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  2. Atlas of Remote Islands - Wikipedia

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    Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will (Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln fünfzig Inseln, auf denen ich nie war und niemals sein werde) is a book by Judith Schalansky originally published in Germany in 2009 by Mareverlag (ISBN 978-3866481176). The atlas contains maps of 50 islands chosen by the author with ...

  3. File:Deception Island Map.svg - Wikipedia

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    This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Ile_de_la_Deception.svg licensed with Cc-by-3.0, GFDL . 2010-06-19T09:08:35Z Treehill 820x763 (464885 Bytes) carrés noirs (tentative)

  4. List of volcanic eruptions by death toll - Wikipedia

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    Ritter Island: 2 Papua New Guinea: 1888 1888 Ritter Island eruption and tsunami: 2,957 Mount Papandayan: 3 Indonesia: 1772 [5] 2,942 Mount Lamington: 4 Papua New Guinea: 1951 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington: 2,806 Mount Awu: 3 Indonesia: 1856 [6] 2,033 Oshima Oshima: 4 Japan: 1741 1741 eruption of Oshima–Ōshima and the Kampo tsunami: 2,000 ...

  5. List of islands by area - Wikipedia

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    Dymaxion map (Fuller map) with continental landmasses (I,II,III,IV) and largest islands (1–30) roughly to scale. This list includes all islands in the world larger than 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi). For size and location reference, the four continental landmasses are also shown.

  6. Deadly Desert - Wikipedia

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    On the map of Oz, first published in the endpapers of the eighth book, Tik-Tok of Oz (1914), the eastern quadrant of the desert is called the Deadly Desert, while the other three quadrants of desert are called the Shifting Sands, the Impassable Desert, and the Great Sandy Waste. [1]

  7. List of ongoing armed conflicts - Wikipedia

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    The 15 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000 direct, violent deaths in the current or previous calendar year. [2] Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.

  8. List of natural disasters by death toll - Wikipedia

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    Cayman Islands, Cuba Tropical cyclone November 9 1933 6,865–9,300 1933 Diexi earthquake: China Earthquake August 25 1934 10,700–12,000 1934 Nepal–India earthquake: Nepal, India January 15 1935 145,000 1935 Yangtze flood: China Flood July 6 1936 5,000+ 1936 North American heat wave: United States, Canada Heat wave June – September 1937 ...

  9. Gruinard Island - Wikipedia

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    Gruinard Island (/ ˈ ɡ r ɪ n j ər d / GRIN-yərd; [6] Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Ghruinneard) is a small, oval-shaped Scottish island approximately two kilometres (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles) long by one kilometre (5 ⁄ 8 mi) wide, located in Gruinard Bay, about halfway between Gairloch and Ullapool. [7]