What is Desert island?
[[File:Helen's Reef, Palauб 1971.jpg|thumb|Helen's Reef, in [[Palau]], is a desert island]] A '''desert island''' is an [[island]] where no people live. More commonly they are called '''uninhabited islands'''. Sometimes the name is also used for an islet or [[atoll]]. Very often, such places are seen as close to [[paradise]].<ref name=devona>{{cite web | url=https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/eco-tourism/photos/10-almost-deserted-islands/devon-island | publisher=MNN Galleries | title=10 (almost) deserted islands | author= Josh Lew | date= April 23, 2018}}</ref><ref name=devonb>{{cite web | url=https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/project/misr/gallery/devon_island | access-date=July 8, 2019 | title=Mars Researchers Rendezvous on Remote Arctic Island | publisher=Langley Research Center, Atmospheric Science Data Center, NASA | archive-date=July 8, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190708133401/https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/project/misr/gallery/devon_island | url-status=dead }}</ref> Most islands in the world are uninhabited. The reason why an island is uninhabited are often practical: *They are too small *There may be no source of [[fresh water]] on the island *They may be in areas where there's a bad [[climate]]. *They are close to another bigger [[Human settlement|settlement]]. Living in the settlement is more attractive. *Humans did some tests on them. Because of tests of [[Nuclear weapon|nuclear weapons]], the [[Bikini atoll]] will not be a safe place to live for humans for thousands of years. Among the biggest uninhabited islands: *[[Novaya Zemlya]] is made of two islands, which are separated by a narrow channel. There are about 2.500 people on the two islands, all of them live in two settlements on the [[South Island|south island]]. The [[North Island|north island]] has a size of roughly {{convert|48904|km2}} ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Uninhabited islands]]