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Hulhumalé - Wikipedia
reclaimed island located in Kaafu Atoll, Maldives. New land mass required to meet the existing and future housing, industrial and commercial development demands of the Malé region.
urban  planning  island  maldives  wikipedia 
february 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
New York Islanders Logo (1998) - SportsLogos.Net
The Islanders logo excludes Queens and Brooklyn. lame.
sport  design  island  nys  geography 
june 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Design Observer: writings about design & culture
"Dear Kergie,

I just found out they used to call you Desolation. That’s funny, because desolate is how I feel when I’m away from you."
writing  island  funny 
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Image:Island-of-Stability.png - Wikipedia
"A 3-dimensional representation of the theoretical Island of stability in Nuclear physics."
physics  map  graph  wikipedia  island 
october 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Monhegan Associates, Inc.
" the Island’s wild lands & roughly 17 miles of hiking trails are maintained by the Monhegan Associates, a private land trust."
island  maine  known 
august 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Peberholm - Wikipedia
"Constructed near the small island of Saltholm... The [artificial] island is a biological experiment. The soil, taken from the bottom of Oresund during bridge constructn, contained seeds of rare & extinct plants, which now flourish"
island  denmark  ecology 
june 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Cargo cult - Wikipedia
In a form of sympathetic magic, islanders built life-size straw mockups of airplanes & landing strips, carved headphones from wood, & wore them while sitting in fabricated control towers. Waved landing signals from runways, lit signal fires, etc
religion  wikipedia  asia  twentieth_century  history  wwii  unintended_consequences  island 
may 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
BBC News | SCOTLAND | Britain's 'Anthrax Island'
"24-4-90: junior Defence Minister Michael Neubert made the half-mile journey from the mainland to declare Gruinard safe by removing its red warning sign."
uk  anthrax  biology  island 
february 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Tristan History 1817 - 1853
so Simon Amm, captain of the Duke of Gloucester, a regular visitor to Tristan, was commissioned (allegedly for a sack of potatoes per woman) to try to persuade suitable partners from the island of St Helena to try their luck with the lonely men.
history  island  tristan_de_cunha 
august 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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