uninhabited
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Okinotorishima is an uninhabited coral atoll around which Japan claims an exclusive economic zone of more than 154,000 square miles in the Philippine Sea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Cape Verde was uninhabited until the 15th century before Portuguese settlers arrived.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
His daughter Ivanka recently made her own “eat cake” headlines over an alleged $1.5-billion project that would convert an uninhabited Albanian island into a luxury resort.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
The project includes the construction of hotel complexes on the uninhabited island of Sazan and in the protected coastal area of Vjosa-Narta, located in the southern community of Zvernec.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
There, as we shall see, the expansion assumed a speedboat pace, as bearers of the cultural package raced eastward into the previously uninhabited Pacific Ocean beyond the Solomon Archipelago.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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