7 Island Wonders of the World: Most Amazing, Mysterious, and More This a brief information about the seven seven seven wonder islands in the World Marbella Escalante 02/04/2011

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SEVEN ISLAND WONDERS OF THE WORLD

Did you know that one in every ten people in the world

lives on an island? There is even a word for a “craze or a

strong attraction to islands” – islomania! From places of paradise to the last refuge of pirates each of these islands

has set at least one world record and some have stories that are truly stranger than fiction. From the greatest and

grandest to the most remote, mysterious, deadly and least

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populated, here are seven amazing islands from around the

world

The Pitcairn islands are best known for being the home

of the descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers and

the Tahitians who accompanied them, an event retold in numerous books and films. Due to infighting, famine and

disease, many of the initial compliments of the island perished. Today, Pitcairn boasts only 50 inhabitants (from

nine families) and is also notable for being the least populated jurisdiction in the world. The wreck of the HMS

Bounty is still visible underwater off the shores of the main inhabited island, and the Tahitian/European descendants

speak a unique language: a mix of Tahitian and English

known as Pitkern.

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Palmyra is the quintessential combination of classic

island stereotypes. It is simultaneously a kind of desert

island paradise as well as a mysterious source of

superstition. Its long strange history includes buried pirate treasure, tragic deaths, shipwrecks, military use and

abandonment and a recent grizzly double-murder of a vacationing couple. Some believe the island to be cursed,

but even rationalists are astonished at the number of bizarre happenings that have plagued the island since its

discovery in the 1700s. It remains currently the only unorganized incorporated U.S. territory.

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Bouvet is the remotest uninhabited island in the world. Is roughly 75 square miles of surface is mostly

covered by glaciers and and very little survives on the island aside from moss, seals, seabirds and penguins.

However, the island has been at the center of some peculiar mysteries. An early discoverer of the island

documented second island nearby that was never seen again. In the 1960s an abandoned lifeboat was found on

the island, though nothing was ever seen of its passenger. In the above satellite images, it can only be picked out by

spotting disturbances in the weather patterns.

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