"Watch! Out there!" exclaimed the general, pointing into the night. Rainsford's eyes saw only blackness, and then, as the general pressed a button, far out to sea Rainsford saw the flash of lights.
The general chuckled. "They indicate a channel," he said, "where there's none; giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea monster with wide-open jaws. They can crush a ship as easily as I crush this nut." The reason the island is called Ship Trap is because that is exactly what it is. Rainsford had difficulty seeing the island in the dark and had he not fallen off of his yacht, he would have headed straight for that channel, and according to the quote above, his ship would have been utterly destroyed, leaving him (and we can assume many others before him) “trapped” on the island.
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