Furzey Island theorized that Green Island was a centre of production that exported its goods to continental Europe. This theory lends further evidence to Green Island having once been an important port. Furzey Island Furzey Island is an island in Poole Harbour in the English county of Dorset. The island lies to the south of the larger Brownsea Island. Seen from the water, or adjoining land, the island looks like another wild pineclad island. However, hidden in the trees are twenty-two oil wells split into 2 well-sites for the Wytch Farm Oil Field, which is linked by pipeline to Hamble on Southampton
Côn Sơn Island Côn Sơn Island Côn Sơn, also known as Côn Lôn, is the largest island of the Côn Đảo archipelago, off the coast of southern Vietnam. Its French variant Grande-Condore was well-known during the times of French Indochina. Marco Polo mentioned the island in the description of his 1292 voyage from China to India under the name "Sondur" and "Condur". In Ptolemy's "Geography", they are referred to as the "Isles of the Satyrs". In 1702, the English East India Company founded a settlement on this island (the English called it <nowiki>'</nowiki>Pulo Condore<nowiki>'</nowiki>) off the south coast of southern Vietnam, and in