Study finds 657 new barrier islands worldwide. April 22, 2011— -- Islands that suddenly appear may sound like something out of a pirate myth. But a new survey has found hundreds of islands ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

Aman Vir created an interactive map of his favorite obscure islands. Some you may well have heard of, such as Midway, for ...