text: Formentera , Ibiza 's diminutive neighbour just one hour 's ferry-boat ride ( or 25 minutes by hydrofoil ) to the south , is an island apart in some ways more like a desert island than a satellite or outpost of Ibiza .
  
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  Formentera is incredibly far from Ibiza , needing a three hour ferry-boat ride in order to arrive there .