Direction Island

Direction Island may refer to:

  • Direction Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands is an island of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  • Direction Island, Antarctica is another name of Bearing Island in Antarctica

Famous quotes containing the words direction and/or island:

    “As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.”
    —Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)

    “For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)