10 January 2026 | Author/Destination: Around the World / Rund um die Welt | Category: General
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Plaque commemorating the attachment of Wallis and Futuna to the French Republic in Mata Utu
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Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands, is a French island
collectivity in the
South Pacific , situated between
Tuvalu to the northwest,
Fiji to the southwest,
Tonga to the southeast,
Samoa to the east, and
Tokelau to the northeast.
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28 December 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General
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Keʻe Beach at Haʻena State Park from the Kalalau Trail © flickr.com – MattWright/cc-by-2.0
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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 | Category: General
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Hotel Lanai and Lanai City Grille © Mike Grant/cc-by-sa-4.0
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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 | Category: General
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Laʻaloa Bay in Kailua-Kona © Steevven1/cc-by-sa-4.0
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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 | Category: General
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Big Beach in Makena © flickr.com – dronepicr/cc-by-2.0
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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 | Category: General
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Molokai Lighthouse © MahaloMichael/cc-by-sa-3.0
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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 | Category: General , Bon voyage , Theme Weeks
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Waikīkī and Honolulu from Diamond Head © Hakilon/cc-by-3.0
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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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30 January 2023 | Author/Destination: South America / Südamerika | Category: General , UNESCO World Heritage
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15 standing moai at Ahu Tongariki © Bjørn Christian Tørrissen/cc-by-sa-3.0
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Easter Island (
Rapa Nui : Rapa Nui;
Spanish : Isla de Pascua) is an island and special territory of
Chile in the southeastern
Pacific Ocean , at the southeasternmost point of the
Polynesian Triangle in
Oceania . The island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, called
moai , which were created by the early
Rapa Nui people . In 1995,
UNESCO named Easter Island a
World Heritage Site , with much of the island protected within
Rapa Nui National Park .
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16 November 2015 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General
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Tahiti – Papeete – Marina Taina © Remi Jouan/cc-by-sa-3.0
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French Polynesia is an
overseas collectivity of the French Republic;
collectivité d’outre-mer de la République française (COM) , sometimes unofficially referred to as an
overseas country ;
pays d’outre-mer (POM) . It is composed of 118 geographically dispersed islands and atolls stretching over an expanse of more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) in the
South Pacific Ocean .
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