'Island' in the Bible
When they had gone through the whole length of the island as far as Paphos, they there met with a Jewish magician and false prophet, Bar-Jesus by name,
After sighting Cyprus and leaving that island on our left, we continued our voyage to Syria and put in at Tyre; for there the ship was to unload her cargo.
Then we ran under the lee of a little island called Cauda, where we managed with great difficulty to secure the boat;
Our lives having been thus preserved, we discovered that the island was called Malta.
Now in the same part of the island there were estates belonging to the Governor, whose name was Publius. He welcomed us to his house, and for three days generously made us his guests.
After this, all the other sick people in the island came and were cured.
Three months passed before we set sail in an Alexandrian vessel, called the 'Twin Brothers,' which had wintered at the island.
I John, your brother, and a sharer with you in the sorrows and Kingship and patient endurance of Jesus, found myself in the island of Patmos, on account of the Word of God and the truth told us by Jesus.
The sky too passed away, as if a scroll were being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
Every island fled away, and there was not a mountain anywhere to be seen.