Bonin Islands

[ boh-nin ]

plural noun

1. a group of islands in the N Pacific, SE of and belonging to Japan: under U.S. administration 1945–68. 40 sq. mi. (104 sq. km).

Bonin Islands

/ ˈbəʊnɪn /

plural noun

1. a group of 27 volcanic islands in the W Pacific: occupied by the US after World War II; returned to Japan in 1968. Largest island: Chichijima. Area: 103 sq km (40 sq miles) Japanese nameOgasawara Gunto

Example Sentences

In June 1830, 23 men and women made a perilous, 3,300-mile journey from Honolulu on a British schooner named the Washington to settle a lonely archipelago known in the West as the Bonin Islands, a mistranscription of a Japanese word meaning “uninhabited.”

From Washington Post

On Sept. 2, 1944, his plane was hit by Japanese ground fire during a bombing run on Chichi Jima in the Bonin Islands in the western Pacific.

From Washington Post

This has been combined with a poison in tests in the Bonin Islands 450 miles south of Japan.

From Literature

The above octopus seen in the Bonin Islands near Japan in 2008.

From National Geographic

It is just off the coast of Nishinoshima, a small, uninhabited island in the Ogasawara chain, which is also known as the Bonin Islands.

From US News