I have more potatoes than carrots.
The island was lost in the middle of the ocean.
This island is uncharted.
The explorers intended to conquer the island.
EXAMPLES: We were shipwrecked on the island. We had found the shipwrecked sailors on a deserted island.
The country enlarged its territory with the annexation of the island
Tourism was the largest industry on the island.
They had been surviving on the island for many years.
The Hawaiian Island chain is an archipelago.
Island hopping is moving around from island to island. For example, The United States military practiced island-hopping during WWII in the war in the Pacific.
One leaves the Island by a long pontoon bridge.
Biak is a 948 square mile island in Indonesia.
The ship, forced in by a storm, ran aground on a small island.
If you are using it as a character in a sentence who is talking it can work. For example " beware! For what happened on that island will haunt you forever!"