Aman Vir created an interactive map of his favorite obscure islands. Some you may well have heard of, such as Midway, for which a major WWII naval battle was named, and North Sentinel, home of the ...

The Heard Island and McDonald penguins have been taking advantage of us for too long,” one former congressman joked.

Stories of how the data was collected were fascinating. Some people camped on islands for weeks. Some scaled cliffs or jumped ...