uninhabited
Britishadjective
Vocabulary lists containing uninhabited
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The island is almost uninhabited but experts say it has a unique ecosystem of animal and plant life.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
Marooned on their own de facto uninhabited island.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
The Sirius patrol, tasked with defending a huge, largely uninhabited swathe of the island in the northeast measuring 972,000 square km, travels across the ice by dogsled.
From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026
Japan has its own territorial dispute with China over a cluster of uninhabited islands called the Senkakus.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
The Galapagos Islands, to give one famous example, remained uninhabited by humans until the nineteenth century, thus preserving their unique menagerie, including their giant tortoises, which, like the ancient diprotodons, show no fear of humans.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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