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South America
South America makes up the southern half of the Americas and a large part of Latin America. It's home to the world's longest mountain range, biggest waterfall and largest river -- even these mammoths pale in comparison to the stunning variety of life forms thriving in the rainforest. To the northwest, off the coast ...
South Africa
Cres Island
The island of Cres can be reached from Brestova via the ferry to Porozina. Ferries operate regularly and frequently during the summer season, but there is often a long waiting because of the many tourists visiting the island.
Kish Island
Santa Catalina Island
Phu Quoc Island
Phu Quoc island located in the Gulf of Thailand, Kien Giang province, Vietnam, 45 km away from Ha Tien, 120km from Rach Gia. Phu Quoc island has a tropical monsoon climate with two seasons: the dry season from November to April, the rainy season from May to October. The average annual temperature around 28 degree C.
South Tyrol (Bolzano-Bozen)
La Provincia autonoma di Bolzano - Alto Adige (in tedesco Autonome Provinz Bozen - Südtirol, in ladino Provinzia Autonòma de Bulsan - Südtirol) è una delle due parti costituenti la regione italiana del Trentino-Alto Adige.Assieme al Trentino, al Tirolo Settentrionale ed al Tirolo Orientale, l'Alto Adige costituisce ...
Rapa Nui - Easter Island
Rapa Nui is the most remote inhabited island on earth. You may recognize this place by its common title "Easter Island". The island pokes out of the ocean with one hundred fifty square miles of area, but this is only the tip of a giant extinct volcano rising ten thousand feet from the ocean floor.Easter Island got i...
Hugon Island - New Caledonia
Durban
Durban is a coastal city of South Africa with very active harbour serving as transport portal for much of South Africa, particularly Gauteng.
Scottsdale Waterfront
This downtown Scottsdale district stretches along the south side of the revamped Arizona Canal on west Stetson?Drive. The creation of developer Fred Unger, Southbridge is a $41 million urban, pedestrian-friendly development notable?because it only has independently-owned boutiques and restaurants; there are no chain...
Eyre Peninsula
Eyre Peninsula is bordered by Spencer Gulf and Great Australian Bight with over 2,000 kilometres of coastline for fishing, whale watching, watersports, swimming with sea lions or diving with sharks.
Yorke Peninsula
Tahiti
Noumea
Noumea is the capital and vacation centre of the Islands of New Caledonia in the South Pacific. Noumea is a "French" city, but the 91,000 inhabitants are a very mixed cultural group with French, Melanesian, Polynesian, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and lots of mixtures of these. Over 60% of the population of New Caledonia...
Schokland
Schokland is a former island in the Dutch Zuiderzee. Schokland lost its status as an island when the Noordoostpolder was reclaimed from the sea in 1942. The remains are still visible as a slightly elevated part in the polder and by the still partly intact retaining wall of the waterfront of 'Middelbuurt'. As a resul...
Singapore
Singapore began as a boat quay at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. Its early days bear few written accounts which are made more difficult to interpret due to the many names it has had. Its original name in Malay meant "island at the end" of the peninsula.In the middle ages there was a settlement here with a ...
Mare, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia
Mare Island is the southernmost of the four Loyalty Islands in New Caledonia. It is an uplifted coral atoll with jagged cliffs on the southern shores 130 metres high. The center of the island, the ancient lagoon, is flat and there are several caves and sink-holes - some with salt water and others with fresh water. A...
Lifou
Lifou Island is the largest of the Loyalty Islands, in the archipelago of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The Loyalty Islands comprise the Province Iles Loyaute of New Caledonia. There are 4 major islands, Ouvea in the north, Lifou in the middle and Mare in the south. 40,000 peop...
Ouvea Loyalty Islands New Caledonia
Ouvea Atoll is the northernmost of the four Loyalty Islands. The eastern side of the atoll was uplifted millions of years ago so the whole eastern side forms one long narrow coral island with one of the world's most spectacular white sand beaches along the proctected lagoon. Ouvea is a 40 minute flight from Noumea, ...
Narragansett Bay