Sentence examples for high islands from inspiring English sources

The low islanders visited the high islands, with their more fertile soil and greater elevation, to obtain food and other items not found on atolls and to seek refuge after a cyclone or drought.

Bananas were an important food crop on the high islands.

The smaller volcanic high islands have greater homogeneity and easily support life well above the subsistence level.

Chuuk was extremely fragmented politically, with several independent communities on each of the six larger high islands.

Simple pottery has been found only in the western high islands of Micronesia: Palau, the Marianas, and Yap.

The high islands of the Chuuk group have mangrove swamps along their coasts, as well as rainforests in the central mountainous areas.

The sweet potato and cassava (manioc), also introduced by Europeans, now serve as alternate subsistence foods on some of the high islands.

In the larger high islands, interior areas not under regular cultivation were considered community property and were used for collecting wild food and for temporary gardens.

On the high islands, people also wanted access to lagoons, although easily defensible sites were sometimes preferred, such as the tops of steep cleared slopes.

Subsistence throughout the region was based primarily on fishing and horticulture, with fishing somewhat more important in the low islands and horticulture more important in the high islands.

Many are dry or barely awash at low tide; some have islands of coral sand, or cays; others fringe high islands or the mainland coast.