Islands

Islands are geography at its most legible: small enough to hold in mind whole, and shaped by processes you can often see happening. This category covers how they form, volcanic, continental and coral, along with the largest, the most remote and the ones repeatedly misplaced on mental maps. It takes in the archipelagos that make up entire countries. The explanations connect each island to its origin, since knowing whether a place is a volcano top, a stranded piece of continent or a coral ring explains most of its landscape, wildlife and shape.