Good evening.
What are your favourite islands?the isle of man?
Apropos of nothing, here are my top 5:
Vancouver island - victoria + rainforest + oh canada
Torcello and burano just miss out - bit underwhelmed by venice, but really liked both these islands in the lagoon.
This cow escaped and now lives on an island
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I am a rock
japes
21 February 2018 22:57
#9
anon50098204:
Lindisfarne - puffins!
would like to go to st kilda. lots of puffins there.
i know that’s a penguin but there isn’t a puffin emoji
japes
21 February 2018 23:01
#12
puff in puff in puff in PUFF OUT
Monster Island even if it is more of a peninsular
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Actually, this is a particular non-Irish favourite.
Bouvet Island (Norwegian: Bouvetøya) is an uninhabited subantarctic high island and dependency of Norway located in the South Atlantic Ocean at 54°25′S 3°22′E / 54.417°S 3.367°E / -54.417; 3.367Coordinates: 54°25′S 3°22′E / 54.417°S 3.367°E / -54.417; 3.367, thus putting it north of and outside the Antarctic Treaty System. It lies at the southern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and is the most remote island in the world, approximately 1,700 kilometres (1,100 mi) north of the Princess A Th...
laelfy
21 February 2018 23:09
#15
This one, that is French for half the year and Spanish for the other half
Pheasant Island (Spanish: Isla de los Faisanes, French: Île des Faisans, Basque: Konpantzia) is an uninhabited river island in the Bidasoa river, located between France and Spain, whose administration alternates between the former and the latter.
The island is a condominium established by the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659, under joint sovereignty of Spain and France, and for alternating periods of six months is officially under the governance of the naval commanders of San Sebastián, Spain (1...
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Possibly because it’s linked to this weird shit.
The Vela Incident, also known as the South Atlantic Flash, was an unidentified double flash of light detected by an American Vela Hotel satellite on 22 September 1979 near the Prince Edward Islands off Antarctica. Due to the characteristics of the light signal, along with other circumstantial evidence, it has been theorized that the flash was the result of an undeclared nuclear test carried out jointly by South Africa and Israel. Though the origin of the flash was not conclusively determined,
cowcow
21 February 2018 23:10
#17
would love to visit all the Scottish islands.
closer to home might try and visit an irish island this year. has anyone been to one
tristan da cunha / st Helena / ascension =. let me live there please
The Aran Islands are great in the summer.
cowcow
21 February 2018 23:20
#20
i think the Isle of Arran is closer!
tory island sounds fun
