Funk Island

Funk Island is a small, barren, isolated, uninhabited island approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) northeast of Wesleyville, Newfoundland, Canada.

Location of Funk Island off Newfoundland

Read more about Funk Island:  Geography, History, Demise of The Great Auk, Scientific Expeditions, Breeding Colonies

Famous quotes containing the word island:

    “The island dreams under the dawn
    And great boughs drop tranquillity;
    The peahens dance on a smooth lawn,
    A parrot sways upon a tree,
    Raging at his own image in the enamelled sea.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)