Believe it or not islands can be an amazing place to find some natural resources. In the Falkland Islands right now, a huge drilling project for oil just got a bit of bad news though. The findings of the first well were that the oil was of poor quality. Nevertheless, more wells will be drilled [...]

Thinking back, what are your favorite TV programs that had to do with an island? What about Hawaii 5-O or Gilligan’s Island? Recently people really loved the movie Castaway with Tome Hanks and the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Islands can make great places to make movies. They have a certain movie quality about them [...]

According to many travelers island restaurants can be some of the best places to eat that they have ever visited. Many of them feature seafood, which seems natural seeing as how they are surrounded by a body of water with fishermen everywhere. These restaurants usually rely 100% on impressing travelers and vacationers by their fine [...]

What are desert islands? Basically this term is used in context with islands that are not lived on and have extreme weather conditions. Usually many of these islands are extremely hot and dry. Although they are surrounded by water, it does not mean that they will blessed with tons of rain and a lush green [...]

For islands, as we have discussed before, they can be very vulnerable to many types of weather events. For example, hurricanes can literally level and wipe out a small island. Cyclones can bear down on them and flood them out within a day. The miracles now for many of the residents are advanced warning systems [...]

Can you believe it? You could buy your own island. In the news lately has been the country of Greece. Many experts are calling for them to sell off their assets in order to help their ailing country cover their debts. So what are their biggest assets that could handle such a request? -Islands. The [...]