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 ...

The Piri Reis World Map of 1513 was discovered in the Topkapı Palace Library in 1929. Piri Reis’s is a portolan-style world map created in a time when positioning recently discovered places was almost ...

The World Islands, another Nakheel Properties project, kicked off in 2003 and consists of 260 small islands arranged to look like a world map. The World’s progress halted in 2008 due to the ...