Pleasant Island
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
We made a direct course for the Ellice Islands," resumed Mrs. Tracey, "and met with light winds till we were near Pleasant Island, when it began to blow steadily from the north-west.
From Edward Barry South Sea Pearler by Becke, Louis
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