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For the album by Cusco, see <a href="/wiki/Desert_Island_(album)" title="Desert Island (album)">Desert Island (album)</a>. For the comic book shop, see <a href="/wiki/Desert_Island_(comic_shop)" title="Desert Island (comic shop)">Desert Island (comic shop)</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Desertisland.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Desertisland.jpg/290px-Desertisland.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Desertisland.jpg/435px-Desertisland.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Desertisland.jpg/580px-Desertisland.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1700" data-file-height="1084" /></a><figcaption>Helen Reef, <a href="/wiki/Palau" title="Palau">Palau</a></figcaption></figure> <p>An <b>uninhabited island</b>, <b>desert island</b>, or <b>deserted island</b>, is an <a href="/wiki/Island" title="Island">island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Islet" title="Islet">islet</a> or <a href="/wiki/Atoll" title="Atoll">atoll</a> which lacks permanent human population. Uninhabited islands are often depicted in films or stories about <a href="/wiki/Shipwreck" title="Shipwreck">shipwrecked</a> people, and are also used as stereotypes for the idea of "<a href="/wiki/Paradise" title="Paradise">paradise</a>". Some uninhabited islands are protected as <a href="/wiki/Nature_reserve" title="Nature reserve">nature reserves</a>, and some are privately owned. <a href="/wiki/Devon_Island" title="Devon Island">Devon Island</a> in Canada's far north is the largest uninhabited island in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-devona_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-devona-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-devonb_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-devonb-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Small coral <a href="/wiki/Atolls" class="mw-redirect" title="Atolls">atolls</a> or islands usually have no source of <a href="/wiki/Fresh_water" title="Fresh water">fresh water</a>, but occasionally a freshwater <a href="/wiki/Lens_(hydrology)" title="Lens (hydrology)">lens</a> can be reached with a well. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Terminology">Terminology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Uninhabited_island&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Terminology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Uninhabited islands are sometimes also called "deserted islands" or "desert islands". In the latter, the adjective <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/desert#Adjective" class="extiw" title="wikt:desert">desert</a></i> connotes not <a href="/wiki/Desert" title="Desert">desert</a> climate conditions, but rather "desolate and sparsely occupied or unoccupied". The word <i>desert</i> has been "formerly applied more widely to any wild, uninhabited region, including forest-land", and it is this archaic meaning that appears in the phrase "desert island".<sup id="cite_ref-OED_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OED-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The term "desert island" is also commonly used figuratively to refer to objects or behavior in conditions of social isolation and limited material means. Behavior on a desert island is a common <a href="/wiki/Thought_experiment" title="Thought experiment">thought experiment</a>, for example, "desert island morality".<sup id="cite_ref-OED_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OED-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biodiversity">Biodiversity</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Uninhabited_island&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Biodiversity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Desert islands are partly sheltered from humans, making them havens for a number of fragile wildlife species such as <a href="/wiki/Sea_turtle" title="Sea turtle">sea turtles</a> and ground-nesting <a href="/wiki/Seabird" title="Seabird">seabirds</a>. Many species of seabirds use them as stopovers on their way or especially for nesting, taking advantage of the (supposed) absence of terrestrial predators such as <a href="/wiki/Cat" title="Cat">cats</a> or <a href="/wiki/Rat" title="Rat">rats</a>. </p><p>However, tons of waste from far away countries accumulate on their beaches from the sea, and the absence of surveillance also makes them desirable spots for <a href="/wiki/Poaching" title="Poaching">poachers</a> of protected species.<sup id="cite_ref-ducarme_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ducarme-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_uninhabited_islands">Selected uninhabited islands</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Uninhabited_island&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Selected uninhabited islands"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LighthouseOnKleinCuracao.