Maupihaa

                    Maupihaa island

1. Population: 10 
2. Size: 2.6 sq km
3. Lagoon of 40 m depth
4. Country: French Polynesia
5. Weird Fact: There are different names for the island in their language.

Museo Naval de Madrid

                                         Museo naval

A few days a go I went to the Museo naval in Madrid. There were a lot of ships, guns, knives, and swords. I loved that museum.

These canon balls spin. To rip more from the sails.

This ship is from Spain.

These guns are from the 18th century.

These spears are Filipino

Nice guns.

Nice canons.

Remote astronomy on La Palma

This is a really cool video about astronomy.

Mangareva island

                                                                       Mangareva island

• Population:1641
• 8 km long
• Largest village on Mangareva is Rikitea
• Cool fact: the Mangarevan people had developed a binary  system 300 years ahead of the European.                                                          

Reao

                                                                     Reao
1. Population: 567
2. Population density: 32 per sq km
3. Area: 18 sq km
Reao is in French Polynesia in the Pacific ocean and it is associated with Pukaruha.

Wallis and Futuna

                                                        Wallis and Futuna
                                                                 

1. Population: 15500
2. Area: 142 sq km                           
   
   
3. Capital: Mata Utu
4. Official languages: French 
5. Internet TLD: .wf
6. Sovereing state: France   

This is an island in the Pacific but it is French.

Orkney

            


                                                              Orkney

The remotest place I have ever been in is Orkney, in the island of Shapinsay. But not that remote.

                                                           About  to get on the plane.

                                             On the ferry.

                                                On the beach.                                          

                                      mmmmmmmmmmmuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

                               In the castle

Guest post: the not so remote island of La Palma

Our guest post of today is by Almudena Alonso-Herrero, an astronomer. She travels a lot to the Canary Islands (Spain) and especially to the island of La Palma because of the beautiful clear skies and the awesome telescopes!

This is Los Cancajos beach on the island of La Palma. Note all the clouds at sea level but...

 

... when you go up to a 2500m elevation you find blue clear skies and a beautiful collection of telescopes at El Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory

This is the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS with a huge primary mirror of 10.4m in diameter! Note the so-called "sea of clouds"

 

 And this is inside the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS dome

 And a beautiful sunset before we start our night of observations with the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (well it was service time but we were at the control room for a few hours!),

Street art in Malasaña

                                                                   Street art in Malasaña.


                                             Malasaña  is a neighbourhood in Madrid.
                                             It has super cool graffiti.
                                             And I took a few photos.

Fais island

                                                                       Fais island

1. Number of islands: 1
2. Area: 2.6 km sq
3. Coordinates: 9°45′37″N 140°31′15″E
4. Country: Federated States of Micronesia
5. Highest elevation: 18m
6. Population: 215
7. Strange fact: The person who discovered Fais was Ruy López de Villalobos, a Spanish explorer in year 1543.

Fangatau

                                                   Fangatau

1. Population: 121
2. Area: 22.2 sq km
3. Length: 8 km 
4. Width: 3.5 km 
5. Largest village : Teana
6. Curious fact: The first recorded European to discovered it was Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.

Pukaruha

                                                  Pukaruha

  

1. Population: 227
2. Area: 23 sq Km
3.  Owner: French Polynesia

Crazy fact: Pukaruha was first visited by Europeans. And when they discoverd it there were no people  there. The second time they went there it was inhabited.

Slo mo football

This video is about throwing a football in someone's face in slow motion.  ! It's epic ¡

Howland Island

1. Population: 0
2. Number of islands: 1
3. Country: U.S.A.
4. Area: 1.8 km sq.
5. Location: Pacific

Flag of Johnston Atoll

Niue

                                                             Niue

Niuean flag

1. Location: Pacific 
2. Country: Independent 
3. Total Islands: 1
4. Population: 1398
5. Area. 5.35 km sq.
6. Cool Fact: First country to offer free WiFi to the whole population.
 

 

World Cup

                                                 World Cup


                                    Spain 0:2 Chile 
                                    Mexico 0:0 Brazil 
                                    Cameroon 0:4 Croatia

Johnston Atoll

                                                           Johnston Atoll

1. Population:0
2. Country: United States
3. Total islands:4
4. Area:2.67 km sq.
5. Highest elevation:2m