3 January 2025 | Author/Destination: South America / Südamerika | Rubric: General
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Viña del Mar ( meaning “Vineyard of the Sea”) is a
city and
commune on
central Chile ‘s Pacific coast. Often referred to as
La Ciudad Jardín (“The Garden City”), Viña del Mar is located within the
Valparaíso Region , and it is
Chile’s fourth largest city with a population of 324,836 (according to the 2008 census). Viña del Mar is also part of the
Greater Valparaíso area, the country’s second largest metropolitan area (pop. 935,602, 2017 census), after the Metropolitan area of
Santiago . The Greater Valparaíso Area is home to five municipalities:
Valparaíso , Viña del Mar,
Concon ,
Quilpue and
Villa Alemana .
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28 December 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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Kauaʻi, anglicized as Kauai, is one of the main
Hawaiian Islands . It has an area of 562.3 square miles (1,456.4 km²), making it the fourth-largest of the islands and the
21st-largest island in the United States . Kauaʻi lies 73 miles (117 km) northwest of
Oʻahu , across the
Kauaʻi Channel . The island’s
2020 population was 73,298. Styling itself the “Garden Isle”, Kauaʻi is the site of
Waimea Canyon State Park and
Na Pali Coast State Park . It forms the bulk of
Kauai County , which also includes the small nearby islands of
Kaʻula ,
Lehua , and
Niʻihau .
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27 December 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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Lanai (
Hawaiian : Lānaʻi) is the sixth-largest of the
Hawaiian Islands and the smallest publicly accessible inhabited island in the chain. It is colloquially known as the
Pineapple Island because of its past as an island-wide
pineapple plantation . The island’s only settlement of note is the small town of
Lanai City . The island is 98% owned by
Larry Ellison , cofounder and chairman of
Oracle Corporation ; the remaining 2% is owned by the state of Hawaii or individual homeowners.
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26 December 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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Hawaii (
Hawaiian : Hawaiʻi) is the
largest island in the United States , located in the eponymous
state of
Hawaii . It is the southeasternmost of the
Hawaiian Islands , a chain of
volcanic islands in the
North Pacific Ocean . With an area of 4,028 square miles (10,430 km²), it has 63% of the Hawaiian
archipelago ‘s combined landmass. However, it has only 13% of the archipelago’s population. The island of Hawaiʻi is the third largest island in
Polynesia , behind the
north and
south islands of New Zealand.
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25 December 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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Maui is the second largest island in the
Hawaiian archipelago , at 727.2 square miles (1,883 km²). It is the
17th-largest in the United States. Maui is one of
Maui County ‘s five islands, along with
Molokaʻi ,
Lānaʻi ,
Kahoʻolawe , and
Molokini .
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24 December 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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Molokai (
Hawaiian : Molokaʻi) is the fifth most populated of the eight major islands that make up the
Hawaiian Islands archipelago in the middle of the
Pacific Ocean . It is 38 by 10 miles (61 by 16 km) at its greatest length and width with a usable land area of 260 sq mi (673.40 km²), making it the fifth-largest in size of the main Hawaiian Islands and the
27th largest island in the United States . It lies southeast of
Oʻahu across the 25 mi (40 km) wide
Kaʻiwi Channel and north of
Lānaʻi , separated from it by the
Kalohi Channel .
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23 December 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Bon voyage , Theme Weeks
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Hawaii (
Hawaiian : Hawaiʻi) is an island
state of the
United States , in the
Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two
non-contiguous U.S. states (alongside
Alaska ), it is the only state not on the
North American mainland, the only state that is an
archipelago , and the only state in the
tropics .
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7 December 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Bon appétit , Shopping
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Granville Island is a
peninsula and shopping district in the
Fairview neighbourhood of
Vancouver ,
British Columbia ,
Canada , across
False Creek from
Downtown Vancouver , under the south end of the
Granville Street Bridge . Formerly an industrial manufacturing area, it was named after
Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville .
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13 August 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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Lahaina (
Hawaiian : Lāhainā) is a
census-designated place (CDP) in
Maui County ,
Hawaii ,
United States , and includes the
Kaanapali and
Kapalua beach resorts. As of the
2020 census , Lahaina had a resident population of 12,702. The CDP encompasses the coast along
Hawaii Route 30 from a tunnel at the south end, through Olowalu and to the CDP of
Napili-Honokowai to the north. As Lahaina sits on
Maui , a relatively small island with limited developable area, its real estate is some of the most expensive in Hawaii.
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