(It’s Island Week all this week at GGSS, which means we’ll mostly be posting about Islands. Catchy name, huh?) The tiny volcanic island of Iwo Jima, part of the Ogasawara Islands, is just over 1000km south of Tokyo. It was…

Just off the coast of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, is what looks rather like a Rum Slick – waste from the production of molasses at the nearby Cruzan Rum Distillery. Certainly the dark patch starts directly offshore from the…

Welcome to The Galapagos Islands – 13 main volcanic islands, 6 smaller islands, 107 rocks and islets, loads of high resolution images and tons and tons of incredible sights to see. Have fun More on the Galapagos Islands at Wikipedia.…

Pictures of Maho Beach on the Dutch Antilles island of St Maarten have been cropping up on the net for years – usually with people claiming them to be the result of a photoshopping competition. You see, the island is…

Check out this fantastic curly bridge, which connects mainland HonshÅ« to one of the tiny islands of the Seto Inland Sea, Japan. It looks a bit like a tiny Lotus Bridge, but instead of allowing traffic to swap sides of…

Following on from yesterday’s Rio-Antirio Bridge, right at the very end of the Gulf of Corinth is the Corinth Canal, a 6.3 kilometre long canal which technically turned the Peloponnesian peninsula into an island upon its completion in 1893. Although…