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Northern Indian Ocean
Closer to Myanmar than to mainland India, with one island that no one is allowed to visit.
Macaronesia
Flores and Corvo sit on the North American plate; the other seven islands do not.
Lesser Sunda Islands
Indonesia's Hindu island, where Nyepi closes the airport for 24 hours.
North Atlantic
Not Caribbean at all — it lies about 1,000 kilometres off North Carolina in the North Atlantic.
Hawaii
Measured from its base on the seafloor, Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain on Earth.
French Polynesia
Its airstrip is a 1943 American wartime airfield, French Polynesia's only air gateway until 1960.
Macaronesia
Cidade Velha, founded in 1462, was the first European town built anywhere in the tropics.
Polynesia
Rarotonga's bus timetable has two entries: clockwise and anticlockwise.
Western Mediterranean
The GR20 runs 180 kilometres along the island's spine and is rated Europe's hardest waymarked trail.
Eastern Mediterranean
Nicosia is the last capital in Europe still split by a buffer zone.
Melanesia
The 180th meridian runs straight through Taveuni, marked by a signpost in a field.
Canary Islands
The oldest and windiest of the Canaries, sitting about 100 kilometres off the African coast.
Eastern Pacific
Ninety-seven per cent of the land is national park, and most of it needs a licensed guide.
Canary Islands
Columbus stopped here in 1492 to repair the Pinta's rudder before crossing the Atlantic.
Hawaii
No road crosses the Nā Pali Coast; its twenty-seven kilometres are reached on foot, by boat or by air.
Canary Islands
A single eruption ran for six years, from 1730 to 1736, and buried about a quarter of the island.
Western Indian Ocean
Every lemur species on Earth lives here, and only here.
Macaronesia
More than 2,000 kilometres of hand-cut irrigation channels double as the island's footpaths.
Northern Indian Ocean
The flattest country on Earth — its highest natural point is about 2.4 metres.
Hawaii
Sunrise from the Haleakalā summit is by reservation only, booked in advance.
Western Indian Ocean
The only island the dodo ever lived on, and it was gone less than a century after sailors arrived.
French Polynesia
Visible from Papeete's waterfront, and 17 kilometres away by a half-hour ferry.
Melanesia
Its barrier reef encloses a lagoon of 24,000 square kilometres, UNESCO-listed since 2008.
Hawaii
Hawai'i's third-largest island, carrying about two-thirds of the state's population.
Western Indian Ocean
Mafate has no road in; the cirque is reached on foot or by helicopter.
Polynesia
In December 2011 Samoa jumped the date line and deleted 30 December from its calendar.
Eastern Mediterranean
Villages perched on the rim of a caldera left by an eruption around 1600 BCE.
Western Mediterranean
About 7,000 Bronze Age stone towers stand here — a density found nowhere else.
Western Indian Ocean
The coco de mer, the heaviest seed of any plant, grows wild in two valleys and nowhere else.
Western Mediterranean
Some of the best-preserved Greek temples anywhere are here, not in Greece.
Northern Indian Ocean
A fig tree planted at Anuradhapura in 288 BCE is the oldest planted tree with a written record.
French Polynesia
Teahupo'o, on the south coast, staged the surfing events of the 2024 Olympics.
Canary Islands
Spain's highest mountain is on this island, and the last stretch to the top needs a permit.
Melanesia
Land diving on Pentecost, done with vines rather than elastic, is where bungee jumping came from.
Western Indian Ocean
The shortest war on record was fought here in 1896 and lasted about 38 minutes.