Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity yawns out in front of you when you stand on the pale sands of this tiny Pacific island. Midway Atoll is just about the ...

The intention was to smash the remnants of American naval power in the Pacific, and advance Japan's outer defensive perimeter more than a thousand miles further by seizing the western Aleutians, ...

Aman Vir created an interactive map of his favorite obscure islands. Some you may well have heard of, such as Midway, for ...