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20 February 2014| last updated at 08:18PM

Pulau Rawa

1 - Located 45 minutes away from Mersing by speed boat, this crown jewel of Mersing is a private island owned by the Sultanate of Johor and has two small exclusive resorts Rawas Safari and Alangs Rawa. Besides its exclusivity, the small island is also known for a powdery white beach backed by a steep hill. Hike up the hill along a pathway that will take you to the edge of the island, and youll be rewarded with a spectacular view of islands dotting the vast South China Sea. Sunset is the best time to view the islands.

Pulau Besar

2 - Formerly known as Big Boar Island since the wild creature used to roam freely there, the island is 30 minutes away by speedboat from Mersing. It is a wonderful tranquil hideaway and a perfect place for diving and snorkelling. There are several other islands around it but the highlight here is the prolific occurrence of a giant cockle which can grow up to 1.5m in length and weigh up to 70kg. The island boasts three resorts DCoconut Island Resort, Aseania Resort and Mirage Island Resort.

Pulau Pemanggil

3 - If you opt for a secluded getaway, this is an ideal remote spot. Pulau Pemanggil, three hours by ferry from Mersing, is the furthest in the cluster of islands. It is a favourite destination for deep-sea fishing. The black marlin, giant trevally, great barracuda, narrow-barred mackerel, grouper, snapper and stingray thrive here. As the island is not known to many, the corals remain untouched and the waters are pristine. There is only one resort, Lanting Beach Resort.

Pulau Aur and Pulau Dayang

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The Legend Of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass – Maze Islands Challenges & Super Salvaging – Episode 37 – Video

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Australia snubbed in islands awards

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Australia may be home to the world's largest coral reef system, but our islands don't rate on TripAdvisor.

Australia has failed to make a list of the world's top 10 islands, based on reviews and opinions on the popular travel website.

TripAdvisor has announced the winners of its 2014 Travellers' Choice Islands Awards, with Ambergris Caye in Belize being voted the best.

In second place is Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos, followed by Bora Bora in French Polynesia.

The awards are in their second year and recognise more than 100 islands globally. Along with the world's best, the awards also rate the top 10 islands in the South Pacific, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, South America, and the United States.

Australia fared better in the South Pacific list, taking seventh spot with Norfolk Island and ninth place with Kangaroo Island.

Bora Bora was rated the best, followed by Aitutaki in the Cook Islands and Moorea in French Polynesia.

Glen Buffett, General Manager of Norfolk Island Tourism, says it's great to see travellers sharing their positive experiences about Norfolk online.

"It's the diversity in nature, history and activities on Norfolk Island that makes it so unique," Buffett said in a statement on Wednesday.

South Australian Tourism Commission Chief Executive Rodney Harrex says the award for Kangaroo Island is credit to the destination's beauty, experiences and people.

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Clean energy offers boost for remote island nations

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Many islands are blessed with large amounts of sun, wind, and water, making renewable energy a promising solution, Guevara-Stone writes. One small island off the coast of Africa has embraced these resources, most notably through an innovative hybrid hydro-wind system.

Islands confront some of the most difficult energy challenges. Their size and remoteness means they pay extremely high energy costs for often unreliable and dirty energy. Yet many islands are blessed with large amounts of sun, wind, and water, making renewable energy a promising solution. One small island off the coast of Africa has embraced these resources, most notably through an innovative hybrid hydro-wind system.

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The smallest and most remote of Spains Canary Islands, El Hierro (pop. 10,700) is a land of lava-sculpted rocks, cliff-lined shores, and crystal clear waters. It is a divers paradise, yet remains relatively untouched by tourism. In the early 1980s, the island took its first environmental stance, opting for a development model based on respect for the islands heritage and conserving its natural resources. At the time, these guidelines seemed to be in contradiction to the social and economic dynamics of the Canary Islands that were seeking to attract mass tourism built on a foundation of a spectacular real estate business, the President of the El Hierro Island Council, Tomas Padrn,said in a presentation to UNESCO. It now gives us great satisfaction to be able to say that we have seen that the road chosen by the people of El Hierro was the right one and we are proud of living in harmony with a natural habitat that has remained largely unaffected by the hand of man.

In 1997, El Hierro was the first in the Canary Islands to adopt a sustainable development plan to protect its environmental and cultural richness, prompting UNESCO to declare the entire island a biosphere reserve in 2000. Yet the island was still importing and burning 6,000 tonnes of diesel per year, emitting 18,700 tonnes of carbon dioxide. Twenty percent of the electrical energy consumed ran threedesalination plantsto generate water for drinking and irrigation. So a lack of energy on El Hierro not only meant not being able to turn on the lights; it also meant suffering from a scarcity of water and thus food.

The government of El Hierro realized conservation wasnt enough; it needed to take things a step further and become a 100 percent energy-self-sufficient island. Fortunately, Padrn was not only president of El Hierros local government, but also knew a bit about electricity as he worked at the islands electric company. With some research and education, Padrn and the new Department for Alternative Energy Research convinced people of the viability of a hydro-wind system.

A public-private partnership was formed between the Island Council, the Spanish energy company Endesa, and the Canary Islands Technological Institute to develop the project, called Gorona del Viento.

El Hierro now has five wind turbines with a combined installed capacity of 11.5 megawatts soon to provide the majority of the electricity for the island. When wind production exceeds demand, excess energy will pump water from a reservoir at the bottom of a volcanic cone to another reservoir at the top of the volcano 700 meters above sea level. The upper reservoir stores over 132 million gallons of water. The stored water acts as a battery. When demand rises and there is not enough wind power, the water will be released to four hydroelectric turbines with a total capacity of 11 MW.

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