obscure islands..

[holy king]

and of course there's this obscure island off the coast of france ;-)

 

[Lotus49]

Rat Island, where rats dominate and reign supreme.

 

[Fugitive Sisyphus]

Rat Island, where rats dominate and reign supreme.

That reminded me of Three Skeleton Key a (probably) fictional island off the coast of Guyana. The story is here.

 

[Lotus49]

I saw a documentary on Rat Island once upon a time, and those rats are VICIOUS, man. It's almost surreal to see how they 'take down' a bird with coordinated strikes, and start ripping it to pieces. Even more bizarre, is that we've discovered 'stockpiles', or 'caches' of dead birds - organized as you can see below.

Here is a picture of one of the caches, as discovered:

Spoiler rat cache :

One might be tempted to think that given enough millions of years, these rats could start to actually form patterns of what we might call 'society', or 'intelligent life', 'politics', 'war', 'leadership', 'construction', etc.

They might even build 'vessels' and colonize the rest of the Aleutians. It's d@mned scary, man. That's why we MUST act now. Mammals & evolution are not to be underestimated, afterall.

 

[Steph]

Kind of interesting, Inaccessible Island.

From Wiki "Inaccessible Island was first accessed in 1652."

 

[sabo]

I It's d@mned scary, man. That's why we MUST act now. Mammals & evolution are not to be underestimated, afterall.

But won't humans evolve too? we would by then have invented and rat specific laser gene pool ray that would sterilize all of them..

 

[Damnyankee]

Baffin Island

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baffin_Island

 

[Damnyankee]

Random Island

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_Island

 

[crabapple]

where i come from The Åland islands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aland_Islands
Uses often as example as how you solve a dispute of a contested area peacefully.