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Bay Islands

American  

plural noun

  1. a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea, N of Honduras.


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He and his family had been in the water at Humpy Island, in the Great Barrier Reef's Keppel Bay Islands National Park, when the attack happened.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2024

Guanaja is one of the country’s three picturesque Bay Islands, where snorkelers and divers come to see dolphins and a big coral reef.

From Reuters ● Oct. 2, 2021

Residents express similar fears about possible expropriation, especially for the Indigenous inhabitants of the Bay Islands.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 3, 2021

I was fascinated to read in the Dec. 30 front-page article “And then, there were two” about the tough people in Little Bay Islands, Newfoundland, who plan to continue to live there despite the hardship.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2020

In 1856 Great Britain agreed to withdraw her protectorate over the Mosquitoes, to acknowledge the supremacy of Honduras over the Bay Islands, and to accept a reasonable interpretation of the Belize boundary.

From The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power by Carl Russell Fish

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