11, 1979, is pictured on Friday. Another memorial sign is placed on the Marshall Islands’ Taongi atoll where the boat and the remains of one of the men was found nearly a decade after their ...

After decades of wrangling over the fate of the Chagos Islands, and the key US-UK military base they host, the British government has agreed a deal to hand over sovereignty of the archipelago to ...

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 ...

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The first time a tortoise walked through my hut at Middle Camp on Aldabra Atoll, I was amazed. I grabbed my camera and ...

southwest of the atoll. The transit near Okinotori is the Liaoning’s closest approach to Japan’s southwestern territories so far and prompted a diplomatic protest from Tokyo. Japan expressed ...

France concealed the true impact of its nuclear tests in the Pacific from the 1960s to the 1990s, a study has said. Researchers used declassified French military documents, calculations and ...

The date was 25 July 1946. The location - Bikini Atoll. The event - only the fifth A-bomb explosion and the first-ever detonation under water. The pictures we've all seen: A giant mushroom cloud ...