Where islands outnumber towns and coastlines fragment into thousands of pieces, here are the countries with the most islands.

Readers favored global cities and sparsely populated islands in our annual “World’s Best Awards” survey for 2025.

Australia’s islands punch above their weight. As we collated the surveys, we realised Australia’s coastal islands were punching above their weight for species diversity.

While Masig is one of the bigger islands, it’s still only a little over half a square mile big, rising about 10 feet above sea level in most spots, putting it at huge risk of erosion as global ...

Australia is the biggest island on Earth. With our nation's borders being made out of 100 per cent seawater, it's kind of go figure that we've got a speckling of smaller islands fringing our ...

On Heard Island, Mawson’s Peak is officially Australia’s highest mountain. It is 2,745 metres high and forms the summit of an active volcano known as Big Ben.

Island life: Australia is home to some truly breathtaking islands, such as the Whitsundays - above - which is a haven for green sea turtles and overlooks the Great Barrier Reef Credit: Tourism and ...

Australia will provide over $100 million to help the Solomon Islands, which also has security ties with China, expand its police force so it can reduce its reliance on external partners, Prime ...