Sandwich Islands
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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His team was studying seismic data from 121 repeating earthquakes at 42 locations near Antarctica’s South Sandwich Islands that occurred between 1991 and 2024.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2025
The South Sandwich Islands are inhospitable volcanic crags in the far southern Atlantic Ocean.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 30, 2022
There was official business, too: Shortly after this visit, a trade treaty was signed, and then English speakers began calling the Sandwich Islands by their proper name of Hawaii.
From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2011
He said the measure also applied to vessels going to the other nearby UK-controlled islands in the South Atlantic - South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2010
In sailing from the Sandwich Islands to the west coast of America, the Imperial Expedition will have to choose between the Ports of San Francisco or Acapulco.
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