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Wind-scarred bunkers, thawing tundra and seabirds remap October Revolution Island
Measured not by cities or roads but by ice caps and drifting pack, October Revolution Island belongs to a scale of geography that unsettles ordinary ideas of land. It lies in the Russian High Arctic, the largest island of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago, between the Kara Sea and the Laptev Sea, far north of Siberia.…
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Tussock revival forces a rethink of Saunders Island management
Wind is the first real architect here. It combs the long grass into pale seams, presses low over dark hills, and reaches the shore in a confusion of surf, kelp, and cold light. In the northwestern Falkland Islands, off the coast of West Falkland, Saunders Island feels both inhabited and withheld: a place with sheep…
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San Felix Island mediates geopolitical claims, wildlife and remote livelihoods
Far out in the southeastern Pacific More than any story told about it, distance defines San Felix Island. It lies far off the coast of Chile, in the Desventuradas Islands, a small and exposed outpost of volcanic land in an immense field of ocean. The nearest continental shore is not near in any ordinary sense.…
