1.   An estimated two million people visit the resort island annually, many of them returning year after year.

2.   Emergency management officials Wednesday began evacuating residents of Hilton Head, N.C., a low-lying resort island that is part of the Outer Banks.

3.   Even Hurricane Fran dealt gently with this resort island, a wealthy enclave where sunsets are long and slow and travel is by golf cart.

4.   He was Emmanuel Gonzalez, president of the Hotel, Resort and Restaurant Association of Cebu, a resort island.

5.   Hurricane Luis blew through a chain of resort islands like the legendary wolf through a straw house.

6.   Learn all about cars you dare not drive anywhere but on a tiny resort island.

7.   No one disputes that traffic can get pretty thick on this popular resort island.

8.   Stilt houses once towering over the beach on this small resort island of vacation rentals and Dairy Queens toppled to the surf.

9.   The Palm Beach Orthodox Synagogue meets in the ballroom of the Palm Beach Hotel on the resort island.

10.   The plane was reported missing off the shores of the resort island early Saturday.