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  2. The Most Dangerous Game - Wikipedia

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    Over dinner, he explains that although he has been hunting animals since he was a boy, he has decided that killing big game has become boring for him. After escaping the Russian Revolution, he purchased Ship-Trap, built a home for himself, and rigged the island with lights to lure passing ships into the jagged rocks surrounding it. He takes the ...

  3. List of fictional islands - Wikipedia

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    See also References A The Abarat: 25 islands in an archipelago, one for each hour and one for all the hours, from the series The Books of Abarat by Clive Barker Absolom: a prison island in the movie Escape from Absolom Acidophilus: an island in Greece appearing in the adventure game Spy Fox in "Dry Cereal" Aepyornis Island: an atoll near Madagascar, in H. G. Wells' story by that name Al Amarja ...

  4. Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary

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    Kayakers set out from Sheboygan, Wisconsin, to explore the sanctuary. During 2022, the NOAA Office of Coast Survey awarded a contract for a high-resolution, sonar-based mapping of most of the sanctuary′s lakebed, following up on the pilot mapping project carried out in 2021. [ 16 ]

  5. Fort Massachusetts (Mississippi) - Wikipedia

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    Interior view of Fort Massachusetts, prepared for tours. Fort Massachusetts is a fort on West Ship Island along the Mississippi Gulf Coast of the United States.It was built following the War of 1812, with brick walls during 1859–1866, and remained in use until 1903.

  6. Sandy Island, New Caledonia - Wikipedia

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    The whaling ship Velocity reported the fictitious island in the year 1876, as was noted on various late-19th-century maps, including an 1881 German map and 1895 British Admiralty chart. [ 4 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] After returning from a voyage in the Pacific, the Velocity ' s master reported two unusual features.

  7. Mississippi–Alabama barrier islands - Wikipedia

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    The Mississippi–Alabama barrier islands are a chain of barrier islands in the Gulf of Mexico along the coasts of Mississippi and Alabama enclosing the Mississippi Sound.The major islands are Cat Island, Ship Island, Horn Island, Petit Bois Island, and Dauphin Island; in the early 20th century the chain also included the Isle of Caprice, which has since been submerged.

  8. Isle of Demons - Wikipedia

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    The Isle of Demons first appears in the 1508 map of Johannes Ruysch. It may simply be a relocated version of the older legendary island of Satanazes ("Devils" in Portuguese) that was normally depicted in 15th century maps in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean just north of Antillia. With the Atlantic better mapped with the trans-oceanic voyages ...

  9. Traps 'n' Treasures - Wikipedia

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    The weapon does not work while in the air and is replaced by a ground-stomp used to destroy breakable blocks. The keyboard's arrow keys are used to navigate through Flynn's inventory while the Space key uses/activates the selected inventory item. The Escape key kills Flynn in case the player falls into a trap and cannot escape by other means.