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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

Pleasant Island isn’t the only place where wolves dine on sea otters.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 22, 2023

When he returned to Pleasant Island she accompanied him.

From A Modern Buccaneer by Rolf Boldrewood

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