Letters spelled out with rocks on a desert island, in cartoons (3)

I believe the answer is:

sos

(Other definitions for sos that I've seen before include "Help initially, Mr Morse" , "Distress call" , "Help with dots and dashes" , "Coded distress signal" , "International distress code" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.

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