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#islands

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Monissa

In another place, I'm doing a thread of islands I've visited, because it fits my username. One photo every day or so. But sometimes an extra photo slips in that I can't use (because one photo per island) so I'll have to share it here.

St Tredwell's Loch, on Papa Westray, one of the smaller islands of Orkney. I don't know why a lake on an island seems so odd, but it does. Maybe because of how close it is to the sea. (You might be able to see the strip of blue sea behind the loch.)

Photo is taken from St Tredwell's Chapel, the ruins of a Medieval chapel built over Iron Age remains, or an overgrown bunch of rocks on a hill. (As you can in the foreground.)

If you're into photos of islands, the thread starts here:
bsky.app/profile/islandhopping

A large, flat green-grey body of water. In the foreground is a bank covered with scruffy grass and some grey rocks covered with white lichen. In the background is a long strip of grassland curving around the loch. A huddle of stone buildings are just visible on the far side. Behind them is a blue strip of sea and beyond that, another low island. There are some white dots on the water, which are actually swans but too far away to see.
#Orkney#PapaWestray#Lakes
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Wen

The islands putting the brakes on the rural exodus of Scottish youth

A great article (for people outside the islands who may be unaware of the challenges) on the issues and maybe some of the opportunities.

thenational.scot/politics/2501

archive.today/2025.03.16-07463
(archive)

Photo: the empty stone dwellings on Hirta, St Kilda - evacuated in 1930 condemned as unsustainable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda%2C_Scotland
#Scotland#Islands#TheNational
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 1, 1954: The U.S. detonated Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll. It caused the worst radioactive contamination ever by the U.S. However, this occurred after years of nuclear testing and contamination of the islands and waters around them. The U.S. detonated 23 nuclear devices on the islands from 1946 to 1958. They blew up the bombs on the reef, in the sea, in the air and underwater. They relocated islanders several times, each time to supposedly safe islands. But they neglected to provide sufficient food and water, causing starvation. When the islanders tried to catch fish to eat, or grow their own crops, they were so contaminated from radioactive fallout, that it poisoned all who ate it. Women started having miscarriages and giving birth to babies with abnormalities. To this day, it is still too contaminated for inhabitants and their descendants to return. A trust fund that had been set up to help support the survivors ran out of funds in the late 2010s.

Nuclear weapon test Bravo (yield 15 Mt) on Bikini Atoll. The test was part of the Operation Castle. The Bravo event was an experimental thermonuclear device surface event. By United States Department of Energy - US gov, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=446935
#workingclass#LaborHistory#bikini
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AI6YR Ben

Santa Barbara Island - Channel Islands National Park. Haven't been here yet. Will see if I manage to get out there while it's still a US National Park (significant threat to many National Parks with the current administration, I would not be surprised if some are sold/given to oligarchs). #Islands #NPS #NationalPark

Tiny bit of island in the middle of the Santa Barbara Channel
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Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭

Among the endless lists of to-do items that I want to do in #OpenStreetMap is this set of 1600+ named #islands 🏝️ in the #Philippines 🇵🇭 that may need matching with #Wikidata items.

Both OSM and Wikidata have data on PH islands ultimately sourced from GNS. In Wikidata’s case, intermediately via Geonames and Cebuano Wikipedia.

I had already matched up almost all the islands in Mindoro in late 2023 and had started in Palawan. I guess I’ll pick up this chore again.

OpenStreetMap map of the Philippines with 1600+ circles overlaid on the map indicating the locations of named islands that don’t yet have wikidata=* tags
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