Beijing might target smaller offshore islands, such as the Pratas Islands (Dongsha Islands, 東沙群島), Itu Aba (Taiping Island, 太平島), or Lienchiang or Kinmen counties. Seizing these islands would ...

Taiwan also controls the Pratas Islands in the northern part of the South China Sea, and both China’s air force and navy regularly operate nearby to assert Beijing’s territorial claims over ...

It has not set baselines for the Pratas Islands, also known as the Dongsha; the Spratly, or Nansha, Islands as well as the Zhongsha Islands in the South China Sea. Nishimoto, from Tohoku ...

Coordinates posted on the website of China's Maritime Safety Administration showed the Nanhai number 2 and 5 rigs would be deployed roughly between southern China and the Pratas islands, which are ...

Defying expectations so far, the dry surface in Galle has not gone wild and Sri Lanka’s top-order capitalised with opener... US President Donald Trump has restated a vision in which the US would take ...

Kumani Bank fading from view. Photo: NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. An island created by the eruption of a mud volcano in the ...

It was a different kind of island getaway. Scientists were intrigued after NASA satellites spotted a mysterious “ghost island” that formed and then disappeared just as quickly. The phantom ...

A series of images from NASA's Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites have captured the island's appearance in the sea and its near-complete disappearance by the end of the following year. Satellite ...

Eagle-eyed geologist Mark Tingay recently noticed the emergence of a ‘ghost island’ in November of 2024, caused by a submarine mud volcano called Kumani Bank. Satellites show that the island ...

This is hardly the first time the ghost island of the Kumani Bank has appeared and disappeared. We like to think of land as a fairly static thing, considering that's where we spend the majority of ...

Komodo Island is a paradise for nature lovers, offering the chance to witness Komodo dragons in their natural habitat on a thrilling adventure. There are more than 500,000 islands in the world ...

Wading through the colorful coves and granite boulders of The Baths in Virgin Gorda is undeniably the most notable experience you can have in the British Virgin Islands. Travelers and experts ...