island
- 5 Oct 2011
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by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Sandbank on the coast of Whitsunday Island, Queensland, Australia
(20°17’S, 149°01’E).

via galerieyab.com
Mont Saint-Michel
- 29 Sep 2011
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"Mont Saint-Michel is a rocky tidal island and a commune in Normandy, France. It is located approximately one kilometre (just over half a mile) off the country's north-western coast, at the mouth of the Couesnon River near Avranches. The population of the island is 41, as of 2006. The island has been a strategic point holding fortifications since ancient times, and since the 8th century AD it became the seat of the Saint-Michel monastery, from which it draws the name."

see more via news-world.us
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