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/LighthouseOnKleinCuracao.jpg/170px-LighthouseOnKleinCuracao.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/LighthouseOnKleinCuracao.jpg/255px-LighthouseOnKleinCuracao.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/LighthouseOnKleinCuracao.jpg/340px-LighthouseOnKleinCuracao.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1152" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>The abandoned lighthouse at <a href="/wiki/Klein_Cura%C3%A7ao" title="Klein Curaçao">Klein Curaçao</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amatignak_Island" title="Amatignak Island">Amatignak Island</a>, southernmost point of Alaska, US</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appat_Island" title="Appat Island">Appat Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greenland" title="Greenland">Greenland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%CA%BBAta" title="ʻAta">ʻAta</a>, the southernmost island of the <a href="/wiki/Tonga" title="Tonga">Kingdom of Tonga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auckland_Islands" title="Auckland Islands">Auckland Islands</a> in the South Pacific, which are part of <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astola_Island" title="Astola Island">Astola Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a></li> <li>A majority of the <a href="/wiki/Barra_Isles" title="Barra Isles">Barra Isles</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Outer_Hebrides" title="Outer Hebrides">Outer Hebrides</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>. The most famous of these is <a href="/wiki/Barra_Head" title="Barra Head">Barra Head</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blasket_Islands" title="Blasket Islands">Blasket Islands</a> in <a href="/wiki/County_Kerry" title="County Kerry">County Kerry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ball%27s_Pyramid" title="Ball's Pyramid">Ball's Pyramid</a>, a tall volcanic mountain located close to Lord Howe Island in the South Pacific</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Binlang_Islet" title="Binlang Islet">Binlang Islet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a></li> <li>Most of the <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Arctic_Archipelago" class="mw-redirect" title="Canadian Arctic Archipelago">Canadian Arctic Archipelago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bouvet_Island" title="Bouvet Island">Bouvet Island</a> in the South Atlantic, the world's most remote island</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caquorobert" title="Caquorobert">Caquorobert</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guernsey" title="Guernsey">Guernsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clipperton_Island" title="Clipperton Island">Clipperton Island</a>, a Pacific island of France</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coral_Sea_Islands" title="Coral Sea Islands">Coral Sea Islands</a> off the northeastern coast of <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/De_Long_Islands" title="De Long Islands">De Long Islands</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Arctic_Ocean" title="Arctic Ocean">Arctic Ocean</a>, part of <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Desertas_Islands" title="Desertas Islands">Desertas Islands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portugal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devon_Island" title="Devon Island">Devon Island</a>, the largest uninhabited island in the world at 55,247 km<sup>2</sup><sup id="cite_ref-devona_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-devona-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-devonb_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-devonb-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-basementgeo_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-basementgeo-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gotska_Sand%C3%B6n" title="Gotska Sandön">Gotska Sandön</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Sweden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heard_Island_and_McDonald_Islands" title="Heard Island and McDonald Islands">Heard Island and McDonald Islands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a></li> <li>Many <a href="/wiki/Islands_of_Hong_Kong" class="mw-redirect" title="Islands of Hong Kong">islands</a> within the waters of <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilha_da_Queimada_Grande" title="Ilha da Queimada Grande">Ilha da Queimada Grande</a> "Snake Island", Brazil</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isle_Royale" title="Isle Royale">Isle Royale</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lake_Superior" title="Lake Superior">Lake Superior</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keros" title="Keros">Keros</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Greece" title="List of islands of Greece">other small islands</a> off