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This archipelago lies in the Mozambique Channel between Madagascar and the African mainland. The former French Possession was divided into two entities in 1976 - the Union of the Comoros and Mayotte, which chose to remain a French overseas collective. Both ...

In the Judean mountains, between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea, Jerusalem, the capital city of modern Isreal, has experienced an epic history going back to its foundation 5,000 years ago. Jerusalem has been the spiritual centre of the Jewish people ...

One of the oldest cities in North America, Quebec City is the Capital of the province of the same name and in Vieux-Quebec has the only surviving walled city in the Americas north of Mexico. The historic district of Quebec was ...

In the Pacific Ocean west of Prince Rupert in British Columbia, the Queen Charlotte Islands are the peaks of a submerged mountain chain. The seven largest islands of the 1,884 islands and islets in the archipelago are Langara, Graham, Moresby, Louise, ...

Probably the most famous rock in the world, the Rock of Gibraltar rises 426 m (1,396 ft) from sea level to tower over the narrow body of water that separates Europe from north Africa, namely the Strait of Gibraltar. In Mythology, ...

Surrounded by their 200 satellite islands, the twin bulwarks of East and Falkland stand athwart the sea lane to capeGorn, some 450 km (300 mi) east of the South American coast. The group was the subject of desultory squabbling between Britain, ...

Virtually unsettled and covered with dense forest, the Erzgebirge gained its name (it means Ore Mountains) only in the 15th century, when the discovery of silver and tin deposits brought a flood of settlers to found its towns and cities. For ...

Germany's second largest island, Usedom is a picturesque, low-lying landscape of rolling meadows, woods and lakes dotted with thatched cottages, windmills and medieval churches. The island, 445 sq km (174 sq mi) in area, views to the northeast of the lagoon ...

The extinct volcano of Mt Elgon lies at the heart of the spectacular national park that bears its name. It is an area with a rich variety of wildlife, including spotted hyenas, rock hyraxes and leopards but it is for its ...

Just 1,600 km (1,000 mi) southeast of Miami, the freeways, skyscrapers, malls and parking lots of the United States crash into four centuries of Spanish colonial culture. Puerto Rico sounds like the most uncomfortable kind of shotgun alliance - but being ...

Located off the Bay of Plenty coast of New Zealand's North Island, Mayor Island is the top of a dormant shield volcano, rising 355 m (1,164 ft) above the waves and believed to have formed about 7,000 years ago. Known as ...

An extinct stratovolcano of extreme beauty, Mount Kenya is the second-highest mountain in Africa, at 5,119 m (17,058 ft). Despite being not far south of the equator it has for thousands of years been capped with glaciers, although these now retreating ...