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North Korea, officially the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, is a country in East Asia constituting the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. North Korea, like its southern counterpart, South Korea, claims to be the legitimate government of the entire peninsula and adjacent islands. In 1910, Korea was annexed by…

The Spanish West Indies or the Spanish Antilles (Las Antillas Españolas) were Spanish colonies in the Caribbean. In terms of governance of the Spanish Empire, The Indies was the designation for all its overseas territories and was overseen by the Council of the Indies, founded in 1524 and based in…

Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean and is part of the Greater Antilles. Originally inhabited by the indigenous Arawak and Taíno peoples, the island came under Spanish rule following the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1494. Many of the indigenous people were either killed or died of…

The Cayman Islands is an autonomous British Overseas Territory in the western Caribbean comprising of the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman. The capital city is George Town on Grand Cayman, which is the most populous of the three islands. The Cayman Islands is considered to be…

Adélie Land (Terre Adélie) is a claimed territory on the continent of Antarctica. It stretches from a portion of the Southern Ocean coastline all the way inland to the South Pole. The coast of Adélie Land was discovered in 1840 by the French explorer Jules Dumont d’Urville (1790–1842) who named…

The Balleny Islands are a series of uninhabited islands in the Southern Ocean. The islands are heavily glaciated and of volcanic origin. The islands are one of two Antarctic areas claimed by Westarctica that are not part of Marie Byrd Land (the other is Peter I Island). Jorge Fernandez Vidal…

Peter I Island is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Bellingshausen Sea. Nearly all of the island is covered by a glacier and it is surrounded most of the year by pack ice, making it inaccessible almost all year round. There is little life on the island apart from seabirds…