"island" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Chester and his crew ended up sailing for his guano island and disappearing, without a trace, in a hurricane.
- Used to be a guano island, but the quality of the guano was too low for the cost of digging it.
- Why did he go to such expense and trouble to keep people away from his guano island?
- "I haven't found a guano island," I said.
- She was "used in the transport of Chinese coolies to the guano islands."
- Sarah Ann Island, now submerged guano island, located just north of the equator.
- She was wrecked on a guano island in the South Pacific in 1913 while carrying a load of coal.
- In the 1930s an ambitious project was started to build a guano island in the lagoon using sand pumps imported from Holland.
- Chester does eventually set sail for his guano island, but the whole enterprise disappears in a hurricane at sea (Chapter Sixteen).
- Farther south, the millions of seabirds that normally nourish on the famous guano islands are being decimated.
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