Australia’s Lord Howe Island could attract many tourists to its lush mountains, perfect beaches and blue waters. Instead, it has strict rules to deter all but a few.

A century ago, this big 'ol bug thrived on—you guessed it—Lord Howe Island, a crescent-shaped volcanic remnant 12 miles away from Ball's Pyramid. But in 1918, an unexpected shipment of ...

On my first visit to Lord Howe Island, I missed having lunch at Capella, thanks to a Lord Howe wood hen. At the time, the wood hen faced extinction.

Bleaching is uneven Lord Howe Island was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982. It is the coral reef closest to a pole,and contains many species found nowhere else in the world.

Some of the birds the organization discovered on Lord Howe Island — both alive and dead — had so much plastic in their bodies that it amounted to 20% of the birds' total mass.

Within 30 years, the Lord Howe Island stick insects vanished. Then, in 1964, climbers on a nearby volcano known as Ball's Pyramid found a dead insect that looked suspiciously like the fabled land ...

Lord Howe is an island of aquatic, cultural and visual rarities, and it also treasures its privacy. There are only about 350 residents, and it limits tourism to only 393 visitors at any one time.