Sandwich Islands
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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It was recorded March 9 near the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean at a depth of nearly 2,000 feet, according to a news release from the nonprofit.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025
This isn't the first huge iceberg to threaten South Georgia and Sandwich Islands.
From BBC • Jan. 22, 2025
His postdoc, Yi Yang, compiled the world’s most extensive database of repeating earthquakes, with sources not just in the South Sandwich Islands, but also in places like Chile and Kazakhstan.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 30, 2022
There was official business, too: Shortly after this visit, a trade treaty was signed, and then English speakers began calling the Sandwich Islands by their proper name of Hawaii.
From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2011
In exchanging salutes with a Spanish vessel which they met at the Sandwich Islands, the wad of the gun of the Spaniard struck Capt.
From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Bulfinch, Thomas
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