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

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

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

From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2012

There are two volcanoes in full activity on the north-east coast of New Guinea, opposite Admiralty Islands, which themselves are so rich in obsidian.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von