They felt flush because real estate prices were sky high - and real estate on a crowded island never goes down, right?

On the right bank was the Fauria, a crowded island of multitiered stone apartments and rooftop gardens.

But on a crowded island, such places are almost impossible to find.

Are there any truly wild places left in our crowded island?

Living on a crowded island, the Taiwanese had to look aside from the farmlands for sources of protein.

As with most development sites on the crowded island of Manhattan, this one has a story of intrigue and disputes.

Just getting away from the madding crowd proves to be a major feat on the most crowded island on Earth.

But our crowded islands were as vulnerable as Japan's had been to atomic attack, and there appeared to be no sure defence against it.

When the population is put in the context of land size, Britain emerges clearly as a crowded island.

Now our crowded islands are full and we seek to balance the number of those coming in against the number of those leaving.