Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Newfoundland and Labrador (/ˈnjuːfənlænd  … ˈlæbrədɔːr/), abbreviated as NFLD, is a Canadian province made up of the island of Newfoundland and a larger mainland component to…
Baffin Island, Canada

Baffin Island, Canada

Baffin Island (previously Baffin Land) is Canada’s biggest and fifth-largest island in the world, located between Greenland and the Canadian mainland. It is the largest island…
Devon Island, Canada

Devon Island, Canada

Devon Island (Inuktitut: ᑕᓪᓗᕈᑎᑦ, Tallurutit) is the largest of the Parry Islands in the Arctic Ocean, south of Ellesmere Island and west of Baffin Bay,…
Houtouwan, Shengshan Island, China

Houtouwan, Shengshan Island, China

Houtouwan (Chinese: 后头湾; pinyin: Hòutóuwān) is a Chinese island located north of Shengshan Island (Chinese: 嵊山岛; pinyin: Shèngshān dǎo), one of the 400 Shengsi Islands. The…
History of Kolmanskop City, Namibia

History of Kolmanskop City, Namibia

Kolmanskop (Afrikaans for “Coleman’s head,” German: Kolmannskuppe) is a ghost town in southern Africa’s Namib Desert, in the center of a region known as “the…
Kiritimati Island

Kiritimati Island

Kiritimati Island, often known as Christmas Island, is a coral atoll in the northern Line Islands in the Pacific Ocean. With a circumference of roughly…
Mount Fuji, Japan

Mount Fuji, Japan

Mount Fuji (富士山, Fujisan, Japanese: ɸɯꜜ(d)ʑisaɴ), Japanese Fuji-san, also called Fujiyama or Fuji no Yama, located on the island of Honshū, is the highest mountain…
Mount Hakkōda, Japan

Mount Hakkōda, Japan

The mountains are together classified as one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains and are commonly referred to as Mount Hakkōda (八甲田山, Hakkōda-san) or simply…
Jarvis Island, South Pacific Ocean

Jarvis Island, South Pacific Ocean

Jarvis Island (/ˈdʒɑːrvɪs/; formerly known as Bunker Island or Bunker’s Shoal), also known as Bunker Island, Volunteer Island, Jervis Island, or Brook Island, is a…
Howland Island, United States

Howland Island, United States

Howland Island (/ˈhaʊlənd/), previously Worth Island, is a coral atoll in the United States’ unorganized territory. It’s an uninhabited coral island in the central Pacific…
Mount Cleveland, Alaska, United States

Mount Cleveland, Alaska, United States

Mount Cleveland, also known as the Cleveland Volcano, is one of the most active volcanoes in the Aleutian Island arc’s core region. It’s a fairly…
Gran Sasso d’Italia, Italy

Gran Sasso d’Italia, Italy

Gran Sasso d’Italia (Italian: ɡran ˈsasso diˈtaːlja; lit. ’Great Rock of Italy‘), is a mountain range in the Abruzzi geographic region of central Italy that stretches…
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