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floating island

n.
A dessert of soft custard with mounds of beaten egg whites or whipped cream floating on its surface.
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floating island

n
(Physical Geography) a floating mass of soil held together by vegetation
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The theory of the floating island, and the unapproachable sandbank, supported by minds little competent to form a judgment, was abandoned.
The word, which I interpret the flying or floating island, is in the original LAPUTA, whereof I could never learn the true etymology.
When they had first descried the Columbia, they had supposed it a floating island; then some monster of the deep; but when they saw the boat putting for shore with human beings on board, they considered them cannibals sent by the Great Spirit to ravage the country and devour the inhabitants.
It rose above the mass of moving heads like a floating island. But in another instant it came to a dead stop.
Sometimes the engine stopped during a long interval, and then before her and behind, and gathering close about her on all sides, were so many of these ill- favoured obstacles that she was fairly hemmed in; the centre of a floating island; and was constrained to pause until they parted, somewhere, as dark clouds will do before the wind, and opened by degrees a channel out.
It will allow an opportunity to see the construction and deployment of a floating island, and of some fish friendly 'hedgehog' reefs, and after the demonstration attendees will have the opportunity to construct floating islands for their own waters.
Floating islands have been positioned along the Ouseburn to facilitate the passage of otters and nesting boxes for kingfishers have been installed.
They are littered with floating islands that connected by merchants and pirates who sail around in hovering galleons.
Walking across floating islands on Peru's Lake Titicaca is like stepping across a giant sponge.