Sentence examples for islands the only from inspiring English sources

As you pass endless isolated white beaches, beautiful coves and tiny craggy islands, the only obvious living being is a Madagascar eagle resting in one of the majestic baobab trees that are dotted along the coastline.

The losses on the two islands, the only inhabited ones in the archipelago, were largely the result of deforestation for wood and to create agricultural and grazing land.

What compelled generations to make their homes there, on the leeward sides of these treeless islands, the only spot that offered any protection from the open ocean to the west?

On this tight little island, the only color that's important — and therefore rarely discussed — is the color of money.

They planned to spend a year on this nontropical, blustery island, the only prize being the experience itself.

He had 120 North Korean troops on the island, the only place the North Koreans were outside North Korea, I think.

I'm here for Rinse's 20th anniversary party at W.A.R. but also to try and make sense of this anomalous island, the only island in the world another country has rented out as an en masse hedonistic escape.

By 1925, new landforms, including Northerly Island, the only offshore landform in the Burnham Plan actually built, were completed to 23rd Street.

ABIV and HIGV were isolated from ticks of the same species, Ixodes eudyptidis, collected from the nests of shy albatross (Thalassarche cauta) on Albatross Island, the only island inhabited by albatross within the Hunter Island Group Important Bird Area.

Robinson Crusoe Island is the only inhabited island in the archipelago and has 633 residents.

The islands were the only British territory to endure German occupation during World War II.