Curaçao sits in the southern Caribbean Sea, just north of the Venezuelan coast, and it looks nothing like the Caribbean most people picture. Instead of rainforest and volcanic peaks, you find dry hills, cactus-studded scrubland, and a coastline of limestone…
Saba is a small volcanic island of roughly 13 square kilometers in the northeastern Caribbean, dominated by Mount Scenery, the highest point in the entire Kingdom of the Netherlands at approximately 870–877 meters. Saba is a public entity of the…
Sint Eustatius, often called Statia, is a small volcanic island of about 21 square kilometers in the northeastern Caribbean. It is dominated by The Quill, a dormant stratovolcano, and combines dramatic volcanic terrain with coral reefs, tropical dry forests, and…
Hidden deep within the vast expanse of the central Pacific Ocean lies Jarvis Island. This small, unincorporated, and unorganized territory of the United States is one of the most isolated places on Earth. As part of the U.S. Minor Outlying…
Deep in the central Pacific Ocean lies a tiny, isolated speck of land with a past as turbulent as the ocean storms that occasionally batter its shores. Johnston Atoll, an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States, is part…
Far south of Hawaii lies a secluded ring of coral reefs, dense tropical vegetation, and shallow lagoons. Palmyra Atoll remains one of the most untouched and legally unique environments under the United States flag. As an incorporated and unorganized territory,…
Deep in the central North Pacific Ocean lies a remarkable and incredibly isolated marine environment. Kingman Reef, an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States, is a place few people will ever see with their own eyes. Part of…
Tucked away in the Caribbean Sea, somewhere between the coastlines of Haiti and Jamaica, lies a small patch of limestone that most people have never heard of. Navassa Island is a rugged, remote, and completely uninhabited territory. Despite its small…
Far out in the central Pacific Ocean lies a tiny speck of land that most people only know through the lens of one of history’s greatest aviation mysteries. Howland Island is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States,…
Sint Maarten is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, tucked into the northeastern Caribbean on the southern half of a single small island it shares with France. It is not an independent nation, and it is not…
