[Jet2]

You are welcome freeztar!

Let me search my hard disc (head) to see if I can share more islands, of course, obscure ones, with you...

[Jet2]

Hey Turtle, thanks for the botherly and brotherly support!!


Jet2

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by Jet2

Hey Turtle, thanks for the botherly and brotherly support!!


Jet2

My pleasure. For our next obscure island, we have one that until recently remained conspicuous by its absence.

BBC News | SCI/TECH | Scientists witness birth of new island

Originally Posted by David Whitehouse

The dramatic birth of a new volcanic island in the Pacific has been witnessed by an international team of scientists.

The rare event was captured on film by researchers during an expedition to the Solomon Islands.

[Turtle]

Flying over the South Pacific on GoogleEarth Air and looking for underwater volcanoes, I zoomed in on a suspect obscure outcrop and found me a real turtle treasure island. ...............

Welcome to Suwarrow.

Suwarrow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Originally Posted by wiki

...Suwarrow was described by Fanny Vandegrift as "the most romantic island in the world", but it was not the model for her husband's famous book, Treasure Island. It can lay claim to being a real treasure island though. In the mid 19th century (records dispute whether it was 1855 or 1848), a ship from Tahiti was carrying out salvage work when a box containing NZ$15,000 worth of coins was dug up (Helm and Percival 1973). Some years later, New Zealander Henry Mair found pieces of eight in a turtle nest. Mair became involved in a row, the find was covered up and it has never been rediscovered. ...

[freeztar]

Nice one Turtle! That got me researching and I found this lovely page.
Aerial pictures of the Cook Islands

Take a look at the odd "rectangular" shape of Rakahanga and the LOVELY blue waters of Aitutaki.

I SOOOOO want to visit a Pacific atoll.

[Michaelangelica]

Islands are such romantic places
An escape from the read world
i met a solicitor/lawer friend one day who seemed very depressed.
I asked him 'Why?'
He said he had just won a $500,000 case for his client
said "Well that is great? Why are you so miserable?"
He said his client had just purchased a beach side home in Fiji and on his Australian Aged Pension was able to hire a cook, cleaner and gardener.



Ten photos of paradise
Islands, Isles Pictures, Aerial Photos, Download Wallpapers -- National Geographic
Islands, Isles Pictures, Aerial Photos, Download Wallpapers -- National Geographic

[Hill]

There's a great little website Oceandots.com I use on occasion. My one complaint is that it has no overview map to show where the islands are but many do have direct links to Google Earth, Google Maps, Live Local, and Yahoo Maps. Others do not but a Wikipedia search will quickly take care of that.

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by Racoon

I buck the trend and stereotype of Americans not being good at geography.

I thought it was just our president that had that reputation!