Meanings of desolate rock in English

I tried to picture men living and working on this desolate rock, day after day.

Just a handful of bungalows, on an ugly desolate rock, rising straight out of the plain.

Not long afterwards Napoleon was sent to die a prisoner on the desolate rock of St. Helena.

The scientists, who also found a number of eggs, believe there could be just 10 adults surviving on the desolate rock.

In case you should hear of me some day, in case my celebrity should reach even this desolate rock, I will tell you my name.

About 9 billion miles from the sun is planet 2003 UB313, a cold, desolate rock about one-and-a-half times the size of Pluto.

These islands form a group of desolate rocks lying off the Northumbrian coast.

In their search for water, game, or fellow-beings, no one had climbed these desolate rocks, apparently dry and barren.

To the northward from where we stood nothing but higher mountains of similar formation met our view-­agreat, rolling vista of bare, desolate rocks.

Almost at her feet was the sea, before her a wide-stretching expanse, behind her, confronted by the desolate rocks, the hollow and mysterious caverns.