Marquesas Islands

American  

[mahr-key-zuhz, -suhz, -suhs] / mɑrˈkeɪ zəz, -səz, -səs /

plural noun

1. a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 480 sq. mi. (1,245 sq. km).

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Marquesas Islands British  

/ mɑːˈkeɪsæs /

plural noun

1. French name: Îles Marquises.  a group of volcanic islands in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia. Pop: 8712 (2002). Area: 1287 sq km (497 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

The sailors took their 40-foot yawl J. Henry through the Panama Canal, turned south and prepared for a long Pacific crossing to the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia.

From Washington Times

If South Americans wound up on the Marquesas Islands, they would have brought some things with them that archaeologists could have later uncovered.

From New York Times

Researchers studied seismic waves traveling beneath the Pacific Ocean Basin to reveal a previously unknown structure beneath the Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific.

From Fox News

“The Gauguin Atlas” follows his travels, year by year, to London, Brittany, Panama, Martinique, Tahiti and finally the Marquesas Islands, where he died at 54.

From New York Times

Tiki figures from the Marquesas Islands seem to recur with some kind of demonic power in Gauguin’s work, but little is made of that connection.

From Washington Post