" Then this was once an inhabited island, " said Peter.

“那么这是一个曾经有人居住过的小岛。”彼得道。

The next step will be to do this calculation for real, for as many inhabited islands with lagoons as possible.

下一步将是尽可能多地统计有泻湖的，有人居住的岛屿。

It's part of the Leeward Island chain and at only 34 square miles, it's the smallest inhabited island to be divided by two countries.

它是背风群岛的一部分面积，只有三十四平方英里，它是最小的，分属两国，且有人居住的岛屿。

Easter Island is arguably the most remote inhabited island in the world because it's over 2,000 kilometers away from the nearest other piece of land.

复活节岛可以说是世界上最偏远的有人居住的岛屿，因为它距离最近的其他陆地有 2000 多公里远。

Just a few thousand years ago, the island of Madagascar was inhabited by giants.

就在几千年前，马达加斯加岛还居住着巨人。

Many of the more inhabited islands have flights connecting them to the two largest Scottish cities—Edinburgh and Glasgow.

许多有人居住的岛屿都有航班将它们连接到两个最大的苏格兰城市——爱丁堡和格拉斯哥。

It is one of the smallest inhabited islands in the Barbaric Archipelago, and perhaps the best way to describe it is " wet" .

它是野蛮群岛中最小的有人居住的岛屿之一，也许描述它的最佳方式是" 潮湿" 。

On this view of migration, with subsequent modification, we see why oceanic islands are inhabited by only few species, but of these, why many are peculiar or endemic forms.

根据这种迁徙观点， 以及随后的修改， 我们明白了为什么海洋岛屿上只有少数物种栖息， 但其中有许多是奇特或特有的物种。

Take Pitcairn island, for example, a UK overseas territory in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that is home to a mere 49 people that is hundreds of kilometers away from the nearest other inhabited island.

以皮特凯恩岛为例，它位于太平洋中部的英国海外领土，那里只有 49 人以其为家，离有人居住的最近的其他岛屿有几百公里远。