Sentence examples for islands only from inspiring English sources

Their archipelago contains 6,851 islands, only 429 of them inhabited.

Of the islands, only Diego Garcia has piped water and electricity.

By doing so, he broke a rule that Micronesian knowledge should remain in those islands only.

The town is the site of Christ Church Cathedral (1892) and the islands' only hospital.

The royal family, which before the war had visited the islands only rarely, has been back relatively frequently ever since.

Depending on the tides, they number anywhere from 428 to 743 islands, only 60 of which are occupied.

It is one of the less visited islands -- only two flights a week connect Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, which has a population of about 1,500 people, most of whom are fishermen, with the Ecuadorean mainland 600 miles east of here, compared with the two flights daily that link much larger Santa Cruz Island with Guayaquil and Quito.

I then blithely displayed my arcane knowledge about the popular late 1940's hit song, Rum and Coca-Cola, which was introduced here by comedian Morey Amsterdam, who claimed to have written it after a trip to the islands... only a Trinidad calypso composer named Lord Invader sued him and proved he had created it; the courts awarded him $150,000 in royalties.

The driftwood Plantation Beach Resort (www.plantationbeachresort.com) is the Hog Islands' only accommodation, but camping can be arranged on uninhabited islands.

The storm dealt the Leeward Islands only a glancing blow as it skirted north of Antigua and the Virgin Islands.

"To Tattoo" reminds how the West has embraced a form of body decoration that was discovered by Westerners in the Pacific Islands only in the 19th century.