Modern science tells us that we, the human animal, utilize only 10% of our brain. Since middle-school biology class, we’ve puzzled over this. 10%? How can that be? A cure for polio, gravity-defying rocket launches to the moon, the internet, the iPad, cloning, master symphonies—all achieved using only 1/10th of our cognitive ability? While the other 90% naps or rouses itself to eat a bon bon or two before returning to slumber? What, then, could be achieved were we to goad our entire minds into action?

Now, consider this.

The Caribbean, that modern day paradise to world-travelers and celebrity elite, is only 2% inhabited. You read that right. When we talk of the Caribbean, of St. Kitts, St. Barths, St. Thomas, Trinidad, we’re acknowledging only a tiny sliver of the region. 98% of the area is uninhabited, completely unknown to us. Exotic wildlife, lush foliage, and, certainly, spectacular sunsets accompany the countless islands which have not found a spot on the map, but there is no one there to enjoy them.

And yet we, the vacationers, the globetrotters, the tropics lovers, adamantly shout out our praise of the Caribbean. Our limited scope discredits the statement. We may as well expound on our passion for Disney World based solely on three swirling minutes aboard The Teacups.