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Wood engraving depicting Governor Endicott (l. c. 1600-1665 CE) landing on Block Island, by Alfred R. Waud and A. V. S. Anthony, 1876-1881 CE. New York Public Library, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of...

Penobscot Indian Island Reservation, Penobscot County, Maine, USA. Illustration from What to see in America by Clifton Johnson, 1919.

Fort Gaines on Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA. After the escaped slave Wallace Turnage found freedom at the Union Fort Powell, he was taken to nearby Fort Gaines and was employed as a cook by the officer Julius...

Providence Colony (also known as Providence Plantation, modern-day Providence, Rhode Island, USA) was a settlement established in 1636 CE by the Puritan separatist theologian and pastor Roger Williams (l. 1603-1683 CE) after...

The Tiber Island is almost 300 X 70 meters, which the Romans referred to as “inter duos pontes” between the two bridges. It seems most of its mass is owed to the formation of a sandbar, historically added to...

Painting by Vasily Polenov (1882). Oil on canvas. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

In Greek mythology, Calypso, whose name means "to hide" or "to conceal," is a nymph best known from Homer's (c.750 BCE) epic The Odyssey for falling in love with Odysseus and imprisoning him on her island...

Madeira is a group of volcanic islands in the North Atlantic which were colonised by the Portuguese from 1420. The settlement and distribution of land rights on the uninhabited islands was a model the Portuguese...

Crete is an island in the eastern Mediterranean which during the Bronze Age produced the influential Minoan civilization with its distinctive architecture and art. An important member of the Greek world in the Archaic period, Crete...

The Gilbert and Marshall Islands Campaign (November 1943 to February 1944), a key strategic step forward in WWII's Pacific War, saw US forces launch multiple amphibious landings...