11.   On the south shore of the sparsely populated island lies the village of Nioumachoi where the coup plotters first came ashore at an empty tourist camp.

12.   Property developers are cramming industrial parks, satellite cities, tollways and golf courses onto the most densely populated island in the world.

13.   Suharto encouraged people from other heavily populated Indonesian islands to migrate to Irian Jaya in an attempt to counterbalance the indigenous separatists.

14.   Swimming to populated islands adds to that death rate when frightened campers kill the legally protected snakes.

15.   The fire on the eastern side of the thinly populated island did not pose any immediate threat to people, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

16.   The government regularly moves rural families to less densely populated islands.

17.   The group was discovered Sunday morning on Scrub Island, a sparsely populated island east of the main island of Tortola, police said in a statement Monday.

18.   The wreckage of the trains blocked one of the two main lines that crisscross the densely populated island.

19.   Spitsbergen is a sparsely populated island which is closer to the North Pole than to the Norwegian capital Oslo.

20.   Spitsbergen is a sparsely populated island which is closer to the North Pole than the Norwegian capital Oslo.