Dolphin Island: A Story of the People of the Sea is a children's novel by Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1964.

[1] Late one night (in the world of the future), a giant cargo hovership makes an emergency landing somewhere in the middle of the United States and an enterprising teenager named Johnny Clinton stows away on it.

A school of these fantastic creatures guides him to an island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Johnny becomes involved with the work of a strange and fascinating research community where a brilliant professor tries to communicate with dolphins.

Johnny learns skindiving and survives a typhoon—only to risk his life again, immediately afterwards, to get medical help for the people on the island.