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A few blocks of HDB flats (apartment flats) located in the Lim Chu Kang area of the island is known to be the only ghost town in Singapore. Named the Neo Tiew Estate (or officially the Lim Chu Kang Rural Centre ), it used to house residents before they were moved out of the vicinity in 2002 as part of an En-bloc scheme.
An apartment block on the island, c. 1930 Hand-tinted postcard of Hashima from the Meiji era Hashima c. 1930 View of the island in 2009. Coal was first discovered on the island around 1810, [7] and the island was continuously inhabited from 1887 to 1974 as a seabed coal mining facility.
Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining (明治日本の産業革命遺産 製鉄・鉄鋼、造船、石炭産業, Meiji nihon no sangyōkakumei isan: seitetsu, tekkō, zōsen, sekitan sangyō) are a group of historic sites that played an important part in the industrialization of Japan in the Bakumatsu and Meiji periods (1850s–1910), and ...
Adaro is a term for two distinct classes of beings found in the mythology of Makira island, in the Solomon Islands. The first class is that of ghosts, which may enter an animal, tree, or stone, or remain in the village where they had lived. With the proper entreaties, these ghosts can be commanded to kill or maim living people at a distance. [1]
Island ecology is the study of island organisms and their interactions with each other and the environment. Islands account for nearly 1/6 of earth’s total land area, [ 1 ] yet the ecology of island ecosystems is vastly different from that of mainland communities.
Also known as Great Skellig (Sceilig Mhichíl in Irish [3]), this is the larger of the two islands, with two peaks rising to over 230 m (750 ft) above sea level.With a sixth-century Christian monastery perched at 160 m (520 ft) above sea level on a ledge close to the top of the lower peak, Great Skellig is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Saunders Island is a crescent-shaped island lying between Candlemas Island and Montagu Island in the South Sandwich Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. The 8.5 by 5 kilometres (5.3 mi × 3.1 mi) long Saunders is a volcanic island composed of an active stratovolcano , 990-metre (3,248 ft) Mount Michael , and a ...
Iron Island, a 2005 Iranian film; Iron Island, a fictional location in Sinnoh, the continent featured in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl; Iron Islands, a fictional location in the media series Game of Thrones; The Iron Island, a 1910 serial by Edwy Searles Brooks; The Iron Island, a 2015 short story by Jeff Somers