In such conditions all these islands looked much the same.

Nowadays, this is how the island looks to a lot of people.

It looks how the island must've looked before the rich summer people arrived.

Your little island would have looked very different to you.

The island looked lovely in the low, clear light of late afternoon.

The low island to which we came looked no different than it had.

This island doesn't look as though it has much to offer.

Indeed, some residents believe the island looks better than it did before the storm.

The weather was not good but the island looks nice even with rain.

But the islands didn't look as though they had been split off from anything.