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Island Monument Mystery (Island Week 3)

Friday, 5th September 2008 by

It’s Island Week 3 here at GSS, which means we’ll mostly be posting about Islands. It’ll probably last about a week. Here in the Mentawai Islands of West Sumatra, Indonesia there is a tiny, seemingly unnamed, almost totally-forested island. The only thing on this island, other than trees, is a mysterious, lonely white monument. But what is it? Our mystery island is just to the south of the much larger…

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