Definition of Caroline Islands

1. Noun. A long archipelago of more than 500 islands in Micronesia to the east of the Philippines.

Group relationships: Federated States Of Micronesia, Micronesia, Tt
Generic synonyms: Archipelago

Lexicographical Neighbors of Caroline Islands

Carolina buckthorn
Carolina chickadee
Carolina hemlock
Carolina jasmine
Carolina lupine
Carolina moonseed
Carolina parakeet
Carolina pink
Carolina pinks
Carolina pond fern
Carolina spring beauty
Carolina wren
Carolina wrens
Carolinas
Caroline
Caroline Islands (current term)
Carolingian
Carolingian dynasty
Carolingians
Carolinian
Carolinians
Carolus
Carolus Linnaeus
Caroluses
Carolyn
Carothers
Carpathian
Carpathian Mountains
Carpathians
Carpatho-Rusyn

Literary usage of Caroline Islands

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)
"... upon the repeated request of German subjects trading in the Caroline Islands, and Islands, in which he explained away the sig- »ith memorandum, ..."

2. International Cases: Arbitrations and Incidents Illustrative of by Ellery Cory Stowell, Henry Fraser Munro (1916)
"MEDIATION AND GOOD OFFICES THE Caroline Islands (1885) \. IN 1885, His Holiness Leo XIII made, as mediator between Germany and Spain in the controversy ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"These islands, a German possession since 1885, lying in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Caroline Islands, ..."

4. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"Ladrone, and Caroline Islands.—These extensive groups of small islands are very imperfectly known, yet- a considerable number of birds have been obtained. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1912)
"Collected on Uola Inland, Truk group, Caroline Islands, February Hi, 1000, by II. K. Mo,,iv (1". ..."

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