Bonin Islands

American  

[boh-nin] / ˈboʊ nɪn /

plural noun

1. a group of islands in the N Pacific, SE of and belonging to Japan: under U.S. administration 1945–68. 40 sq. mi. (104 sq. km).

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Bonin Islands British  

/ ˈbəʊnɪn /

plural noun

1. Japanese name: Ogasawara Gunto.  a group of 27 volcanic islands in the W Pacific: occupied by the US after World War II; returned to Japan in 1968. Largest island: Chichijima. Area: 103 sq km (40 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

In June 1830, 23 men and women made a perilous, 3,300-mile journey from Honolulu on a British schooner named the Washington to settle a lonely archipelago known in the West as the Bonin Islands, a mistranscription of a Japanese word meaning “uninhabited.”

From Washington Post

On Sept. 2, 1944, his plane was hit by Japanese ground fire during a bombing run on Chichi Jima in the Bonin Islands in the western Pacific.

From Washington Post

This has been combined with a poison in tests in the Bonin Islands 450 miles south of Japan.

From Literature

The above octopus seen in the Bonin Islands near Japan in 2008.

From National Geographic

They don’t teach the history of the Bonin Islands to kids, don’t teach about Nathaniel Savory.

From New York Times