islandward

In this case the unweathered appearance of the rock is explained by its protection beneath the cay sands. Alternatively, the islandward dip may result from some at present unexplained anomaly, and may have formed recently along the present seaward shore.

1962 February 28, Marie-Hélène Sachet, “Geography and land ecology of Clipperton Island”, in Atoll Research Bulletin, number 86, page 97

The profile clearly indicates that the oceanic basement continues to slope below the islandward slope of the trench with an average slope which increases from about 5 to 10°. The overlying islandward "wall" of the trench is made of an imbricated thrust mass of deformed sediments.

1973, Xavier Le Pichon, Jean Francheteau, Jean Bonnin, “Processes at consuming plate boundaries” (chapter 7), in Developments In Geotectonics 6: Plate Tectonics, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, page 232

Once, indeed, a submarine cable was laid from Cape Cod to Nantucket ; but the stupid skipper of a coasting vessel fished it to the surface with his anchor, and, vexed at the little trouble it had caused him, severed it with his axe, and the magnetic current flowed no more islandward.

1868 September 29, “Nantucket”, in Lippincott's Magazine of Literature, Science and Education, volume 2, page 286

It was not until centuries later, when the ships of the white invader ploughed their way islandward, that flies and mosquitoes, centipedes and scorpions, and a host of insect pests, large and small, were introduced to temper the delights of the island paradise for all future time.

1903, W. H. Henshaw, “A Sea-Serpent in Hawaii”, in Thomas George Thrum, compiler, Hawaiian Annual and Almanac, Thomas George Thrum, page 68

When on the East the sheer bright star arose / that tells of coming Dawn, the ship made landfall / and came up islandward in the dim of night.

1974, Homer, “The Return”, in Robert Fitzgerald, transl., edited by Wilfred Thomas Jewkes, Man the Voyager, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 158