Aman Vir created an interactive map of his favorite obscure islands. Some you may well have heard of, such as Midway, for ...

Its area is only about 0.43 square kilometers, but it is known worldwide as the home of one of the most dangerous snakes in the world - the island botrytis, whose bite causes rapid tissue necrosis.

A major, 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck in the Caribbean Sea on Saturday and triggered a tsunami advisory in Puerto Rico and ...