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Passing a new law restricting assault weapons took Rhode Island lawmakers more than 10 years, but it may offer a road map to ...

Long known only as the site of Napoleon’s exile, Saint Helena is in fact a sanctuary of rare biodiversity, dramatic ...

In the Age of Exploration, early European mapmakers depicted California as a massive island drifting off the west coast of North America. This cartographic error persisted for nearly two centuries, ...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...

Researchers recreated a 30,000-year-old ocean journey from Taiwan to Japan using canoes and simulations to test early human ...

Greek researchers are undertaking a reconstruction of the ancient Aegean coastline, with a primary focus on the islands of ...

A MERICA HAS a long history of buying land: it acquired more than two-fifths of its current territory that way. But Donald ...

Credit: flickr Easter Island, known for its nearly 900 moai statues, is one of the world's most isolated inhabited islands, located over 2,200 miles (3,500 km) from mainland Chile.

ST. JOHN, U.S. Virgin Islands - The beaches of the U.S. Virgin Islands dazzle with light and color. Tropical breezes drift across palm-lined bays. The three main islands - St. Thomas, St. John and ...

Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analyzed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists named John ...