The island must have moved fifteen feet further into that blind spot that is the shadow of God's thumb.

The Hawaiian islands, astronomers have determined, are moving westward at a brisk four inches a year.

This island is moving, I tell you!

Ah, summer, when the island moved in tropical waters!

For 50 weeks of the year, however, the island moves at a much calmer pace.

Things like this happen on every East Frisian island - some islands moved so far that the town had to be rebuilt several times.

Taiwan still has some way to go before it is fully democratic, but the island is clearly moving in that direction.

It looked as if the island were moving away, and not us.

If the island floated and moved, might it not move in the right direction?

There was a grating noise and a whirl of machinery, but the island did not move a particle.