Low Archipelago
Britishnoun
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This placid lake, over which the dinghy was pursuing the running ripple, was heaving to an imperceptible swell and breaking on the shores of the Low Archipelago, and the Marquesas in foam and thunder.
From The Blue Lagoon: a romance by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)
Many leagues before us lay Les Isles Dangereux, the Low Archipelago, first stopping-point on our journey to the far cannibal islands yet another thousand miles away across the empty seas.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick
Cook gave it the name of Lagoon Island; it is now known as Vahitahi, and is one of the Low Archipelago.
From The Life of Captain James Cook by Kitson, Arthur
In fact, according to the engineer, they were at least 1,200 miles from Tahiti and from the Low Archipelago, fully 1,800 miles from New Zealand, and more than 4,500 miles from the coast of America.
From The Mysterious Island by White, Stephen W.
We touched at Bow Island in the Low Archipelago, Maitea and Tahiti in the Society Islands, and Hawaii and Oahu in the Sandwich group.
From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Brassey, Annie
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