“Island of isolation” of Garbage Collection

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Object A references object B. Object B references object A. Neither object A nor object B is referenced by any other object. That’s an island of isolation.

Basically, an island of isolation is a group of objects that reference each other but they are not referenced by any active object in the application. Strictly speaking, even a single unreferenced object is an island of isolation too.

Edit from Comment: 

class A {
   B myB; 
} 
class B { 
   A myA; 
} 

/* later */  
A a = new A(); 
B b = new B();  
a.b = b; 
b.a = a;

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