New Ireland (Island)

New Ireland (Island)

New Ireland (Tok Pisin: Niu Ailan) or Latangai, an island of the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean. It takes its name from…
Bougainville Island

Bougainville Island

Bougainville Island (Tok Pisin: Bogenvil), Papua New Guinea’s easternmost island, in the Solomon Sea, in the Pacific Southwest. It formed the principal landmass of the…
Buka Island

Buka Island

The Buka Island, Papua New Guinea, is the second-largest island in the Bougainville Autonomous Zone of the Southwestern Pacific Ocean, in the Solomon Sea. It…
Naqsh-e Jahan Square

Naqsh-e Jahan Square

The world pattern, or as the Iranians would term it, Naqsh-e Jahan Square (Persian: میدان نقش جهان‎ (Maidān-e Naghsh-e Jahān); “Image of the World Square”),…
Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands (Islas Salomón) are a sovereign state consisting of six main islands and more than 900 smaller islands in Oceania, situated east of Papua…
Megalithic Temples of Malta

Megalithic Temples of Malta

Malta is home to the world’s oldest free-standing structures. The Megalithic Temples of Malta (Maltese: It-Tempji Megalitiċi ta’ Malta) are monumental prehistoric buildings built between…
Coral Island

Coral Island

A coral island is a type of island made of coral detritus and organic matter associated with it. Coral islands are lowland, maybe just a…
Caroline Islands

Caroline Islands

The Caroline Islands (or The Carolines), an archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean, in which the Republic of Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia…
Tinian (Island)

Tinian (Island)

Tinian (/ˈtɪniən/ or /ˌtiːniˈɑːn/; old Japanese name: 天仁安島, Tenian-shima), in the western Pacific Ocean, is one of the Mariana Islands and part of the Northern…
Rota (Island)

Rota (Island)

Rota (Chamorro: Luta), also known as the “Friendly Island” (formerly ‘Sarpan’), in the western Pacific Ocean, one of the Mariana Islands and part of the…
Northern Mariana Islands

Northern Mariana Islands

The Northern Mariana Islands, also known as the Northern Marianas, formally the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI; Chamorro: Sankattan Siha Na Islas Mariånas;…
Mariana Islands

Mariana Islands

The Mariana Islands (/ˌmæriˈɑːnə/; also the Marianas; in Chamorro: Islas Mariånas), the island arc, the western Pacific Ocean, a series of volcanic and uplifted coral…
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