Usage of "desert island"

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Island without permanent human population.

I feel content to be alone.

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Usage of desert island in English

The cargo was deposited on a desert island in sight of Toulon. 
 A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 

A man in regimentals in this weather and upon a desert island. 
 Kate Bonnet: The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter 

So this is a horse on a desert island surrounded by water. 
 The new yorker 

And Songs from Northern Britain is a desert island album for me. 
 The Guardian 

The desert island they eventually land on is never called Jenny Island. 
 A bridge to the stars 

Handy to know for when one is stuck on a desert island. 
 The Guardian 

Except in a desert island, there is always a danger of that. 
 The Black Cat: A Play in Three Acts 

Two of my desert island pieces are clarinet concertos: Mozart's and Copland's. 
 The Guardian 

We can get another desert island to put on it if necessary. 
 Pee-wee Harris Adrift 

There was once this Welshman who was shipwrecked on a desert island. 
 The Irish Times 

However, the boat got to a desert island before noon next day. 
 At the Back of the North Wind 

Which eight reels would you take to your desert island and why? 
 The Guardian 

Finally we fetched up, ker-smack, on the rocks of a desert island. 
 The Perils of Pauline 

You would believe that we could be blissful on a desert island. 
 The Trumpeter Swan 

He felt like a ship-wrecked mariner cast ashore on a desert island. 
 Banzai! by Parabellum 

When I landed on this desert island, I had only three left. 
 The Obstacle Race 

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