1.   When the ship experiences navigational problems, Leo escapes to Gehenna Rocks, a desolate island, in a stolen lifeboat.

2.   A Greek man and an Italian woman got married Saturday on a tiny desolate island despite claims by neighboring rival Turkey that the islet is disputed.

3.   Critics say a plan to build a rocket-launch pad on a desolate Caribbean island is a big booby trap.

4.   Four decades after they were shipped by icebreaker to desolate Arctic islands, a handful of Inuit families have won millions of dollars in compensation for their hardships.

5.   Liao has led a crackdown on organized crime, arresting hundreds of mobsters and flying their leaders to a jail on a desolate island.

6.   Seven young pelicans, squawking angrily at the human intruders who have invaded their desolate island, try an end run around Dave Brinker.

7.   The two came to the brink of war in January and February over the sovereignty of the desolate island.

8.   Tensions soared last week between the Mediterranean neighbours, as both claimed sovereignty over a small desolate island off Turkey which the Greeks call Imia and Turks call Kardak.