the coast of <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%BDut" title="Žut">Žut</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Croatia" title="List of islands of Croatia">other islands</a> off the coast of <a href="/wiki/Croatia" title="Croatia">Croatia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kermadec_Islands" title="Kermadec Islands">Kermadec Islands</a>, part of New Zealand</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korzhin_Island" title="Korzhin Island">Korzhin Island</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lake_Balkhash" title="Lake Balkhash">Lake Balkhash</a></li> <li><a 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href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Topo_Islet" title="Topo Islet">Topo Islet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Azores" title="Azores">Azores</a>, Portugal</li> <li>Most of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Minor_Outlying_Islands" title="United States Minor Outlying Islands">United States Minor Outlying Islands</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Johnston_Atoll" title="Johnston Atoll">Johnston Atoll</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wake_Island" title="Wake Island">Wake Island</a> and <a href="/wiki/Midway_Atoll" title="Midway Atoll">Midway Atoll</a>. <a href="/wiki/Palmyra_Atoll" title="Palmyra Atoll">Palmyra Atoll</a> has no permanent residents but it has private landholdings that are continuously occupied by temporary residents.</li></ul> <p><br /> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed" style="text-align:center;"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Baa_atoll_islands.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Plane view of Baa Atoll, Maldives"><img alt="Plane view of Baa Atoll, Maldives" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Baa_atoll_islands.JPG/240px-Baa_atoll_islands.JPG" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Baa_atoll_islands.JPG/360px-Baa_atoll_islands.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Baa_atoll_islands.JPG/480px-Baa_atoll_islands.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Plane view of <a href="/wiki/Baa_Atoll" title="Baa Atoll">Baa Atoll</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maldives" title="Maldives">Maldives</a> </div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 164.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 162.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Maldives_island.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Desert island from Baa Atoll"><img alt="Desert island from Baa Atoll" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Maldives_island.JPG/244px-Maldives_island.JPG" decoding="async" width="163" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Maldives_island.JPG/366px-Maldives_island.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Maldives_island.JPG/487px-Maldives_island.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3928" data-file-height="2902" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Desert island from <a href="/wiki/Baa_Atoll" title="Baa Atoll">Baa Atoll</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bassas_da_india.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Bassas da India, Indian Ocean"><img alt="Bassas da India, Indian Ocean" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Bassas_da_india.jpg/240px-Bassas_da_india.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Bassas_da_india.jpg/360px-Bassas_da_india.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Bassas_da_india.jpg/480px-Bassas_da_india.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1500" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Bassas_da_India" title="Bassas da India">Bassas da India</a>, Indian Ocean</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%C3%8Elot_Bandr%C3%A9l%C3%A9.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Chissioua Bandrélé, Mayotte"><img alt="Chissioua Bandrélé, Mayotte" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/%C3%8Elot_Bandr%C3%A9l%C3%A9.jpg/240px-%C3%8Elot_Bandr%C3%A9l%C3%A9.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/%C3%8Elot_Bandr%C3%A9l%C3%A9.jpg/360px-%C3%8Elot_Bandr%C3%A9l%C3%A9.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/%C3%8Elot_Bandr%C3%A9l%C3%A9.jpg/480px-%C3%8Elot_Bandr%C3%A9l%C3%A9.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Chissioua Bandrélé, <a href="/wiki/Mayotte" title="Mayotte">Mayotte</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%C3%8Elot_de_Sable_Blanc_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Mtsanga Tsoholé, Mayotte"><img alt="Mtsanga Tsoholé, Mayotte" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/%C3%8Elot_de_Sable_Blanc_2.jpg/240px-%C3%8Elot_de_Sable_Blanc_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/%C3%8Elot_de_Sable_Blanc_2.jpg/360px-%C3%8Elot_de_Sable_Blanc_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/%C3%8Elot_de_Sable_Blanc_2.jpg/480px-%C3%8Elot_de_Sable_Blanc_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Mtsanga Tsoholé, <a href="/wiki/Mayotte" title="Mayotte">Mayotte</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 164px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 162px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Gomb%C3%A9_Ndroum%C3%A9.