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Line Islands

Line Islands proper noun: 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.

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Proper noun

Line Islands

  1. 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.
    • It seems she was born in one of the Line Islands; had been only two or three years in these parts […]1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá
    • Carrying out a population census in the Line islands has always been a formidable task for the population management team as well as to the national statistics office because of the distance and the problem of communication.2016 September 1, “2015 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS”, in National Statistics Office Ministry of Finance^(https://web.archive.org/web/20190819052204/https://www.mfed.gov.ki/sites/default/files/2015%2...
    Synonyms:
    Teraina Islands, Equatorial Islands

Synonyms of Line Islands

  • Teraina Islands
  • Equatorial Islands

Questions about Line Islands

What does Line Islands mean?
Line Islands means 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.
What part of speech is Line Islands?
Line Islands is a proper noun.

Words near Line Islands in the dictionary

  1. line infantry
  2. line integral
  3. line integrals
  4. Line Islander
  5. Line Islanders
  6. Line Islands
  7. line item
  8. line items
  9. line judge
  10. line judges
  11. line lock

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