Names that make you wonder


  • Nation
  • Sunday, 23 Aug 2015

FOR some inexplicable reason, islands tend to have peculiar or sometimes even eerie names.

Remember fog-shrouded Skull Island, home to that monstrously large, chest-thumping gorilla called King Kong in several movies? The place was supposedly an Indonesian island that sank into the sea in the 1930s in the aftermath of an earthquake.

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