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Gombé Ndroumé, Mayotte"><img alt="Gombé Ndroumé, Mayotte" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Gomb%C3%A9_Ndroum%C3%A9.jpg/243px-Gomb%C3%A9_Ndroum%C3%A9.jpg" decoding="async" width="162" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Gomb%C3%A9_Ndroum%C3%A9.jpg/364px-Gomb%C3%A9_Ndroum%C3%A9.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Gomb%C3%A9_Ndroum%C3%A9.jpg/485px-Gomb%C3%A9_Ndroum%C3%A9.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3946" data-file-height="2928" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Gombé Ndroumé, <a href="/wiki/Mayotte" title="Mayotte">Mayotte</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Largest_uninhabited_islands">Largest uninhabited islands</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Uninhabited_island&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Largest uninhabited islands"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Rank </th> <th>Area Rank</th> <th>Island</th> <th>Area (km<sup>2</sup>) </th> <th>Area (sq mi)</th> <th>Country/Countries</th> <th>Coordinates </th></tr> <tr> <td>1 </td> <td>27</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Devon_Island" title="Devon Island">Devon Island</a> (<a href="/wiki/Devon_Island" title="Devon Island">Tallurutit</a>)</td> <td>55,247 </td> <td>21,331</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> (<a href="/wiki/Nunavut" title="Nunavut">Nunavut</a>)</td> <td>75°08′N 87°51′W </td></tr> <tr> <td>2 </td> <td>28</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Island" title="Alexander Island">Alexander Island</a> (<a href="/wiki/Alexander_Island" title="Alexander Island">Isla Alejandro I</a>) </td> <td>49,070 </td> <td>18,950</td> <td>None (<a href="/wiki/Territorial_claims_in_Antarctica" title="Territorial claims in Antarctica">Antarctic territorial claims</a> by <a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chile" title="Chile">Chile</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>)</td> <td>71°00′S 70°00′W </td></tr> <tr> <td>3 </td> <td>30</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Severny_Island" title="Severny Island">Severny Island</a> (<a href="/wiki/Severny_Island" title="Severny Island">Severnyy Ostrov</a>)</td> <td>48,904 </td> <td>18,882</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> (<a href="/wiki/Arkhangelsk_Oblast" title="Arkhangelsk Oblast">Arkhangelsk Oblast</a>)</td> <td>75°30′N 60°00′E </td></tr> <tr> <td>4 </td> <td>31</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Berkner_Island" title="Berkner Island">Berkner Island</a> (<a href="/wiki/Berkner_Island" title="Berkner Island">Isla Berkner</a>)</td> <td>44,000 </td> <td>17,000</td> <td>None (<a href="/wiki/Territorial_claims_in_Antarctica" title="Territorial claims in Antarctica">Antarctic territorial claims</a> by Argentina and the United Kingdom)</td> <td>79°30′S 47°30′W </td></tr> <tr> <td>5 </td> <td>32</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Axel_Heiberg_Island" title="Axel Heiberg Island">Axel Heiberg Island</a> (<a href="/wiki/Axel_Heiberg_Island" title="Axel Heiberg Island">Umingmat Nunaat</a>)</td> <td>43,178 </td> <td>16,671</td> <td>Canada (Nunavut)</td> <td>79°26′N 90°46′W </td></tr> <tr> <td>6 </td> <td>33</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melville_Island_(Northwest_Territories_and_Nunavut)" title="Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut)">Melville Island</a> (<a href="/wiki/Melville_Island_(Northwest_Territories_and_Nunavut)" title="Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut)">Ilulliq</a>)</td> <td>42,149 </td> <td>16,274</td> <td>Canada (<a href="/wiki/Northwest_Territories" title="Northwest Territories">Northwest Territories</a> and Nunavut)</td> <td>75°30′N 111°30′W </td></tr> <tr> <td>7 </td> <td>40 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Prince_of_Wales_Island_(Nunavut)" title="Prince of Wales Island (Nunavut)">Prince of Wales Island</a> (<a href="/wiki/Prince_of_Wales_Island_(Nunavut)" title="Prince of Wales Island (Nunavut)">Kinngailak</a>) </td> <td>33,339 </td> <td>12,872 </td> <td>Canada (Nunavut) </td> <td>72°40′N 99°00′W </td></tr> <tr> <td>8 </td> <td>46 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Somerset_Island_(Nunavut)" title="Somerset Island (Nunavut)">Somerset Island</a> (<a href="/wiki/Somerset_Island_(Nunavut)" title="Somerset Island (Nunavut)">Kuuganajuk</a>) </td> <td>24,786 </td> <td>9,570 </td> <td>Canada (Nunavut) </td> <td>73°15′N 93°30′W </td></tr> <tr> <td>9 </td> <td>47 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kotelny_Island" title="Kotelny Island">Kotelny