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The Oak Island mysteryis a series of stories and legends concerning buried treasureand unexplained objects found on or near Oak Islandin Nova Scotia. Since the 18th century, attempts have been made to find treasure and artifacts. Hypotheses about artifacts present on the island range from piratetreasure to Shakespeareanmanuscripts to the Holy ...
The Lost Gods of Easter Island is a 2000 BBC documentary written and presented by David Attenborough. It explores the history of the civilization of remote Easter Island . It was first transmitted in 2000 and is part of the Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages collection of seven documentaries.
Kosrae ( / koʊˈʃaɪ / koh-SHY ), formerly known as Kusaie or Strong's Island, is an island and state in the Federated States of Micronesia. It includes the main island of Kosrae and a few nearby islands and islets, the most significant of which ( Lelu Island) is inhabited by 1,500 people. Kosrae's land area is 110 square kilometers (42 ...
Funen ( Danish: Fyn, pronounced [ˈfyˀn] ), with an area of 3,099.7 square kilometres (1,196.8 sq mi), is the third-largest island of Denmark, after Zealand and Vendsyssel-Thy. It is the 165th -largest island in the world. It is located in the central part of the country and has a population of 469,947 as of 2020. [1]
The IHO limits of the Atlantic Ocean. This is a list of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, the largest of which is Greenland.Note that the definition of the ocean used by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) excludes the seas, gulfs, bays, etc., bordering the ocean itself. [1]
Umnak ( Aleut: Unmax, Umnax; [3] [4] Russian: Умнак) is one of the Fox Islands of the Aleutian Islands. With 686.01 square miles (1,776.76 km 2) of land area, it is the third largest island in the Aleutian archipelago and the 19th largest island in the United States.
Frisland was shown as a roughly rectangular island, with three triangular promontories on its western coast. In some mappings, it is identified as "Fixland". (Matteo Prunes map of 1553, from Library of Congress, see upper right of map; see also, page 88 for other clearer source; see also Catalan map of 1480 showing "Fixland"; original source map copied in this article, page 64.
The municipality's northernmost point is on Chongming Island, which is the second-largest island in mainland China after its expansion during the 20th century. [72] It does not administratively include an exclave of Jiangsu on northern Chongming or the two islands forming Shanghai's Yangshan Port, which are parts of Zhejiang's Shengsi County.