The Orkneys are fertile islands, they tell me, and fine in the summer months, but tend to be cut off from the main all winter?

Instead, they went ashore on the fertile islands that choked the course of the river.

Bond's heart lifted with the beauty of one of the most fertile islands in the world.

He sent an army to explore this fertile island.

It is a very fertile island, and has a lot of flora and fauna.

Als is a fertile island with a thriving pig breeding industry.

Behind him he had a large and fertile island, its native inhabitants by now thoroughly tamed.

This makes it an incredibly fertile island - something which the people of the island have been exploiting for years.

The island continued to be strategically important as a fertile island with ample water near to the Spanish main.

Naxos is the most fertile island of the Cyclades.