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5)Baffin
Island
Baffin Island is a
grand wild landscape, the spectacular homeland of Inuit and an accessible
Arctic playground for the adventurous. Slip into boots or skis and follow Inuit
stone markers called inuksuk on traverses within Sirmilik National Park with
Polar Sea Adventures. Paddle or raft the Soper, a Canadian Heritage River
within Katannalik Territorial Park. Sleep under a multi-coloured Northern
Light-show. Join Adventure Canada to cruise the High Arctic’s epic Northwest Passage. Spot polar bears,
white belugas, tusked narwhal and a roll call of seals on an Arctic sledding
safari across sea ice off Pond Inlet with Arctic Kingdom. Climb fjords near
Clyde River, then visit the world’s first bowhead
whale sanctuary nearby.
Watch creativity
flow from renowned Inuit carvers and printmakers and take home their art as
souvenirs. Then explore Canada’s newest capital, Iqaluit, to savour
local and traditional foods, listening to the rhythm of the North in drum
dancing and throat singing during festivals lit by the golden glow of the
Midnight Sun.
4)Madagascar
Until the late 18th century, the island of
Madagascar was ruled by a fragmented assortment of shifting sociopolitical
alliances. Beginning in the early 19th century, most of the island was united
and ruled as the Kingdom of
Madagascar by a series
of Merinanobles.
The monarchy collapsed in 1897 when the island was absorbed into the French colonial
empire, from which the island gained independence in 1960. The
autonomous state of Madagascar has since undergone four major constitutional
periods, termed republics. Since 1992, the nation has officially been governed
as a constitutional democracy from its capital atAntananarivo. However, in
a popular uprising
in 2009, president Marc Ravalomanana was made
to resign and presidential power was transferred in March 2009 to Andry Rajoelina in a move
widely viewed by the international community as a coup d'état. Constitutional
governance was restored in January 2014, when Hery
Rajaonarimampianina was named president following a2013 election
deemed fair and transparent by the international community.
3)Borneo
Covering an area of roughly 287,000 square miles,
Borneo is the third-largest island in the world. It is divided into four
political regions: Kalimantan belongs to Indonesia; Sabah and Sarawak are part
of Malaysia; a small remaining region comprises the sultanate of Brunei.
Located southeast of the Malay Peninsula and southwest of the Philippines,
Borneo is primarily mountainous, with dense areas of rain forest. The highest
peak in Borneo, Mt. Kinabalu, stands at 13,455 ft. With a generally hot, wet
climate, rain is more common than not, with some portions of Borneo receiving
between 150 and 200 inches of rainfall annually. Between October and March,
monsoons buffet the island.
Given the abundance of rainfall, it makes sense that Borneo's flora is among the most diverse in the world. Borneo has nearly 11,000 species of flowering plants, about a third of which are indigenous. How dense is the vegetation? In one 16 acre area of Borneo's lowland forest, over 700 species of trees have been recorded. In comparison, there are only 171 native tree species in all of eastern North America.
Given the abundance of rainfall, it makes sense that Borneo's flora is among the most diverse in the world. Borneo has nearly 11,000 species of flowering plants, about a third of which are indigenous. How dense is the vegetation? In one 16 acre area of Borneo's lowland forest, over 700 species of trees have been recorded. In comparison, there are only 171 native tree species in all of eastern North America.
2) New Guinea
New Guinea is an island in the north of
the continent of Australia.
It is isolated by the Arafura Sea
to the west and the Torres Strait
and Coral Sea to the east.
Sometimes considered to be the easternmost island of the Malay archipelago, it lies
north of Australia's
Top End, Gulf of
Carpentaria and Cape York
peninsula, and west of theBismarck
Archipelago and the Solomon Islands
Archipelago.
The shape of New Guinea is often compared
to that of a bird of paradise,
and this results in the usual names for the two extremes of the island: the Bird's Head
Peninsula in the northwest (Vogelkop
in Dutch, Kepala Burung in
Indonesian; also known as the Doberai
Peninsula), and the Bird's Tail
Peninsula in the southeast (also known as thePapuan Peninsula).
A spine of east–west mountains, the New Guinea
Highlands, dominates the geography of New Guinea, stretching over
1,600 km (1,000 mi) from the 'head' to the 'tail' of the island. The western half of the
island of New Guinea contains the highest mountains in Oceania, rising up to
4,884 m (16,024 ft) high, and ensuring a steady supply of rain from the
equatorial atmosphere. The tree line
is around 4,000 m (13,100 ft) elevation and the tallest peaks contain permanent
equatorial glaciers—which have been retreating since at least 1936.Various other
smaller mountain ranges occur both north and west of the central ranges. Except
in high elevations, most areas possess a warm humid climate throughout the
year, with some seasonal variation associated with the northeast monsoon
season.
1)Greenland
Greenland has been inhabited off and on
for at least the last 4,500 years by Arctic peoples whose forebears migrated
there from what is now Canada.[12][13]Norsemen settled the
uninhabited southern part of Greenland, beginning in the 10th century, and Inuit peoples arrived in the 13th century.
The Norse colonies disappeared in the late 15th century. In the early 18th
century, Scandinavia
and Greenland came back into contact with each other, and Denmark established
sovereignty over the island.
Having been claimed by Denmark–Norway for centuries, Greenland became a Danish colony
in 1814, and a part of the Danish Realm
in 1953 under the Constitution of
Denmark. In 1973, Greenland joined the European Economic
Community with Denmark. However, in a referendum
in 1982, a majority of the population voted for Greenland to withdraw from the EEC
(later expanded into the E.U.), which was effected in 1985. In 1979, Denmark
had granted home rule
to Greenland, and in 2008, Greenlanders voted in favour of the Self-Government
Act, which transferred more power from the Danish royal
government to the local Greenlandic
government. Under the new structure, in effect since 21 June 2009,[14] Greenland can
gradually assume responsibility for policing, judicial system, company law,
accounting, and auditing; mineral resource activities; aviation; law of legal capacity,
family law and succession law; aliens and border controls; the working
environment; and financial regulation and supervision, while the Danish
government retains control of foreign affairs and defence. It also retains
control of monetary policy, providing an initial annual subsidy of DKK 3.4 billion, planned
to diminish gradually over time as Greenland's economy is strengthened by
increased income from the extraction of natural resources.
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