Santa Cruz Islands
Americanplural noun
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Researchers used information from national and naval archives to find the ship, as well as action reports from other vessels involved in the fateful Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in 1943.
From Fox News • Feb. 12, 2019
The earthquake struck around 11 a.m. local time in the Santa Cruz Islands.
From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2013
He dropped anchor first at Botany Bay, visited the Tonga Islands and New Caledonia, headed toward the Santa Cruz Islands, and put in at Nomuka, one of the islands in the Ha'apai group.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Walter, F. P.
And here is their story, told by Sa Luia to the wife of Frank Chesson, a white trader then living on the Santa Cruz Islands, in which the Swallow Group is included.
From A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904 by Becke, Louis
A similar climate, with but slightly higher temperature, prevails on the Santa Cruz Islands.
From Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific by Speiser, Felix
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