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Espíritu Santo

American  
[e-spee-ree-too sahn-taw] / ɛ ˈspi ri tu ˈsɑn tɔ /

noun

  1. a volcanic island in the Vanuatu island chain, in the South Pacific. 1,485 sq. mi. (3,846 sq. km).


Espíritu Santo British  
/ ɛsˈpɪrɪtuː ˈsæntəʊ /

noun

  1. an island in the SW Pacific: the largest and westernmost of the Vanuatu islands. Area: 4856 sq km (1875 sq miles)

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“This is what Mexico has done for years,” said Josue Leal, who runs a migrant shelter in southern Mexico called Oasis De Paz del Espíritu Santo Amparito.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2025

On Isla Espíritu Santo, we dodged jellyfish on a morning snorkel and spent the afternoon walking the long, curving beach, eyes on the ground.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2020

In Los Cabos International Airport, I detected a small lump in a back pocket: a stowaway, from our hunt for shells and coral on Isla Espíritu Santo.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2020

It’s also just a two-hour ferry ride complete with whale watching from the uninhabited island national park of Espíritu Santo, where snorkelers can swim among whale sharks.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2018

Given on the galley "Espíritu Santo," on the twenty-first of March, one thousand five hundred and seventy-nine.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 04 of 55 1576-1582 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

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