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In the early hours of 9 August 1942 the US Navy suffered the worst (at sea) defeat in its history. 1077 American and Australian sailors and Marines died and 4 cruisers sank in what would soon be called Ironbottom Sound. There were plenty of causes for the surprise and the...

There is an island mentioned in Strabo 5.4.9. called Monkey Island know today as Ischia. Pithecussæ was peopled by a colony of Eretrians and Chalcidians, which was very prosperous on account of the fertility of the soil and the productive gold-mines. They abandoned the island on account of...

by way of an award-winning documentary. Gr7MWxADnko "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7MWxADnko" Invest 55 min of your time for a quite enjoyable video. The narrator is a real character. Note: This island is so remote in the world, I am not sure I have this post placed under the right...

You be the judge: (from and article by Brian Dunning) The mutiny on the Bounty is perhaps the best known of all stories from the era of wooden ships. Fletcher Christian, the infamous officer responsible for the affair, is believed to have died on Pitcairn Island, where he and the other...

There have been a few ideas of whats buried on Oak Island. Some people think The Ark Of The Covenant is buried there. Others think pirate treasure could be buried there. or is it a all a joke?

For you WWII buffs, there is a great book about this action called" Pacific Alamo - The Battle For Wake Island" written by John Wukovits (2003). It's amazing the fight a few hundred Marines and civilian workers put up against the Japanese and the damage inflicted by them against the enemy was...

With a visit to this island looming, I thought I'd better freshen up on the history a bit. The 3 British control periods and the War of the Spanish succession, the 7 years War and the Revolutionary Wars are fairly well known. But thanks to the 2 'Turkish' raids, firstly (under Barbarossa)...

There seems to be no proof of the slightest human pre-colonial presence on the island. Nonetheless, are there any clues alluding toward the possibility of an indigenous population (who, when, for how long etc.)? What can we assume?

Does anyone know if the German military made use of troops from any of their Pacific island colonies/protectorates (e.g. Micronesia, New Guinea, Samoa, etc.)? I know there were locals recruited for domestic police forces but what about army or navy units? If so, were any of these troops deployed...

Why did they genocide them? I mean their numbers were puny. Is not like they were a threat to anyone. Source "List of notified Scheduled Tribes" (PDF). Census India. p. 27. Retrieved 15 December 2013. " In the 18th century there was 7000 of them but today remains only 400-450. " The five...

A popular story over time is someone who because of circumstances wind up by themselves marooned on some island in the Pacific. People like Robinson Caruso or Tom Hanks talking to a volleyball. Has anyone ever been marooned on an island and rescued after several years to tell the tale?

So I've been delving deep into collections of contemporary sources, and have discovered that the standard list of 'Lords of the Isles' is a load of dish. A number of people served as lord of the Isles (or one of its equivalent titles) but don't get credit. They're below, as well as the evidence...

How about experiencing the feeling of liberty as well as of captivity in a single day trip? Both these terms are quite contrary to each other. What if I tell you that a trip to Alcatraz Islands makes you well acquainted with both these sensations? Too hard to believe. But it is true. Majority...

Since there's no evidence of people having once lived on Lord Howe Island before its European discovery (according to Wikipedia), what caused the turtle's extinction there? Just curious.

Which is the most reasonable theory on the origins of Easter Island statues?

What if Ireland as an island never existed. The landmass never forms there and it doesn't end up as a part of something else. There's just ocean. Great Britain, the Shetland Islands, The Orkney Islands, the Isle of Man, and other such islands still exist, just not Ireland itself.

What if britain had terrestrial borders with France ? How the british history would look like ?

Maybe 10,000 years ago Britain was joined to Europe by a land bridge which was submerged by perhaps a Tsunami making Britain an Island.However,supposing the Land Bridge was not destroyed but exists to this day.Would Britain now be part of France and never existed as a separate Country and how...

Celtic burials from Budapest: https://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2015/01/24/celtic-budapest-the-burial-complex-from-csepel-island/

For those unfamiliar with the Battle of Savo Island (August 8/9, 1942), it was an unmitigated disaster for the navies of both the US and Australia. Through a series of errors on the part of the Allied command a Japanese task force was allowed to enter the channel between Florida island on the...