The island had belonged to the Army since the 1800's.
We didn't know the island belonged to you, but it does.
Throughout most of its 300 year history, the island belonged to the military and was closed to the general public.
Probably if we took it to law or whatever, it'd turn out that the whole island belongs to me by right of being there first.
Each island only belongs to that country, there are no neighbors.
Japan, with some justice, notes that all four islands belonged to it until 1945.
It isn't as though the island belonged to a foreign country .
The island does not belong to any official city.
The island belongs to a great-nephew of the old couple now, but he never goes there.
Once the sun goes down, the island belongs to the mice.