Chester and his crew ended up sailing for his guano island and disappearing, without a trace, in a hurricane.

Used to be a guano island, but the quality of the guano was too low for the cost of digging it.

Why did he go to such expense and trouble to keep people away from his guano island?

"I haven't found a guano island," I said.

She was "used in the transport of Chinese coolies to the guano islands."

Sarah Ann Island, now submerged guano island, located just north of the equator.

She was wrecked on a guano island in the South Pacific in 1913 while carrying a load of coal.

In the 1930s an ambitious project was started to build a guano island in the lagoon using sand pumps imported from Holland.

Chester does eventually set sail for his guano island, but the whole enterprise disappears in a hurricane at sea (Chapter Sixteen).

Farther south, the millions of seabirds that normally nourish on the famous guano islands are being decimated.