Low Archipelago
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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I stayed once at Rotoava—in the Low Archipelago, Eastern Polynesia—while suffering from injuries received in a boat accident one wild night.
From By Reef and Palm by Becke, Louis
This island is a likeness on a grand scale to the Gambier group in the Low Archipelago.
From Coral Reefs by Darwin, Charles
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
Nobody questioned his account of hailing from the Low Archipelago, or the curiously yachtlike snap to his craft, or his own odd employment on a pearling license.
From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John
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)
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