Pelew Islands

/ piːˈluː /

plural noun

1. a former name of (the Republic of) Palau

Example Sentences

Several specimens are in the Banksian Cabinet, from the Pelew Islands.

From Project Gutenberg

The first serious note of dissent to the generally accepted theory was heard in 1863, when a distinguished German naturalist, Dr. Karl Semper, declared that his study of the Pelew Islands showed that uninterrupted subsidence could not have been going on in that region.

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But while making this admission, he firmly maintained that exceptional cases, like those described in the Pelew Islands, were not sufficient to invalidate the theory of subsidence as applied to the widely spread atolls, encircling reefs, and barrier-reefs of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

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These were perhaps the Pelew Islands or the Carolines.

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His story was that on his first visit to the Pelew Islands with Captain Peese, the vessel they owned, a small brigantine, was attacked by the natives in the most daring manner, although the boarding nettings were up and every preparation made to repel them.

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