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Liu-kiu Islands

(Encyclopedia)Liu-kiu Islands: see Ryukyu Islands. ...

Lu-chu Islands

(Encyclopedia)Lu-chu Islands: see Ryukyu Islands. ...

Loo-choo Islands

(Encyclopedia)Loo-choo Islands: see Ryukyu Islands. ...

D'Entrecasteaux Islands

(Encyclopedia)D'Entrecasteaux Islands däNtrəkästōˈ [key], volcanic group, SW Pacific, SE of New Guinea, part of Papua New Guinea. Comprising the Fergusson, Goodenough, and Normanby islands, the group, with a t...

Coral Sea Islands

(Encyclopedia)Coral Sea Islands, external territory of Australia, comprising scattered small islands and reefs spread over c.400,000 sq mi (1,035,995 sq km) of the South Pacific Ocean, E of the Great Barrier Reef, ...

Channel Islands, California

(Encyclopedia)Channel Islands or Santa Barbara Islands sănˈtə bärˈbrə, –bərə [key], chain of eight rugged islands and many islets, extending c.150 mi (240 km) along the S Calif. coast from Point Conceptio...

Entrecasteaux Islands, D'

(Encyclopedia)Entrecasteaux Islands, D': see D'Entrecasteaux Islands. ...

New Siberian Islands

(Encyclopedia)New Siberian Islands, Rus. Novosibirskiye Ostrova, archipelago, c.10,900 sq mi (28,200 sq km), N Siberian Russia, in the Arctic Ocean between the Laptev and East Siberian seas, part of the Sakha Repub...

Santa Barbara Islands

(Encyclopedia)Santa Barbara Islands, California: see Channel Islands. ...

San Juan Islands

(Encyclopedia)San Juan Islands săn wän [key], archipelago of 172 islands constituting San Juan co., NW Wash., E of Vancouver Island. The islands were visited and named c.1790 by Spanish explorers. The islands wer...