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Pleasant Island

British  

noun

  1. the former name of Nauru

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The minerals dried up, leaving the country once named Pleasant Island looking ragged, with large parts of its central areas uninhabitable and extremely challenging to farm.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

In a paper published earlier this year, they found wolves on Pleasant Island caused a deer population to plummet and switched to primarily eating sea otters in just a few years.

From Science Daily Oct. 31, 2023

The gray wolves on Pleasant Island attack the sea otters when they haul out onto the island’s rocky shores to rest.

From Science Magazine Jan. 25, 2023

But unlike the Coronation Island wolves, the Pleasant Island wolves have persisted.

From Science Magazine Jan. 22, 2023

The bookkeeper laid the chart on the table, and the captain found Pleasant Island with his thumb.

From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Osbourne, Lloyd

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