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A 'ghost' island that suddenly appeared in the Caspian Sea in early 2023 is playing a centuries-long game of peekaboo with scientists, and it's about to vanish once again – if it hasn't already ...

It took almost 45 years before the Spaniards, led by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, reached the island again, and in 1565, the kaplag, or “providential finding,” of the image of the Santo Niño de ...

Could Naxos be one of Greece’s best-kept secrets? We find out on a TTG Sustainable Travel Heroes fam trip to the lesser-explored Cycladic island Fun fact: my first word was “cheese”. So now you ...

A series of images from NASA's Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites have captured the island's appearance in the sea and its near-complete disappearance by the end of the following year. Satellite ...

Eagle-eyed geologist Mark Tingay recently noticed the emergence of a ‘ghost island’ in November of 2024, caused by a submarine mud volcano called Kumani Bank. Satellites show that the island ...

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It was a different kind of island getaway. Scientists were intrigued after NASA satellites spotted a mysterious “ghost island” that formed and then disappeared just as quickly. The phantom ...