Sentence examples for desolate island from inspiring English sources

When the ship experiences navigational problems, Leo escapes to Gehenna Rocks, a desolate island, in a stolen lifeboat.

The interview was filmed at his home on Faaroe, a desolate island 100 miles south-east of Stockholm, where he lives alone.

For half a century, the Koreans of Sakhalin -- now numbering 40,000 -- were a stateless people, inhabiting this desolate island against their will.

Nauru, a tiny and desolate island with only basic facilities even for residents, is the most likely place for future asylum seekers.

These early scenes have a certain mythic power, drawn from the desolate island, with its wild dogs and horses, its abandoned church and houses.

A forthcoming show on Channel 4, Eden, will put 20 people on a desolate island in the northern hemisphere, and film them as they try to build a utopian society.

It is called a city even though it barely has a population to speak of and consists mostly of water and desolate islands.

WASHINGTON — While foreign-policy experts and risk analysts were riveted by the nuclear talks with Iran last weekend, the next major geopolitical crisis erupted a world away, over a clump of desolate islands in the choppy waters between Japan and China.

Years later he meets the man on one of the most desolate islands in that archipelago, at the penal colony where Pramoedya was held for more than 11 years under Indonesia's military "new order" regime.

Before the conquistador Hernán Cortés plundered the riches of Mexico's Aztec empire, Spain established a thriving outpost here on one of the Lesser Antilles's most desolate islands, which is so dry that water supplies have to be imported from the mainland and nearby islands (as they were for Nueva Cádiz).

Each day, there's only a few hours to marvel at the watery archipelago of Solund that rises from the sea like a phantasm of more than 1,700 desolate islands, islets and crags, all flung off the country's coast.