uninhabited

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The island is almost uninhabited but experts say it has a unique ecosystem of animal and plant life.

From BBC • May 19, 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

Japan has its own territorial dispute with China over a cluster of uninhabited islands called the Senkakus.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

Sun-bleached for sale signs line the curbs, and paint peels from uninhabited buildings.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer