History Main / DesertedIsland

* The largest uninhabited island is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon_Island Devon Island]], as it is so close to the North Pole.

* [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] quite cleverly in ''The End'', final book of ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', which takes place on an island where "everything eventually washes up on the shores"(its coastal shelf is very cluttered), including a whole band of castaways with [[MeaningfulName names alluding to stories of this genre]].

* ''Literature/BabySittersClub Super Special 4: Baby-sitters' Island Adventure''. The island was somewhere off the coast of Connecticut.

* The setting for the first part of Walter Farley's ''Literature/TheBlackStallion.'' Only the boy and the horse inhabit this Castaway Island.

* The ''Series/{{Castle}}'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9299432/1/Solid-Ground Solid Ground]]'' depicts Castle, Beckett, and various [=OCs=] being stuck on a desert island after a plane crash, with the two of them establishing themselves as the leader of the survivors while dealing with [[spoiler:an agent of Senator Bracken who survived the crash and was trying to take Beckett out]].

** Burroughs reused the trick with Ras Thavas, who lives on a solid patch of land in the Great Toolnolian Swamp in the Barsoom novels ''Literature/TheMasterMindOfMars'' and ''Literature/SyntheticMenOfMars''. Guess what he's doing in the latter (or, more accurately, just before the latter actually starts).

Often found on [[WelcomeToTheCaribbeanMon The Spanish Main]], spectacularly uncharted as it is.

* ''Rough Science'', a British television special where five scientists from different fields are stranded in a hostile environment and are required to make advanced devices out of natural materials and miscellaneous scrap, has several episodes take place on deserted islands.
* ''Escape From Scorpion Island'', a British-Australian children's game show had teams of children engaging in challenges to escape the titular desert island.

* R.L. Stevenson's ''Literature/TreasureIsland''.

* Creator/JulesVerne's ''Mysterious Island'' appears to be deserted, but the resident castaways eventually learn that [[spoiler: Captain Nemo has retired there.]]

* Ibn Tufail's Arabic novel ''Hayy ibn Yaqzan'' (also known as ''Philosophus Autodidactus'') from the 12th century is possibly the UrExample, about a boy abandoned on a deserted island and raised by an animal.
** A spiritual successor was Ibn al-Nafis' Arabic novel ''Theologus Autodidactus'' from the 13th century.

* In Bryan Miranda's ''The Journey to Atlantis,'' the main characters end up on one when their ship sinks. It's actually [[spoiler: not deserted, in two fashions. There is one other human that they meet, a boy who has been living there for three years. And also Loki, a malicious deity in the form of a red wolf, who scours the island causing trouble for Mickello, and also the others when they arrive.]]
* ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies''
* Former ChildProdigy [[http://www.farksolia.org Barbara Newhall Follett]], who continued to write as an adult while working as a clerk-typist in New York, wrote ''[[http://www.farksolia.org/lost-island-part-1/ Lost Island: A Romance]]'' in 1934. It's about an adventurous [[AuthorAvatar clerk-typist in New York]] who takes a trip on an old schooner[[note]]Barbara had [[PluckyMiddie actually done this]] as a teenager[[/note]] and ends up shipwrecked on a beautiful island with a friend. When they're "rescued" she ends up back in New York, restless and miserable.

* J.G. Ballard's 1974 novel ''Concrete Island'' has Robert, a rich architect, stranded on the terrain below intersecting freeways after his car plunges off a bridge. It's frustrating because he can see his office building from here, he tries to flag down passing cars for help but he's so messed up from the crash they assume he's just some homeless guy, so he starts living off the leftovers they throw out the window and figuring out a way to escape. He discovers the remains of one of the many small towns / city districts that were destroyed to build the freeways in the first place, with a few other people living there. Does he really want to leave, or is it like one of the other people says, was he on an 'island' long before the crash?

* Mono Island in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''The Last Continent''.

* The island in Enid's Blyton series ''Literature/TheFamousFive''.

* ''The Invention of Morel'', by Adolfo Bioy Casares, in which a nameless narrator falls in love with a holographic woman on a deserted island and is slowly driven mad by the machinery that is creating the holograms. Supposedly one of the inspirations for ''Series/{{Lost}}''.

* The protagonist in ''Film/CastawayOnTheMoon'' winds up on an unusual example. It's deserted all right, and it is an island -- but it's ''right in the middle of Seoul'', under a bridge spanning the Han River. The protagonist winds up getting stuck there for months, because after all, who's looking for people on an island under a bridge? (See ''Concrete Island'', in Literature, for a grittier take on this.)