Kangaroo Island


noun
  1. an island in the Indian Ocean, off South Australia. Area: 4350 sq km (1680 sq miles)

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How to use Kangaroo Island in a sentence

  • Of these more smiling spots the large island, off the western coast, called Kangaroo Island, may serve for a specimen.

  • At noon we had come 148 miles under sail, and Kangaroo Island was now 546 miles distant; we were in lat.

    The Last Voyage | Lady (Annie Allnutt) Brassey
  • The south and west of Kangaroo Island were, however, first charted by Baudin, and his names survive there.

    Terre Napoleon | Ernest Scott
  • But it is quite easy to account for the superior cartography of the two gulfs and Kangaroo Island.

    Terre Napoleon | Ernest Scott
  • He also mentions "a vast bay with an isle," possibly Kangaroo Island.