Definition of Admiralty Islands

1. Noun. A group of islands in the Bismarck Archipelago.

Group relationships: Bismarck Archipelago
Generic synonyms: Archipelago

Lexicographical Neighbors of Admiralty Islands

Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Adlai Stevenson
Adler's test
Adlett
Adlington
Adlumia
Adlumia fungosa
Admiral's eighth
Admiral's eighths
Admiral Byrd
Admiral Dewey
Admiral Nelson
Admiral Nimitz
Admiral of the Fleet
Admiralty Island
Admiralty Islands (current term)
Admiralty Metal
Admiralty Range
Admiralty ham
Admiralty mile
Admission Day
Adnan
Adnett
Adnitt
Adnyamathanha
Adolf
Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Loos

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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