Figure Eight Island 2016 the Figure 8 Island Homeowners Association announced that the proposal to pursue a Terminal Groin did not pass and would not proceed. In June 2001 author Wanda Canada published a murder mystery novel, titled "Island Murders", which takes place on Figure Eight Island. Figure Eight Island Figure Eight Island is a North Carolina barrier island just north of Wrightsville Beach, widely known as an affluent summer colony and vacation desitination. The island is part of the Wilmington Metropolitan Area, and lies between the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean. As a private island, Figure Eight can only be reached
Penal transportation Timberlake Wertenbaker's play "Our Country's Good", based on Thomas Keneally's novel "The Playmaker", is set in the first Australian penal colony. "My Transportation for Life", Indian freedom fighter Veer Savarkar's memoir of his imprisonment, is set in the British Cellular Jail in the Andaman Islands. The novel "Papillon" tells the story of Henri Charrière, a French criminal convicted on 26 October 1931 as a murderer, and exiled to the French Guinea penal colony on Devil's Island. A film adaptation of the book was made in 1973, starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman. Penal transportation, typically to other planets, sometimes appears