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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

This isn't the first huge iceberg to threaten South Georgia and Sandwich Islands.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2025

Scientists with the British Antarctic Survey noticed dead brown skuas on Bird Island in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands starting on 7 October.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 1, 2023

Then, in February 1874, the Sandwich Islands elected a new monarch.

From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2011

The distribution of terrestrial molluscs on the Sandwich Islands presents a great body of facts of this kind.

From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3) Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological Selection by Romanes, George John

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