Truk Islands

British  

/ trʌk /

plural noun

1. a group of islands in the W Pacific, in the E Caroline Islands: administratively part of the US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands from 1947; became self-governing in 1979 as part of the Federated States of Micronesia; consists of 11 chief islands; a major Japanese naval base during World War II. Pop: 53 381 (2006). Area: 130 sq km (50 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

Visitors who have reason to visit Moen, the largest of the remote and steaming Truk Islands in the Western Pacific, will find the usual grass-skirted young women, betel nut-chewing natives, mangrove swamps � and a branch of California's Bank of America.

From Time Magazine Archive

A few days after Pearl Harbor, Hudson bombers manned by Australian crews had lumbered through the cottony skies to take photographs of the Truk Islands.

From Time Magazine Archive