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
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
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
Smith and wife left for the Sandwich Islands; Rogers for the Wallamet in 1841; Gray and wife in 1842.
From A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by Gray, William Henry
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