 What is the significance of the evidence of human lodging on the islet?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science-Fiction April 1942. With him came a boatload of scientific apparatus and equipment, including a number of things that looked like oxygen tanks, which were now stored in the forward hold. Androka had watched over his treasures with the jealous care of a mother hen, and spent hours daily in the room in the superstructure that had been assigned as his laboratory. "But this storm, sir!" Nelson avoided Curtis' friendly eyes and slipped out from under his arm. With all these rocks and islets—" "Radio?" repeated the little Czech, thrusting his face between the other two, in his independent fashion that ignored ship's discipline.
 Nazis were hiding out there.
 Nazis were hiding out there.  It will give Curtis and his crew mates shelter while they a stranded.  The Americans have outposts everywhere.  The Islet is where the zone of silence is to be built.