Stranded on an island

Let’s play a game! Let’s pretend you rented a giant yacht for the weekend somewhere warm. It’s one of those amazing boats that has a bedroom underneath and a fully stocked kitchen. So, you take your boat out into the sea for a sunset cruise and are drinking wine and beer and having a great time....

Three sailors are rescued from an uninhabited Pacific island by the US Navy after spelling out "help" with palm fronds.

The men had been missing for nearly three days when their distress signal was spotted on the uninhabited Pikelot Island.

It's always been a childhood dream of mine to spend time on a deserted island. Been living that dream a lot lately on the Aussie coast! This one is called Purtaboi Island, just off Dunk Islands on the Mission Beach Coast. #purtaboi #moundisland #dunkisland #Australia

This is our shelter from our four day survival trip on a deserted tropical island off the coast between Malaysia and Thailand. We went here with nothing but a knife, a flint and a machete.

A home is a retreat—a place to escape the outside world, to be alone, to recharge, to relax with friends. For some, one apartment among many in a building wedged into a sea of other buildings provides all the sanctuary they need. But for others, true escape means getting as far away as possible from the rest of the world, to a beautiful and remote residence in a stunning location—with nobody around for miles. Such retreats try very hard not to be found, but we've hunted down a few of them…

The theme of being stranded on an uninhabited island has inspired many films and novels, such as the movie Cast Away and the TV series Lost. The quintessential deserted island story, however, was Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. The story of Robinson Crusoe was likely influenced by the re