uninhabited

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According to the plan, developers also hope to transform the uninhabited island of Sazan -- once a secret communist military base -- into a glitzy tourist destination.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Windy weather prevented some of the planned excursions at the largely uninhabited British territory.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Marooned on their own de facto uninhabited island.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

The Sirius patrol, tasked with defending a huge, largely uninhabited swathe of the island in the northeast measuring 972,000 square km, travels across the ice by dogsled.

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

The Philippines is an archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean consisting of more than seven thousand islands, many of them uninhabited.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly