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One was on a ridgetop with a view, another in a mini-canyon above a dry creek bed, another on table-flat bare-dirt prairie; one sat, islandlike, in the middle of a plowed field.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 11, 2019

Then 21 ewes and five juvenile rams were transplanted to the Rocky Boy’s Reservation of the Chippewa Cree, which straddles part of the Bears Paw Mountains, an islandlike rise on the plains.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2017

If I continued following this road the next day, I thought, I would reach El Malpais’s largest kipuka, an islandlike ecosystem surrounded but untouched by the lava flows — called Hole-in-the-Wall.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2014

It puts the performers on display for several hours daily in what they call a “living installation”: an islandlike environment of their own devising.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2011

The Chihuahua-Zacatecas Biotic Province.—This province in Coahuila covers the arid, interior, western desert area; it consists of rolling plains with mountains that rise islandlike above the general surface.

From Birds from Coahuila, Mexico by Urban, Emil K.