At first glance Hart Island in the Long Island Sound, New York, seems a rather inconspicuous little island. Dig a little deeper... and things get a little more disturbing. In 1869 Hart Island was established as…

Cockburn Island is a 'ghost' island in Ontario, which despite the apparent signs of life (there's a small town and marina) has an official population of zero. The 1996 census listed a population of just two,…

Welcome to the loose collection of islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean known as South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Currently an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, the glacier covered main island of South…

(It's Island Week all this week at GGSS, which means we'll mostly be posting about Islands. Catchy name, huh?) The tiny volcanic island of Iwo Jima, part of the Ogasawara Islands, is just over 1000km south…

After the roaring success of Annual Volcano Day a while back we're adding a new event to the GGSS calendar - Island Week! For the rest of the week (or until we get bored) we'll be…

The Aleutian Islands are the northern boundary of the Pacific Ocean's 'ring of fire'. Starting just off the Alaska Peninsula, an arc of more than 300 volcanic islands stretches for almost 2,000km across the Pacific. While…