Read more about the article ICE MAIDEN: Cambridge Uni Alumni To Cross World’s Largest Island Where Temps Fall To Minus 40
Sarah Winkelmann, 27, from the city of Bremen, Germany, poses in undated photo. She aims to become the youngest German woman to cross Greenland with skis and tent only. (@waitingforsummersince1995/CEN)
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ICE MAIDEN: Cambridge Uni Alumni To Cross World’s Largest Island Where Temps Fall To Minus 40

A Cambridge University alumni aims to become one of the youngest women ever to cross the world's largest island where temperatures can drop to around -40 degrees Celsius. Sarah Winkelmann, 27, from the city of Bremen, Germany, poses in undated photo. She aims to become the youngest German woman to…

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January 18, 2023
Read more about the article SHOVE ISLAND: Traffickers Dumped Migrants On Desert Island
A Hattian man is transported trough the water on a rope to US Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Napier on Monito Island, Puerto Rico, USA, on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2022. They rescued 19 Haitians left stranded by smugglers. (U.S. Coast Guard District 7/Newsflash)
Bizarre / Crime

SHOVE ISLAND: Traffickers Dumped Migrants On Desert Island

Coast Guard crews have rescued 19 Haitian migrants after smugglers abandoned them on an uninhabited deserted island, it has emerged. Astonished rescuers found the migrants perched on rocky cliffs on Montino Island, nearly 50 miles from Puerto Rico. Emergency radio operators at the San Juan base had received a call…

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January 11, 2023
Read more about the article OPERATION SANTA: Christmas Presents Drop For Island Residents
U.S. Army National Guard Sgt. Johnsey Hagel, Task Force Talon team leader, drops packages to his island of Mog Mog during Operation Christmas Drop on Dec. 6, 2022. Operation Christmas Drop is an annual U.S. Air Force tradition of packaging and delivering donated supplies such as food, fishing equipment, school books, and clothing to more than 20 thousand islanders across 56 remote islands throughout the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Palau. (Airman 1st Class Lauren Clevenger, DVIDS/Newsflash)
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OPERATION SANTA: Christmas Presents Drop For Island Residents

After six years away from home, U.S. Army National Guard Sgt. Johnsey Hagel, Task Force Talon team leader, drops packages to his island of Mog Mog during Operation Christmas Drop on 6th December. Operation Christmas Drop is an annual U.S. Air Force tradition of packaging and delivering donated supplies such…

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December 19, 2022
Read more about the article HIKE HORROR: Cliff Walker Plunged 33ft To Her Death
Picture shows mountaineers climbing on Puig Roig, in Spain. A 75-year-old Irish woman died in Escorca after suffering an accident while on an excursion in the area on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. (Newsflash)
Accidents / General News

HIKE HORROR: Cliff Walker Plunged 33ft To Her Death

A 75-year-old Irish woman died when she plunged 33 feet to her death in a hiking accident in Majorca. The woman had been walking with a group in Escorca, in the north-western part of the island, when she apparently slipped and fell off the cliff edge. Picture shows mountaineers climbing…

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October 25, 2022
Read more about the article MEETING OF CULTURES: Indonesian Island Was Human Melting Pot With DNA From 16 Ancient Peoples
Cave entrance of the Topogaro 2 site, one of the cave sites of the Topogaro complex located in Central Sulawesi. Topogaro 2 has been excavated since 2016. Human remains from the past 2,000 years were found in the upper layers. (Rintaro Ono/Newsflash)
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MEETING OF CULTURES: Indonesian Island Was Human Melting Pot With DNA From 16 Ancient Peoples

An international team of experts has sequenced the DNA from 16 ancient people and found that a group of Indonesian islands were a melting pot for humans thousands of years ago. The Wallacean islands, in what is now Eastern Indonesia, have a long and rich history of being home to…

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June 14, 2022