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Hashima Island (端島, or simply Hashima, as -shima is a Japanese suffix for 'island'), commonly called Gunkanjima (軍艦島, meaning 'Battleship Island'), is a tiny abandoned island off Nagasaki, lying about 15 kilometres (8 nautical miles) from the centre of the city.
A unique new cruise is offering an up-close look at a nearly forgotten part of New York City — the abandoned islands along the East River. They’ve been home to baseball stars, violent maritime ...
Hardwicke was the sole European settlement in the Auckland Islands, founded in 1849 but abandoned in 1851. Jamestown was a settlement in what is now Fiordland National Park. Kelso was abandoned after severe and repeated flooding in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Lyell was a gold mining town in the Buller Gorge in the South Island.
Sometimes, being rich and famous has its perks. In this case, it's being able to own private islands in exotic locations all over the world! The following gallery shows several celebrities and ...
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The island is instead known as the most remote inhabited island on Earth. Gough Island is uninhabited apart from a weather station with around 6–7 people on it but they are not a permanent population. [1] Easter Island is another omission. The island is 320 kilometres (200 mi) from Isla Salas y Gómez. [2]
Twenty-five acres of undeveloped land is for sale on Kiawah Island. The description: “amber marshlands, towering pines, sparkling creeks, majestic oaks.” Makes you want to plunk down the $12.5 ...
The island was abandoned in 1942, and then re-inhabited. In 1961 there was only one family of five, the MacRaes living in the village of Paible, who departed in 1974. [3] Taransay remained uninhabited until 2000 when the island was revived to host the television programme Castaway 2000. During the uninhabited years, the island had been used as ...