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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Wealthy celebs like aviator Charles Lindbergh--who bought Illiec, off France's Brittany coast, in 1938 after his infant son was murdered--have long acquired private islands for safety and privacy. In the 1990s, as the millionaire club became far less exclusive, island purchases grew into a worldwide market, from Australia's Great Barrier Reef to the Indian Ocean. Off the coast of Georgia, Moeser can sell you 2,600-acre Hampton Island, with a Greek Revival plantation house, for $16 million. And in the frigid waters off Nova Scotia, Vladi Private Islands, based in Hamburg, Germany, offers properties like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Life: Private Islands | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

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