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Christmas Island at the Edge of Silence
Where the Indian Ocean rises into jungle and cliff Long before its name suggested tinsel or feast days, Christmas Island was a dark mass in the eastern Indian Ocean, lifting abruptly from deep water far south of Java. It belongs politically to Australia, but geographically it feels set apart from almost everything: an isolated limestone…
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Kiska Island at the Edge of Silence and Storm
At the edge of the Pacific There are islands that feel remote on a map, and then there are islands that seem to have slipped almost out of the human world altogether. Kiska Island lies in the Rat Islands group of Alaska’s western Aleutians, a long, storm-lashed arc reaching toward Russia, where the North Pacific…
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Midway Island at the Edge of Silence
At the Edge of the Pacific Far out in the North Pacific, where charts begin to feel abstract and the ocean seems to erase the habits of ordinary geography, Midway Island lies low against the horizon: not a mountain rising from the sea, but a ring of coral and sand so slight that from a…
