Performers eat their lunch before the start of the New Year's Day Parade in London, January 1, 2016. (Photo by Kevin Coombs/Reuters)

Triathletes swim during an Ironman event in Taupō, New Zealand, on Saturday, March 1, 2025. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)

Dance artist HorsegiirL poses at the BRIT Awards at the O2 Arena in London, Britain, on March 1, 2025. (Photo Isabel Infantesby/Reuters)

The largest island, also called Socotra, is about 95% of the landmass of the archipelago. It lies some 240 kilometres (150 mi) east of the Horn of Africa and 380 kilometres (240 mi) south of the Arabian Peninsula. The island is very isolated and through the process of speciation, a third of its plant life is found nowhere else on the planet. It has been described as the most alien-looking place on Earth. The island measures 132 kilometres (82 mi) in length and 49.7 kilometres (30.9 mi) in width.

Lukas Podolski of Koeln is challenged by Philipp Wollscheid of Nuernberg during the Bundesliga match between 1. FC Koeln and 1. FC Nuernberg at RheinEnergieStadion on April 3, 2011 in Cologne, Germany.

Competitors release their hens during the World Championship Hen Racing Championships in Bonsall, Britain August 1, 2015. (Photo by Darren Staples/Reuters)

A wild leopard runs on the stairs as it tries to escape from a compound of a house in Kathmandu, Nepal June 1, 2016. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

Models get ready backstage during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tbilisi in Tbilisi, Georgia, November 1, 2018. (Photo by David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters)