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Outmatched by thawing ice, Adelaide Island reshapes Antarctic science
Few islands look less like a refuge. Off the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, beyond the more frequently named stations and straits of the northern peninsula, Adelaide Island lies long and mountainous under persistent weather, separated from the mainland by Marguerite Bay and the narrow run of The Gullet. On a map it appears…
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A poisoned history yields unexpected hope on Hawadax Island
A place renamed after a reckoning Long before its newer name began to appear in conservation reports and maps, this Aleutian island was known for damage that could be counted in feathers, eggs, and silence. It lies in the western reaches of Alaska’s Aleutian chain, part of the Near Islands group, where low tundra and…
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Named for a day, Caroline Island watches calendars and tides
Longitude does some of the storytelling here. Near 150 degrees west, far south of Hawaiʻi and still farther from any continental shore, Caroline Island lies in the southern Line Islands of Kiribati, a broken ring of coral enclosing lagoons of startling clarity. The atoll is low, narrow, and almost level with the sea, its highest…
