Line Islands
English
Line Islands
Proper noun
Line Islands
- A chain of eleven atolls and low coral islands in the central Pacific Ocean, stretching for almost 2,500 km; eight of the islands form part of Kiribati, while the remaining three are US territories grouped with the United States Minor Outlying Islands.
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá:
- It seems she was born in one of the Line Islands; had been only two or three years in these parts […]
Synonyms
- Teraina Islands, Equatorial Islands
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