insular climate

Caroline's children and David would grow up in this insular climate.

For more than a century, the International Olympic Committee has existed as an exclusive club, answering only to itself, making its own rules, choosing its own members, operating in an insular climate that its critics and supporters alike admit lacked openness and accountability.

A British subject by birth, and a thoroughly competent and trustworthy man, Mr. Sarrazin labored under one inveterate delusion; he firmly believed that his original French nature had been completely eradicated, under the influence of our insular climate and our insular customs.