Collocations withisland
These are words often used in combination withisland.
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artificial island
It has the drawback of featuring a bridge out to an artificial island, and my comments about shipping hazards must apply to an artificial island.
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deserted island
The show challenges each castaway to pare life down to its bare essentials by allowing them to select eight pieces of music to accompany them on a deserted island.
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floating island
Many birds were also seen on fast ice, particularly on the heavily ridged outer fringes, that might also be the source of the 'floating island' floes.
From theCambridge English Corpus
inhabited island
The result is a superb record of the wildlife of the world's remotest inhabited island group, illustrated by outstanding colour photographs.
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island nation
If we consider the number of languages spoken rather than the percentage of the population who speak them, there is a substantial amount of diversity in this small island nation.
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isolated island
If we remain an isolated island, it is not a bright future.
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main island
When extrapolated to the whole of main island, the population sizes of white-vented myna and common myna were approximately 180 000 and 84 000, respectively.
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mysterious island
Both main characters are stranded on a mysterious island, where the predominant color seems to be red.
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nearby island
The nearby island, however, is also covered with this growth.
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oceanic island
Control of seedling recruitment by land crabs in a rain forest on a remote oceanic island.
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offshore island
We are an offshore island of an offshore island.
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outlying island
Those of us from outlying island regions are wondering who is going to pay the additional cost that will arise for these regions in deficit.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
remote island
There might be a certain problem over selecting a particular remote island.
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rocky island
The cape is actually a small rocky island which is joined to the icecap of the mainland by an ice ramp.
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small island
Dismissing this issue as the concern of a small island will not do either.
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tiny island
After all, this is a tiny island.
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tropical island
It is part of a luxury hotel on this tropical island which is attracting quite a lot of tourism.
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uncharted island
The information from the library leads them to an uncharted island.
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uninhabited island
It is a story set on a small uninhabited island.
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volcanic island
Fogo is a hotspot volcanic island.
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