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1st Annual Island Week!

Monday, 28th August 2006 by James

After the roaring success of Annual Volcano Day a while back we’re adding a new event to the GGSS calendar - Island Week!

For the rest of the week (or until we get bored) we’ll be posting sights related to small pieces of land that are surrounded completely by water. Enjoy!

Update: Island Week 2006 featured the following posts:

3 Responses to '1st Annual Island Week!'

  1. 1. Lee says:

    2 to 1 that they’ll miss out Ireland =]

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    2. Alex says:

    Hrmm, well not now that you’ve mentioned it ;-)

    Actually we’re kind of thinking a little smaller than that, but we’ve got some really excellent ones lined up!

  3. 3. Carol says:

    I’ll put my vote in for Tristan de Cuhna!

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