There are some unusual, attractive and just plain funny names of countries, islands, towns and even glaciers all round the world. Here are our favourites…
After visiting Miserable Island in Tasmania, you may want to head for Happy, a town in the US state of Texas, with a population of 647. A film of the same name was released in 1999.
Have a romantic tryst at Love Lake in Canada.
Find paradise on Chocolate Island in the Philippines.
See if Pretty Hill in New Zealand lives up to its name.
Get Rich in Mississippi, and follow the lead of Thomas Harris, the writer of bestseller suspense novels such as The Silence of the Lambs. At a very young age, Harris’s family moved to Rich and he attended school there.
Hopefully you won’t be disappointed visiting the tiny village of Regret in north-east France.
Writers could get inspiration in Pen in northern Spain.
You might need your waterproofs at Umbrella Falls, Guyana.
Socks Glacier isn’t where expedition teams do their laundry, in fact, this small glacier was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition (1907-09) and named after one of the ponies taken with the South Pole Party. Socks, the last pony to survive the journey, fell into a crevasse near the glacier on 7 December 1908.
Find out about Brassiere Hills, Alaska; Mollys Nipple, Utah; Outhouse Draw, Nevada, and more in From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow by Mark Monmonier.
Author: Rachel Ricks
Date: 24 September 2008
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13 October 2008 12:02 : Martin Greenaway
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Located 18k northwest of Fort Macleod in Alberta Canada lies Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump. A precipice where buffalo were killed by chasing them over the edge. Subsequently the carcasses were carved up in the camp below. This site has been used by Aboriginal people in this way for over five thousand years and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
6 October 2008 12:19 : Chris Anguish
On a lonely stretch of Hwy 93 in western Arizona look out for Nothing. Composed of little more than a gas station, its population of 4 (human and canine) has crashed to zero in recent years leaving just a collection of crumbling trailers and junk.