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Sandwich Islands

British  

plural noun

  1. the former name of Hawaii

"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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His team was studying seismic data from 121 repeating earthquakes at 42 locations near Antarctica’s South Sandwich Islands that occurred between 1991 and 2024.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2025

The South Sandwich Islands are inhospitable volcanic crags in the far southern Atlantic Ocean.

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

He said the measure also applied to vessels going to the other nearby UK-controlled islands in the South Atlantic - South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2010

Koa, kō′a, n. a forest-tree of the Sandwich Islands.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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