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This is a list of car-free islands: islands inhabited by humans which have legally restricted or eliminated vehicle traffic from their territories. This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it .
A private island with a summer cottage in Finnish Lakeland, Finland. A private island is a disconnected body of land wholly owned by a private citizen or corporation.Although this exclusivity gives the owner substantial control over the property, private islands remain under the jurisdiction of national and sometimes local governments.
This is a list of notable mainland settlements that are inaccessible from the outside by automotive roads (roads built to carry civilian passenger motor vehicles). These settlements may have internal roads or paths but they lack roads connecting them to other places.
The 71-acre secluded island is about a mile from St Thomas and has several luxury dwellings, three beaches, a gas station and a helipad. Epstein purchased the island for $7.95m in 1998.
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Lanai has been under the control of nearby Maui since before recorded history. [17] Its first inhabitants may have arrived as late as the 15th century. The Hawaiian-language name Lānaʻi is of uncertain origin, but the island has historically been called Lānaʻi o Kauluāʻau, which can be rendered in English as "day of the conquest of Kauluāʻau".
Agrihan (also spelled Agrigan) is an island in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The island has mostly been uninhabited, but had 4 permanent residents in the 2020 U.S. census . Agrihan is located 62 kilometers (39 mi) to the north of Pagan .
More than half a century later in 1910, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Maurice Francis Egan discussed a trade of two islands of the Philippines for Greenland. At the time, the Philippines were under U ...