It has remained relatively untouched by tourism, except for scuba divers interested in exploring the sunken WWI shipwreck off the coast. Robinson Crusoe Island is most notably known as the island that inspired Daniel Defoe’s novel, Robinson Crusoe. Although the book was set in the Caribbean, ...
The Sunken Grove Crook's Hollow Devil's Ridge Discovery Ridge Plunder Valley Shark Bait Cove Snake Island Thieves' Haven Ashen Reaches Fetcher's Rest Flintlock Peninsula Ruby's Fall The Devil's Thirst The Shores of Plenty Cannon Cove If your Picture Map Quest’s left pag...
as is the recently restored Sundari Chowk, a courtyard with an elaborately carved sunken bath as its centerpiece. Patan is one of the best places in Nepal to buy the gorgeous handmade silk saris that once were the garment of choice for the country’s royalty...
Survivors of a sunken Canadian ship reached Wrangel in 1914, and the leader of the expedition, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, created an international incident in the early 1920s when he claimed Wrangel for Canada without authorization. The Soviet Union then annexed the island, and permanent occupation ...
The plateau is dominated by high mountains that are gashed by river canyons or scarred with dry gullies and washes and the beds of intermittent streams. Other topographic features include great shallow basins, sunken deserts, picturesque buttes and mesas, and rare verdant sections of valley. ...
beyond which rise the peaks of the southern range of theSierra Madre.Laguna de Bay, the large lake from which the Pasig River flows,flanksMetropolitan Manila to the southeast. Enclosing Manila Bay to the west is the mountainousBataan Peninsula. Although the city’s area is constricted, it is...