The islands have only ever been briefly inhabited, and then only due to shipwreck or other marooning.

The marooning of Voyager in the Delta Quadrant provided Paris with a new beginning.

The tale intrigued the English author Daniel Defoe, among others, who proceeded to write a fictional treatment of such a marooning, and improved it in some ways.

The episode appeared to be the worst marooning of whales since 1986, when 60 pilot whales came ashore along a wide span of the Cape Cod coast.

Both Cookson and Trott already had pending charges against them for cruelty and marooning of sailors, stemming from an incident in May 1891 at Calcasieu Pass, Louisiana.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the islands were used as a hideout for pirates, were the site of Alexander Selkirk's four-year marooning, and provided a location for a penal colony.

His marooning of Marguerite de la Roque de Roberval, his young relative, and her rescue, is recounted in novella 67 of the Heptameron (1559) by Queen Marguerite of Navarre.

Freud diagnosed a series of underlying traumas, and this is what Logue does, too, pointing not just to the friendless marooning of anyone, of any sensitivity, who is raised in a ruling tribe but to all that is clenched and misted-over in the English character.

This occurred, for example, during Magellan's famous journeys around the world, resulting in the killing of one mutineer, the execution of another and the marooning of others, and on Henry Hudson's Discovery, resulting in Hudson and others being set adrift in a boat.