A bridge to the mainland was built in 1956, and Mr. Fraser moved here, living much like a hermit on an island outpost.

Japanese destroyers performed the usual range of tasks: fleet and convoy escorts, supply and reinforcement runs to various isolated island outposts and garrisons.

He was the first "new" chief trader at the island outpost.

Thereafter operating out of San Francisco, Hyades became a familiar sight to the various occupation groups and island outposts in the Pacific Ocean.

The fleet was thought to be sailing safely west of Ushant, an island outpost off the coast of Brittany.

Accessible only by sea, the Bitter End Yacht Club was the last island outpost before the open waters of the Atlantic.

The island outpost was built in the 1740s to protect the city of St. Augustine.

To us they are minor defeats - the loss of island outposts.

She was configured as a transport and cargo ship and was assigned post-war to support various island outposts in the Pacific Ocean.

Mr. Hou's great subject has always been Taiwan, the island outpost to which his family fled after the Communist takeover of mainland China.