This is due to the fact that evidence of a British colony had been found on an island in the North Carolina Outer

Banks called Croatoan, as well as an area called Cape creek, which was a majorCroatoan town hub.这是由于在北卡罗来纳州附近一个美洲土著居民岛上和一个叫角溪发现了有关英国殖民生存痕迹。

This would provide power for at least 250 islanders.

这将至少为岛上250名居民提供电力。

Fraser Island residents are worried that the attacks could threaten the island's heritage status.

弗雷泽岛上居民担心袭击会威胁到这座小岛遗产。

He presented a formal request signed by people who live on the island.

他提交了一份由岛上居民签署正式请愿书。

229, which is every single person who lives on the island.

雷索卢特小镇仅有229人，他们也是岛上唯一居民。

The islanders had been petitioning for their return. BBC news.

岛上居民一直在请愿，要求归还这些头骨。BBC新闻。

Moreover, despite Madagascar's proximity to Africa (400km, or 250 miles, at the closest point) those settlers have long been suspected of having arrived from the Malay Archipelago-modern Indonesia-more than 6,000km away.

此外，尽管马达加斯加岛毗邻非洲陆（最近距离400公里，合250英里），长久以来外界猜测岛上居民是从马来群岛，即现在印度尼西亚，这个6000多公里外迁移来。

That is not normally the case in the Aegean, where islanders worry that tourists will go elsewhere if the view is spoiled by a turbine 200 metres high.

但在爱琴海却不是这样，岛上居民担心如果200米高涡轮机破坏了这里风景，游客就会去别。

Up here, I've noted the main topic of the reading which is Easter Island, and then I've noted the author's main argument and which is that there's a few ideas about what happened to the island and its inhabitants.

上面这里，我注意到了阅读主要主题是复活节岛，然后我注意到了作者主要论点，也就是关于该岛发生事情和岛上居民一些想法。

Almost two weeks after cyclone Winston devastated parts of Fiji, aid agencies have called for international relief efforts to be stepped up to help islanders in urgent need of food, water and shelter.

两周前，飓风“温斯顿”侵袭斐济部分区，现在救助机构呼吁国际救援力量加对急需食物、水和避难所岛上居民帮助。

Indigenous cultures in the area had been using the guano on these islands as a source of fertilizer for hundreds of years, so von Humboldt definitely didn't discover guano.

这里本土居民利用岛上海鸟粪作肥料习俗已经持续几百年了，因此冯·洪堡并不是鸟粪发现者。

For decades Sri Lanka has failed to invest appropriately in its public transport, while the island's wealthier residents continued to complain about the indiscipline of bus and trishaw drivers.

几十年来，斯里兰卡都没适当投资自己公共交通，岛上较富裕居民还继续抱怨不守交规公交车和三轮车司机。

They seemed, to the European imagination, to be living proof of the idea of the noble savage -a simple people with an unspoiled way of life.

岛上居民对欧洲人来说 是高贵野蛮人现实代表 一群简单 原生态人。

Olivia Britton is one of the students. She said it seemed " obvious" to give the money back to the people living on the island.

奥利维亚·布里顿（Olivia Britton）是学生之一。她表示，把这笔钱还给岛上居民似乎是" 毫无悬念" 。

Here's one theory of the story of the Rapa Nui, the inhabitants of Easter Island, that could perhaps give us pause for thought.

复活节岛故事和岛上居民遭遇或许值得我们反思。

Yeah, by boat. This is a very small island. It's steep and hilly. There's fewer than two dozen residents who live there.

对，乘船。那是一座非常小岛。势陡峭起伏。岛上居民不足24人。

Yore says having a grass roof is a way for people on the islands to take responsibility for the environment.

约尔说建造草制屋顶可以增强岛上居民环保责任感。

As only a relatively few people live on these islands, how can we hear their special dialect or accent?

而因为居住在这些岛上居民相当少，我们又如何听到他们特别言或腔调呢？

They did not always prioritize the protection of Mauna Kea's fragile ecosystems or its holiness to the island's inhabitants.

他们并不总是把保护莫纳克亚山脆弱生态环境或维护莫纳克亚山对岛上居民而言神圣位放在优先位置。

The problems of the people on the island quickly became, in many cases, a matter of life and death.

很多时候，岛上居民问题都迅速变成了生死攸关问题。