Island</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kotelny_Island" title="Kotelny Island">Olgujdaah Aryy</a>) </td> <td>24,000 </td> <td>9,300 </td> <td>Russia (<a href="/wiki/Sakha_Republic" title="Sakha Republic">Sakha Republic</a>) </td> <td>75°20′N 141°00′E </td></tr> <tr> <td>10 </td> <td>54 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bathurst_Island_(Nunavut)" title="Bathurst Island (Nunavut)">Bathurst Island</a> </td> <td>16,042 </td> <td>6,194 </td> <td>Canada (Nunavut) </td> <td>75°46′N 99°47′W </td></tr> <tr> <td>11 </td> <td>55 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Prince_Patrick_Island" title="Prince Patrick Island">Prince Patrick Island</a> </td> <td>15,848 </td> <td>6,119 </td> <td>Canada (Northwest Territories) </td> <td>76°45′N 119°30′W </td></tr> <tr> <td>12 </td> <td>56 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Thurston_Island" title="Thurston Island">Thurston Island</a> </td> <td>15,700 </td> <td>6,100 </td> <td>None </td> <td>72°6′S 99°0′W </td></tr> <tr> <td>13 </td> <td>57 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nordaustlandet" title="Nordaustlandet">Nordaustlandet</a> </td> <td>14,467 </td> <td>5,586 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a> (<a href="/wiki/Svalbard" title="Svalbard">Svalbard</a>) </td> <td>79°48′N 22°24′E </td></tr> <tr> <td>14 </td> <td>59 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/October_Revolution_Island" title="October Revolution Island">October Revolution Island</a> </td> <td>14,170 </td> <td>5,470 </td> <td>Russia (<a href="/wiki/Krasnoyarsk_Krai" title="Krasnoyarsk Krai">Krasnoyarsk Krai</a>) </td> <td>79°30′N 97°00′E </td></tr> <tr> <td>15 </td> <td>68 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ellef_Ringnes_Island" title="Ellef Ringnes Island">Ellef Ringnes Island</a> </td> <td>11,295 </td> <td>4,361 </td> <td>Canada (Nunavut) </td> <td>78°30′N 102°15′W </td></tr> <tr> <td>16 </td> <td>69 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bolshevik_Island" title="Bolshevik Island">Bolshevik Island</a> </td> <td>11,270 </td> <td>4,350 </td> <td>Russia (Krasnoyarsk Krai) </td> <td>78°63'N 102.48°E </td></tr> <tr> <td>17 </td> <td>71 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bylot_Island" title="Bylot Island">Bylot Island</a> </td> <td>11,067 </td> <td>4,273 </td> <td>Canada (Nunavut) </td> <td>73°16′N 78°30′W </td></tr> <tr> <td>18 </td> <td>77 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Prince_Charles_Island" title="Prince Charles Island">Prince Charles Island</a> </td> <td>9,521 </td> <td>3,676 </td> <td>Canada (Nunavut) </td> <td>67°47′N 76°12′W </td></tr> <tr> <td>19 </td> <td>82 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Komsomolets_Island" title="Komsomolets Island">Komsomolets Island</a> </td> <td>9,006 </td> <td>3,477 </td> <td>Russia (Krasnoyarsk Krai) </td> <td>80°29′N 94°59′E </td></tr> <tr> <td>20 </td> <td>85 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Carney_Island" title="Carney Island">Carney Island</a> </td> <td>8,500 </td> <td>3,300 </td> <td>None </td> <td>73°57′S 121°00′W </td></tr> <tr> <td>21 </td> <td>107 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Coats_Island" title="Coats Island">Coats Island</a> </td> <td>5,498 </td> <td>2,123 </td> <td>Canada (Nunavut) </td> <td>62°35′N 82°45′W' </td></tr> <tr> <td>22 </td> <td>111 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Amund_Ringnes_Island" title="Amund Ringnes Island">Amund Ringnes Island</a> </td> <td>5,255 </td> <td>2,029 </td> <td>Canada (Nunavut) </td> <td>78°20′N 96°25′W </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Most of the largest uninhabited islands are many kilometers/miles inside the <a href="/wiki/Arctic" title="Arctic">Arctic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Antarctic" title="Antarctic">Antarctic</a> circles, indicating that the reason for their desertedness is the freezing climate. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_literature_and_popular_culture">In literature and popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Uninhabited_island&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: In literature and popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Robinsonade" title="Robinsonade">Robinsonade</a></div> <p>The first known <a href="/wiki/Novel" title="Novel">novels</a> to be set on a desert island were <i><a href="/wiki/Hayy_ibn_Yaqdhan" title="Hayy ibn Yaqdhan">Hayy ibn Yaqdhan</a></i> written by <a href="/wiki/Ibn_Tufail" class="mw-redirect" title="Ibn Tufail">Ibn Tufail</a> (1105–1185), followed by <i><a href="/wiki/Theologus_Autodidactus" title="Theologus Autodidactus">Theologus Autodidactus</a></i> written by <a href="/wiki/Ibn_al-Nafis" title="Ibn al-Nafis">Ibn al-Nafis</a> (1213–1288). The <a href="/wiki/Protagonist" title="Protagonist">protagonists</a> in both (Hayy in <i>Hayy ibn Yaqdhan</i> and Kamil in <i>Theologus Autodidactus</i>) are <a href="/wiki/List_of_fictional_feral_children" title="List of fictional feral children">feral children</a> living in seclusion on a deserted island, until they eventually come in contact with <a href="/wiki/Castaway" title="Castaway">castaways</a> from the outside world who are stranded on the island. The story of <i>Theologus Autodidactus</i>, however, extends beyond the deserted island setting when the castaways take Kamil back to <a href="/wiki/Civilization" title="Civilization">civilization</a> with them.