The forest:

“The skirts of the forest and the scar were familiar”(101)

The Signal Fire:

“Roger pointed down the unfriendly side. ‘They were there–by the sea.'”(57)

Lagoon:

“Within the irregular arc of coral the lagoon was still as a mountain lake – blue of all shades and shadowy green and purple” (10)

Rock:

“Here the beach was interrupted abruptly by the square motif of the landscape; a great platform of pink granite thrust up uncompromisingly through forest and terrace and sand and lagoon to make a raised jetty four feet high” (13)

Lagoon:

“The palms that still stood made a green roof, covered on the underside with a quivering tangle of reflections from the lagoon”(13)

Scar:

“Beyond falls and cliffs there was a gash visible in the trees; there were the splintered trunks and then the drag, leaving only a fringe of palm between the scar and the sea” (39)

Shape of the Island:

“It was roughly boat-shaped”'(21)

Scar:

“All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat.”(4)

Jungle:

“overhung with impossible jungle and falling sheer into the sea”(90)