islands
Example Sentences
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He later agreed to a US request to use two British military bases -- one in southwest England and the other in the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean -- for a "specific and limited defensive purpose".
From Barron's
After spending much of her career in the U.S., she recently moved back to Åland, a Finnish archipelago of more than 6,000 islands—and began hosting art workshops.
Pasifika heritage encompasses the indigenous peoples of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia, with Upper Hutt-born Rennie having Cook Islands links through his mother.
From BBC
He bought an 850-acre private island in the British Virgin Islands.
The devastating effect of storms on seabirds, including the thousands of puffins washing up on the coastline in the South West, Channel Islands and France, has been well documented.
From BBC
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