Remote island

Picture Japan. Maybe you imagine the amphitheater of neon noise that surrounds Shibuya’s scramble crossing. Or a glistening temple rooftop poking through a serene morning mist in Higashiyama. Both of these postcard-scapes can be witnessed in Japan’s two most famous cities—Tokyo and Kyoto—located on Honshu, one of the country’s four main islands along with Hokkaido, Shikoku, and Kyushu. But Honshu only accounts for 88,020 out of the 142,000 square miles that make up Japan. So what about the…

I travelled to Tristan da Cunha - The worlds most remote island - It's beautifully isolated

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Arriving at one of these gorgeous faraway spots is well worth the extra time and effort

one of the remote islands in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands atoll

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There's a beautiful archipelago off of the southern coast of Iceland called the Vestmannaeyjar. And in that archipelago, there's a beautiful island called Elliðaey with a single, solitary mysterious cabin that has generated wild speculation as to its purpose ever since photos of it first surfaced on the internet.

The theme of being stranded on an uninhabited island has inspired many films and novels, such as the movie Cast Away and the TV series Lost. The quintessential deserted island story, however, was Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. The story of Robinson Crusoe was likely influenced by the re