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A self-governing province of Denmark, Greenland is the world's biggest island. An ice sheet up to 3 km (1.9 mi) thick, 2,500 km (1,553 mi) long, and up to 1,000 km (600 mi) wide covers 81per cent of it. That represents ...

Off the southwestern tip of the Beara Peninsula, lies the island of Dursey, seperated from the mainland by the narrow Dursey Sound, a stretch of water with an extreme tidal race. The most westerly of Cork's inhabited islands, Dursey is home ...

You may well puzzle over the idea of a train running all the way from Rome, in mainland Italy, to Catania in Sicily, but this is a rare journey where the train boards a ship across the sea. It may be ...

The twin cataracts of the American and Horseshoe Falls that makeup Niagara Falls provide one of the most astounding natural spectacles on earth. Stunning all year round, they have a special aura in winter, when the surrounding hillsides are covered with ...

This is the largest island among many in St Mary's River where it ends its journey from Lake Superior by flowing into northern Lake Huron in upper Michigan. It is also the second-largest freshwater island in the USA. Drummond Island in ...

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 ...