Possession Island may refer to:
- Possession Island (Namibia), on the Skeleton Coast of Africa
- Possession Island (Queensland), in the Torres Strait, Australia
- Possession Island, Antarctica, in the Possession Islands group
- Île de la Possession (Possession Island), French subantarctic territory
Famous quotes containing the words possession and/or island:
“It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession; with totally differing aims the method is the same on both sides.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“The shifting islands! who would not be willing that his house should be undermined by such a foe! The inhabitant of an island can tell what currents formed the land which he cultivates; and his earth is still being created or destroyed. There before his door, perchance, still empties the stream which brought down the material of his farm ages before, and is still bringing it down or washing it away,—the graceful, gentle robber!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)