The highest optimum wind speeds could be found on arid islands.

As on Aruba and other arid islands, the greatest problem is water.

He described Ascension as an arid treeless island, with nothing growing near the coast.

The substrate plays a critical role in the creation of micro-environmental "arid islands."

The arid island is covered with grass and cactus.

Ascension was an arid island, buffeted by dry trade winds from southern Africa.

Patmos is an isolated, arid island, and both settlements reflect a sense of tranquillity.

Charles Darwin described it as an arid treeless island, with nothing growing near the coast.

The heavy rains have brought luxuriant green vegetation to these normally arid islands.

You wonder, what is it about the arid island between Sicily and Tunisia that makes such extraordinary craftsmen?