desert islands
Castaway landing spots
Desert islands are remote, uninhabited islands, typically imagined as tropical with palm trees and sandy beaches.
The phrase appears most often in hypotheticals about isolation: What three books would you bring to a desert island?
Despite the spelling, desert here means deserted or abandoned, not arid—these islands are usually lush, just empty of people.
- castawayShipwrecked and stranded person
- seclusionVoluntary withdrawal from society
- maroonedLeft stranded and helpless
- lone survivorOnly one who lived
- Swiss Family RobinsonCastaway family survival tale
Robinson Crusoe · uninhabited · coral atolls · solitude · remote · isolation · tropical paradise · buried treasure · Friday · survival · pirate tales · shipwreck tales · hideaway · oceans · endemic species · hut · rations · rescue signal
- islandsisle, islet, atoll, atolls, archipelago
- adventure fictionpirates, treasure hunts, shipwrecks, sea voyages, exploration
- nautical termsahoy, afloat, aye aye, aye-aye, becalmed
- Piratespirate, buccaneer, corsair, corsairs, privateers
- Extreme PlacesDeath Valley, Mariana Trench, Mount Everest, Antarctica, North Pole
- sea talespirate story, sea stories, sea story, mermaid tale, ghost ships
desert islandsurban centers
Densely populated municipal areas
Manhattan · Tokyo · Hong Kong · metropolis · metropolises
desert islandsmainland
Principal connected territory
continent · Eurasia · Africa · peninsulas
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