The people of this island, whose previous inhabitants had died out, are descended from mutineers on the H.M.S. Bounty and Tahitians that they kidnapped and brought there.
Island of India whose people are uncontacted by the larger world and kill anyone who approaches. They have not invented the oar, and use poles to move boats along the reefs.
A species from the genus Homo was discovered here that stood just over a meter tall, causing them to be nicknamed 'hobbits'; they lived until as recently as 13,000 years ago.
Island that was home to the Dodo until it was driven to extinction within a century of its discovery via hunting by Dutch sailors and egg predation by invasive species.
This Yemeni island is the sole home of the red-sapped, mushroom-shaped 'dragon blood tree'. Formerly Christian due (according to local legend) to a shipwrecked Apostle Thomas.
Known for 'moai' head-shaped monuments and rongorongo script, the civilization of this eastward extreme of Austronesian expansion collapsed after massive deforestation.
This island is the sole home to lemurs, one of the most diverse groups of primates. It is also the westward extreme of expansion by speakers of Austronesian languages.
This S. Atlantic volcanic island is the most remote inhabited location of any in the world. Its 270 inhabitants are descended from 15 original colonists and have only 8 surnames.
Long claimed by both Japan and Russia, the Soviets captured this large island in 1945 and deported the Japanese inhabitants. The island is part of Russia to this day.
This is the home of the world's northernmost settlement with over 1,000 people, and the world's largest global seed bank to preserve genetic diversity of crops.
Around 1,000 distinct languages are spoken on this island, partly due to isolation by mountainous terrain. Hiri Motu, Tok Pisin, and Indonesian are used for wider communication.
This island contains the world's largest known island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island, though likely no human has ever set foot on the innermost island.
While only the 13th largest by area, this island's population of 141 million is only slightly below the entire country of Russia's, making it the most populous island in the world.
With a population of 1,247 in a 0.012 km² area, this tiny Colombian Caribbean island is the most densely populated island in the world at 103,917 people per km².
This isolated southern Atlantic island was the final place of exile and burial site of Napoleon Bonaparte after his escape from Elba and his ultimate defeat at Waterloo.
Considered the world's largest island, this massive land mass is mostly covered by a ~2 km thick ice sheet. It is part of Denmark, and its people are mostly Inuit by ethnicity.
This island is home to the world's largest carnivorous marsupial. It was also home to an even larger marsupial carnivore, the Thylacine, before its extinction in 1936.
This popular Indonesian tourist spot has retained its own form of Hinduism as a majority religion over the centuries while most of the rest of the archipelago converted to Islam.
This island was the likely point of origin for the Austronesian languages, but only relatively small minority groups speak them there now, mostly having been replaced by Mandarin.
This island was the center of the Minoan civilization (the oldest known in Europe), and the home of the undeciphered scripts known as 'Linear A' and the Phaistos Disc script.
At less than 20 km from Mainland China, this island's wildlife more closely resembles that of Vietnam, which it broke off from. Its pre-Chinese natives speak Tai-Kadai languages.
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