The Vikings who settled Iceland in the ninth century found an uninhabited island.

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It ran aground on an uninhabited island about 200 miles south of Anchorage and was stuck there for a week before being refloated.

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Imagine a plane crashes on an uninhabited island with many survivors.

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He had been part of the Koh Lanta show for four seasons, assisting candidates who must survive on an uninhabited island and complete a series of challenges.

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The drills were originally supposed to have seen US and Japanese troops carrying out a mock invasion of an uninhabited island off the southern coast of Japan, says the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo.

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Three days later the Kon-Tiki struck a reef and the crew was beached on an uninhabited islet of Raroia Island -- 101 days and 4, 338 miles from Peru.

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When eventually the floes began to break up in April 1916, Shackleton loaded his men into three small lifeboats and struck out for Elephant Island, an uninhabited speck of land some 100 miles distant.

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