Definition of Gambier islands

1. Noun. A group of islands in the south central Pacific; part of French Polynesia.

Group relationships: French Oceania, French Polynesia
Generic synonyms: Archipelago

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gambier Islands

Galápagos Islands
Galápagos hawk
Galápagos hawks
Galápagos sea lion
Galápagos sea lions
Gamay
Gambel's quail
Gambelia
Gambia
Gambian
Gambian fever
Gambian monetary unit
Gambian trypanosomiasis
Gambians
Gambier Islands
Gambusia
Gambusia affinis
Game of Life
Gamerscore
Gamerscores
Gamgee
Gamgee tissue
Gamilaraay
Gamna
Gamna's disease
Gamna-Favre bodies
Gamo-Gofa-Dawro

Literary usage of Gambier islands

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

1. Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to Co-operate by Frederick William Beechey (1831)
"Quit gambier islands—Visit Lord Hood's Island—Water-Spout— Clermont ... ON the morning of the 13th of January we weighed from gambier islands, and deepened ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"To the south-east li« the gambier islands, a cluster of four larger and many smaller volcanic islets, enclosed in one wide reef. ..."

3. Christian missions: their agents, their method, and their results by Thomas William M. Marshall (1862)
"In the gambier islands equally auspicious results followed the patient labours of the missionaries. A few words .will suffice to describe them. ..."

4. The Mutineers of the Bounty and Their Descendants in Pitcairn and Norfolk by Diana Jolliffe Belcher (1871)
""The aborigines most probably drifted here upon a raft, it having been the custom many years ago, especially at the gambier islands, which are to the ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1885)
"1112 m = l'O South Pacific ocean :—Manga-Reva or gambier islands. M. 604 Cape Lopez bay to St. Paul de Loanda :—New plan ..."

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