Macquarie Island UNESCO World Heritage Site, “Macquarie Island”, subantarctic island, Tasmania, Australia, about 930 miles (1,500 km) southeast of Tasmania’s main island. It became a Tasmanian State…
Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (/ˈfɔːlklənd/; Spanish: Islas Malvinas, pronounced: ˈislas malˈβinas), the United Kingdom’s internal self-governing overseas territory in the South Atlantic Ocean. The main islands…
Kangaroo Island, Australia Kangaroo Island, also known as Karta (Island of the Dead), the third-largest offshore island in Australia, is situated 80 miles (130 km) southwest of Adelaide…
Coronado, California Coronado is a resort town located in the county of San Diego, southern California, USA. It sits on a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and…
Banda Islands, Indonesia Banda Islands (Indonesian: Kepulauan Banda), Island Group, Province of Maluku Propinsi, Indonesia. It is surrounded by the sprawling mass of islands that make up eastern…
Restoration Ecology Restoration ecology Restoration ecology is the study of renewing a degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystem through active human intervention. It is the scientific study supporting…
Maluku Islands, Indonesia The Maluku Islands or the Moluccas (/məˈlʌkəz/; Indonesian: Maluku), also known as the Spice Islands, lying between the islands of Celebes to the west and…
Banda Sea In the Maluku Islands of Indonesia, the Banda Sea (Indonesia: Laut Banda) is a sea that is connected to the Pacific Ocean but surrounded by…
Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia Tanimbar Islands (Indonesian: Kepulauan Tanimbar), also known as Timur Laut, Maluku Tenggara kabupaten (regency) group of around 65 islands, Maluku provinsi (‘province’), eastern Indonesia. The…
Ecological Design – a new way of seeing and thinking about design Ecological design can be defined as any form of design that minimizes the environmentally destructive impacts by integrating itself with living processes, nature’s own flows,…
Arafura Sea The shallow sea of the western Pacific Ocean, covering 250,000 square miles (650,000 square km) between the north coast of Australia (Gulf of Carpentaria) and…
Coral Sea, Australia The Coral Sea (French: Mer de Corail), the Southwest Pacific Ocean Sea, which stretches east to Australia and New Guinea, west to New Caledonia and…