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A Guide to Private Islands | Ben Mallalieu | British Virgin Islands, Virgin Gorda, Necker Island

Owning a private island isn't easy. Luckily, Sir Richard Branson has already done the hard work for this Bali-in-West-Indies resort, and you can rent it for only $46,000 per night

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Falkland Islands | Vitali Vitaliev | Falkland Islands, East Falkland, Stanley

Despite, or maybe because of the minefields surrounding it, there is an immediate charm about Stanley, with its multi-coloured roofs, with its quiet streets running down the hill towards the harbour...

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Fantasy Islands | Nick Maes

It is said that many of the Baobab trees are older than Christ; but then all of equatorial Africa’s east coast is riddled with hearsay

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Galapagos Islands | Tim Elliott

On the little visited Isla Pinta we found the beach covered with horny turtles, couples locked in laborious love, hour upon hour of near motionless copulation. It was hard not be envious

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Ile Du Martin-Pecheur | Annabel Simms | France, Ile-de-France, Paris

Guinguettes are so called because le petit blanc, the modest but lively white wine of the Paris region they used to serve, made people giguet (ready to dance a jig)

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Islands | Jim Keeble

We turn to face our future. A week on a small, barely inhabited Mediterranean island called Zut in the Kornati archipelago off Croatia. There’s no ferry, no airport. No way on or off

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Norfolk Island | John Borthwick

Tiny Norfolk Island has no income taxes, McDonalds, foreign debt, dole or graffiti. There has been no major crime since 1855, and there's only one street light. Norfolkers can proudly say, "We don't have it all"

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Sunshine Island | Solange Hando | Spain, Canary Islands, Gran Canaria

If the old town is a quiet maze meandering in shades of lemon and cream, the new city is a bustling hive, all boutiques and gold shops and pastel-coloured façades topped with turrets and domes like an iced cake

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Walking Maria Islands | John Borthwick | Australia, Tasmania, Tasmania

We're soon striding south along one that must be a finalist in the Best Least-Known Beach Anywhere category. There's no one but us to revel in the three and a half kilometre curve of bone china sand and crystal waters

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