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Amelia Island – The Coolest Island on the Planet

Why is this Island cooler than all others?

Before we can  give you our reasons we have to clarify our definition of an island.

  1. it can be connected to land by bridges or tunnels but it has to be surrounded by salt water. So yes Manhattan Island is an island
  2. It has to be inhabited and have an infrastructure that adequately supports its inhabitants in their needs. Mail arriving every 4 weeks by boat disqualifies. Dial up Internet access disqualifies.
  3. It should be no bigger than 300 square miles or 777 square kilometers, so that anyone living there can reach the ocean inside of 30 minutes.

Of course these criteria are voluntarily established and unfortunately exclude some of the major tourism destinations such as some of the Hawaiian Islands, Canary Islands and even Cuba, Trinidad and Puerto Rico, but let’s face it, an island that features Interstate Highways in their infrastructure is really a small country.

So if you want a list of islands that qualify size wise go to http://islands.unep.ch/Tiarea.htm

So…Is it really possible for one Island to be cooler than all others?


Yes it is.

We define cool as:

  1. laid back and small scale, yet with a lot of exciting opportunities
  2. having a lasting effect on health, wealth and happiness
  3. never having to say I’m bored
  4. setting the standards that all other islands aim to accomplish

Meeting the Criteria:

The above criteria must be met to challenge Amelia Island Florida as the Coolest Island on the Planet.

How to Challenge Amelia Island as the Coolest Island on the Planet?

We are giving you all the tools available via the http://amelia-contest.com blog website to Challenge our Statement and you can use any means available to showcase, proof actually, why you claim your Favorite Island to be COOLER than Amelia Island . The trick is obviously trying to get as many people as possible to agree with you in a comment. We do not judge but all the people that you can convince to root for your Island as well.

How does it work?

  • Register on the http://amelia-contest.com website and select if you want to just become a Member or if you want to be an active Participant and set-up a blog.
  • You will receive a confirmation e-mail with a link to activate your membership
  • If you selected to set-up a Blog you can access the back-end of the http://amelia-contest.com website and have all the tools available to set-up a full fledged Wordpress website and choose from any of the available templates to create your Coolest Island Blog
  • You can use pictures, video and blogs to highlight your reasons why you think your favorite Island is Cooler than Amelia Island.
  • Video use is restricted to using video examples that are available on Public sharing Video/Tube sites such as YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion and many more.
  • You can use pictures and artwork but it must be  in compliance with copyright laws either by owning the pictures or have the copyright owner’s approval to showcase them (proof of approval must be accompanied with mentioning of source in or under the image).
  • You are allowed to ONLY create one website per member. However this does not mean that other members cannot create a blog page for the same island.
  • You can use any promotional tool available to have comments posted on your blog site (Twitter, Facebook, Wire etc.)
  • The final number of positive comments to your blog decides your chance to become the winner of the Challenge.