Lampedusa cemetery full In the past, immigrants who have drowned during perilous crossings from Africa to Italy have been buried on Lampedusa, but the cemetery on the remote island has no space for the hundreds of corpses fished from the sea after a boat full of asylum seekers sank last week. Along the harbour, rotting fishing vessels from previous immigrant shipwrecks lie piled high in a boat cemetery, which locals say is overrun with rats and is a blight on the holiday destination's skyline. Images and Soundbites