uninhabited islands
Empty ocean territories
Uninhabited islands are landmasses surrounded by water where no people permanently live.
They may be too remote, too small, or too harsh to support human settlement, though some were once populated and later abandoned.
The phrase often evokes fantasies of shipwrecks and castaways: She dreamed of escaping to an uninhabited island.
- atollRing-shaped reef island
- castawayShipwrecked and stranded person
- lagoonSheltered coastal shallows
- isletVery small land mass
- marine sanctuaryProtected ocean habitat area
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uninhabited islandsManhattan
NYC's densest borough
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