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
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
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
The ship touched at the Sandwich Islands; Mr. Clark engaged twenty-six Kanakas as laborers for the establishments on the Columbia River, where the ship arrived, May 5, 1812.
From A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by Gray, William Henry
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