However, some of the world's islands pose real dangers and require special treatment. RBC-Ukraine dwells on some of the most dangerous islands where travelers should hardly go.

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map. It's certainly not a small island: It's about ...

Google users will soon be getting a free trip to Ecuador’s remote and famed Galapagos Islands, home to world’s largest tortoise and the location that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of ...

It took 25 years for Danish farmer Soren Poulsen to design a group of islands which form a scale map of the world. He completed the incredible feat between 1944 - 1969, and completed the "World ...

Built between 1944 and 1969, the map was the handy work of Søren Paulson, a farmer living on family land with an adjacent lake. It's about 300 feet by 150 feet in size, and 10 inches on the map ...

He wrote a report accompanied by a map in 1705 that cast serious doubt on the idea of California as an island. It took more exploration, but by 1747 King Ferdinand VI of Spain was convinced.

Marker Wadden, a man-made, Robinson Crusoe-worthy archipelago in the Netherlands, is the latest addition to the world map – and it’s an ingenious model for wildlife conservation.