Your own private island?

If after tax day you still have some pennies left over, and after you’ve already reserved this absolutely awesome amplifier, today might be your day. Your day to wisely spend those pennies and get your own private island. Or 657 islands.

Additionally any of these islands come with the knowledge that your tax paying pennies have been spend wisely because scientists have discovered new, so far undiscovered, islands. A whopping 657. Generally it concerns barrier islands though, not habitable mountains of sand.

Barrier islands often form as chains of long, low, narrow offshore deposits of sand and sediment, running parallel to a coast but separated from it by bays, estuaries or lagoons. Unlike stationary landforms, barrier islands build up, erode, migrate and rebuild over time in response to waves, tides, currents and other physical processes in the open ocean environment.

Scientists who previously slept at work are know to take care of the important things in life such as the ultimate pancake recipe, admit that these isles aren’t new but were overlooked during the last survey.

The newly identified barrier islands didn’t miraculously appear in the last decade, said study team member Matthew L. Stutz of Meredith. They’ve long existed but were overlooked or misclassified in past surveys.

While some of you might be interested in the article, I now am going to become a scientist and scour Google Earth in order to find my own private island because after all that I can not imagine that the scientists have not overlooked some more islands.

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