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
The South Sandwich Islands are inhospitable volcanic crags in the far southern Atlantic Ocean.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 30, 2022
"In a normal year, tourism accounts for around 20% of our income," says Ross James, visitor management & bio-security officer for the Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2021
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
Such is the extravagance of my ambition that I even want the Sandwich Islands.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll
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