But for islands that depend on tourism, that's not enough.
I have a weakness for islands, and the Maldives are about as good as they get.
Sansha city is on Woody Island in the Paracel archipelago, China's administrative base for islands and reefs it controls.
Despite this decidedly 1% challenge, Krolow insists that the market for islands is not restricted to the über rich.
The establishment of a legislature for islands and the dispatch of soldiers will antagonize Vietnam, which claims the same islands.
The next question is whether this relationship of species to area holds for "islands" of human-created habitat.
"Its lack of onshore footprint is also a major advantage for islands, as is its lack of aesthetic impact," Ottaviano says.
The centre had warned of possible tsunami waves for islands including the Solomons, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Nauru, New Caledonia, Tuvalu and Kosrae.
He might also reasonably be called the UK's minister for islands, as 23 of them lie within the boundaries of his constituency.
Remarkably, the overall average Ge content is 0.361 ± 0.005 for islands grown on the pit-pattern and 0.36 ± 0.01 for islands on the flat surface area.
Nevertheless, there are relatively few studies demonstrating such phylogeographic patterns for islands, especially in subtropical Asia.
