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The New Geography of the Private Island

Forget the tropics-only cliché. The most interesting islands now are cold, near, and quietly run.

By Marcus Hale, Travel Editor1 min read
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A single sandy island ringed by turquoise shallows seen from above
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The private island used to mean one thing: equatorial, faraway, fringed with palms. The new map is stranger and closer to home — a Baltic skerry, a Croatian rock, a single Hebridean acre with a stone bothy and a boat.

What unites them is not climate but quiet. They share a sensibility with the desert retreats outside Dubai and the light-struck rooms of the new Nordic interior.

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