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Example sentences for "small islands"

  • At the distance of four and a half miles we reached the lower point of a cluster of small islands, two large and two small, called Isles des Pares or Field Islands.

  • It reaches from Chitway in the north, and extends twenty-four leagues to the southwards along the coast, being divided into a multitude of small islands by the streams which descend from the mountains of Gatti, [the Gauts.

  • This last island is about thirteen miles long, composed of high, rocky and naked mountains with two small islands, one about a mile west south-west and the other two miles south of its southern point.

  • The mouth of the Apalachicola is encircled with a number of small islands, named St. Georgeʼs Isles.

  • Habitat Rehabilitation by Destruction of Mammals The Kermadecs are a group of small islands about 800 km north-northeast of the North Island.

  • Rats are more important, even on small islands, and have caused destruction of tern and gull colonies.

  • In small islands, like Tongatabu, Samoa and Fiji, emigration becomes habitual, a gradual spilling over of the redundant population and hence not a formidable inundation.

  • Sand Moveing we had a fine wind, but could not make use of it, our Mast being broke, we passed between 2 Small Islands in the Middle of the Current, & round the head of three a rapid Current for one mile and Camped on the S.

  • North distant 8 miles recently burnt- pass 3 Small Islands at about 5 miles on this Course on the S.

  • The explorers coasted along it until the 13th October, upon which day an excellent port was discovered, sheltered from every wind, and formed by a number of small islands.

  • After leaving Mallicolo, Cook steered for Ambrym Island, which appeared to contain a volcano, and shortly afterwards discovered a group of small islands, which he named Shepherd Islands, in honour of the Cambridge Professor of Astronomy.

  • At the Entrance lay 3 Small Islands, 2 of which are of a Tolerable height, and on the Main, near the shore, are some high round hills that make at a distance like Islands.

  • On the North-East side of the Cape lay 2 Small Islands near to a very remarkable Point of the Main that riseth to a good height in the very form of a Sugar Loaf.

  • About a League to the Northward of the South end of Otaha, on the East side of the Island, a mile or more from the Shore, lies 2 Small Islands.

  • This bat has been found in a group of small islands (Alu, Mono, and Shortland) about 30 miles south of Bougainville.

  • As suggested earlier, small islands like Fauro and Florida possibly cannot support large fruit bats, although they probably would utilize these small islands when in transit between larger islands.

  • About four o'clock we got to the entrance of a very narrow channel and between two small islands.

  • We sailed up the coast of small islands, some of them only large enough for one cocoanut tree, and the greatest no larger than an ordinary city block.

  • He found the bird nesting on small islands of the group from October to December, 1931; however, he states that the natives told him that the bird nests throughout the year.

  • The author (1946b) has elsewhere described some of the effects of the bombing, invasion, and occupation of small islands.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    single season; small area; small block; small bulb; small bundle; small business; small caste; small children; small country; small dish; small doses; small folio; small glass; small house; small importance; small knife; small octavo; small ones; small opening; small pinch; small post; small price; small public; small valley; small value; small work