I Ain't 'Fraid of No Islands

September 3, 2006 3:13 PM

Ghost Islands. Hashima: The Ghost Island. San Borondon: The Ghost Island. Ballale: The Ghost Island. Kandolhudhoo: The Ghost Island. Pulau Hantu: The Ghost Island.
posted by Falconetti (7 comments total)

that first article on Hashima is excellent, reading the others now. Thanks
posted by sourbrew at 3:48 PM on September 3, 2006

Very cool post, thanks for this. I wish there were more pictures, though.
posted by biscotti at 4:26 PM on September 3, 2006

I agree with sourbrew. If you are only going to read one link, the first on Hashima is by far the best. And the magazine it comes from, Cabinet, is consistently amazing.
posted by Falconetti at 4:38 PM on September 3, 2006

I wanted to see pictures of Hashima, so I did a google image search, which led me to this write-up on the documentary mentioned in the note in the Cabinet article. Click on the "more photos" link for, you know, more photos. Eerie.

(Oddly, the first two sentences in the write-up seem to have been lifted directly from the Cabinet article.)

Thanks for the post!
posted by trip and a half at 6:10 PM on September 3, 2006

More links for Hashima, a.k.a. Gunkanjima or Battleship Island, are available here.
posted by sysinfo at 9:28 PM on September 3, 2006

Nikumaroro is a once-inhabited, now deserted, Pacific island that may be home to Amelia Earhart's ghost.
posted by Quietgal at 2:47 PM on September 4, 2006

A much better site on San Borondón (St. Brendan). Unfortunately, only in Spanish.
Warning: As you'll surely notice, the "discovery of San Borondón" chronicled there is entirely fake. Nobody has yet found San Borondón...or at least travelled back to tell about it...
posted by Skeptic at 3:46 PM on September 4, 2006