Greenland. Located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, Greenland is the world’s largest island. About 84 percent of it is ice-capped.
• Bhutan. Occupying a strategic location between China and India, this moun- tain kingdom controls several key Himalayan passes. Violent storms coming down from the Himalayas are the source of its name, which means “Land of the Thunder Dragon.”
• Madagascar. This island nation off the eastern coast of Africa was cut off from the mainland for millions of years. Eighty percent of its plants and ani- mals exist nowhere else in the world. Flora include baobabs and octopus trees; fauna include lemurs and chameleons.