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Sandwich Islands

British  

plural noun

  1. the former name of Hawaii

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It was recorded March 9 near the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean at a depth of nearly 2,000 feet, according to a news release from the nonprofit.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025

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

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2025

His postdoc, Yi Yang, compiled the world’s most extensive database of repeating earthquakes, with sources not just in the South Sandwich Islands, but also in places like Chile and Kazakhstan.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 30, 2022

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