<sup id="cite_ref-Roubi_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roubi-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>'s 1610–11 play, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tempest" title="The Tempest">The Tempest</a></i>, uses the idea of being stranded on a desert island as a pretext for the action of the play. <a href="/wiki/Prospero" title="Prospero">Prospero</a> and his daughter <a href="/wiki/Miranda_(The_Tempest)" title="Miranda (The Tempest)">Miranda</a> are set adrift by Prospero's treacherous brother Antonio, seeking to become <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Milan" class="mw-redirect" title="Duke of Milan">Duke of Milan</a>, and Prospero in turn shipwrecks his brother and other men of sin onto the island. </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> translation of Ibn Tufail's <i>Hayy ibn Yaqdhan</i> appeared in 1671, prepared by <a href="/wiki/Edward_Pococke" title="Edward Pococke">Edward Pococke</a> the Younger,<sup id="cite_ref-Amber_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Amber-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> followed by an <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> translation by <a href="/wiki/Simon_Ockley" title="Simon Ockley">Simon Ockley</a> in 1708,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a> translations.<sup id="cite_ref-Wainwright_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wainwright-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the late 17th century, <i>Hayy ibn Yaqdhan</i> inspired <a href="/wiki/Robert_Boyle" title="Robert Boyle">Robert Boyle</a>, an acquaintance of Pococke, to write his own philosophical novel set on a deserted island, <i>The Aspiring Naturalist</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Toomer_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Toomer-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ibn al-Nafis' <i>Theologus Autodidactus</i> was also eventually translated into English in the early 20th century. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Robinson_Offterdinger_001.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Robinson_Offterdinger_001.jpg/170px-Robinson_Offterdinger_001.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="233" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Robinson_Offterdinger_001.jpg/255px-Robinson_Offterdinger_001.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Robinson_Offterdinger_001.jpg/340px-Robinson_Offterdinger_001.jpg 2x" data-file-width="435" data-file-height="596" /></a><figcaption>Robinson Crusoe in an 1887 German illustration</figcaption></figure> <p>Published in 1719, <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Defoe" title="Daniel Defoe">Daniel Defoe</a>'s novel <i><a href="/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe" title="Robinson Crusoe">Robinson Crusoe</a></i>, about a castaway on a desert island, has spawned so many imitations in film, television and radio that its name was used to define a genre, <a href="/wiki/Robinsonade" title="Robinsonade">Robinsonade</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The novel features <a href="/wiki/Friday_(Robinson_Crusoe)" title="Friday (Robinson Crusoe)">Man Friday</a>, Crusoe's personal assistant. It is likely that Defoe took inspiration for Crusoe from a <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scottish</a> sailor named <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Selkirk" title="Alexander Selkirk">Alexander Selkirk</a>, who was rescued in 1709 after four years on the otherwise uninhabited <a href="/wiki/Juan_Fern%C3%A1ndez_Islands" title="Juan Fernández Islands">Juan Fernández Islands</a>; Defoe usually made use of current events for his plots. It is also likely that he was inspired by the Latin or English translations of Ibn Tufail's <i>Hayy ibn Yaqdhan</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Amber_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Amber-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wainwright_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wainwright-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Noel_Paul_Stookey" class="mw-redirect" title="Noel Paul Stookey">Noel Paul Stookey</a> wrote a song about living on a desert island called "On a Desert Island (With You in My Dreams)" on <a href="/wiki/Peter,_Paul_%26_Mary" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter, Paul & Mary">Peter, Paul & Mary</a>'s 1965 album: "<a href="/wiki/See_What_Tomorrow_Brings" title="See What Tomorrow Brings">See What Tomorrow Brings</a>". </p><p><a