In November 1677, Halley observed a transit of the innermost planet, Mercury, from the desolate island of St Helena in the South Pacific.

1677年11月，哈雷在南太平洋荒凉的圣赫勒拿岛上观测到了水星（最靠近太阳的行星）的凌日现象。

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It's now in a desolate cove on the other side of the island - as close to Siberia as you can get on a slip of land about five miles long and a mile wide.

新家是在长滩岛另一侧荒凉的小海湾旁，这个地方对这个5英里长，1英里宽的小岛而言，好像位于西伯利亚。

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Then the plane has to make a forced landing on a desolate and uninhabited coral island for being raided.

飞机因遭到袭击而迫降在太平洋的一座荒无人烟的珊瑚小岛上。

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The place is a fog-shrouded, desolate island off the coast of Massachusetts.

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And it was here, on this desolate island near the Antarctic Peninsula, that the Guinness book beckoned her to a new career.

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