Low Archipelago
Britishnoun
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It appears from the survey of Freycinet, that there are banks of this kind in the Caroline Archipelago, and, as is reported, in the Low Archipelago.
From Coral Reefs by Darwin, Charles
This placid lake, over which the dinghy was pursuing the running ripple, was heaving to an imperceptible swell and breaking on the shores of the Low Archipelago, and the Marquesas in foam and thunder.
From The Blue Lagoon: a romance by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)
We touched at Bow Island in the Low Archipelago, Maitea and Tahiti in the Society Islands, and Hawaii and Oahu in the Sandwich group.
From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Brassey, Annie
The cliffs of Elizabeth Island, in the Low Archipelago, are eighty feet high, and appear, from Captain Beechey's description, to consist of a homogeneous coral-rock.
From Coral Reefs by Darwin, Charles
Cook gave it the name of Lagoon Island; it is now known as Vahitahi, and is one of the Low Archipelago.
From The Life of Captain James Cook by Kitson, Arthur
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