1.   One was Channel Islands National Park, five pristine islands off the Southern California coast.

2.   The world in which he finds himself, a pristine island amid a turquoise sea, is as dazzlingly beautiful as it is treacherous.

3.   They also point out that Britain is no longer the pristine island it once was.

4.   When humans invaded the pristine islands of the Pacific thousands of years ago, they brought extinction to hundreds of bird species, a researcher reports.

5.   The pristine island state of Singapore, which prides itself on civil order, has ruled out any chance of outsiders staging street protests against global trade talks here.

6.   Pristine islands and tourism have provided an economic boom for the Thai side of the maritime border.

7.   The disappearance of the dodo and of many other creatures highlights the damage caused by overpopulation of formerly pristine islands and the repercussions of their development and industrialisation.