San Simon Island | Spain

 

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San Simon is a small archipelago of four islands located in the Vigo bay to the south of Galicia. The two main islands are San Simon and San Anton. These islands have been inhabited since the fifth century by numerous monastic communities.

During the Spanish Civil War the islands became a prison island, much like Alcatraz, and its prison was reputed to hold as many as two thousand prisoners at any one time. 

The island of Elba | Italy

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Elba is the biggest island of the Tuscan Archipelago and the third largest in Italy after Sardinia and Sicily. The island is famous around the world for harboring French Emperor Napoleon in 1814 during his exile. 

Giglio Island is one of the other six islands in the Tuscan Archipelago.

 

Murano Island and Lighthouse | Italy

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Murano is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, located north-east of Venice. It is actually seven islands connected by bridges, forming canals. The island has its own lighthouse.

Murano is famous for its long history of glass making. In 1291, all the glassmakers in Venice were required to move to Murano. In the following century, exports began, and the island became famous, initially for glass beads and mirrors.

La Toja Island | Spain

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La Toja ("Toxa" in Gallego) is a little island in the "rias baias" (lower bays) connected to the Galician mainland by a carriageway elevated above the sea.

Although small and only a couple of hundred metres from shore, it is a well known and popular destination for Galician holiday makers.

The Island of St. George | Montenegro

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St. George Island is a naturally formed island, located in the Bay of Kotor. Nearest town on the mailand is Perast, situated a few kilometres northwest of Kotor.

The Maldives

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Maldives is an island nation in the Indian Ocean. The chain of 1190 little coral islands scattered across the Indian Ocean that forms the archipelago of the Maldives is 80 -120 km wide. Only 201 islands are inhabited by the local people, and 83 islands are developed exclusively as tourist resorts, while the rest are uninhabited.

Mersea Island | United Kindom

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Mersea Island is the most easterly inhabited island in the UK, situated off the coast of Essex.  It is one of 43 (unbridged) tidal islands which can be accessed by road from the British mainland.

Checking the tide times before visiting Mersea Island is very important as at high tide the causeway onto the island, The Strood, becomes covered in sea water and impassable for a period of time.

Togean Islands | Indonesia

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The Togian (or Togean) Islands are an archipelago of 56 islands and islets, in the Gulf of Tomini, off the coast of Central Sulawesi, in Indonesia. There are 37 villages on the islands, with one settled by the Bajau people, more commonly known as the sea gypsies.

Giglio Island | Italy

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Giglio Island (Isola del Giglio), is a small island in the Tuscan Archipelago, the group of seven islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea near the coast of Tuscany. The main islands are Capraia, Elba, Giannutri, Giglio, Gorgona, Montecristo and Pianosa. Here you see a mapcard.

Thank you so much Gian Luca and Rafaella!

Öland Island | Sweden

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Öland is the second largest Swedish island. The southern part of the in the Baltic Sea is dominated by a vast limestone plateau. Human beings have lived here for some five thousand years and adapted their way of life to the physical constraints of the island. As a consequence, the landscape is unique, with abundant evidence of continuous human settlement from prehistoric times to the present day.

Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Palmaiola Island | Italy

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Palmaiola is a small island (islet) off the westcoast of Italië. The islet is part of the Tuscan Archipelago, a chain of islands between the Ligurian Sea and Tyrrhenian Sea, west of Tuscany

Iona Abbey | United Kingdom - Scotland

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Iona is a tiny island off the southwest coast of Mull in the Inner Hebrides. It is only 1.5 miles wide by 3 miles long, with a population of around 120 permanent residents.

Located on the island is Iona Abbey, which origins date back to as early as the year 563.

Heard Island | Australia

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The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands is an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic group of barren Antarctic islands. Located about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica, these uninhabited islands are among the most remote places in the world.

Heard and McDonalds Islands is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Tuscan Archipelago | Italy

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The Tuscan Archipelago is a chain of islands between the Ligurian Sea and Tyrrhenian Sea, west of Tuscany, Italy.

The archipelago is located between Corsica and the Tuscan coast and contains seven major islands: Capraia, Elba, Giannutri, Giglio, Gorgona, Montecristo and Pianosa.

Skara Brae | United Kindom - Scotland

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Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland. Consisting of eight clustered houses, it was occupied from roughly 3180 BC to about 2500 BC and is Europe's most complete Neolithic village.

Heart of Neolithic Orkney is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The group of Neolithic monuments on Orkney consists of a large chambered tomb (Maes Howe), two ceremonial stone circles (the Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar) and a settlement (Skara Brae), together with a number of unexcavated burial, ceremonial and settlement sites.

Flowerpot Island | Canada

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Flowerpot Island is an island in Georgian Bay, in the Canadian province of Ontario. The island is a popular tourist destination, with camping facilities and hiking trails. The name of the island comes from two rock pillars on its eastern shore, which look like flower pots. These pots are some sort of sea stacks, a vertical column or columns of rock in the sea near a coast, formed by wave erosion.

Dahlak Islands | Eritrea

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The Dahlak Archipelago is a group of 124 islands located in the Red Sea near Massawa, Eritrea. Only four of the islands are permanently inhabited, of which Dahlak Kebir is the largest and most populated. Luul Resort Hotel is located on Dahlak Kebir.

Thanks Gert!

Rarotonga Island | Cook Islands

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The Cook Islands is a self-governing island country in the South Pacific Ocean. The island's defence and foreign affairs are the responsibility of New Zealand.

The archipellago comprises 15 islands, of which Rarotonga is the main island with about 11,000 inhabitants.

Raspberry Island Lighthous | USA

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Raspberry Island is one of the Apostle Islands in northern Wisconsin, in Lake Superior. The Apostle Islands are a group of 22 islands in Lake Superior, the largest of the Great Lakes of North America. The lighthouse was built in 1863 and stand 40 feet tall.

Lipe Island | Thailand

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Lipe Island (Ko Lipe) is a Thai island in the Andaman Sea, near Malaysia's border. It's part of Tarutao National Marine Park, which is populated with small islands and known for its coral-rich waters.