href="/wiki/Tom_Neale" title="Tom Neale">Tom Neale</a> was a New Zealander who voluntarily spent 16 years in three sessions in the 1950s and 1960s living alone on the island of <a href="/wiki/Suwarrow" title="Suwarrow">Suwarrow</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Cook_Islands" title="Northern Cook Islands">Northern Cook Islands</a> group. His time there is documented in his autobiography, <i><a href="/wiki/Tom_Neale" title="Tom Neale">An Island To Oneself</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the popular conception, such islands are often located in the <a href="/wiki/Pacific" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific">Pacific</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tropical" class="mw-redirect" title="Tropical">tropical</a>, uninhabited and usually uncharted.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They are remote locales that offer escape and force people marooned or stranded as <a href="/wiki/Castaway" title="Castaway">castaways</a> to become self-sufficient and essentially create a new society. This society can either be <a href="/wiki/Utopian" class="mw-redirect" title="Utopian">utopian</a>, based on an ingenious re-creation of society's comforts (as in <i><a href="/wiki/Swiss_Family_Robinson" class="mw-redirect" title="Swiss Family Robinson">Swiss Family Robinson</a></i> and, in a humorous form, <i><a href="/wiki/Gilligan%27s_Island" title="Gilligan's Island">Gilligan's Island</a></i>) or a regression into savagery (the major theme of both <i><a href="/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies" title="Lord of the Flies">Lord of the Flies</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Beach_(novel)" title="The Beach (novel)">The Beach</a></i>). </p><p><a href="/wiki/Desert_island_joke" title="Desert island joke">Desert island jokes</a> are also a hugely popular image for <a href="/wiki/Gag_cartoon" title="Gag cartoon">gag cartoons</a>, the island being conventionally depicted as just a few yards across with a single palm tree (probably due to the visual constraints of the medium). 17 such cartoons appeared in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i> in 1957 alone.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A special variation of the desert island theme appears in H.G.Wells's <i><a href="/wiki/The_War_in_the_Air" title="The War in the Air">The War in the Air</a></i>. As part of the cataclysmic global war depicted, the bridges linking <a href="/wiki/Goat_Island_(New_York)" title="Goat Island (New York)">Goat Island</a> in the middle of the <a href="/wiki/Niagara_Falls" title="Niagara Falls">Niagara Falls</a> to the mainland are cut, and with civilization fast breaking down a few survivors stranded on the island cannot expect rescue and must rely on their own resources - embarking on a grim life-and-death struggle. </p><p>The top "dream vacation" for heterosexual men surveyed by <i><a href="/wiki/Psychology_Today" title="Psychology Today">Psychology Today</a></i> was "marooned on a tropical island with several members of the opposite sex".<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historical_castaways">Historical castaways</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Uninhabited_island&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Historical castaways"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Castaway" title="Castaway">Castaway</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Essex">Essex</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Uninhabited_island&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Essex"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1820, the crew of the British <a href="/wiki/Whaler" title="Whaler">whaler</a> <a href="/wiki/Essex_(1799_whaleship)" class="mw-redirect" title="Essex (1799 whaleship)"><i>Essex</i></a> spent time on uninhabited British <a href="/wiki/Henderson_Island_(Pitcairn_Islands)" title="Henderson Island (Pitcairn Islands)">Henderson Island</a>. There they gorged on birds, fish, and vegetation and found a small freshwater spring. After one week, they had depleted the island's resources and most of the crew left on three <a href="/wiki/Whaleboat" title="Whaleboat">whaleboats</a>, while three of the men decided to remain on the island and survived there for four months until their rescue.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Strathmore">Strathmore</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Uninhabited_island&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Strathmore"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Strathmore_(ship)" title="Strathmore (ship)">Strathmore (ship)</a></div> <p>Survivors of the British <i>Strathmore</i> survived for 7 months at a small island of the French <a href="/wiki/Crozet_Islands" title="Crozet Islands">Crozet Islands</a> from 1875 to 1876. They survived from eating eggs and flesh of geese, albatrosses and other seabirds. 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