Admiralty Islands

American  

plural noun

1. a group of islands in the SW Pacific, N of New Guinea: part of Papua New Guinea. About 800 sq. mi. (2,070 sq. km).

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Admiralty Islands British  

plural noun

1. Also called: Admiralties.  a group of about 40 volcanic and coral islands in the SW Pacific, part of Papua New Guinea, in the Bismarck Archipelago: main island: Manus. Pop (whole province): 43 589 (2000). Area: about 2000 sq km (800 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

He would serve in New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands and the Philippines, and was in Tokyo Bay when the Japanese signed the documents of surrender on Sept. 2, 1945, bringing the war to an end.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2016

The infantryman was honorably discharged in 1945 after serving in areas including New Guinea, the Philippines and the Admiralty Islands.

From Washington Times • Mar. 24, 2015

Far greater numbers of the typical morph of N pelagicus were collected from the Admiralty Islands.

From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2012

A recent study of specimens from Papua's Admiralty Islands, by George R Zug of the Smithsonian Institution and Robert N Fisher of the US Geological Survey, revealed two distinct morphotypes.

From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2012

In the Kaniet Islands, a small group to the north-west of the Admiralty Islands, the dead are either sunk in the sea or buried in shallow graves, face downward, near the house.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir