islands

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Brian Hooker told police that he and his wife left Hope Town for Elbow Cay, in the Abaco Islands, on Saturday evening when she fell overboard, taking the boat's keys with her.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

Sunday when the victim was attending a gathering near Cal State Channel Islands and accidentally encountered the snake, according to Dowd.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

A recent rattlesnake bite near the campus of Cal State Channel Islands has heightened concerns about an increase in snake encounters in Ventura County this year.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Operating from the privacy-friendly British Virgin Islands, the service maintains a strict, audited no-logs policy.

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026

Only on the remote Andaman Islands do languages unrelated to the South Chinese language families persist—the last linguistic survivors of what must have been hundreds of now extinct aboriginal Southeast Asian languages.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond