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

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

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Being desirous to ascertain the position of the reef, which could be done by making the Admiralty Islands, our course was shaped thither, steering north by east and half east.

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D'Entrecasteaux continued his route towards the Admiralty Islands, which he intended to visit.

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On the 25th, Dampier gave the name of Saint Matthias to a mountainous island, thirty miles long, situated above and to the east of the Admiralty Islands.

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The natives of the Admiralty Islands use obsidian which is dug from layers in the ground.

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