http://worldislandinfo.com/blog A blog about islands Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:27:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A tiny river island in Chile may have been the site of 35% of Chile's earthquake casualties, if reports are accurate. As many as 300 people may have been camped on Isla Orrego at the mouth of the Maule River at the town of Constitucion, as part of a holiday celebration. ... http://worldislandinfo.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/03/disaster-on-isla-orrego-chile/ Islayblog.com, which covers the Inner Hebridean island of Islay, in Scotland, is doing a series of pictures of islands on the island. Here's the first post about it. Islay has some interesting double islands, including Eilean Mor and Eilean na Comhairle (Council Island) in Loch Finlaggan, which served as administrative ... http://worldislandinfo.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/01/the-loch-islands-of-islay/ In the new movie "Shutter Island," US marshals go to a precipitous island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate a mystery in a huge, gothic insane asylum. Shutter Island does not exist; there are no Shutter Islands in the entire United States, nor am I aware of any insane asylums ... http://worldislandinfo.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/20/a-real-shutter-island/ Boing Boing is having another discussion of triple islands -- islands on an island on an island. They restate Volcan Point's claim inaccurately; it is not the largest (as I've noted), but is the largest -- and only -- volcanic triple. We should also note that Taal is regularly active, ... http://worldislandinfo.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/29/more-on-islands-on-islands-on-islands/ Usually I am derided by Canadians who mistakenly think I've called Vancouver Island "Victoria Island." Here's a refreshing bit of abuse from the world's smallest continent. Or is it the world's second-largest island, after Antarctica? Who can say... What a moronic website – please – Australia IS an ... http://worldislandinfo.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/22/perhaps-a-dingo-ate-my-geographical-sense/ An American Congressman recently spent a week alone on an island in the Marshall Islands. Rep. Jeff Flake had himself marooned on Jabonwod, an islet in an atoll in the Marshall Islands. It was not exactly high adventure: he swam and fished, got lonely, and watched the sunsets. My favorite aspect: ... http://worldislandinfo.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/09/exiling-congressmen-to-pacific-islands/ World Island Info now has comprehensive coverage of the islands of Washington DC (admittedly an obscure topic). These includes the largest islands of DC – all the islands of DC, actually – and pages for all named islands, including Columbia Island, East Potomac Park, Heritage Island, Kingman Island, Little Island, Theodore ... http://worldislandinfo.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/16/the-islands-of-washington-dc/ Mexico has been searching hard for an island that likely never existed. Isla Bermeja was depicted on 17th and 18th century maps as lying off the Yucatan, but extensive investigations have failed to show any sign of it. Were the island to exist, it would extend Mexico's rights to energy extraction further ... http://worldislandinfo.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/21/donde-esta-mi-isla/ The sinking of a ferry last week in Tonga is a tragedy for the small country. With only 121,000 inhabitants, Tonga is quite small. Ninety-five people died on the ferry, nearly all of them Tongans -- nearly 1 in every 1,000 people in the country. In the US, this ... http://worldislandinfo.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/12/disaster-in-tonga/ WorldIslandInfo.com now has more information about Alaskan islands. Alaska is extremely well-supplied with islands, with more large islands than any other state, and more island acreage than any other state, even Hawaii. Alaska pages now include: Alaska island superlatives largest islands of Alaska (Image copyright WorldIslandInfo.com -- usable with attribution and link) http://worldislandinfo.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/10/more-about-alaskan-islands/