Nice island for sale!

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   Nice and remote!!  Probably secure against catastrophic climate change, and far from major population centers! 

http://www.newser.com/story/268542/for-sale-one-of-the-falkland-islands.html

(NEWSER) – Have a huge affinity for penguins? A family in Wales is accepting offers on one of the Falkland Islands, where tens of thousands of penguins from five species run amuck. An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area, as well as the third largest offshore island in the archipelago at 20 miles long by 4 miles wide, Pebble Island was purchased by Sam Harris' great-great-grandfather for roughly $500 in 1869 as he set up what the BBC describes as a fish curing business. Now powered by a wind turbine and solar panels, the island boasts small mountains, lakes, and cliffs; lodges for tourists; a thriving sheep farm; 125 beef cattle; and many penguins, "from burrowing and inquisitive gentoos to rockhoppers bouncing up and down the cliffs," Harris tells WalesOnline. "It's an incredible place, but it literally couldn't be further away."

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	Nice and remote!! Probably secure against catastrophic climate change, and far from major population centers! http://www.newser.com/story/268542/for-sale-one-of-the-falkland-islands.html (NEWSER) – Have a huge affinity for penguins? A family in Wales is accepting offers on one of the Falkland Islands, where tens of thousands of penguins from five species run amuck. An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area, as well as the third largest offshore island in the archipelago at 20 miles long by 4 miles wide, Pebble Island was purchased by Sam Harris' great-great-grandfather for roughly $500 in 1869 as he set up what the BBC describes as a fish curing business. Now powered by a wind turbine and solar panels, the island boasts small mountains, lakes, and cliffs; lodges for tourists; a thriving sheep farm; 125 beef cattle; and many penguins, "from burrowing and inquisitive gentoos to rockhoppers bouncing up and down the cliffs," Harris tells WalesOnline. "It's an incredible place, but it literally couldn't be further away."
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