Sandwich Islands
Britishplural noun
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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
This isn't the first huge iceberg to threaten South Georgia and Sandwich Islands.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
The South Sandwich Islands are inhospitable volcanic crags in the far southern Atlantic Ocean.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 30, 2022
Then, in February 1874, the Sandwich Islands elected a new monarch.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2011
Hawaii is the principal of the Sandwich Islands, a group not exceeded in interest by any which stud the broad bosom of the Pacific.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
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