The word "islanders" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to people who live on an island or islands. It can be used in any context where you are talking about the inhabitants of an island or group of islands. Example: The islanders were known for their peaceful way of life and close-knit community.
Fine, say the islanders: the best way to conserve our fragile island is for you to stay away from it.Theme: that is the essential word here.
The EU allows Denmark to prevent foreigners (read Germans) from buying Danish summer-houses, while the Swedish-speaking Aland islanders, who are Finns by nationality, can keep their islands culturally (read ethnically) Swedish.Then there is the delicate question of the presidency.
Both lots of islanders know what their landlord soon discovers: that what makes islands attractive also makes them hell.
War closed both this causeway road, from Jaffna to Pungudutivu island, and the passenger ferry we take to Delft (an island colonised by Portuguese but renamed by Dutch settlers), so these islanders were particularly isolated.
He cites the island of Eigg, which endured a succession of bad landlords until the 70 islanders bought it for £1.6m in 1997.
Unexpectedly, one morning found us ushered into Carrot Bay's Seventh Day Adventist Church service, having stopped, en route to the beach in shorts, to watch the islanders arrive in their finery.
Senior Met officers, who suspect he may have gone there in lulls between spates of attacks, plan to fly out in the next couple of weeks to liaise with local police and make a public appeal to islanders for information.
There wouldn't be any malign repercussions if I did put my name to it, but it is in the bloodstream of islanders that the operation of local society is mutually exclusive with the confrontational nature of party politics.
On Tuesday, the supreme court threw out the appeals, paving the way for Spanish energy company Repsol to move forward with its exploration plans, which have drawn an angry response from islanders concerned at the impact on tourism.
Surely one of the oldest islanders (locals guess between 85 and 95), she serves local dishes in the dining room above her home.
Well, at least we have given the islanders something (apart, that is, from abolishing slavery, introducing a parliamentary democracy and setting up a pretty effective civil service).
