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Showing posts with label Island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Island. Show all posts

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Singapore is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the Singapore Strait to its south. Singapore is highly urbanized but almost half of the country is covered by greenery. More land is being created for development through land reclamation.

Anantsorrarak's Singapore Reflections

Friday, December 16, 2011

Socotra (Suquṭra or Soqotra) is a small archipelago of four islands in the Indian Ocean. The island is very isolated and through the process of speciation, a third of its plant life is found nowhere else on the planet. It has been described as the most alien-looking place on Earth.

Socotra Island

Saturday, December 10, 2011

The Faroe Islands are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland.

Faroe Islands