Tag: "Islands"
Belle Isle , the largest island park
Belle Isle , located only a couple of miles away from downtown Detroit is the largest island park in the US covering 982-acre (1.534 sq mi). It’s larger than Central Park in NYC and the third largest island in the Detroit River after Grosse Ile and Fighting Island . Belle Isle features Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory (1904), [...]
Ellis Island
Ellis Island , located in the Upper New York Bay , New Jersey has a land area of 32.030 acres (12.962 ha). The entire island has been owned and administered by the U.S. Federal Government since 1808. History Ellis Island was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the site of the [...]
South Island , New Zealand
The South Island located in New Zealand, is the larger of the two major islands , the other one being North Island. The South Island neighbors are : north Cook Strait, west the Tasman Sea, south and east the Pacific Ocean. South Island covers 151,215 square kilometres (58,384 sq mi) making it the world’s 12th-largest island . [...]
Santa Catalina Island
Santa Catalina Island, also called Catalina Island, or Catalina, is situated off the coast of the California , United States . Measuring 22 miles (35 km) long and 8 miles (13 km) across , Santa Catalina has its highest point of 2,097 feet (639 m) at Mount Orizaba . Most of the island is controlled by the Catalina [...]
Great Barrier Reef , Australia
The Great Barrier Reef , located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland , Australia , is the world’s largest reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,600 kilometres (1,600 mi) over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (133,000 sq mi). The Great Barrier Reef is one of the [...]
Bali , one of the most popular tourist destination
Bali located in the western end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, between Java and Lombok , is an Indonesian island and one of the country’s 33 provinces with the capital at Denpasar. With a population recorded as 3,551,000 in 2009, Bali is also one of the most popular tourist destination in the world and well [...]
Alcatraz Island , San Francisco
Alcatraz Island , located in the San Francisco Bay, 1.5 miles offshore from San Francisco, California. Also called The Rock, the small island served as a lighthouse, a military fortification, a federal prison, and a Federal Bureau of Prisons until 1963. Later, Alcatraz became part of Golden Gate National Recreation Area and National Historic Landmark in [...]
Baffin Island – The 5th Largest Island in the World
Baffin Island , located in Nunavut , is the largest island in Canada and the 5th largest island in the world.The area has 507 451 km2, 1500 km long and 200-700 km wide and it’s separated from Greenland by Davis Strait and Baffin Bay, from northern Quebec by Hudson Strait. Nunavut’s capital, Iqaluit ,formerly known [...]
The World Islands , Dubai
The World ,also called World Islands , is an ambitious project developed in Dubai , United Arab Emirates that consists in building small islands constructed in the rough shape of a world map . The World is located 4.0 kilometers (2.5 mi) off the coast of Dubai, and being constructed mainly of sand dredged from [...]
The Palm Islands , Dubai
There are three man-made islands being constructed just off the shore of Dubai , United Arab Emirates called Palm Islands . Palm Jumeirah, the Palm Jebel Ali and the Palm Deira are being constructed by Nakheel Properties who hired world’s best specialists in land reclamation. Each Palm Island will be in the shape of a [...]
