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The monastery ruins on Selja Island, Stad, Norway. The Benedictine abbey was constructed in the 11th century CE and was linked to the legend of Saint Sunniva (10th century CE). Behind is the trail up to the...

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...

St. Cuthbert's Island, near Lindisfarne, where Saint Cuthbert (c. 634 - 20 March 687) retired to live in solitude before he was offered the bishopric of Lindisfarne.

Napoleon crossing the bridge to Lobau Island during the War of the Fifth Coalition, 1809, oil paint on wood, by Richard Caton Woodville, Jr, 1912. Tate, London.

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...

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

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...

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.

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...