Scientists used to think that the islands were connected to the South American mainland and floated out to sea slowly.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

Others had to keep going and settled on the islands of the Aegean Sea.

其他的则继续逃亡并在爱琴海的岛屿定居

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Just almost all the islands in that sea are inhabited by Greeks, mostly by the Greeks that came in that first wave of immigrants earlier on, not colonized during the eighth century and afterwards.

那片海域的诸岛上居住的几乎都是希腊人,他们大多都是早期的,第一批移民,而非八世纪以后的殖民者

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Many of the islands that make up the Maldives rise little more than one meter above sea level, and could disappear under the sea if global temperatures continue to rise.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

"We already know that New Orleans is in the same way, but also areas like Bangladesh or smaller areas of islands that will be flooded within that one-meter sea level rise."

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

"We are at 100 percent of our planning level in terms of protection of Gulf islands,national seashore, to protect predominantly the wetlands and estuaries and sea grass beds that are on the backside of the islands."

VOA: standard.2010.05.26