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Charles Christian will not hear a word said against his great-great-grandfather. Revisionist histories of the mutiny that overtook His Majesty&#39;s Armed Vessel Bounty in April
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CBS announced its newest batch of castaways this morning destined to be stranded on the South Pacific island of Vanuatu--Islands of Fire. And continuing a tradition the show kicked off in season six, it will be men versus women when the ...
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Life can be cramped when you live on a remote cluster of tiny coral islands in the Indian Ocean, so the Maldives has plumped for a novel if seemingly extreme solution -- build a new island from scratch.
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âPakistan is inherently unstable. Dealing with them is like playing with matches in a forest.â - Larry Pressler. That statement from Larry Pressler, made during his recent visit to India, coincided with
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SEYMOUR ARM, British Columbia - This lakeside hamlet is so remote it can be reached only by boat or logging road, and so small there is only one store. But investigators say many of the 60 residents were involved in one business operation - growing marijuana...
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Many remote areas of the Pacific have been cut off from the outside world after the loss of the Intelsat IS-804 satellite.
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BOSTON -- The Gakkel Ridge, encased under the frozen Arctic Ocean, is steep and rocky, and scientists suspect its remote location hosts an array of undiscovered life.
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They are a billion strong. Diseased, malnourished, uneducated, they are a people on the run from wars that take the lives of their brothers and sisters.
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HAFUN, Somalia -- In this remote, northeastern corner of Somalia, villagers have long believed the world will end when the sea runs dry and the ground shakes. When the tsunami struck Dec. 26, many thought that day had come.
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The road to this island on  Finland&#39;s western coast winds through pristine fields and  forests, an idyllic place for a cottage by the shore -- if you  ignore the heavy-duty power lines overhead.
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A remote Scottish island has come under growing pressure to end a controversial annual cull of hedgehogs, and ferry them to the mainland instead.
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Barren and uninhabited, Hans Island is very hard to find on a map. Yet these days the Frisbee-shaped rock in the Arctic is much in demand -- so much so that Canada and Denmark have both staked their claim to it ... via Ann Arbor News
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Lost has added another bad guy to the island mix. Or,   actually, he could be a good guy. Really, the odds are 50-50 either way.
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Largely confined to a sprinkling of islands off South Africaâs tip, the African penguin, the continentâs only native penguin, are endangered.
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The extinction of whole species, once specific to isolated islands, is becoming a trend across continents.
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PORT BLAIR, India  - Thousands of Andaman and  Nicobar islanders are missing, feared killed by last week's  deadly tsunami, but few bodies have been located so far, Indian  officials on the remote archipelago said.
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An island of ice the size of Manhattan has drifted into a remote channel and is now jammed by pack ice.