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Definition of Admiralty islands
1. Noun. A group of islands in the Bismarck Archipelago.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Admiralty Islands
Literary usage of Admiralty islands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes by a Naturalist: An Account of Observations Made During the Voyage of by Henry Nottidge Moseley (1892)
"THE admiralty islands. History of Visits to the Island. Eagerness of the Natives for
... The admiralty islands were sighted on the afternoon of March 3rd. ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1817)
"... of the Seychelle Islands and Bank, and admiralty islands. As very little is
generally known relative to the Seychelle Islands, ? ..."
3. The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography by Joseph Deniker (1900)
"... Papuans of New Guinea—Melanesians properly so called of the Salomon and
admiralty islands, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, etc. ..."
4. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead by James George Frazer (1913)
"... a small group to the north-west Disposal of of the admiralty islands, the dead
are either sunk in the sea |£6 £^V° or buried in shallow graves, ..."
5. Universal Geography: Or a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1825)
"In the archipelago of the admiralty islands the islanders have black complexions,
though not of the deepest kind; their physiognomy is agreeable, and, ..."
6. Australasia by Alfred Russel Wallace, Augustus Henry Keane (1888)
"... admiralty islands. THESE consist of one large island about 60 miles long by
20 wide, and a considerable number of small ones, lying between latitudes 1° ..."
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