Archive for July, 2010
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Friday, July 16th, 2010Photo by booledozer Welcome to my post on the French territorial islands of Wallis and Futuna Islands, they are a Polynesian French island territory, but these islands are nothing to do with French Polynesia. You will find the islands of Wallis and Futuna, they are quite close to the very opposite western end of Polynesia, [...]
Virtualtripping discoves Kangaroo Island and it’s little penguins, Australia.
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010Now again I like to write a post about places that I myself have never heard of, now to some people it might be surprising to others not at all, so here we go, this is a post about Kangaroo Island, this is the third-largest island in Australia, behind the Islands of Tasmania and Melville [...]
Welcome to the Japanese Island of Tanegashima, Osumi Islands on Virtualtripping.
Monday, July 12th, 2010This is a post about the Japanese Island known as Tanegashima, it lies to the south of Kyūshū, in southern Japan, and is part of Kagoshima Prefecture. The island is the second largest of the Osumi Islands. It is a very long in land stretching from 57.5 kilometers or 35.73 miles from north to south, [...]
Virtualtripping, presents Naha, the capital city of the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa.
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010Naha is the capital city of the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, which is an island south of mainland Japan in Asia, it a modern city which was discovered on May 20, 1921. This city though had been around for many centuries and is one of the most important and populous sites in the Ryukyu Islands. [...]
Good or Bad news, The Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in the Caribbean.
Sunday, July 4th, 2010This is a Youtube video of the National Anthem of the Netherlands Antilles. On the 10th October, 2010 Caribbean islands the Netherland Antilles will no longer exisit, this is due to the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles. This a group of constitutional changes that will take effect on the date above. The Netherlands Antilles are [...]
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Mark Ramsay, globetrotting from an armchair in England.
Nick Ramsay, exploring the world from a zabuton in Japan.