Treasure Island

American  

noun

1. (italics) a novel (1883) by R. L. Stevenson.

2. an artificial island in San Francisco Bay, in W California; naval base.

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Treasure Island Cultural  

1. (1883) A novel by Robert Louis Stevenson about a young boy, Jim Hawkins, who joins with two men in hiring a ship to search for buried treasure. Among the ship's crew are the pirate Long John Silver and his men, who are after the treasure for themselves. With considerable pluck, and the aid of his friends, Jim foils their plans and gains the treasure.

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Treasure Island

Curry also starred in the 1996 film Muppet Treasure Island alongside Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

The actor also played fearsome clown Pennywise in the 1990 TV version of Stephen King's It, and was Long John Silver in 1996's Muppet Treasure Island.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

I read Hans Christian Andersen’s sad and frightening tales; I read the E. Nesbit books, and the usual children’s classics of the time, such as Treasure Island and Peter Pan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025

Just steps from the exclusive Montage Resort, where an ocean view room costs upwards of $1,000 per night during the summer, waste was overflowing from trash cans on Treasure Island beach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2024

Merle Haggard's My House of Memories, the diaries of Alan Bennett, Treasure Island: If a person who constantly reads is labeled a bookworm, then I was quickly becoming what might be called a tapeworm.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris