Pelew Islands
Britishplural noun
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Several specimens are in the Banksian Cabinet, from the Pelew Islands.
From Project Gutenberg
These were perhaps the Pelew Islands or the Carolines.
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Caught at one of his old haunts in the Pelew Islands, he was heavily ironed and put on board the cruiser Hernandez Pizarro, for conveyance to Manila, to await trial.
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He hunts buffalo, drives mules, sees his mother in San Francisco, plays Richard III in Hong Kong, listens to a Yoghi in Singapore, tries to write his life in the Pelew Islands, confesses in Mexico, hides in Cuba, runs a saloon in Texas.
From Time Magazine Archive
These are all quarried in the Pelew Islands, 200 m. to the south, and are now brought to Yap in European vessels.
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