What The History Podcast

The Island of Death and The Island That Left

In this island hopping episode Suzie visits the island of Poveglia and Trevor can’t visit Sandy Island!

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THE ISLAND OF POVEGLIA

Atlas Obscura 2017, ‘Poveglia Plague Island’ http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/poveglia-plague-island
Matthews D 2016, ‘Isle of Madness: Poveglia Island is Haunted by the Ghosts of 160,000 Plague Victims’ http://weekinweird.com/2016/10/25/poveglia-island-is-haunted-by-plague-victims/
Riggs R 2014, ‘SOLD! The Happy, Haunted Island of Poveglia’ http://mentalfloss.com/article/24658/strange-geographies-happy-haunted-island-poveglia
Starostinetskaya A 2014, ‘Poveglia Island: Like Hell, But in Italy’ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/off-track-planet/poveglia-island-like-hell_b_4188986.html
Trip Advisor Australia 2017, ‘Venice: Poveglia Island’ https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Travel-g187870-c166606/Venice:Italy:Poveglia.Island.html

SANDY ISLAND

How a Fake Island Landed on Google Earth – Live Science

Scientist unravels mystery of Coral Sea’s ghostly Sandy Island – The Washington Post

Missing Pacific island riddle ‘solved’ – The Telegraph

“Disappearance” of Sandy Island – General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans

Obituary: Sandy Island (1876 –2012) – EOS

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)

You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)

Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out

Island In The Sun – Weezer (2001)

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