His photos appear frequently in National Geographic magazine. Heading out into the Atlantic for the distant island of Boreray, I was hoping to see something wonderful. But I never expected to be ...

This story appears in the February 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. On the rocky shores of Steeple Jason, a distant island in the Falklands archipelago, I am awed by the magnificence ...

A descendant of Commodore Matthew C. Perry of “Black Ships” fame visited a distant island south of Tokyo carrying a pocket watch that the U.S. naval officer had with him when he dropped ...